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Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 35, Readex No. MISC0068
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Garrecht, Gertrude Lang, 1844-1933
Dates: 01/01/1844 - 12/31/1869
State or Area: Nevada, New Orleans, Missouri, Idaho
Other Information: Includes journey to New Orleans (1849), Missouri, California (1854), Idaho, and to eventual settlement in Elko Nevada in 1896. Discusses building and managing a hotel which was both a resort and boarding house.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No.35, Readex No. MISC0066
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Wines, Margaret Taylor, 1846-1908
Dates: 01/01/1846 - 12/31/1908
State or Area: Nevada, Utah, US
Other Information: Covers immigration to America in 1849 and years in St. Louis, Missouri; crossing the plains by ox team in 1853 and settlement in Lehi, Utah; marriage and move to Ruby Valley, Nevada; relations with Ute and Shosone Indians.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 2, Readex No. LOCW0018
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Hafen, Mary Ann Stucki
Dates: 01/01/1854
State or Area: Nevada, US
Other Information: Covers emigration to New York (1860) from Switzerland; train to Nebraska and crossing the plains in the 10th and last handcart company; living in a dugout; move to Bunkerville, Nevada with five children; farming and notes on Indians.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 35, Readex No. MISC0069
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Glaser, Anna Christine Brown, 1857-1935
Dates: 01/01/1857 - 12/31/1898
State or Area: Nevada, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, California, Nebraska, Kansas
Other Information: Discusses journey to New York (1872) and then to Minnesota, Illinois; memory of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show; life in Elko, Nevada, then to Kansas and Nebraska; and trip to San Francisco, California [1898]
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 443 no. 4488
Title: Voyage au pays des Mormons: relation--geographie--histoire naturelle--histoire--theologie--moeurs et coutumes / Par Jules Remy ... Ouvrage orn‚ de 10 gravures sur acier et d'une carte
Author(s): Remy, Jules, 1826-1893.
Dates: 01/01/1860 - 12/31/1860
State or Area: Utah, California, Nevada
Other Information: 506 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 35, Readex No. MISC0064
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Guisti, Virginia Boitano, 1860?-1948
Dates: 01/01/1860
State or Area: Nevada, US
Other Information: Discusses journey crossing Atlantic Ocean and a trip by railroad to Beowawe, Nevada, marriage and immediate journey to Cortez; life at home with family; work as a nurse and doctor for women and children within a 30 mile radius.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 148 no. 1572
Title: Sketches of the Washoe silver mines, with a description of the soil, climate, and mineral resources, of the country east of the Sierra.
Author(s): DeGroot, Henry, 1815-1893
Dates: 01/01/1860 - 12/31/1860
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 24 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 232 no. 2371
Title: The great West emigrants', settlers' & travellers' guide and hand-book to the states of California and Oregon, and the territories of Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Washington. With a full and accurate account of their climate, soil, resources, and products.
Author(s): Hall, Edward Hepple
Dates: 01/01/1864 - 12/31/1864
State or Area: California , Oregon, and the territories of Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Washington
Other Information: 89 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 75 no. 758
Title: Adventures in the Apache country [microform] through Arizona and Sonora, with notes on the silver regions of Nevada
Author(s): Browne, J. Ross (John Ross), 1821-1875
Dates: 01/01/1864 - 12/31/1865
State or Area: Nevada, Mexico, Arizona
Other Information: 535 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 266 no. 2623
Title: State territorial and ocean guide book of the Pacific containing the time and distance tables, rates, fares and freight tariff, of all steamship, steamboat, railway, stage and express lines, on or connecting with the Pacific coast and the interior, including California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, Central and South America, and Mexico.
Author(s): Holdredge, Sterling M.
Dates: 01/01/1865 - 12/31/1865
State or Area: California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, Central and South America, and Mexico.
Other Information: 184 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 445 no. 4515
Title: Our new states and territories: being notes of a recent tour of observation through Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Montana, Washington Territory and California.
Author(s): Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869
Dates: 01/01/1866 - 12/31/1866
State or Area: Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Montana, Washington Territory and California
Other Information: 80 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 11 no. 170
Title: Eastern Nevada; its geography, resources, climate, and society. Compiled from the report published for distribution at the late Paris Exposition, with additional reliable information as to the progress of developments to the present time.
Author(s): Angel, Myron.
Dates: 01/01/1868 - 12/31/1868
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 80 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 550 no. 5539
Title: Preliminary report upon a reconnaissance through southern and southeastern Nevada, made in 1869 / by Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, assisted by D.W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1871.
Author(s): United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Dates: 01/01/1869 - 12/31/1869
State or Area: Nevada, California, Arizona
Other Information: 72 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 87 no. 876
Title: Map and guide to the White Pine mines and the region of country adjacent, in eastern Nevada, with complete data to April, 1869, regarding the topography, climate, geological formation ... mines, mill sites, and other improvements.
Author(s): Cadwalader, Allen
Dates: 01/01/1869 - 12/31/1869
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 31 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 492 no. 4927
Title: The shortest route to California: illustrated by a history of explorations of the great basin of Utah with its topographical and geological character and some account of the Indian tribes.
Author(s): Simpson, J.H. (James Hervey), 1813-1883.
Dates: 01/01/1869 - 12/31/1869
State or Area: California, Utah, Nevada
Other Information: 58 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 362 no. 3521
Title: Ten years in Nevada or, Life on the Pacific Coast.
Author(s): Mathews, M. M. (Mary McNair), 1834-1903.
Dates: 01/01/1869 - 12/31/1878
State or Area: Nevada, California
Other Information: 343 pages. Western Americana Collection. Includes work experiences; manners and customs of people, Chinese and the Piutes; information about the mines of the Comstock. Also available on E180 .C69 Pt. 1 NV reel 1, no. 1 (Cox County Library Collection).
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 109 no. 1190
Title: Little sheaves gathered while gleaning after reapers. Being letters of travel commencing in 1870 and ending in 1873
Author(s): Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols, 1833-1926
Dates: 01/01/1870 - 12/31/1873
State or Area: California, Nevada
Other Information: 132 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 265 no. 2613
Title: Californien, Nevada und Mexico. Wanderungen eines polytechnikers.
Author(s): Hoffmann, Hemmann
Dates: 01/01/1871 - 12/31/1871
State or Area: Nevada, California, Mexico
Other Information: 426 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 550 no. 5538
Title: Preliminary report concerning explorations and surveys, principally in Nevada and Arizona prosecuted in accordance with paragraph 2, special orders no. 109, War Department, March 18, 1871, and letter of instructions of March 23, 1871, from Brigadier General A.A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers / conducted under the immediate direction of 1st Lieut. George M. Wheeler,
Author(s): United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Dates: 03/18/1871 - 03/18/1871
State or Area: Nevada, Arizona
Other Information: 96 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 301 no. 3031
Title: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.
Author(s): King, Clarence, 1842-1901.
Dates: 01/01/1872 - 12/31/1872
State or Area: California, Nevada
Other Information: 292 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 12 no. 190
Title: Appletons' hand-book of American travel: Western tour embracing eighteen through routes to the West and far West, tours of the Great Lakes and rivers, and all local routes of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, California, and Oregon, and territories of Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and Alaska.
Author(s):
Dates: 09/01/1872 -12/31/1872
State or Area: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, California, and Oregon, and territories of Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and Alaska
Other Information: 317 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 329 no. 3260
Title: New life in new lands notes of travel.
Author(s): Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904.
Dates: 01/01/1873 - 12/31/1873
State or Area: Chicago, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California
Other Information: 413 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 318 no. 3177
Title: A journal of ramblings through the high Sierras of California by the "University Excursion Party.
Author(s): LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901.
Dates: 01/01/1875 - 12/31/1875
State or Area: Nevada, California
Other Information: 103 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 238 no. 2440
Title: Book of information, and settler's guide for the Pacific slope, including the states of California, Oregon and Nevada, and territories of Washington and Idaho, with a description of, and the peculiarities of each. Describing minutely all the more important bodies of the public lands on the Pacific slope, facilities for settlement, markets, health, etc.
Author(s): Harrison, J. M
Dates: 01/01/1875 - 12/31/1875
State or Area: California, Oregon and Nevada, and territories of Washington and Idaho
Other Information: 49 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 106 no. 1130
Title: North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel. The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers . . . and hints for the commercial traveler, the land hunter and the emigrant
Author(s): Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
Dates: 01/01/1876 - 12/31/1876
State or Area: California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin
Other Information: 120 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 609 no. 6285
Title: The Wonders of Nevada, where they are and how to get to them : a guide for tourists to the great silver mines, the lakes, the towns, and the mountains
Author(s):
Dates: 01/01/1878 - 12/31/1878
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 32 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 115 no. 1251
Title: The round trip by way of Panama through California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Colorado; with notes on railroads, commerce, agriculture, mining, scenery, and people.
Author(s): Codman, John, 1814-1900
Dates: 01/01/1879 - 12/31/1879
State or Area: California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Colorado
Other Information: 331 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 106 no. 1131
Title: The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel. The pleasure and business resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers . . . and hints for the commercial traveler, the land hunter and the emigrant
Author(s): Chicago and North Western Railway Company.
Dates: 01/01/1881 - 12/31/1881
State or Area: California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota.
Other Information: 94 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 589 no. 6070
Title: Products, resources, opportunities for capital and advantages to emigrants of Nevada.
Author(s): Warner, C. C
Dates: 01/01/1889 - 12/31/1889
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 26 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 35, Readex No. MISC0063
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Wines, Lorinda R., b. 1890
Dates: 01/01/1890
State or Area: Nevada, US
Other Information: Includes trip with ill mother from France to New York in 1916, then railroad train to Winnemucca, Nevada, and to McDermitt; marriage and life near Battle Mountain, Nevada.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 35, Readex No. MISC0058
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Licking, Anna
Dates: 01/01/1895
State or Area: Nevada, US
Other Information: Discusses move from Indiana to Battle Mountain, Nevada, in 1895; taking responsibility for raising a 14-year-old orphan; supporting her children's schooling in North Dakota; the Depression and helping a widowed father with 4 children.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 366 no. 3569
Title: "Mysterious Scott the Monte Cristo of Death Valley: and, Tracks of a tenderfoot ... Supplemented with a mining review of Southern Nevada.
Author(s): Merrill, Orin S
Dates: 01/01/1906 - 12/31/1906
State or Area: Nevada, California
Other Information: 210 pages. Western Americana Collection.