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
Brown, Robert L. Saloons of the American West: An Illustrated Chronicle. Denver: Robert L. Brown, 1978.
Dixon, Kelly J. Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City. Reno, Nev: University of Nevada Press, 2006. Print.
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
Henius, Max. Danish Beer & Continental Beer Gardens. New York: United States brewers' Association, 1914. Print.
James, Ronald M. The Roar and the Silence. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1998.
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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