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This section is for books, articles and website links that have helped me in my Nevada research. Thank you all. 

 

Websites:

Full text search of MRDS records (usgs.gov)   Government website that provides historical data on mines. 

Western Mining History   A very good website for western mining towns and mines. 

Mindat.org - Mines, Minerals and More   Self-explanatory. This is a good site for digital mining district maps. 

The Diggings™: Free Mining Claim Maps And Reports   Self-explanatory. This is a good site for digital mining district maps.

Forgotten Nevada   I don't know these guys, but I'd go ghost towning with them any time. Great site! 

Nevada Expeditions (nvexpeditions.com)   Another really good Nevada website!  

Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of Nevada – Legends of America   You can always find a good article here. 

Ghost Towns of Nevada   This site seems like it hasn't been updated to modern times. But it has been a total staple for me. Very complete. 

NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & BEYOND - The Gouge Eye Chronicle (nvtami.com)  She is somebody that has helped me quite a bit with tips and advice on the website building process. Always available to BS with and talk history about the very obscure, remote and more unknown sites. She has her own unique, historical writing style. I highly recommend her site.  

Ghost Towns, Mines, and More! (raydunakin.com)   This site has other stuff, but this link is awesome for Nevada ghost towns.

Nevada Magazine – | Experience Nevada   It is THEE Nevada Magazine. 

Desert Magazine : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive   50+ year old articles on these places.

County History – Nevada Association of Counties (nvnaco.org)  A page with some great history on the founding of the counties.

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Books and Articles  (My Collection):

GHOSTS OF THE GLORY TRAIL:  Nell Murbarger  (The original queen of Nevada ghost town exploring. Period!)

A GUIDE TO THE GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS OF NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: Shawn Hall

BABYSITTING A GHOST TOWN- The Whimsical Romp Thru Rhyolite:  Suzy McCoy

BELMONT NEVADA:  Alan H. Patera

BOOMTOWN HISTORY II- Celebration of Goldfield- Tonopah Area Boomtowns:  Jean Johnson

BUCKAROOS IN PARADISE- Cowboy Life in Northern Nevada:  Howard W. Marshall & Richard E. Ahlborn

CALIFORNIA-NEVADA GHOST TOWN ATLAS: Robert Neil Johnson

CARRARA- And The Mining Camps of Bare Mountain: Alan H. Patera

CATTLE IN THE COLD DESERT:  James A. Young & B. Abbott Sparks

COLUMBIA NEVADA- And Other Mining Camps About Goldfield- Montezuma, Diamondfield & Alkali Springs:  Alan H. Patera

COMSTOCK- The Big Four:  Oscar Lewis 

COMSTOCK MINING AND MINERS 1883:  Eliot Lord

COMSTOCK PHANTOMS- Ghost Stories of Virginia City:  Brian David Bruns

ELEGANCE ON C STREET- The Story of the International Hotel:  Richard C. Datin

EXCERPTS FROM REBECCA'S WALK THROUGH TIME- Self-Guided Tour Through Rhyolite, Nevada: Suzy McCoy

FORT CHURCHILL- Nevada Military Outpost of the 1860's: Nevada Natural History Association (Paher, Totten, Hardesty).

GHOSTS OF HUMBOLDT REGION- A Glimpse Into Pershing County's Past:  Dave Basso

GHOST TOWNS OF WESTERN NEVADA:  Robert C. Jones

GOLD MOUNTAIN NEVADA: Alan H. Patera

GOLDFIELD- Boom Town of Nevada: Stanley W. Paher

GOLDFIELD NEVADA- Last Great Gold Camp: Goldfield Historical Society

GOODSPRINGS NEVADA- Including Sandy, Jean, Keystone, Platina, Ripley and the Yellow Pine Mine Camp:  Alan H. Patera

HARLOTS, HURDIES & SPIRITED WOMEN OF VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA:  Barbara Hegne

HENRY HARRIS 1865-1937- Legendary Black Vaquero: Les Sweeney

HISTORIC MINING CAMPS OF NEVADA- Seven Troughs:  Hugh A. Shamberger

HISTORY OF MASONRY IN NEVADA:  C.W. Torrence

HISTORY OF NEVADA 1881:  Thompson & West

HISTORY OF NEVADA- Volume I:  Sam P. Davis

HISTORY OF NEVADA- Volume II:  Sam P. Davis

HISTORY ON THE ROAD- Charcoal and Nevada's Early Mining History:  Thomas J. Straka & Robert H. Wynn

HORNSILVER/ GOLD POINT NEVADA- Silver Turns to Gold: Alan H. Patera

MINES OF CHERRY CREEK, ELY RANGE AND OTHER EASTERN NEVADA DISTRICTS:  J.M. Hill

IMAGES OF AMERICA- Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Southern Nevada:  Shawn Hall

IMAGES OF AMERICA- Virginia City and the Big Bonanza:  Ronald M. James & Susan A. James

JACK LONGSTREET- Last of the Desert Frontiersmen:  Sally Zanjani

LAS VEGAS- As it Began-As it Grew: Stanley W. Paher 

LAS VEGAS- From Trails to Rails: Bob La Point

LAW AND DISORDER IN PIOCHE- Crime and Punishment in Lincoln County During the 1880's:  Leo Schafer

MAGNIFICENT WILDERNESS NEVADA:  Scott Smith

MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE COUNTY, NEVADA- University of Nevada Bulletin 45: Victor E. Kral

MINES OF CHURCHILL AND MINERAL COUNTIES:  William O. Vanderburg

MINES OF CLARK COUNTY:  William O. Vanderburg

MINES OF GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG AND OTHER SOUTHERN NEVADA DISTRICTS:  F.L. Ransome

MINES OF HUMBOLDT AND PERSHING COUNTIES:  William O. Vanderburg

MINES OF LANDER AND EUREKA COUNTIES:  William O. Vanderburg

MINES OF SILVER PEAK RANGE, KAWICH RANGE AND OTHER SOUTHERN DISTRICTS:  S.H. Ball

MINES OF THE AMERICAN WEST- Elko County, Nevada:  Ivan Herring

MINES OF THE AMERICAN WEST- White Pine County, Nevada:  Ivan Herring

MINING CAMP DAYS:  Emil W. Billeb

MINING CAMPS OF ELKO, LANDER AND EUREKA COUNTIES NEVADA:  Kerby Jackson

NEVADA- An Annotated Bibliography:  Stanley W. Paher

NEVADA DAY- 1864-1991: University Medical Center Foundation (various authors) 

NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & MINING CAMPS:  Stanley W. Paher

NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & MINING CAMPS VOLUME ONE- Northern Nevada:  Stanley W. Paher

NEVADA GHOST TOWNS & MINING CAMPS VOLUME TWO- Southern Nevada & Death Valley:  Stanley W. Paher

NEVADA GHOST TOWN TRAILS:  Mickey Broman

NEVADA HANDBOOK:  Deke Castleman

NEVADA LOST MINES AND BURIED TREASURE: Douglas McDonald

NEVADA MOUNTAIN RANGES:  George Wuerthner

NEVADA PLACE NAMES- A Geographical Dictionary:  Helen S. Carlson

NEVADA POST OFFICES- An Illustrated History:  James Gamett & Stanley W. Paher

NEVADA TRAILS- Southern Region: Peter Massey, Angela Titus & Jeanne Wilson

NEVADA TRAILS- Western Region: Peter Massey, Angela Titus & Jeanne Wilson

NEVADA'S PRONGHORN ANTELOPE- Ecology, Management and Conservation: George K. Tsukamoto & NDOW

NEVADA'S TWENTIETH-CENTURY MINING BOOM- Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely:  Russel R. Elliott

OLD HEART OF NEVADA- Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko County:  Shawn Hall

OUT FROM LAS VEGAS: Florine Lawlor

OUTLAW- The True Story of Claude Dallas:  Jeff Long

OUTLAW TALES OF NEVADA- True stories of the Silver State's most infamous crooks, culprits & cutthroats: Charles L. Convis

POLICING LAS VEGAS- A history of Law Enforcement in Southern Nevada:  Dennis N. Griffin

PRESERVING THE GLORY DAYS- Ghost Towns and mining Camps of Nye County, Nevada:  Shawn Hall

RAILROAD VALLEY- Too Tough For Others, Just Right For Us:  Robert D. McCracken & Jeanne Sharp Howerton

RED LIGHT WOMEN OF DEATH VALLEY:  Robin Flinchum

RED ROCK CANYON- A Story Behind the Scenery: Cheri Cinkoske Madison

RHYOLITE- Death Valley's Ghost City of Golden Dreams: Harold & Lucile Weight

ROCHESTER NEVADA- The New Tonopah:  Marianne Babal

ROMANCING NEVADA'S PAST- Ghost Towns and Historic Sites of Eureka, Lander & White Pine:  Shawn Hall

SAGEBRUSH SOLDIERS- Nevada's Volunteers in the Civil War: Philip Dodd Smith Jr. 

SHOSHONE MIKE:  Frank Bergon

SLIPPERY GULCH- A Guide To Gold Hill, Nevada:  Maitland Stanley

THE BEST OF VIRGINIA CITY AND THE COMSTOCK:  L.J. Ettinger

THE BIG BONANZA- The Story of the Discovery and Development of Nevada's Comstock Lode:  Dan De Quille

THE COMSTOCK PAPERS:  Henry DeGroot

THE HISTORY OF THE COMSTOCK LODE  1850- 1920:  Grant H. Smith (Mackay School of Mines- UNR)

THE HUMBOLDT RANGE- 19TH Century Mining Camps:  Alan H. Patera

THE LAST DAYS OF THE DALY GANG AT AURORA, NEVADA:  Clifford Alpheus Shaw

THE LEGEND OF JULIA BULETTE- And The Red Light Ladies of Nevada:  Douglas McDonald

THE PIOCHE MINING DISTRICT OF NEVADA: Kerby Jackson

THE RED-LIGHT LADIES OF VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA: George Williams III

THE REVEILLE DISTRICT:  Alan H. Patera

THE ROAR AND THE SILENCE- A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode:  Ronald M. James

THE RUSH TO WHITE PINE:  Alan H. Patera

THE TOWN THAT DIED LAUGHING:  Oscar Lewis

VIRGINIA CITY AND THE SILVER REGION OF THE COMSTOCK LODE:  Douglas McDonald

Links, Bibliography and Library

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