Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology And History In Virginia City

Preface

list of illustrations 0.1. Parking lot on the east side of the Bucket of Blood, capping the Boston Saloon 10 0.2. Rich Backus of Storey County Public Works maneuvering the backhoe at the Bucket of Blood parking lot 12 0.3. Crew member Larry Buhr operating the “Bobcat” through a portion of the fill layer 15 0.4. Careful hand excavation at the Boston Saloon 15 0.5. In situ artifacts 17 0.6. Lorraine Plympton and Gene Dimitri mapping artifacts 17 0.7. Evidence of the 1875 fire 18 0.8. Stratigraphic tagging at the Boston Saloon 19 1.1. J. Ross Browne’s “Home for the Boys,” in A Peep at Washoe and Washoe Revisited 24 1.2. Augustus Koch’s 1875 “Bird’s-eye View of Virginia City” 27 1.3. Front facade of the first version of Piper’s Old Corner Bar 28 1.4. Archaeology crew unearthing evidence of Piper’s Old Corner Bar 29 1.5. D Street, ca. late 1860s and early 1870s 30 1.6. Interior view of a Virginia City saloon 32 1.7. The archaeological excavation of the Boston Saloon 35 2.1. Early canvas-topped saloon on the Comstock Mining District 44 ...