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Call Number: E180 .C69 Pt. I NV reel 1, no. 3-5 - Microfilm reel
Title: Nevada : a narrative of the conquest of a frontier land comprising the story of her people from the dawn of history to the present time / James G. Scrugham, editor.
Author(s):
Dates: 01/01/1776 - 12/31/1934
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 3 volumes. Cox Library county, state & local histories. Part I. Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast region. Nevada.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 346 no. 3405
Title: Nevada : a history of the state from the earliest times through the Civil War.
Author(s): Mack, Effie Mona
Dates: 01/01/1776 - 12/31/1866
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 495 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: E180 .C69 Pt. I CA reel 14, no. 49
Title: Fairfield's pioneer history of Lassen County, California containing everything that can be learned about it from the beginning of the world to the year of Our Lord 1870 . . . Also much of the pioneer history of the state of Nevada . . . the biographies of Governor Isaac N. Roop and Peter Lassen . . . and many stories of Indian warfare never before published / by Asa Merrill Fairfield
Author(s): Fairfield, Asa Merrill, 1854-
Dates: 01/01/1848 - 12/31/1870
State or Area: Nevada, California
Other Information: 506 pages. Cox Library county, state & local histories. Part I. Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast region.
 
Call Number: E180 .C69 Pt. I NV reel 1, no. 6
Title: Who's who in Nevada : brief sketches of men who is making history in the Sagebrush state / published by Bessie Beatty
Author(s):
Dates: 01/01/1859 - 12/31/1907
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 276 pages. Biography. Cox Library county, state & local histories. Part I. Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast region. Nevada.
 
Call Number: PN4700 .A54 1981--microfilm
Title: American centennial newspapers : Missouri. Montana. Nebraska. Nevada
Author(s):
Dates: 07/04/1876 07/04/1876
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: Collection of newspapers from American cities that were printed during the week of July 4, 1876. Partial contents: Gold Hill Daily News -- Reese River Reveille -- Silver State.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 24, Readex No. UNVR0003
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Bruns, Eugenia May b.1877
Dates: 01/01/1877 - 12/31/1896
State or Area: Nevada, California
Other Information: Born in Empire, a milling town on the Carson River, discussed are girlhood experiences, life at University of Nevada, and teaching in Lander and Lyon County. Mrs. Bruns moved to California and spent over 60 years in teaching and administration.
 
Call Number: E180 .C69 Pt. I NV reel 1, no. 2
Title: History of Nevada / editor, Myron Angel
Author(s):
Dates: 01/01/1881 - 12/31/1881
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 680 pages, published by Thompson and West. Cox Library county, state & local histories. Part I. Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast region. Also available F591 .W4633x reel 11 no. 171 (Western Americian Collection).
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 275 no. 2712
Title: General history and resources of Washoe County, Nevada. Published under the auspices of the Nevada Educational Association.
Author(s): Hummel, N. A.,
Dates: 01/01/1888 - 12/31/1888
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 54 pages. "Reno, the queen city of the eastern Sierra." Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 24, Readex No. UNVR0005
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Dangberg, Grace Melissa, b.1896
Dates: 01/01/1896
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: Discusses parents and childhood on ranches and in Minden, education including Graduate school, study of Washo Indians, and writing histories of area in Introduction, then goes on to include German heritage and stories of grandparents, death of . . .
 
Call Number: E180 .C69 Pt. I CA reel 38, no. 154
Title: Davis' commercial encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona / edited and published by Ellis A. Davis
Author(s):
Dates: 01/01/1900 - 12/31/1905
State or Area: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
Other Information: 841 pages. Comprehensive compendium of the geography, resources, industries, development, population, and transportation facilities of each town or district. Cox Library county, state & local histories. Part I. Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast region.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 219 no. 2216
Title: As I remember them ... Pub. by a special committee of the Salt Lake commercial club.
Author(s): Goodwin, C. C. (Charles Carroll), 1832-1917
Dates: 01/01/1913 - 12/31/1913
State or Area: Nevada, California
Other Information: 360 pages. Biographies. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: E180 .C69 Pt. I NV reel 2, no. 8
Title: Nevada's golden stars : A memorial volume designed as a gift from the state of Nevada to the relatives of those Nevada heroes who died in the world war / prepared under the direction of Maurice J. Sullivan, the adjutant general of Nevada.
Author(s): Nevada. Adjutant General
Dates: 01/01/1914 - 12/31/1918
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 303 pages. Registers, lists of those who died in World War I. Cox Library county, state & local histories. Part I. Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast region.
 
Call Number: HD8055.A63 A6--microfiche
Title: State labor proceedings : AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO conventions, 1885-1974
Author(s):
Dates: 01/07/1922 - 08/11/1973
State or Area: Nevada, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah
Other Information: Proceedings of conventions held in Las Vegas, Reno, and Ely from 1922 to 1973. Dates of the collection reflect only Nevada proceedings and not all other states.