Don't forget shore whalers and Chinese fisher folk in remote outposts.  
However, lacking written documentation, I am not sure how you can ever be  
absolutely certain women were not in the household. Good question as to how to  define 
a household, as women might have been day servants to gather the wash,  scrub 
the plates, and restock the larder.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
 
 
In a message dated 1/13/2008 10:54:21 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
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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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