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Iris Blaisdell Collection on Palomino Guest Ranch

Collection

Identifier: 2017-71

Abstract

Iris Blaisdell and her mother traveled to the Palomino Guest Ranch in Reno, Nevada from New York City in order for her mother to obtain a divorce from her father. Collection contains one page of stationary from the Palomino Guest Ranch and Iris Blaisdell's recollections of the four months spent at the ranch from November 1952-February 1953 while her mother established residency in Nevada for a divorce.

Dates: 1952-1953

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

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Subject: Dude ranches -- Nevada X
Subject: Divorce -- Nevada X
Names: Blaisdell, Iris X

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