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Nevada History Resources

Mining

Call Number: F849.C3 C312 1993--microfilm
Title: Record book B--deeds, mining and real estate [microform]; Record book C--deeds, mining and real estate ; Record book D--surveys, volume D and index 1859-1861 / Carson County, Utah and Nevada (Ter.), Recorder
Author(s): Carson County (Utah). Recorder
Dates: 01/01/1859 - 12/31/1861
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information:
 
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 220 no. 2231
Title: Views of the works of the Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company, Virginia, N.T.
Author(s): Gould and Curry Silver Mining Company
Dates: 01/01/1860 - 12/31/1860
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 1 page. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 583 no. 6014
Title: Sketches of the Washoe mining region : photographs, reduced from originals, twenty-five numbers . . .
Author(s): Vischer, Edward.
Dates: 01/01/1862 - 12/31/1862
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 24 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 152 no. 1634
Title: Directory of Nevada Territory
Author(s):
Dates: 01/01/1862 - 12/31/1863
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 268 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 440 no. 4455
Title: Mining laws of Reese River Mining District
Author(s): Reese River Mining District, Nev
Dates: 04/20/1863 - 04/20/1863
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: Mining Law. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 360 no. 3505
Title: By-laws of Marysville Mining District, adopted October 13, 1863.
Author(s): Marysville Mining District, Nev
Dates: 10/13/1863 - 12/31/1863
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 1 page. Mining Law. Printed as p. [2] of the supplement to the Reese River reveille for October 28, 1863. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 490 no. 4910
Title: The silver mines of Nevada
Author(s):
Dates: 01/01/1864 - 12/31/1864
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 76 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 596 no. 6161
Title: Guide and map of Reese River and Humboldt : containing correct and valuable information of the country and mines; process of testing and assaying ores; form of trust deed; certificate of incorporation; lightning calculator; calendar for 1864, and table of distances.
Author(s): Wheelock, Harrison
Dates: 01/01/1864 - 12/31/1864
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 43 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 75 no. 758
Title: Adventures in the Apache country : a tour 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 53 no. 508
Title: Laws of Big Creek mining district, adopted Feb. 13th, 1864 . . . C.F. Newcomb, Ch'n
Author(s): Big Creek mining district, Nevada
Dates: 02/13/1864 - 02/13/1864
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: Mining Law. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 490 no. 4909
Title: The silver districts of Nevada . . .
Author(s):
Dates: 01/01/1865 - 12/31/1865
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 37 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 447 no. 4525
Title: The Comstock lode : its character, and the probable mode of its continuance in depth
Author(s): Richthofen, Ferdinand, Freiherr von, 1833-1905.
Dates: 01/01/1866 - 12/31/1866
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 83 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 58 no. 566.1
Title: Mining and milling in the Reese River region, central and s.e. Nevada
Author(s): Blatchly, A
Dates: 01/01/1867 - 12/31/1867
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 48 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 12 no. 173
Title: La Nevada orientale; g‚ographie, resources, climat ‚t‚tat social; rapport address‚ au comit‚ local pour l'Exposition de Paris.
Author(s): Angel, Myron
Dates: 01/01/1867 - 12/31/1867
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 164 pages. Mining Laws covers mostly Eastern Nevada. 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 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
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 240 no. 2463
Title: A comparison of the bars & harbors of the Gulf of Mexico, from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Vera Cruz; and of the mines and mining in California, Nevada, Coihuila [!], Chuhuahua, and North Carolina, with a comparative view of the richness of their ores, the climates in which they are found, and their accessibility.
Author(s): Hawes, Hugh W
Dates: 01/01/1869 - 12/31/1869
State or Area: Nevada, California, Mexico, Texas, North Carolina
Other Information: 22 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 3, Readex No. LOCW0028
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Matthews, Mary McNair
Dates: 01/01/1869 - 12/31/1878
State or Area: Nevada, California
Other Information: 343 pages. She set out with her young son in 1869 for Virginia City to vindicate her brother after his death. Includes work experiences; manners and customs of people, Chinese and the Piutes; information about the mines of the Comstock.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 425 no. 4299
Title: The Piute Company of California and Nevada, organized April 13th, 1869, incorporated June 30th, 1870.
Author(s): Piute Company of California and Nevada
Dates: 04/13/1869 - 06/30/1870
State or Area: California, Nevada
Other Information: 23 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 509 no. 5094
Title: Mining laws of Spruce Mountain Mining District, Elko
County Nevada Also, Mining laws of the United States, embraced in an act of Congress for the development of mining resources of the United States.
Author(s): Spruce Mountain Mining District, Nevada
Dates: 01/01/1872 - 12/31/1872
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 8 pages. Mining Law. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 151 no. 1621
Title: The Bonanza mines and the Bonanza kings of California. Their 5 years reign 1875-1879.
Author(s): Dewey, S. P. (Squire Pierce), 1818-1889.
Dates: 01/01/1875 - 12/31/1879
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 87 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 613 no. 6318
Title: History of the big bonanza : an authentic account of the discovery, history, and working of the world renowned Comstock silver lode of Nevada . . . And a full exposition of the production of pure silver . . .
Author(s): De Quille, Dan, 1829-1898.
Dates: 01/01/1876 - 12/31/1876
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 569 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 430 no. 4349
Title: Nevada : the land of silver.
Author(s): Powell, John J
Dates: 01/01/1876 - 12/31/1876
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 305 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 376 no. 3699
Title: Eureka and its resources : a complete history of Eureka County, Nevada, containing the United States mining laws, the mining laws of the district, bullion product and other statistics for 1878, and a list of county officers.
Author(s): Lambert Molinelli & Co.
Dates: 01/01/1878 - 12/31/1878
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 109 pages. Mining Law. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 151 no. 1622
Title: The Bonanza mines of Nevada. Gross frauds in the management exposed. Reply of S. P. Dewey to the misrepresentations of the Bonanza firm in their libelous publication of May 25th, 1878
Author(s): Dewey, S. P. (Squire Pierce), 1818-1889.
Dates: 05/25/1878 - 05/25/1878
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: 84 pages. Western Americana Collection.
 
Call Number: CT3260 .A545x 1984 Reel No. 24, Readex No. UNVR0004
Title: American women's diaries. Western women
Author(s): Crowell, Lucy Davis, [b.1881]
Dates: 01/01/1881
State or Area: Nevada
Other Information: Discusses work for Nevada State Supreme Court; the Early Days of the Carson Appeal, the newspaper established by her mother's first husband and mother's work as a reporter; Lucy's study of mining; her work at the capitol, at the court and at a newspaper.
 
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.
 
Call Number: F591 .W4633x Reel 100 no.1079
Title: Outposts of civilization.
Author(s): Chalfant, Willie Arthur, 1868-1943.
Dates: 01/01/1928 - 12/31/1928
State or Area: California, Nevada
Other Information: 193 pages. Western Americana Collection.