Okay, I'm all revved up, talking to a bunch of you about dead guys. Not famous dead guys, but ordinary guys and how they missed their women. I've always maintained there are TWO genders, and we can't understand one without the other.

I'd like to organize a symposium for the Toronto meeting about the Archaeology of Bachelors in the West: miners, lumberjacks, railroad laborers, fishermen, soldiers, cowboys, and the communities that provided the support facilities for them (saloons, gambling halls, dance halls, barber shops, tobacco stores, restaurants, lodging houses, boarding houses, laundries, brothels, cribs, etc.).

Drop me a note and let me know what you'd like to talk about, and I'll start getting us organized. I understand the spring issue of the SHA newsletter will contain the call for papers, so we  only have a couple of months to give this some thought!

Cathy


Catherine H. Spude, PhD
Montana Dawn, Enterprises
7 Avenida Vista Grande #145
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-466-1476 home
505-913-1326 cell

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