Pueblo Grande
Coll # T143
Date: 1926 - 1980
Extent 2 boxes (1 record storage box, 1 document box)
The Pueblo Grande collection contains essays (re: theories on
Pit-Dwellings, lost cities and the disappearance of the Anasazi)
and correspondence for nomination and documentation of inclusion
to the National Register. It also contains photographs and an
inventory of the Pueblo and Anasazi artifacts included in the
Pueblo Grande de Nevada site, Lost City Museum.
Rathbun, Frank D.
Coll # T144
Date: 1919 - 1939
Extent 5 boxes (1 record storage box, 2 document boxes, 1 slim
flat box and 1 regular flat box both on roller shelf)
The Rathbun papers include publications on the Colorado Aqueduct
and telephone lines at Hayfield and the Colorado Rim. There is
also a descriptive chapter on desert mirages and archeological
field notes written by Rathbun. The archeological materials include
inventories from sites in the Southern Great Basin, photos of
dwellings and pictographs (taken in the 30's), Nevada Highways
and Parks promotional brochures and general newspaper articles
on anthropology and archeology (1920's-1930's).
Stewart - Knack
Collection on Nevada Indians
Coll # 87-26
Date: 1830 - 1975
Extent 3 record storage boxes
The Stewart - Knack Collection is a collection of Native American
research materials used by noted anthropologists Dr. Omer Call
Stewart and Dr. Martha Knack. It contains notes, documents, judicial
opinions, maps and journal entries dealing with the following
tribes: Washo, Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, Chemehuevi and
Mohave. Knack and Stewart co-authored the book As Long as the
River Shall Run: An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation.
Dr. Knack is a professor in the Anthropology Department of UNLV
and Dr. Stewart a Professor Emeritus at University of Colorado,
Boulder. INVENTORY AVAILABLE
Stewart Ranch Burial
Records
Coll # Mss7
Date: 1905 -1913
Extent 128 p., bound ; 34 cm
This collection consists of a record book recording burials for
the Las Vegas area before Woodlawn Cemetery was established. Contains
names, ages and descriptions of deceased, dates of death, causes
of death, and lists burial plots numbers at the Stewart Ranch
from 1905-1913. Record book contains a sketch of burial plots
and corresponding numbers on flyleaf of book.