Virginia City : secrets of a western past / Ronald M. James.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Historical archaeology of the American Westالناشر:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, [2012]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2012وصف:xxii, 147 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780803238480
- 0803238487
- F849.V8 J364 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Examines the historical archaeology of Virginia City, Nevada, when it was a boomtown of the American West.