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Memoirs of Russell Prunty
Brief reminiscences of boyhood days on the Prunty Family ranch in Elko County, Nevada include descriptions of haying, ca 1903-1910 and his mother's work in the home and garden.
Renee Rampton Papers
Renee Rampton was an elementary school teacher was very active Contains research papers, correspondence and newspaper articles related to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and to the Mormon Church's efforts in Utah and Nevada to defeat the E.R.A. Material between 1975-1978.
Recollections of her life in the Army
Fanny Dunbar Corbusier's recollections include her childhood in New Orleans; marriage to William Henry Corbusier in 1869; his medical practice in Ft. McDermitt, Nevada, from 1869-1872; Paiute Indians at Ft. McDermitt, including Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins; and their stay at other western Army posts in Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Material from 1918.
Lucretia Redfield Correspondence
Letters to Lucretia from friends and relatives in Austin, Nevada tell of news of mutual friends and of Austin, including outdoor winter activities, dance clubs, parties, a boy (Lucretia's son?) named George, and music lessons.
Mari Sandoz Correspondence
Byrd Fanita Wall Sawyer Papers
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.
Shafter, Nevada: life in the early 1940s
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.
Preamble on Silver Coinage
Declaration favoring free coinage of silver, insisting on payment in silver for all business transactions, and declaring that President Cleveland's action on the silver question was a direct contradiction to his campaign promises.
Alice L. Smith Papers
Elizabeth Laidlaw Smith Letter
Letter to the librarian of the Univ. of Nevada-Reno, providing a biographical sketch of Laidlaw's family, the Smiths, in Reno; and Teddy Roosevelt's visit there.,Tipped into a book issued by the Nevada Commercial League of Reno, Reno, Nevada and its surroundings (Reno : Gazette Publishing Company, 1907); Special Collections call number F849.R4,R46 1907.
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