Introduction 1. "I Am Afraid We Will Lose All We Have Made": Women's Lives in a Nineteenth-Century Mining Town, by C. Elizabeth Raymond 2. Women of the Mining West: Virginia City Revisited, by Ronald M. James and Kenneth H. Fliess At Home in a Mining Town 3. Redefining Domesticity: Women and Lodging Houses on the Comstock, by Julie Nicoletta 4. "They Are Doing So to a Liberal Extent Here Now": Women and Divorce on the Comstock, 1859-1880, by Kathryn Dunn Totton 5.

The "Secret Friend": Opium in Comstock Society, 1860-1887, by Sharon Lowe Occupations and Pursuits 6. Creating a Fashionable Society: Comstock Needleworkers from 1860 to 1880, by Janet I. Loverin and Robert A. Nylen 7. Mission in the Mountains: The Daughters of Charity in Virginia City, by Anne M. Butler 8. Divination on Mount Davidson: An Overview of Women Spiritualists and Fortunetellers on the Comstock, by Bernadette S. Francke 9.

"The Advantage of Ladies' Society": The Public Sphere of Women on the Comstock, by Anita Ernst Watson, Jean E. Ford, and Linda White Ethnicities 10. Their Changing World: Chinese Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910, by Sue Fawn Chung 11. "And Some of Them Swear Like Pirates": Acculturation of American Indian Women in Nineteenth-Century Virginia City, by Eugene M. Hattori 12. Erin's Daughters on the Comstock: Building Community, by Ronald M. James Image and Reality 13. Girls of the Golden West, by Andria Daley Taylor 14.

Gender and Archaeology on the Comstock, by Donald L. Hardesty Appendix: Statistical Profile of Women on the Comstock Appendix: Birthplace of Females in Storey County, 1860-1910 Appendix: Occupations of Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910 Notes Selected References Contributors Index.