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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