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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
Byrd Fanita Wall Sawyer Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC536
Abstract
Manuscript and notes on the history of Nevada, including women teachers; Sparks and Churchill County, Nevada; and Paiute Indians. Also included are curriculum materials on Nevada history; correspondence about Sawyer's research, statistics on land ownership and use in Nevada, turkey production in the Fallon area, and copies of presidential executive orders establishing wildlife refugees in Nevada.
Dates:
1930-1963
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- Education -- Nevada -- History 1
- Goldfield (Nev.) 1
- Nevada -- History -- 20th century 1
- Paiute Indians -- History 1
- Sparks (Nev.) -- History 1
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