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For this response, you will look at the seedier and more violent side of the Comstock.
Read the following 4 items (3 of the items are from chapter 4 of Uncovering Nevada’s Past ): “The Virginia Evening Chronicle reports on Opium on the Comstock”, the article about Julia Bulette at this link (Links to an external site.) “Julia Bulette’s Probate Records”, and “Mark Twain’s Description of the Execution of John Millian, 1868.”
In 250-500 words, discuss whether you think that drug use and violence were a result of the boomtown, wide-open frontier aspect of the Comstock, or just the normal problems of a 19th-century city. Is this view of women and girls as prostitutes, drug addicts, and owners of opium dens how women are usually portrayed during this period?
