Sorry, we don't have any bachelors. Sounds like fun tho.

Quoting Catherine Spude <[log in to unmask]>:

> 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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>



Nan A. Rothschild

Research Professor
Barnard College
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Director of Museum Studies
Columbia University
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