Virginia City : secrets of a western past /
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 e...
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Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Society for Historical Archaeology. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Language notes: | English. |
Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2012. |
Series: | Historical archaeology of the American West.
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Online Access: | Click here for full text |
Table of 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.