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- James, Ronald M., author.
- Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2018.
- Description
- Book — xvi, 240 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Summary
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- Acknowledgements
- Preface by Philip Payton
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Collectors
- Chapter 2 The Droll Tellers
- Chapter 3 Folkways and Stories
- Chapter 4 Piskies, Spriggans, and Bucca
- Chapter 5 Piskies and Migratory Legends
- Chapter 6 Seeking the Companionship of People
- Chapter 7 Mermaids
- Chapter 8 The Spectral Bridegroom
- Chapter 9 Giants
- Chapter 10 Knockers in the Mines
- Chapter 11 Tommyknockers, Immigration, and the Modern World
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Type Index for Cornish Narrative
- Bibliography.
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- James, Ronald M.
- Lincoln : UNP - Bison Original, 2012.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (174 pages)
- Summary
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- List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements
- Introduction Twenty-one bits of glass, historical archaeology, and the meaning of the West
- Chapter 1 Gold and silver!
- Chapter 2 A crowded city on the mining frontier
- Chapter 3 An Irish blacksmith and the archaeology of belief
- Chapter 4 The Chinese
- Chapter 5 Saloons and the archaeology of leisure
- Chapter 6 Women on the mining frontier
- Chapter 7 Kids on the Comstock
- Chapter 8 Piper's Opera House and the archaeology of theater
- Chapter 9 Death and the material culture of the final chapter
- Epilogue Breathing meaning into the past
- Notes
- Bibliography Index.
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3. A short history of Virginia City [2014]
- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955- author.
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2014]
- Description
- Book — ix, 146 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Summary
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- The beginning of a legend
- An early boomtown
- The big bonanza
- Disaster and rebirth
- The irresistible persistence of the past
- Walking tour.
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4. A short history of Virginia City [2014]
- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2014.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
- Summary
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- The beginning of a legend
- An early boomtown
- The big bonanza
- Disaster and rebirth
- New personas and the irresistible persistence of the past
- A walking tour.
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- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, c2012.
- Description
- Book — xxii, 147 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
- Summary
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- List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements
- Introduction Twenty-one bits of glass, historical archaeology, and the meaning of the West
- Chapter 1 Gold and silver!
- Chapter 2 A crowded city on the mining frontier
- Chapter 3 An Irish blacksmith and the archaeology of belief
- Chapter 4 The Chinese
- Chapter 5 Saloons and the archaeology of leisure
- Chapter 6 Women on the mining frontier
- Chapter 7 Kids on the Comstock
- Chapter 8 Piper's Opera House and the archaeology of theater
- Chapter 9 Death and the material culture of the final chapter
- Epilogue Breathing meaning into the past
- Notes
- Bibliography Index.
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F849 .V8 J364 2012 | Unknown |
- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2009.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations, map
- Summary
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- A territory of humble beginnings
- A state of international fame
- The other early Nevada
- A new century
- After the boom
- A New Deal
- Inventing the future
- Learning from remnants of the past.
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- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, c2009.
- Description
- Book — xiv, 224 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
- Summary
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- A territory of humble beginnings
- A state of international fame
- The other early Nevada
- A new century
- After the boom
- A New Deal
- Inventing the future
- Learning from remnants of the past.
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F842 .J37 2009 | Unknown |
- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, ©1998.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxi, 355 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Summary
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- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
- 1. A Glimmer of Opportunity: The Setting;
- 2. The First Boom: Building the Community;
- 3. The First Boom: Building the Mines;
- 4. Grief, Depression, and Disasters: Successes in the Midst of Failures;
- 5. A Time of Bonanza;
- 6. The Workers: Labor in an Industrialized Community;
- 7. The International Community: Ethnicity Celebrated;
- 8. The Moral Options: Sinners;
- 9. The Moral Options: Saints;
- 10. Princes and Paupers: Contrasts in Class;
- 11. Over Time: Bonanza and Borrasca (1877-1942).
- 12. The Sequel to the Big Bonanza: Tourism and TelevisionAfterword; Notes; Bibliography and Bibliographical Essay; Index.
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- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1998.
- Description
- Book — xxi, 355 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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Nevada's Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West's quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its first few years as a ramshackle mining camp. The mining boom quickly turned it into a thriving urban center, at its peak one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, replete with most of the amenities of any large city of its time. The lure of the area's fabulous wealth attracted a remarkably heterogenous population from around the world and offered employment to dozens of trades and thousands of people, both men and women, representing every one of the region's diverse ethnic groups. Ronald James's brilliant account of the Comstock's long and eventful history-the first comprehensive study of the subject in over a century-examines every aspect of the region and employs information gleaned from hundreds of written sources, interviews, archeological research, computer analysis, folklore, gender studies, physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
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F849 .V8 J35 1998 | Available |
- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, ©1994.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations, map
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From Storey County's High Victorian Italianate-styled courthouse to Lander County's former schoolhouse, now a Neo-classical courthouse, Temples of Justice provides an architectural history of the courthouses of Nevada. In Nevada's first published architectural history, Temples of Justice treats the state's buildings as a series of documents from the past. Presented collectively the courthouses illustrate the choices and influences that have affected Nevada's communities as the citizens have sought to project an image of themselves and their aspirations through public architecture. The courthouses are important local public facilities, and they provide an excellent opportunity to understand the history of attitudes and tastes in the state.
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- James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1994.
- Description
- Book — xiii, 199 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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From Storey County's High Victorian Italianate-styled courthouse to Lander County's former schoolhouse, now a Neo-classical courthouse, Temples of Justice provides an architectural history of the courthouses of Nevada. In Nevada's first published architectural history, Temples of Justice treats the state's buildings as a series of documents from the past. Presented collectively the courthouses illustrate the choices and influences that have affected Nevada's communities as the citizens have sought to project an image of themselves and their aspirations through public architecture. The courthouses are important local public facilities, and they provide an excellent opportunity to understand the history of attitudes and tastes in the state.
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905 .N499 NO.35 | Available |
- Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, ©1998.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xi, 394 pages) : illustrations, maps. Digital: data file.
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- 1. "I Am Afraid We Will Lose All We Have Made": Women's Lives in a Nineteenth-Century Mining Town / C. Elizabeth Raymond
- 2. Women of the Mining West: Virginia City Revisited / Ronald M. James and Kenneth H. Fliess
- 3. Redefining Domesticity: Women and Lodging Houses on the Comstock / Julie Nicoletta
- 4. "They Are Doing So to a Liberal Extent Here Now": Women and Divorce on the Comstock, 1859-1880 / Kathryn Dunn Totton
- 5. The "Secret Friend": Opium in Comstock Society, 1860-1887 / Sharon Lowe
- 6. Creating a Fashionable Society: Comstock Needleworkers from 1860 to 1880 / Janet I. Loverin and Robert A. Nylen
- 7. Mission in the Mountains: The Daughters of Charity in Virginia City / Anne M. Butler
- 8. Divination on Mount Davidson: An Overview of Women Spiritualists and Fortunetellers on the Comstock / Bernadette S. Francke
- 9. "The Advantage of Ladies' Society": The Public Sphere of Women on the Comstock / Anita Ernst Watson, Jean E. Ford and Linda White
- 10. Their Changing World: Chinese Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910 / Sue Fawn Chung
- 11. "And Some of Them Swear Like Pirates": Acculturation of American Indian Women in Nineteenth-Century Virginia City / Eugene M. Hattori
- 12. Erin's Daughters on the Comstock: Building Community / Ronald M. James
- 13. Girls of the Golden West / Andria Daley Taylor
- 14. Gender and Archaeology on the Comstock / Donald L. Hardesty
- App. I. Statistical Profile of Women on the Comstock
- App. II. Birthplace of Females in Storey County, 1860-1910
- App. III. Occupations of Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910.
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- Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1998.
- Description
- Book — xi, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada's most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women and politics, jobs, and ethnic groups. Their work goes far in refuting the exaggerated popular images of women in early mining towns as dance hall girls or prostitutes. Relying primarily on newspapers, court decisions, census records, as well as sparse personal diaries and records left by the woman, the essayists have resurrected the lives of the women who lived on the Comstock during the boom years.
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F849 .V8 C65 1998 | Unknown |
- Grosh, E. Allen, 1824-1857.
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2012]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xv, 244 pages) : illustrations, map
- Summary
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- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. 1849
- 2. 1850
- 3. 1851
- 4. 1852 and 1853
- 5. 1854 and 1855
- 6. 1856
- 7. 1857 and 1858
- Appendix A: The Reading California Association
- Appendix B: The Recollection of Edwin A. Sherman
- Appendix C: Financial Matters and the Subsequent Lawsuit
- Notes
- Index.
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- 1st ed. - Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2004.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xviii, 228 pages) : illustrations
- Summary
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1
- Beginnings
- 1.
- Captain Nathaniel V. Jones's Report from the Las Vegas Mormon Fort-Mission
- The Gold Hill Record Book
- Congressman James M. Ashley's (R-Ohio) Reasons for Nevada Statehood, 1865
- William M. Ormsby's Letter to Stephen Douglas
- President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Nevada Statehood, 1864
- The Nevada Constitution's Paramount Allegiance Clause
- 4.
- Dan De Quille on Woodcutting in the Sierra Nevada
- Fortune-Telling on the Comstock
- Julia Bulette's Probate Records
- Mark Twain's Description of the Execution of John Millian, 1868
- James Nye's Speech to the First Territorial Legislature
- Frances Fuller Victor's "Nevada"
- 5.
- Mrs. Hugh Brown on Tonopah Housekeeping
- Theodore Roosevelt's Admonition of Governor John T. Sparks
- The Sacramento Bee on George Wingfield
- 7.
- Paul Hutchinson on Nevada Gambling in The Christian Century
- Postcards Promoting Gambling in Nevada
- Images of Nevada Prostitution
- Images from the Johnson-Jeffries Fight
- Postcards Advertising Nevada Divorce
- Postcards Promoting Marriage in Nevada
- Erma O. Godbey on the Construction of Hoover Dam
- 9.
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- 1st ed. - Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2004.
- Description
- Book — xviii, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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In the words of literary luminaries, newspaper articles, public documents, personal letters, political speeches and personal accounts this is an attempt to define Nevada's colorful and complex development. It describes life in a mining boomtown, racial segregation in Las Vegas, political careers and atomic testing whilst through photographs we are shown significant Nevada architecture, the masterpieces of renowned Paiute basketmaker Dat-so-la-lee and tree carvings by sheepherders. The collection ranges from the earliest descriptions of the region to the current debate on Yucca Mountain.
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F836 .U53 2004 | Unknown |
- Grosh, E. Allen, 1824-1857.
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2012.
- Description
- Book — xv, 244 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their search for wealth took them from San Francisco into the gold country and then over the Sierra into Nevada's Gold Canyon, where they placer-mined for gold and discovered a deposit of silver. The letters they sent back to their family offer vivid commentaries on the turbulent western frontier, the diverse society of the Gold Rush camps, and the heartbreaking labor and frustration of mining. Their lively descriptions of Gold Canyon provide one of the earliest accounts of life in what would soon become the fabulously wealthy Comstock Mining District. The Groshes' letters are rich in color and important historical details. Generously annotated and with an introduction that provides a context for the brothers' career and the setting in which they tried to make their fortune, these documents powerfully depict the often harsh realities of Gold Rush life and society.
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