Nevada’s Great Basin has recorded attention from scholars, storytellers, historians, journalists, publishers, scientific explorations, and artists, exceeding even the impressiveness, the wonder and breadth of its formidable landscape.
Topics of interest and meaning range across “Democracy in America” (Zunz), “Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the Year 1843, and Oregon and California 1843-1844” (Fremont), ‘The Power of Maps” (Wood), “Nevada Place Names “(Carlson), “Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat” (Gruell) and all in-between. Each book or map offers insight to the character of Nevadans and their relationship to working landscapes from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.
These works will be examined for understanding and shared through stories when remnants of places, still holding the energy of homesteaders’ work, are found in the Basins’ valleys and mountains. Be patient with this humble writer, it is a privileged journey for a novice, and one not quick to bind words or photographic images with scholarly skills.
Other Collected References
Ali, Nick, “Ghost Towns of Nevada”
Alverson, J. Bruce, “Nevada Before Statehood”
Anderson and Canfield, “News Clippings from Panaca, Pioche, Fay & Bullionville, Nevada
1866-1924”
Angel, Myron, “History of Nevada”
Anton P. Sohn, MD, Robert M. Daugherty MD, “150 Years of Nevada Medicine (and more)”
Aristotle, “How to Tell a Story”
Arno, Stephen F., “Discovering Sierra Trees”
Ashbaugh, Don, “Nevada’s Turbulant History”
Aspinwall, and Davis, “Timothy H. O’Sullivan”
Bacon, Jack, “Hans Meyer-Kassel, Artist of Nevada”
Bailey, Robert T., “Frozen in Silver”
Bailyn, Bernard, “The Debate on the Constitution Vol 1-2”
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, “Bancroft’s History of Nevada 1540-1888”
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, “The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vol 1-39
Bartlett, Richard, “Great Surveys of the American West”
Basso, Dave, “Ghosts of the Humboldt Region”
Becker, Robert, “The Plains and the Rockies”
Becker, Robert, “Thomas Christy’s Road Across the Plains 1850”
Bedini, Silvio A., “With Compass and Chain”
Bensen, Joe, “The Traveler’s Guide to the Pony Express”
Berg, Lucile Rae, “A History of the Tonopah Area and Adjacent Region of Central Nevada
1827-1941”
Berrt, Wendell, “What I Stand On Vol 1-2”
Bigler, David L., “Forgotten Kingdom”
Billeb, Emil W., “Mining Camp Days”
Blevins, Cameron, “Paper Trails”
Blodget, Lorin, “Climatology of the United States: And of the Temperate Latitudes, 1857”
Bonner, Thomas D., “The Life and Adventures of James Beckworth”
Booth, John, “Looking at Old Maps”
Bownan, Nora Linjer, “Only the Mountains Remain”
Bray, Bray, “Joseph N. Nicollet on the Plains and Prairies”
Bray, Fertey, “The Journals of Joseph Nicollet”
Bray, Martha Coleman, “Joseph Nicollet and His Map”
Breedlove, Mildred, “Those Desert Hills and Other Poems”
Brodhead, Michael, “Brushwork Diary”
Brown, Mrs. Hugh, “Lady in Boomtown”
Bruner, Firmin, “Some Remember…Some Forget”
Burt, William A., “A Key to the Solar Compass and Surveyors Companion”
Burton, Richard F., “The City of The Saints”
Cachinero, Eric, “Odyssey of a Ghost Town Explorer”
Carlson, Helen S., “Nevada Place Names”
Carter, Edward C., “Surveying the Record”
Cerveri, Doris, “The Ways of an Indian”
Cerveri, Doris, “Nevada: A Colorful Past Vol 1-2”
Chapman, Arthur, “The Pony Express”
Charles River Editors, “The Pony Express in Nevada”
Child, Andrew, “Overland Route to California”
Childers, Leisl Carr, “The Size of the Risk”
Chittenden, Hiram Martin, “The American Fur Trade of the Far West Vol 1-2”
Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith, “The Shirley Letters”
Clemens, and Marsh, “Reports of 1863 Constitutional Convention of the Territory of
Nevada”
Clemens, Samuel Langhome, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Cohen, Paul E., “Mapping the West”
Cox, Wanda Stoval, “When the Gold was Gone”
Crampton, Frank A, “Deep Enough”
Curran, Harold, “Fearful Crossing”
D’Azevedo, Warren L., “Handbook of North American Indians Vol II Great Basin”
Dangberg, Grace, “Conflict on the Carson”
Dangberg, Grace, “Carson Valley”
Danner, Ruth Fenstermaker, “Gabbs Valley, Nevada”
Daugherty and Sohn, “Doctoring in Nevada”
David K. Carrington, Richard W. Stephensen, “Map Collections in the Untied States and
Canada”
Davis, Sam P., “History of Nevada Vol 1-2”
Davis, Stephen R., “Sagebrush Vernacular”
Davis, William C., “Historic Site Study”
Davis, William C, “Historic Site Study in Churchill County, Nevada”
Denis Woods, John Fels, “The Natures of Maps”
Desert Research Institute, “Models and Great Basin Prehistory: A Symposium”
DeVoto, Bernard, “The Year of Decision 1846”
Devoto, Bernard, “Across the Wide Missouri”
Devoto, Bernard, “The Course of Empire”
Douglas County Board of Commissioners, “The Architectural Heritage of the Carson Valley”
Dougles, Frederick, “Douglas”
Downs, James G., “The Two Worlds of the Washoe”
Driggs, Don W., “Constitution of the State of Nevada”
Drury, Wells, “An Editor on the Comstock Lode”
Bureau of Land Management, “Pony Express”
Edkins and Newhall, “William Jackson”
Edwards, Edward B., “200 Years in Nevada”
Eggenhofer, Nick, “Wagons, Mules and Men”
Elliott, Russell R., “Nevada’s Twentieth-Century Mining Boom”
Elliott, Russell R., “Growing up in a Company Town”
Ellison, Robert W., “Territorial Lawmen of Nevada”
Ellison, Robert W., “First Impressions”
Emmons, W. M, “Mines of Tuscarora, Cortez, Seven Troughs and other Northern Nevada
Districts”
Estes, Clarissa Pinkoia, “The Gift of Story”
Ettinger, L. J., “The Amateur Archaeologist in the Great Basin”
Eureka County Project, “Eureka Memories”
Fey, Marshall, “Emigrant Trails”
Fields, Ticknor and, “Fremont’s Life”
Flores, Dan, “American Serengeti”
Floyd et al, “Atas of Breeding Birds of Nevada”
Folkes, John Gregg, “Nevada’s Newspapers: A Bibliography”
Fowler, Don D., “Models and Great Basin Prehistory: A Symposium”
Fox, William L., “The Void, the Grid, the Sign”
Franciaiglia, Richard V., “Believing in Place”
Franzwa, Gregory M., “Maps of the California Trail”
Fred A. Ryser, Jr., “Birds of the Great Basin”
Freemont, John Charles, “Fremont’s First & Second Expeditions 1842-3-4”
Gannett, Henry, “Boundaries of the United States and the Several States and Territories”
Gard, Wayne, “Frontier Justice”
Gash and LIngenfelter, “The Newspapers of Nevada”
Georgetta, Clel, “Golden Fleece in Nevada”
Gerretson, William, “Our Western Empire”
Gifford, Houghton Sakamoto, “Nevada’s Weather and Climate”
Gillespie, W.M., “Treatise on Land Surveying”
Glass, Mary Ellen and Al, “Touring Nevada”
Goetzmann, William H., “Exploration and Empire”
Goetzmann, William H., “Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863”
Goetzmann, William H., “New Lands New Men”
Goin and Starrs, “Black Rock”
Goldfield Historical Society, “Goldfield Nevada”
Goldfield Historical Society, “Goldfield Remembered”
Goltfelty, Cheryll, “Literary Nevada”
Good, Marcia Russell, “A Hidden Vision in Letters The Early Career of Mark Lawrence
Requa”
Gove, Jesse A., “The Utah Expedition 1857-1858”
Gray, Leslie Burns, “The Source and the Vision”
Greeley, Horace, “An Overland Journey”
Greenwood, Robert, “Nevada Post Card Album”
Griffin, Shaun T., “Desert Wood”
Guild, Joseph, “The Great Basin”
Haag, Angela, “Nevada Newspaper Articles 1906+1936”
Haag, Angela, “Who Is Joe White?”
Haag, Angela, “John J. Mangan & Joseph F. White”
Hafen, LeRoy R., “The Overland Trail 1849-1869”
Hafen, LeRoy R., Ann W. Hafen, “Journals of Forty-Niners”
Hall, Shawn, “Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Nye County”
Hall, Shawn, “Romancing Nevada’s Past”
Hall, Shawn, “Old Heart of Nevada”
Hall, Shawn, “Preserving the Glory Days”
Hallock, Addie, “Nevada Poems”
Hart, Eugene R., “Salt and Snow”
Harvey, James and, “Nevada’s Historic Buildings”
Hastings, Langford W., “The Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California”
Hayes, Derek, “Historical Atlas of the American West”
Hayes, Derek, “Historical Atlas of the United States”
Heller, Dean, “Political History of Nevada 2006”
Hersh, Lawerence K., “Central Pacific Railroad Across Nevada 1868 & 1997”
Hill, J. M., “Mines of Battle Mountain, Reese River, Aurora and other Western Nevada
Districts”
Hill, William E., “The Oregon Trail”
Hittell, Theodore H., “History of California Vol 1-4”
Holmes, Kenneth L., “Best of Covered Wagon Women”
Holmes, Kenneth L., “Covered Wagon Women Vol 1,1840-1849”
Holmes, Kenneth L., “Covered Wagon Women Vol 2, 1850”
Holmes, Kenneth L., “Covered Wagon Women Vol 3, 1851”
Horan, James D., “The Great American West”
Horan, James D., Timothy O’Sullivan”
Horner, Jody and Ric, “The Golden Quest and Nevada’s Silver Heritage”
Hubbard, Bill, “American Boundaries”
Hulse, James W., “The Nevada Adventure”
Imswiler, Susan, “Thomas B Rickey”
Irving, Washington, “The Adventures of Captain Bonneville”
Jackson, Spence and, “The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont Vol 1-3 with Map Portfolio”
Jackson, W. Turrentine, “Treasure Hill”
Jacobsen, Cheri Jacobsen and Ardis, “There Ain’t No Fences”
James Gamett, Stanley W. Paher, “Nevada Post Offices An Illustrated History”
James, Reid and, “Uncovering Nevada’s Past”
Johnson, Jean, “Boomtown History II”
Jurovics, “Framing the West”
Kaufmann, Obi, “The California Field Atlas”
Kelsey, Robin, “Archive Style”
Klett, “Second View”
Klett, “The Third Views Second Sights”
Knight, Gilgert, Maraston, “Ranching West of the 100th Meridian”
Koontz, John, “Political History of Nevada”
Leopold, Aldo, “A Sand County Almanac”
Lescott, John & Shelly, “High Hopes & Gold Dust West”
Lewis, Ernest A., “The Fremont Cannon”
Lienhard, Heinrich, “From St. Louis to Sutter’s Fort, 1846”
Lincoln, Francis Church, “Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada”
Linda Hussa, Sophie Sheppard, Carolyn Dufurrena, “Sharing Fenclines”
Lingenfelter and Dwyer, “Dan De Quille the Washoe Giant”
LInklater, Andro, “Measuring America”
LInklater, Andro, “The Fabric of America”
LInklater, Andro, “Owing the Earth”
Loofbourow, Leon L., “Steeples Among the Sage”
Louis F. DeSerio and Glen H. Greenwell, Jr., “A Last Look”
Majors, Alexander, “Seventy Years on the Frontier”
Manno, Silvio, “Charcoal and Blood”
Marsh, A. J., “Letters from Nevada Territory, Reports of the 1863 Constitutional Convention Vol 1-2”
Martin, Gregory, “Mountain City”
Matheus, Phyllis, “The Valleys of the Walker Rivers”
McBride, Spencer W., “Joseph Smith for President”
McCormick, Long Brodhead, “Brushwork Diary”
McCracken, Robert D., “Round Mountain”
McCracken, Robert D., “Manhattan”
McCracken, Robert D., “A History of Tonopah, Nevada”
McCracken, Robert D., “A History of Smokey Valley Nevada”
McCracken, Robert D., Eva LaRue, “The United Cattle & Packing Company”
McLane, Alvin R., “Silent Cordilleras”
McPhee, John, “Annals of the Former World”
McVaugh, Rogers, “Index to the Geographical Names of Nevada”
Meadows, Lorena Edwards, “A Sagebrush Heritage”
Meine, Curt, “Correction Lines”
Meine, Curt, “Leopold”
Metscher, Allen, “The History of the World War II Tonopah Army Air Field, Nevada”
Mills, Lester W., “A Sagebrush Saga”
Mitchell, Roger, Western Nevada Jeep Trails
Molinelli, Lambert, “Eureka and its Resources”
Monney, Sally Whipple Mosher, “On the Sunnyside of Life”
Moreno, Richard, “Roadside History of Nevada”
Morgan, Dale L., “The Humboldt”
Morgan, Dale L., “Jedediah Smith”
Moulton, Gary E., “The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Vol 1-13”
Mozingo, Hugh N., “Shrubs of the Great Basin”
Muir, John, “Steep Trails”
Muir, John, “John Muir Manuscript Edition Vol 1-10”
Mullen, Frank Jr., “The Donner Party Chronicles”
Murbarger, Nell, “Ghosts of the Glory Past”
Murbarger, Nell, “Sovereigns of the Sage”
Myrick, David F., “Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Vol 1”
Myrick, David F., “Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Vol 2”
Myrick, David F., “Railroads of Nevada and Eastern Californis Vol 3”
Nevada, Bureau of Mines and Geology, “Thermal Waters of Nevada”
Nevada, Bureau of Mines and Geology, “The History of Fifty Years of Mining of Tonopah, 1900-1950”
Nevada, Bureau of Mines and Geology, “Bibliography of Geologic Maps of Nevada”
Nevada, Department of Education, “Uses of Native Plants by Nevada Indians”
Nevada Department of Transportation, “Nevada Map Atlas”
Nevada Department of Highways, “Directory of Geographic Names in Nevada”
Nevada, Division of Archeology, “Historic Preservation and Historic Markers”
Nevada Emigrant Trail Marking Committee, “The Overland Emigrant Trail to California”
Nevada, Inter-Tribal Council , “NUMA”
Nevada Landmarks Society, “Carson City Historical Cook Book”
Nevada, State, “Nevada’s Highways and Parks”
Nevada, State, “Directory of Geographic Names in Nevada”
Nevada, State , “Political History of Nevada 2006”
Nevada, State Printing Office, “The Celebration of Nevada’s Semicentennial of Statehood”
Nevada, Women’s Art and Industrial Association, “The Nevada Cook Book”
Nevada Writers Project, “Nevada”
Newton, Marilyn, “Alkali Angels”
Nicoletta, Julie, “Buildings of Nevada”
Nye County Commissioners, “Visitors Guide to Historic Places in Nye County, Nevada”
Norton, Mary Beth, “1774 The Long Year of Revolution”
Nylen and Douglas, “Letters from the Nevada Frontier”
O’Donohue, John, “To Bless the Space Between Us”
Olds, Sarah E., “Twenty Miles from a Match”
Paher, Stanley W., “Nevada Official Bicentennial Book”
Paher, Stanley W., “Nevada Towns and Tales Vol 1 North”
Paher, Stanley W., “Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps Vol 2 South”
Paher, Stanley W., “Nevada Ghost Towns & Desert Atlas”
Paher, Stanley W., “Nevada Ghost Towns & Desert Atlas Vol 1 North”
Paher, Stanley W., “Nevada Towns and Tales Vol II South”
Paher, Stanley W., “Tonopah Silver Camp of Nevada”
Paher, Stanley W., “Goldfield Boom Town of Nevada”
Pandolfino and Beedy, “Birds of the Sierra Nevada”
Parkman, Francis, “The Oregon Trail”
Parkman, Francis, “Parkman”
Parman, Ralph G., “Land of Bunch Grass, Sage and Sun”
Porter, Shirley A., “But You Can’t Leave Shirley”
Poulton and Elliott, “Writings on Nevada”
Poulton, Helen J., “Index to History of Nevada 1881 with Illustrations”
Quebedeaux, Richard, “Prime Sources of California and Nevada Local History”
Quille, Dan de, “The Big Bonanza”
Randolph B. March, Capt US Army, “The Prairie Travelor”
Ransome, R. L., “Mines of Golfield, Bullfrog and other Southern Nevada Districts”
Rathbun, Daniel C. B., “Nevada Military Place Names of the Indian Wars and Civil War”
Raven, Nancy, “A Postal Journey Discovering Nevada Through Its Post Offices”
Reed, Flo, “Bygone Days of Nevada Schools”
Reeve and Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”
Rice, George Graham, “My Adventures With Your Money”
Richard K. Brock, Donald E. Buck, “A Guide to the California Trail Along the Humboldt River”
Richnak, Barbara, “A River Flows: The Life of Robert Lardin Fulton”
Ridgeway and Oberding, “Mizpah Hotel”
Sagstetter, Beth and Bill, “The Mining Camps Speak”
Sakolski, Aaron, “The Great American Land Bubble”
Schulten, Susan, “Mapping the Nation”
Scott, Lalla, “Karnee a Piute Narrative”
Scrugham, James, “Nevada: Narrative of the Conquest of a Frontier Land, Comprising the
Story of Her People from the Dawn of History to the Present Time Vol 1-3”
Shamberger, Hugh A., “Water Supply for the Comstock”
Shamberger, Hugh A., “Rochester”
Shamberger, Hugh A., “Rawhide”
Shamberger, Hugh A., “Seven Troughs”
Shamberger, Hugh A., “Wonder”
Shamberger, Hugh A., “Weepah”
Shamberger, Hugh A., “Goldfield”
Shepperson, Wilbur S., “Restless Strangers”
Shepperson, William S., “East of Eden West of Zion”
Simpson, Captain J. H., “Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin of the Territory of
Utah for a Direct Wagon-Route…Genoa 1859”
Skinner and Perryman, “Nevada Grasses”
Slagowski, Floyd, “The Pine Valley Puzzle”
Smart, Charles E., “The Makers of Surveying Instruments in America Since 1700 Vol 1-2”
Smith, Justin H., “The War with Mexico Vol 1-2”
Smith, Raymond, “Nevada’s Northwest Corner”
Smith, Raymond, “Travels: In the Nevada Outback”
Smith, Raymond, “Saloons of (old and new) Nevada”
Smith, Raymond M., “Untold Tales of Early Nevada Vol 1”
Starrs, Paul F., “Vignettes of Landscape Change”
Starrs, Paul F., “Connecting the Continent”
Starrs, Paul F., “Transhumance as Antidote for Modern Sedentary Stock Raising”
Starrs, Paul F., “Plus ca Change: Vignettes of Landscape Change”
Starrs, Paul F., “The Public as Agents of Policy”
Starrs, Paul F., “Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West”
Stegner, Wallace, “Beyond the Hundreth Meridian”
Stegner, Wallace, “The Gathering of Zion”
Stegner, Wallace, “Mormon Country”
Stewart, George R., “Names on the Land”
Stewart, James and, “The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh &Hosea B. Grosh”
Stewart, Robert E., “Aurora Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn”
Stewart, Virginia M., “Golden Gravel”
Stone, Irving, “Men to Match My Mountains
Swanson and Gruell, “Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat”
Taylor, Jock, “One Hundred Years Ago in Nevada”
Taylor, Jock, “Nevada The Gamble Lincoln Won”
Tegeler, Rick, “Desperate Dreams”
Thrower, Norman J. W., “Original Survey and Land Subdivision”
Tingley, Joseph V., “Mining Districts of Nevada Second Edition”
Townley, John M., “Alfalfa Country”
Trails West, “Central Overland Trail”
Tuan, Yi-Fu, “Space and Place”
USDA, “The Nevada Mouse Plague”
US Government Printing Office, “Geological Survey Bulletin 1212”
USGS,United States Geological Survey Annual Reports 1880-1905
Uzes, Francis D., “Chaining the Land”
Uzes, Francois D., “Antique Surveying Instruments and Books”
Vanderburg, William O., “Mines of Lander and Eureka Counties”
Vanderburg, William O., “Mines of Churchill and Mineral Counties”
Victor Goodwin et al, “Nevada’s Northeast Corner”
Visscher, William Lightfoot, “A Thrilling and Truthful History of the Pony Express”
Walter van Tilburg Clark, Editor, “The Journals of Alfred Dutton 1849-1903 Vol 1-3”
West, Thompson &, “History of Nevada 1881 with Illustrations
Wheat, Carl I., “Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540-1861 Vol 1-5”
Wheat, Margaret, “Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes”
Wheeler, George M., “Explorations in Nevada and Arizona”
Wheeler, George M., “Preliminary Report concerning Explorations and Surveys in Nevada
and Arizona w/Map”
Wheeler, George M., “Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, Appendix F”
White, Patricia, “Where the World Met and Became One”
Wilson, Laura, “Avedon at Work”
Wood, Denis, “Rethinking the Power of Maps”
Wood, Denis, “The Power of Maps”
Wood, Denis, “Everything Sings”
Wood and Fels, “The Natures of Maps”
Woodward, Colin, “American Character”
Zanjani, Sally, “Jack Longstreet”
Zanjani, Sally, “The Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada”
Zanjani, Sally, ‘The Ignoble Conspiracy”
Zanjani, Sally, “Goldfield”
Zanjani, Sally, “Ghost Dance Winter and Other Tales of the Frontier”
Zanjani, Sally, “The Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada”
Zanjani, Sally, “Devils Will Reign”
Zunz, Olivier, “The Man Who Understood Democracy”
Zunz and Goldhammer, “Tocqueville”

