Mountain City (Nev.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

P. Walter Davidson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 90-23
Abstract P. Walter Davidson was a part owner and developer of the Rio Tinto Copper Company at Mountain City, Elko County, Nevada; the mine later was known as the Mountain City Copper Company. The collection includes correspondence to and from Davidson, his wife Sadie, and S. F. Hunt, President of the Rio Tinto; Sadie's manuscript history/biography of the Nelson Ranch and Estella Bish Nelson; a pamphlet, Elko County and its vast mineral wealth, 1907; and newspaper clippings about mining, Mountain...
Dates: 1907; 1931-1939; Majority of material found within 1931-1939
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / P. Walter Davidson Papers

Edna B. Patterson Research Papers and Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: 95-87
Abstract

Edna Burke Patterson was a member of the State Central Republican Committee and the Nevada State Board of Education, on which she served as the first woman president.Research notes and articles about the history of northeastern Nevada: Elko, physicians, cattle and cattle ranching, women, Ruby Valley, Lamoille, Mountain City, Jarbidge, early settlers, and native Americans. Other authors include Lulu Bowman and Charles B. Russell (1915-1994).

Dates: 1915-1994
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Edna B. Patterson Research Papers and Interviews