Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Dalzell Family Records
History of the Dalzell family in Ireland, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, and the Mason Valley of Nevada.,Also included is an account of the escape of twenty-nine convicts from the Nevada State Penitentiary (1871), and photos.
Peter Harris Letter
Letter to William Blewett of Pleasant Mount., Penn., about Harris' previous winter, bad luck with mining stock, working at Treasure Hill, and commenting on news from home.
History of Walter J. Harris Family in Nevada and the Barnes Family in Nevada
Typescript biography of Walter J. Harris, native Nevadan, banker and member of the Freemasons; and a history of Everett's parents, his wife Grace Barnes Harris, and her family in Nevada.,Includes photos and a history of Dayton, Nevada by Fanny Gore Hazelet.
Reminiscences of a Methodist Church Circuit Rider, 1862-1885
F. M. Willis was a Methodist-Episcopal Church circuit rider in Nevada from 1863-1885. The collection contains Willis' account of his period as a lay leader for the Truckee, California; Walker, Nevada; and Owens River, California circuits. It includes a history of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in Nevada.
Twenty miles from a match
Manuscript of Olds' reminiscences of young woman-hood in Tuolumne County, California in the 1890s and homesteading and school teaching at Pyramid Lake, ca. 1908-1931.