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Gloria Griffen Cline Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC1041
Abstract
Gloria Griffen Cline (1929-1973) was a historian; professor of history at Sacramento State College, 1961-1966; and author of books and scholarly articles on Peter Skene Ogden and the Hudson's Bay Company, early exploration of Nevada and the Great Basin of the western U.S., and fur trappers and traders. The collection includes diaries; legal papers; correspondence; Cline's M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation; research notes and manuscript drafts of Cline's two books, Exploring the Great Basin,...
Dates:
1912-1984
Shafter, Nevada: life in the early 1940s
Collection
Identifier: 92-44
Abstract
Bonny Silva was a Reno, Nevada resident. The author describes the small railroad town of Shafter, located one hundred miles east of Elko, Nevada, and life there for her grandparents, Lester and Bernice Silva and family between 1941-1945. Created in 1992.
Dates:
1992
A thousand miles of desert and mountains: a prospecting trip across Nevada and over the Sierras
Collection
Identifier: 91-48
Abstract
Josephine C. Scott was married to miner and prospector, George R. Scott. She wrote about mining and construction in Nevada. Collection contains three volumes (of the original 4 volumes) depict the Scott's prospecting journey through southern Nevada, Death Valley, eastern California/western Nevada along the Walker River, and through Bridgeport over Sonora Pass. Created between March 14-September 9, 1914.
Dates:
March 14-September 9, 1914
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