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Virginia City : secrets of a western past / Ronald M. James.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Series:
- Historical archaeology of the American West.
- Historical archaeology of the American West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Nevada--Virginia City.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Silver mines and mining--Nevada--Virginia City--History.
- Silver mines and mining.
- Gold mines and mining--Nevada--Virginia City--History.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Virginia City (Nev.)--History.
- Virginia City (Nev.).
- Virginia City (Nev.)--Social life and customs.
- Virginia City (Nev.)--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, became a boomtown microcosm of the American West.Drawing on the work of hundreds of volunteers, students, and professional archaeologists, Vir
- Contents:
- Introduction : Twenty-one bits of glass, historical archaeology, and the meaning of the West
- Gold and silver!
- A crowded city on the mining frontier
- An Irish blacksmith and the archaeology of belief
- The Chinese
- Saloons and the archaeology of leisure
- Women on the mining frontier
- Kids on the Comstock
- Piper's Opera House and the archaeology of theater
- Death and the material culture of the final chapter
- Epilogue: Breathing meaning into the past.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613664464
- 9780803240087
- 0803240082
- 9781280687525
- 1280687525
- OCLC:
- 795120085
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