Comstock Women

by James, Ronald M.; Raymond, C. Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780874172973
• ISBN10: 0874172977
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr

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