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Adams, Romanzo. Taxation in Nevada. Published at Reno, Nevada, by Nevada State Historical Society, Inc., Carson City, Nevada, State Printing Office, 1918. 199 p.

Adams, George I. The Rabbit Hale Sulphur Mines near Humboldt House. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916. 361 p. illus., maps. (U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 620).

Angel, Myron, ed. History of Nevada. Oakland, California, Thompson and West, 1881. 680 p. illus. Valuable for pages copied from Book of Records, Carson Valley.

Armstrong, Margaret and J. J. Thornber. Field Book of Western Wild Flowers. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. 596 p. illus., col, plates.

Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming. San Francisco, History Company, 1889. 827 p. (Vol. XXV of History of Pacific States of North America. 34 v.)

Banning, Capt. William and George H. Six Horses. New York, Century Company, 1930. 410 p.

Book of Nevada Poems. Selected and arranged by Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs. Reno, Nevada, Reno Printing Company, 1927. 214 P-

Bradley, Glen D. The Story of the Pony Express'. An account of the Most Remarkable Mail Service ever in Existence, and Its Place in History. 4th edition. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Company, 1920. 175 p. illus. Route and riders.

Brennen, C, A. The Main Reason Why Range Cattle Ranches Sue- ceed or Fail. Carson City, Nevada, State Printing Office, 1933. 22 p. illus. (Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nevada, Bulletin 133).

Brown, George R. ed. Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada. New York, Neale Publishing Company, 1908. 308 p.

Burton, Richard F. City of the Saints: And Across the Rocky Mountains to California. New York, Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1862* 574 p. illus. Only a small section deals with Nevada.

Carr, Harry. The Wett Is Still Wild: Romance of the Past and Present Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1932. 275 P- illus. Anecdotes and short stories.

Carson, Kit Kit Carson's Lif* <**<* Adventures from Facts Narrated by Himself. Embracing events in the life-time of America's great-

est trapper, icout and guide, including vivid accounts of die every day life, inner character, and peculiar customs of all Indian Tribes of the far west Edited by Dewitt C. Peters. Hartford, Connecticut, Dustin, Oilman and Company, 1873. 604 p. illus. Little on Nevada.

Chandlers, William. Visit to Salt Lake: Being a journey across the plains and a residence in the Mormon Settlements at Utah. London, Smith, Elder and Company, 1857. 346 p. fold map.

Chapman, H. R. Deserts of Nevada and Death Valley. Scientific American Supplement 63: 26125-9. April 6, 1907, illus., map. An address before the National Geographic Society.

Chittenden, Hiram Martin. The American Fur Trade of the Far West. Corrected edition. New York, Pilgrim Press, 1938. 2 v.

Clemens, Samuel L. Roughing It. Hartford, American Publishing Company, 1871. 419 p.

Clements, Edith S. Flowers of Coast and Sierra. New York. H. W. Wilson Company, 1928. 226 p. col. front, col. illus.

Coy, Owen C. The Great Trek. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Powell Publishing Company, 1931. 349 p. illus., plates, maps. Overland Journeys to the Pacific Coast.

Dale, Harrison Clifford, ed. The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829, with the Original Journals. Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1918. 352 p., plates, maps.

Davis, Sam P. ed. History of Nevada. Los Angeles, Elms Publishing Company, 1913. 2 v. 1279 P- Compilation of articles written by pioneers and contemporaries, some of much value.

Dellenbaugh, Frederick S. Fremont and '49: The story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially California. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. 547 p. illus., maps.

—. Breaking the Wilderness, New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905- 360 p. illus.

De Vpto, Bernard Augustine. Mark Twain's America. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1932. 353 p. illus.

Drago, Henry Sinclair. Following the Grass. New York, Macauley Company, 1924. 320 p. Story.

Drury, Wells. An editor on the Comstock Lode. New York, Farrar and Rinehart, 1936. 343 p. illus.

Eckel, Edwin C. Portland Cement Materials and Industries in the United States. Washington, Government Printing office, 1913. 401 p. maps. (U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 522). Contributions by E. F. Burch, A. F. Crider, G. B. Richardson, E. A Smith, J. A. Taff, E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Weed. Emmons, William Harvey. A Reconnaissence of Some Mining Camps in Elko, Lander and Eureka Counties, Nevada. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1910. 130 p. map. (U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 408).

Everett, Willis E. Genesis of the Formation and Deposition of the Nevada Desert Gold, Silver and Copper Mines. Scientific American Supplement, 65: 61. Jan. 25, 1908.

Fletcher, Fred Nathaniel. Early Nevada: The Period of Exploration, 1776-1848. Reno, Carlisle and Company, 1929. 183 p. mounted fold. map.

Fremont, Brevet Col. J. C. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California. Buffalo, George H. Derby and Company, 1851. 456 p. Fremont was in Nevada, January 1844. Fulton, Robert Lardin. Epic of the Overland. San Francisco, A. M.

Robertson, 1924. 109 p. front plates, ports, fold. map. Glasscock, Carl Burgess. The Big Bonanza: The Story of the Com- stock Lode. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. 368 p. illus. Historical recital of the flourishing days of Virginia City. Somewhat melodramatic.

------. A Golden Highway: Scenes of History's greatest gold rush

yesterday and today. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merril Company, 1934.. 333 P- front plate.

------. Gold in Them Hills: The story of the West's last wild

mining days. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1932. 330 p. illus.

Goodwin, Charles C. As I Remember Them. Salt Lake City, Published by special committee of Salt Lake Commercial Club, 1913. 360 p.

Hafen, Leroy R. The Overland Mail, 1849-1869: Promoter of Settlement, Procursor of Railroads. Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. 361 p. plates, map.

Hardman, George and M. R. Miller. The Quality of the Water of Southern Nevada: Drainage Basins and Water Resources. Carson City, Nevada, State Printing Office, 1934. 62 p. (Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nevada, Bulletin 136). Harrington, Mark R. Archeological Explorations in Southern^ Nevada, Los Angeles, Southwest Museum, 1930. 126 p. illus., map. (Southwest Museum Papers No. 4).

------. Gypsum Cave. Los Angeles, Southwest Museum, 1933- W

p. illus., plates, maps* (Southwest Museum Papers No. 8). Nevada prehistoric man. Harvey, Charles M. Trail of the Argonauts. Atlantic Monthly,

106; 113-125, July, 1911. Hayden, Irwin. Last Stand of the Nevada Pueblos. Scientific

American, 142; 132-134. Feb. 1930. Higginbotham, A, L. A Mountain University. Overland, 82; 387-

90. Sept 1924,

Hill, J. M, Notts on the Economic Geology of the Ramsey, Talla- poost and White Horse Mining Districts in Washoe and Lvon counties, Nevada. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1911. p, 99-108, (U. S, Geological Survey, Bulletin 4?o).

Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians.^ Washington, Government Printing Office, 1912. 2 v. (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30).

Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca. Life Among the Piutes: Theii Wrongs and Claims. Edited by Mrs. Horace Mann. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. 268 p. Mrs. Hopkins was an educated Piute.

Hutchins, Wells A Summary of Irrigation District Statutes of Western States. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1931. 127 p. (U. S. Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publications 103).

Johnson, Clifton. Highways and Byways of the Pacific Coast. New York, Macmillan, 1908. 323 p. illus.

Kelly, Charles. Salt Desert Trails; A History of the Hastings1 Cut-off and other early Trails which Crossed the Great Salt Lake Desert seeking a Shorter Road to California. Salt Lake City, Western Printing Company, 1930. 178 p. illus., maps.

Kelly, J. Wells. First Directory of Nevada Territory. San Francisco, Valentine and Company, 1862. 266 p. Contains historical sketch, lists of residents in the principal towns and descriptions of quartz mills.

Kniess, Gilbert H. The Virginia and Truckee Railroad. Boston^ the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., 1938. 32 pt illus., map. (Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., Bulletin 45).

Knopf, Adolph. Some Cinnabar Deposits in Western Nevada. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916, 361 p. illus., maps* (U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 620).

------. A gold-platinum-palladium lode in southern Nevada. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916. 361 p. illus., maps. (U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 620).

Kroeber, Alfred L. American Archeology and Ethnology. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1903-1923. 20 v. Includes Language of the Washoes*

Leonard, Zenas. Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836, Adventures of. Reprinted from the rare original of 1839. Edited by W. F. Wagner. Cleveland, Burrows Brothers Company, 1904. 317 p, illus., maps.

Lewis, Oscar. The Big Four: The Story of Huntingdon, Stanford, Hopkins and Crocker, and the building of the Central Pacific. New York, and London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 418 p.

Lincoln, Francis Church. Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada. Reno, Nevada, Newsletter Publishing Company, 1923. 295 p. tables. Extended bibliographies. (Paper cover). In- raluable statistics and condensed technical material.

Linsdale, Jean M. The Birdt of Newda. Berkeley, California,

Cooper Ornithological Club, 1936. 145 p. (Pacific Coast Avifauna 23). (Paper cover).

Loomis, Leander Vaness. A Journal of the Birmingham Emigrating Company: The Record of a Trip from Birmingham, Iowa, to Sacramento, California, in 1850. Edited by Edgar M. Ledyard. Salt Lake City, Legal Printing Company, 1928. 198 p. plates, ports., fold. maps. (From Randolph B. Marcy's The Prairie Traveler, London, 1863).

Lord, Eliot Comstock Mining and Miners. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1883, 451 p. maps. (U. S. Geological Survey, Monographs V., 4).

Loud, Llewellyn L. and Mark R. Harrington. Lovelock Cave. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1929. 183 p. illus., plates, tables, diagrs., maps. (University of California publications in American Archeology and Ethnology V. 25 No. l). Piute Indians.

Luke, Mrs. C. H. The Geography of Nevada. Chicago, Rand Mc- Nally, 1932. 20 p. illus., maps. (Paper cover).

Lyman, George D. Saga of the Comstock Lode. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 407 p. illus. Melodramatic

------. Ralstons Ring. California Plunders the Comstock Lode,

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. 368 p. plates, ports.

Mack, Effie Mona. Nevada: A History of the State from the Earliest Times through the Civil War. Glendale, California, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1936. 495 p. illus., maps.

McGlashan, C. F. History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra. Sacramento, H. S. Crocker Company, 1890. 125 p. illus.

McNaughton, Clara. Native Indian Basketry. New West, I: 17-20. Reno, New West Publishing Company, Oct. 1912.

Manly, William Lewis. Death Valley in '49: The Autobiography of a Pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name. San Jose, California, The Pacific Tree and Vine Company, 1894. 498 p.

Marsh, Andrew J., official reporter. Constitutional Convention, 1864. Official report of the debates and proceedings—at Carson City, July 4, 1864, San Francisco, F. Eastman, printer, 1866. 943 P-

Martin, Anne. Nevada, Beautiful Desert of Buried Hopes. Nation, 115: 88-92. July 26, 1922.

Marye, George T,, Jr. From '49 to '83 in California and Nevada: Chapters from the Life of George Thomas Marye, a Pioneer of '49 (by his ton). San Francisco, A. M. Robertson Company, 1923. a 12 p* plates, ports.

Meinzer, O. E. Geology and Resources of Big Smoky, Clayton and Alkali Springs valleys, Nevada. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1917, 167 p, maps. (U. 8. Geological Survey, Water supply paper 423).

Muir, John, Steep Trails. Edited by William Frederic Bade. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. 382 p. illus. Chapter XVI "Nevada's Dead Towns." Myers, Harriet Williams. Western Birds. New York, Macmillan

Company, 1923. 391 p. front., plates.

Nevada. Constitution of State of Nevada: Its Formation and Interpretation by A J. Maestretti and Charles Roger Hicks. Reno, University of Nevada, 1933. 120 p. (University of Nevada, Bulletin 27: 4. Sept. 1933)-

------. Department of Highways: Nevada's Parks. Carson City,

Nevada, State Printing Office, 1938. 80 p. illus., maps, tables, diagrs.

------. Nevada's Golden Stars. Prepared under the direction of

Maurice J. Sullivan, the adjutant general of Nevada. Reno, A. Carlisle and Company of Nevada, 1924. 303 p. illus., ports. Nevada. State Board of Stock Commissioners. Nevada Brand Book and a Compilation of Laws Affecting Live Stock. Reno, Nevada Brand Book Company, 1924, 292 p.

------. State Engineer. Biennial Reports, 1930-1938. Carson City,

Nevada, State Printing Office, 1931-39. 4 v.

Nevada State Historical Society, Inc. Reports. Published biennially 1907-1918. Edited by Jeanne Elizabeth Wier, Secretary of Nevada State Historical Society, Inc. Carson City, Nevada, State Printing Office, 1909-19. 3 v. plates, ports., maps. Reminiscences of pioneers, theses, and memorial sketches of members. ------. Papers. 1913-1926. Edited by Jeanne Elizabeth Wier, Secretary of Nevada State Historical Society, Inc. Carson City, Nevada, State Printing Office, 1913-1927. 5 v. illus., ports., maps. Published periodically by the Society, Reno, Nevada. Carfeully selected materials for history, theses and reprints, Nevada. State Mineralogist. Biennial Reports, 1866-1877 and 1878. Carson City, Nevada, State Printing Office, 1867-1879. 7 v. fold, tables.

------. Surveyor General. Biennial Reports, 1915-16, 1917-18, 1931-

32, 1933-34- Carson City, Nevada, State Printing Office, 1915- 1934- 4 v. tables.

Nevada State University. Tri-decennial Celebration: May 28 to June 2, 1904. Edited by J, E. Church, Jr. Reno, Press of Barndollar and Durley, 1904. 204 p. front, plate, ports, Nevms, Allen. Fremont, Pathmarker of the West. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1939. 649 p, front (port), illus,, maps.

Oetteking, Bruno. The Skeleton from Mesa House: A Physical Investigation. Los Angeles, Southwest Museum, 1930. 48 p. illus. (Southwest Museum Papers No. s).

3gden, Peter Skene. Report of Peter Skene Ogden to the Hudson's Bay Company. Copied in London, copy in possession of Robert A, Allen, Nevada State Engineer.

Pelzer, Louis. The Cattlemen's Frontier: A Record of the trans- Mississippi Cattle Industry from Oxen Trains to Pooling Companies, 18501890. Glendale, California, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1936. 351 p. front, illus., plates.

Powell, John J. Nevada: the Land of Silver. San Francisco, Bacon and Company, 1876. 305 p. plates.

Rand-McNally. Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide. Chicago, Rand-McNally, 1936-1939. 4 v. maps, tables.

Requa, Mark L. Grubstake: A Story of Early Mining days in Nevada, time 1874. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1933. 360 p.

Ridgway, Robert. Ornithology. (In IV, Part III, of U. S. Geological Survey Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel). Washington, Government Printing Office, 1877. P» 305-643.

Rollins, Phillip A. The Cowboy: His Characteristics, his Equipment and his Part in the Development of the West. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 353 p.

Royce, Sarah, Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California; with a foreword by Katherine Royce. Edited by Ralph Henry Gabriel. Yale University Press, 1932. 144 p.

Sabin, Edwin L. Building the Pacific Railway. Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1919, 308 p. illus., map. Ulysses S. Grant's visit to Nevada.

Saunders, Charles Francis. Western Wild Flowers and Their Stories. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1933- 320 p.

Scrugham, James G. cd. Nevada: A Narrative of the Conquest of a Frontier Land. Chicago, American Historical Society, Inc., I935« 3 v. illus., ports.

Shearer, Frederick E. ed. William's Pacific Tourist and Guide Across the Continent. New York, Adams and Bishop, 1881. 352 p. illus. Union and Central Pacific Railroads.

Shinn, Charles Howard. The Story of the Mine, as Illustrated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1908. 272 p. illus.

Schrader, Frank Charles. Reconnaisance of the Jarbidge, Contact and Elk Mountain Districts, Elko County, Nevada. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1912. 162 p. map. (U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 497)*

Smythe, William E. The Conquest of Arid America. New York, Macmillan Company, 1905. 360 p. illus.

Spurr, J. E. Alum Deposit near Silver Peak, Esmeralda County, Nevada, pp. 501-502. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1904. 527 p. illus., maps. (U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 225),

•------. Coal Deposits between Silver Peak and Candelaria, Esmeralda

County, pp* 289-292.

------„ Notes on the Geology o/ the Goldfields District, pp. 118-119.

•-----. Ore Deposits of the Silver Peak quadrangle, pp. 111-117.

------. Preliminary Report on the Ore Deposits of Tonopah. pp. 89-

IIO.

Stacey, May Humphreys, Uncle Sam's Camels. Edited by Lewis Burt Lesley. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1929. 298 p. plates, ports., fold. map. The journal of May H. Stacey. Southwestern U. S,

Strobridge, Idah Meacham. In Miners' Mirage-Land. Los Angeles, Baumgardt Publishing Company, 1904, 129 p.

Sullivan, Maurice S. Jedediah Smith, Trader and Trail-breaker. New York, Press of the Pioneers, Inc., 1936. 233 ?• front, illus., plates, ports.

Taylor, L. H. Water Storage in the Truckee Basin, California- Nevada. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1902. 90 p. (U. S. Geological Survey, Water Supply 68).

Traner, F. W. Nevada Supplement. New York, Macmillan Company, 1923. 16 p. illus., tables. Nevada geography.

United States. Geological Survey. Geographical Surveys West of the lOOth Meridian. Capt. George M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers U. S. Army in charge. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1875-1889. 7 v., Supplement and 2 Atlases. V. I. Geographical Report, 1889. 780 p. plates, maps. v. 6, Botany, 1878.

------. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. Clarence

King, Geologist-in-charge. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1870-1880. 7 v. and Atlas. V. 3. Mining Industry, 1870. 647 p. plates, maps. V. 4. Zoology and Paleontology, . 1877.

Wier, Jeanne Elizabeth. Nevada Politics. In Inter mountain Politics. Edited by T. C. Donnelly, 1940.

Wright, William (Dan De Quille, pseud.) History of the Biff Bonanza. Hartford, Connecticut, American Publishing Company; San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company, 1877. 569 p. illus., plates, ports. One of the most accurate accounts.

------. A History of the Comstock Lode Mines, Nevada and the Great

Basin Regions, Lake Tahoe and the High Sierras. Virginia City, Nevada, F. Boegle, 1889, 158 p.

Most of the foregoing items are found in the library of the Nevada State Historical Society, Inc., in Reno, or in the libraries at the University of Nevada.