'A place of recreation of our own': The archaeology of the Boston Saloon. Diversity and leisure in an African-American-owned saloon, Virginia City, Nevada.

摘要

The Boston Saloon operated during the 1860s and 1870s in Virginia City, Nevada. Historical archaeological investigation of this African American-owned saloon reveals diversity among western saloons and expands our understanding of African American archaeological studies in the nineteenth-century, mining West. The archaeological assemblages of the Boston Saloon and three of its contemporaries exhibit distinctive socioeconomic and gender-based differences, while cultural or ethnic identities are subtle, at best. Nevertheless, people still actively maintained their ethnic identities in western saloons, and these establishments fostered ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, and gender-based diversity in mining boomtowns.