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Agricultural Experiment Station Reports

 Collection
Identifier: 88-23
Abstract

Includes reports on Nevada agricultural economics and management, including topics dealing with range and forest management in Nevada and northeastern California flood control irrigation the Carson, Truckee, Muddy, and Colorado Rivers grazing, the state Planning Board Water Facilities Act and the Purnell Act.

Dates: 1925-1944
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Belonging: Wiseman, Woolverton, Griswold, Angel [family history]

 Collection
Identifier: 91-40
Abstract

Helen Angel Fullenwider was a California researcher who researched their ancestors in 1991. Genealogical history of four families from colonial American times to the present. These families settled in Elko County, Nevada, beginning in 1859.

Dates: 1991
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Bullion and Exchange Bank Records

 Collection
Identifier: 82-33
Abstract

The Bullion and Exchange Bank of Carson City, Nevada was established in 1875 as the Carson City Savings Bank. THe collection includes two volumes of manuscript drafts written by the Bullion and Exchange Bank on the Anglo-California Bank of San Francisco, one volume of daily statements, one ledger, and 7 folders of invoices and correspondence dating from 1877-1931.

Dates: 1877-1931
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Agreement between Clarence Buck, Hugh Jones, and the Dexter Gold Mining Company

 Collection
Identifier: 95-37
Abstract

Agreement dating March 14, 1898 between Clarence Buck, Hugh Jones, and the Dexter Gold Mining Company in which Buck and Jones agree to sell their Contention Mining Claim in the Tuscarora Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, to the Dexter Gold Mining Company of Utah.

Dates: March 14, 1898
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

P. Walter Davidson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 90-23
Abstract P. Walter Davidson was a part owner and developer of the Rio Tinto Copper Company at Mountain City, Elko County, Nevada; the mine later was known as the Mountain City Copper Company. The collection includes correspondence to and from Davidson, his wife Sadie, and S. F. Hunt, President of the Rio Tinto; Sadie's manuscript history/biography of the Nelson Ranch and Estella Bish Nelson; a pamphlet, Elko County and its vast mineral wealth, 1907; and newspaper clippings about mining, Mountain...
Dates: 1907; 1931-1939; Majority of material found within 1931-1939
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Home means Nevada: the autobiography of Edna B. Patterson and the history of the Patterson family and their life in Nevada

 Collection
Identifier: 94-09
Abstract Edna Burke Patterson was a member of the State Central Republican Committee and the Nevada State Board of Education, on which she served as the first woman president. In this manuscript of her book by the same title, Patterson recounts her childhood days; married life with her rancher husband, John Malcolm Patterson, in the Lamoille, Nevada, area; descriptions of Elko, Nevada; her work as an historian and author; and the establishment of the Northeastern Nevada Historical Society. Dated...
Dates: 1992
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

In This Land: A History of the Lamoille Area of Elko County, Nevada, 1865-1965

 Collection
Identifier: NC357
Abstract

Edna Patterson was a Nevada rancher, historian, and author. The collection includes a study of what was originally Lamoille Precinct of Lander County, Nevada including Lamoille, Pleasant Valley, Fort Halleck, and Halleck Station. The author discusses the development of the Lamoille region, including the areas of business, medicine, mining, ranching, water problems on the Humboldt River, and fraternal and other organizations.

Dates: 1965
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Report of Irrigation Investigations, Duty of Water on Meadow Lands

 Collection
Identifier: 89-20
Abstract

Report based on work in Elko County, Nevada, which investigated how much water was being used to raise good crops of grass hay near Lamoille, Lee, and in Star Valley near Deeth. The collection contains material from 1917 created by H.T. McQuiston.

Dates: 1917
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Jean S. McElrath Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 97-16
Abstract Jean Sybil McElrath (1917-1967) was a Nevada writer. In 1965 she was awarded the Distinguished Nevadan Award by the University of Nevada. She was active in many organizations, including the Girl Scouts, Nevada Historical Society, Nevada Federation of the Blind, and the National League of American Pen Women. Included in this collection are scrapbooks and loose clippings, 1943-1969, composed mostly of McElrath's published articles about Elko and Wells, Nevada; financial notebooks, 1943-1959,...
Dates: 1934-1997; Majority of material found within 1943-1977
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Jean S. McElrath Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-09
Abstract Jean Sybil McElrath was awarded the Distinguished Nevadan Award by the University of Nevada, Reno. She was active in many organizations, including the Girl Scouts, Nevada Historical Society, Nevada Federation of the Blind, and the National League of American Pen Women. Included are transcripts of McElrath's diaries from 1934-1967 that contain short listings about daily activities, such as sewing, reading , studying and her writing career. Family members and friends' activities and her...
Dates: 1934-1967
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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Clawson, Marion, 1905-1998 1
Colorado River Commission of Nevada 1
Davidson, P. Walter 1
Davidson, Sadie 1
Davis, Jackson Lee, 1870?-1949 1
Dexter Gold Mining Company 1
Dodson, W. R. (William Rufus), 1867-1951 1
Dorsey, John McComas 1
Emerson, E. E. 1
Fox, Henry G. 1
Fullenwider, Helen Angel 1
Griswold family 1
Griswold, Morley 1
Halleck Station (Nev.) 1
Hardman, George 1
Hunt, S. F. (Samuel Franklyn) 1
Jones, Hugh (Miner) 1
King and Malone Engineers 1
Livingston, Penn (Penn Poore), 1899- 1
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture. Agricultural Experiment Station 1
McElrath family 1
McQuiston, H. T. 1
Mountain City Copper Company 1
Nelson, Estella Bish, 1887-1960 1
Nelson, George 1
Nevada. Moapa Soil Conservation District 1
Nevada. State Planning Board 1
Northeastern Nevada Historical Society 1
Noteware, Chauncey N., 1825-1910 1
Patterson family 1
Patterson, John Malcolm, 1898-1982 1
Patterson, Webster Samuel 1
Prunty, Guy Burns 1
Prunty, Russell C. 1
Rio Tinto Copper Company 1
Roth, Arthur H. 1
Roumage, Fred W. 1
Russell, Charles B. 1
Shamberger, Hugh A. 1
Sparks Family 1
Sparks, John, 1843-1908 1
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church 1
St. Luke's Episcopal Church 1
United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1
United States. Forest Service 1
Wagner, Jean 1
Wiseman family 1
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Wood, Garland Perry, 1922- 1
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