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title Comstock Women The Making of a Mining Community Wilbur S - photo 1

title:Comstock Women : The Making of a Mining Community Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities (Unnumbered)
author:James, Ronald M.
publisher:University of Nevada Press
isbn10 | asin:0874172977
print isbn13:9780874172973
ebook isbn13:9780874174489
language:English
subjectVirginia City (Nev.)--History, Women--Nevada--Virginia City--Social conditions, Comstock Lode (Nev.) , Mines and mineral resources--Nevada--Virginia City--History.
publication date:1998
lcc:F849.V8C65 1998eb
ddc:979.3/56
subject:Virginia City (Nev.)--History, Women--Nevada--Virginia City--Social conditions, Comstock Lode (Nev.) , Mines and mineral resources--Nevada--Virginia City--History.
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Comstock Women
Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities
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Virginia City Vicinity 1879 Page iii Comstock Women The - photo 2
Virginia City & Vicinity 1879
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Comstock Women
The Making of a Mining Community
Edited by Ronald M. James & C. Elizabeth Raymond
Page iv Wilbur S Shepperson Series in History and Humanities Series - photo 3
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Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities
Series editor: Jerome E. Edwards
Picture 4
This book was funded in part by a grant from the Nevada Humanities Committee, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA
Copyright 1998 by University of Nevada Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Book design by Carrie Nelson House
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Comstock women: the making of a mining community / edited
by Ronald M. James and C. Elizabeth Raymond.
p. cm.(Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87417-297-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Virginia City (Nev.)History. 2. WomenNevadaVirginia City
Social conditions. 3. Comstock Lode (Nev.) 4. Mines and mineral
resourcesNevadaVirginia CityHistory. 1. James, Ronald M.
(Ronald Michael), 1955.
II. Raymond, C. Elizabeth. III. Series: Wilbur S. Shepperson series in
history and humanities (Unnumbered)
F849.V8C65 1997 97-11958
979.3'56dc21 CIP
The paper used in this book meets the requirement of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Binding materials were selected for strength and durability.
First Printing
06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
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In memory of the women of the Comstock
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1
"I Am Afraid We Will Lose All We Have Made": Women's Lives in a Nineteenth-Century Mining Town
C. Elizabeth Raymond
3
2
Women of the Mining West: Virginia City Revisited
Ronald M. James and Kenneth H. Fliess
17
At Home in a Mining Town
3
Redefining Domesticity: Women and Lodging Houses on the Comstock
Julie Nicoletta
43
4
"They Are Doing So to a Liberal Extent Here Now": Women and Divorce on the Comstock, 18591880
Kathryn Dunn Totton
68
5
The "Secret Friend": Opium in Comstock Society, 18601887
Sharon Lowe
95
Occupations and Pursuits
6
Creating a Fashionable Society: Comstock Needleworkers from 1860 to 1880
Janet I. Loverin and Robert A. Nylen
115
7
Mission in the Mountains: The Daughters of Charity in Virginia City
Anne M. Butler
142

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8
Divination on Mount Davidson: An Overview of Women Spiritualists and Fortunetellers on the Comstock
Bernadette S. Francke
165
9
"The Advantage of Ladies' Society": The Public Sphere of Women on the Comstock
Anita Ernst Watson, Jean E. Ford, and Linda White
179
Ethnicities
10
Their Changing World: Chinese Women on the Comstock, 18601910
Sue Fawn Chung
203
11
"And Some of Them Swear Like Pirates": Acculturation of American Indian Women in Nineteenth-Century Virginia City
Eugene M. Hattori
229
12
Erin's Daughters on the Comstock: Building Community
Ronald M. James
246
Image and Reality
13
Girls of the Golden West
Andria Daley Taylor
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