Dru MacPherson

If you run out of sources, some other possible places

Here in St. Louis there were early 19th century beer gardens on top of the
Mississippian period mounds which gave St. Louis the name of "mound city".
 Why?  The story is that the mounds were tall enough that they got a nice
breeze on summer afternoons and evenings.  Thus while it gets very humid
here in the summer, those were for us in St. Louis a good place to go,
tipple, and feel a breeze in the stifling summer heat.

I have seen miscellaneous  'just so' comments about that in various period
Gazetteer articles on other subjects, and have idly thought I might follow
it up someday.  So while the situation in St. Louis would be different
than the semi-arid Southwest, you might find some nice quotes to include
in your thesis.

David Browman

> Check out:
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> Spude, Catherine Holder, with contributions by Karl Gurcke, Gwen Hurst,
> and David Huelsbeck
> 2005	The Mascot Saloon, Archaeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska,
> Vol. 10.  US Government Printing Office, Department of the Interior,
> National Park Service, Anchorage Alaska.
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> I believe this is a free publication if you want a copy.
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> Subject: Beer Garden Help
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> Hello, my name is Dru McPherson, and I am an undergraduate Anthropology
> student
> at the University of Nevada, Reno. I am currently researching for an
> Honors
> thesis about a field school excavation in Virginia City, Nevada in which I
> participated. The site I am focusing on was a mid nineteenth century beer
> garden.
> I have searched through Anthropology/Archaeology databases like JSTOR,
> AnthroSource, AnthropologyPlus, and historical databases like Academic
> Search
> Premier, America History & Life, and others. I have also looked through
> ProQuest
> Theses and Dissertations.
> Through my searches, I am coming up with nothing relating to beer gardens
> or
> outdoor drinking establishments specifically. I have found great
> information
> about saloons from that time period, but I would love to include something
> in my
> thesis about a beer garden excavation.
> Is there anywhere I could look that I have missed? Possibly in the grey
> literature?
> I will list my current bibliography to show which sources I have been able
> to
> find and which sources I have found useful thus far.
> Thank you so much for your help!
> Dru
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> Brown, Robert L. Saloons of the American West: An Illustrated Chronicle.
> Denver: Robert L. 	Brown, 1978.
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> Dixon, Kelly J. Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia
> City.
> Reno, Nev: University of Nevada Press, 2006. Print.
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> Dixon, Kelly. "Sidling up to the Archaeology of Western Saloons:
> Historical
> Archaeology Takes 	on the Wild of the West." World Archaeology 38.4
> (2006):576-85. Print.
>
> Erdoes, Richard. Saloons of the Old West.  New York: Knopf, 1979.
>
> Goldman, Marion S.  Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and
> Social Life
> on the Comstock Lode.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981
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> Henius, Max. Danish Beer & Continental Beer Gardens. New York: United
> States
> brewers' Association, 1914. Print.
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> James, Ronald M.  The Roar and the Silence.  Reno and Las Vegas:
> University of
> Nevada Press, 1998.
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> Moody, Eric N., and Robert A. Nylen.  Brewed in Nevada: A History of the
> Silver
> State?s 	Beers and Breweries.  Carson City: Nevada State Museum, 1986.
>
> Moody, Eric N., and Robert A. Nylen.  ?The Comstock Brewing Industry.? OAH
> Newsletter (February 1988): 4-5.
>
> Protz, Roger.  Ultimate Encyclopedia of Beer: The Complete Guide to the
> World?s
> Greatest Brews.  London: Carlton Books, 1995.
>
> Ronnenberg, Herman W. Material Culture of Breweries. Walnut Creek, Calif:
> Left
> Coast Press, 	2011. Print.
>
> Rothbart, Ron.  ?The Ethnic Saloon as a Form of Immigrant Enterprise.?
> International Migration Review 27, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 332-58.
>
> Smith, Rayond M. Saloons of the Old and New Nevada: Commentaries on the
> Role and
> Development of the Nevada Saloon.  Minden, NV: Silver State Print, 1992.
>
> Wilson, Rex.  Bottles on the Western Frontier, Tucson: University of
> Arizona
> Press, 1981.
>
> Wright, William [Dan De Quille, pseud.]. The Big Bonanza.  1876.
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