Comstock Women,9780874172973

Comstock Women

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ISBN13: 9780874172973
ISBN10: 0874172977
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Nevada Pr
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Summary

In this collection, noted scholars from several disciplines examine the daily lives of the women and families who settled in Virginia City.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 3(40)
1 "I Am Afraid We Will Lose All We Have Made": Women's Lives in a Nineteenth-Century Mining Town
3(14)
C. Elizabeth Raymond
2 Women of the Mining West: Virginia City Revisited
17(26)
Ronald M. James
Kenneth H. Fliess
AT HOME IN A MINING TOWN 43(72)
3 Redefining Domesticity: Women and Lodging Houses on the Comstock
43(25)
Julie Nicoletta
4 "They Are Doing So to a Liberal Extent Here Now": Women and Divorce on the Comstock, 1859-1880
68(27)
Kathryn Dunn Totton
5 The "Secret Friend": Opium in Comstock Society, 1860-1887
95(20)
Sharon Lowe
OCCUPATIONS AND PURSUITS 115(88)
6 Creating a Fashionable Society: Comstock Needleworkers from 1860 to 1880
115(27)
Janet I. Loverin
Robert A. Nylen
7 Mission in the Mountains: The Daughters of Charity in Virginia City
142(23)
Anne M. Butler
8 Divination on Mount Davidson: An Overview of Women Spiritualists and Fortunetellers on the Comstock
165(14)
Bernadette S. Francke
9 "The Advantage of Ladies' Society": The Public Sphere of Women on the Comstock
179(24)
Anita Ernst Watson
Jean E. Ford
Linda White
ETHNICITIES 203(62)
10 Their Changing World: Chinese Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910
203(26)
Sue Fawn Chung
11 "And Some of Them Swear Like Pirates": Acculturation of American Indian Women in Nineteenth-Century Virginia City
229(17)
Eugene M. Hattori
12 Erin's Daughters on the Comstock: Building Community
246(19)
Ronald M. James
IMAGE AND REALITY 265(38)
13 Girls of the Golden West
265(18)
Andria Daley Taylor
14 Gender and Archaeology on the Comstock
283(20)
Donald L. Hardesty
Appendix I: Statistical Profile of Women on the Comstock 303(6)
Appendix II: Birthplace of Females in Storey County, 1860-1910 309(8)
Appendix III: Occupations of Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910 317(8)
Notes 325(48)
Selected References 373(8)
Contributors 381(4)
Index 385

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