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| 1 | "I Am Afraid We Will Lose All We Have Made": Women's Lives in a Nineteenth-Century Mining Town | 3 |
| 2 | Women of the Mining West: Virginia City Revisited | 17 |
| 3 | Redefining Domesticity: Women and Lodging Houses on the Comstock | 43 |
| 4 | "They Are Doing So to a Liberal Extent Here Now": Women and Divorce on the Comstock, 1859-1880 | 68 |
| 5 | The "Secret Friend": Opium in Comstock Society, 1860-1887 | 95 |
| 6 | Creating a Fashionable Society: Comstock Needleworkers from 1860 to 1880 | 115 |
| 7 | Mission in the Mountains: The Daughters of Charity in Virginia City | 142 |
| 8 | Divination on Mount Davidson: An Overview of Women Spiritualists and Fortunetellers on the Comstock | 165 |
| 9 | "The Advantage of Ladies' Society": The Public Sphere of Women on the Comstock | 179 |
| 10 | Their Changing World: Chinese Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910 | 203 |
| 11 | "And Some of Them Swear Like Pirates": Acculturation of American Indian Women in Nineteenth-Century Virginia City | 229 |
| 12 | Erin's Daughters on the Comstock: Building Community | 246 |
| 13 | Girls of the Golden West | 265 |
| 14 | Gender and Archaeology on the Comstock | 283 |
| App. I | Statistical Profile of Women on the Comstock | 303 |
| App. II | Birthplace of Females in Storey County, 1860-1910 | 309 |
| App. III | Occupations of Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910 | 317 |
| Notes | 325 | |
| Selected References | 373 | |
| Contributors | 381 | |
| Index | 385 |
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Jeremy Lucas
reviewed Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community on September 30, 2011 Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community
An historical study of the women who were involved in every aspect of the Virginia City mining community of the 1800's. It looks at the wives, female miners, prostitutes, business owners (of stores, boarding houses, eating establishments, bordello's), spiriualits, and of course the Daughter's of Charity. It studies the different ethnic backgrounds and what guided them to certain fields of work whether it was hat making, laundry work, prostitutes, cleaning, etc. The complexity of life beyond the men and the mines that women were a strong part of and are usually ignored. The Daughter's of Charity with their hospital and orphanage, the wives with their service organizations, the schools and more. It makes the hard life that these women led become real to today's reader. The topic of drug abuse as women could cure or make tolerable their illnesses/life with opium which unlike drinking could be done in private with no one the wiser.
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Add Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community, The conventional view of Virginia City as a ramshackle mining camp populated largely by miners and the businesses - saloons, hotels, brothels- that served their needs obscures a significant and fascinating aspect of its history: it was home to large numbe, Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community, The conventional view of Virginia City as a ramshackle mining camp populated largely by miners and the businesses - saloons, hotels, brothels- that served their needs obscures a significant and fascinating aspect of its history: it was home to large numbe, Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community to your collection on WonderClub |
