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Looking Backwards

Collection

Identifier: 97-22

Abstract

Lela Halsell Hempton's memoirs reveal her life as a child on a family farm in southwest Missouri; the family's move to Columbia, near Goldfield, Nevada, in 1904; childhood on the Nevada frontier; education, early teaching career in rural Nevada schools, and married life. Material from 1975.

Dates: 1975

Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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Names: Hempton, Lela Halsell X

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