Box Shared MSS 31

The History of White Pine Women contains biographies of women residents of White Pine County, Nevada, including the legend of Mary Stanton, a Shoshone Indian woman healer.

Notes on the history of the Carson Valley and silver mining for a program presented in the valley in the 1920s or 1930s. Also included are notes made in 1947. Much of the talk was based on the author's experiences from 1882 on.

Report attempts to relate Shoshonean culture change to plans and objectives of the Indian Reorganization Act (I.R.A.) of 1934; the work is based on Steward's ethnographic studies in the field.,Includes evaluation of the diversities among the tribes, placement on reservations, tribal understanding of the I.R.A., and Steward's recommendations. Accompanying the report are letters between Roy Nash and W.W. Hill which discuss the report's treatment by the Indian Office.

Record of amounts collected for county taxes, including names of taxpayer and actual payer, and amount and date paid.

Record of amounts collected for county taxes, including names of taxpayer and actual payer, and amount and date paid.

Letter from McManus to J.E. Spurr, Philadelphia, offering to lease or sell his tungsten property. Written on Tonopah Miners' Union no. 121 stationery.

Typescript account of the author's courtship in Lincoln County in 1889; presented by the author to the Daughters of Pioneers, 1936.

Primarily correspondence between Means and professor Gordon H. True of the University of Nevada-Reno Agricultural Experimental Station regarding the water project.

Primarily correspondence from Mrs. Blair to Mary Ellen Glass regarding an oral history of Blair's. Also included are auto expense records (1914) and advertisement letters for Blair's poultry business (1947).

List of expenses for an overland journey from the east (Millwood) to Denver City, in 1858, and a deed of sale for hay from the Carbell Ranch to Joseph Jones (1894).