Records and briefs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
University of Nevada, Reno, Bureau of Governmental Research Collection of Pyramid Lake Water Controversy Records
Collection
Identifier: NC1202
Abstract
The collection includes legal briefs in the case of the U.S. and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe vs. Truckee-Carson Irrigation District; correspondence, reports and notes on the California-Nevada Interstate Compact for Lake Tahoe, much of which was authored by Robert Leland; material on the Newlands Project; legal briefs in the case of the U.S. vs the Alpine Land and Reservoir Company; minutes of the Pyramid Lake Task Force; and materials related to deeding water rights to the tribe, from...
Dates:
1969-1979
Tuscarora Township Justice Court Dockets
Collection
Identifier: NC801
Abstract
The Tuscarora Township was located in Elko County, Nevada. The collection includes accounts of cases heard in the Justice Court of Tuscarora Township.
Dates:
1878-1903
Wedertz Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC1145
Abstract
Ludowig (Louis) Edmund Wedertz (1824-1881) operated a stage station at Sulpher Springs on the Carson-Aurora road from about 1862-1866 when he moved his family to Aurora for two years. By 1874 they were living in Sulpher Springs again where Clarence R. and Frank Lewis were born. In 1881, Wedertz opened a store in Bridgeport, California, which his widow Niklamine ran after his death in December 1881. The family continued to live in Bridgeport and Smith Valley. The collection primarily contains...
Dates:
circa 1860-1930s