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Reading Room
The Nevada Observer, as a public service, offers this electronic reading room for the convenience of researchers and people interested in the history of the State of Nevada.
The library consists of scanned documents relating to recurring problems, events in and aspects of present-day and historic Nevada. From time to time, the selections in The Nevada Observer's electronic reading room will be rotated or updated.
The staff of The Nevada Observer hope that these selections will raise public consciousness about corruption and ethical issues in state government, as well as the rich heritage of our State, and hope that you, the reader, will find them interesting and helpful.
All scans, proofing and formatting Copyright © Nevada Observer LLC 2003-2008.]
What's New In The Reading Room
Territorial Enterprise Editor Recalls His Famous And Not-So-Famous Acquaintances
Nevada History:
From C. C. Goodwin, As I Remember Them (1913)
Numaga, Chief of the Pyramid Lake Paiutes (Nevada Historical Society) [click on image to enlarge].
Nevada History:
Nineteenth Century Nevada Travel Narratives
A Jaunt to Honey Lake Valley and Noble's Pass (1857)
Pioneer Stagecoach Trip Over The Sierra Nevada (1857)
A Trip To Walker's River and Carson Valley (1858)
The Overland Journal of "Nonsensical Nellie" Phelps (1859)
J. Ross Browne: A Peep at Washoe (1860)
Notes and Sketches of the Washoe Country (1860)
Sir Richard F. Burton, c. 1859 [Click on image to enlarge].
Captain Sir Richard F. Burton: A Trip From The Great Salt Lake To San Francisco (1860) Part 1; Part 2
William Wright (Dan DeQuille) [Click on image to enlarge].
Dan DeQuille: Washoe Rambles (1861) Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4
J. Ross Browne [Click on image to enlarge].
J. Ross Browne, Washoe Revisited (1864)
Austin, photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan (1868) [click on image to enlarge].
J. Ross Browne, The Reese River Country (1865)
J. Ross Browne, The Walker River Country (1865)
J. Ross Browne, Bodie Bluff and The Dead Sea of the West (1865)
Samuel Bowles, Across Nevada in 1865 (1865)
William Fraser Rae, Westward By Rail: The New Route To The East (1869)
Mrs. C. M. Churchill, "Little sheaves" gathered while gleaning after reapers. Being letters of travel commencing in 1870, and ending in 1873 (1874) [off-site links to California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900]
More Nevada History
John C. Frémont, The exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California (1852) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
C.F. McGlashan, History of the Donner Party, A Tragedy of the Sierra (1879)
Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate (1911) [Off-site link to Project Gutenberg website]
The location of site of Breen Cabin; General C.F. McGlashan, Donner Party historian, declares present pioneer monument covers exact spot where hut stood. Array of interesting facts presented relating to early investigation of sites of various cabins occupied by members of ill-fated pioneer party (1920) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
The Emigrant Relief Expedition of 1849
William Lewis Manly, Death Valley in '49 (1894) [Off-site link to Project Gutenberg website]
H. S. Beatie, The First in Nevada (1884)
Col. John Reese, Mormon Station (1884)
Utah: Message of the President of the United States, transmitting, information in reference to the condition of affairs in the Territory of Utah [House Exec. Doc. No. 25, 32nd Cong., 1st Sess.] (1852) [19.6 MB pdf file]
Prof. John B. Trask, Report on the geology of the Sierra Nevada, or California Range (1853) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Nevada's First District Attorney, An Excerpt From The Life and Adventures Of Col. L.A. Norton (1887)
Articles From The Western Standard (San Francisco - 1856)
The Fort at Las Vegas Mission [click on image to enlarge]. (Nevada Historical Society)
Andrew Jensen, History of Las Vegas Mission (1926) Part 1; Part 2
Samuel F. Drannan, Adventures in Nevada 1850-1852, An excerpt from Chief of Scouts (1910) Part 1 (Chapters I and II); Part 2 (Chapters III and IV); Part 3 (Chapters V and VI)
Samuel F. Drannan, Indian-Fighting Along the Humboldt River 1855-1857, An excerpt from Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains (1900)
Christopher Merkley, Biography of Christopher Merkley, written by himself, J. H. Parry & Co., Salt Lake City: 1887 [37 MB pdf file]
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the massacre at Mountain Meadows, and other massacres in Utah Territory [Sen. Exec. Doc. No. 42, 36th Cong., 1st Sess.; Serial 1033] (1860) [89 MB pdf file]
Utah Territory: Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the House, copies of correspondence relative to the condition of affairs in the Territory of Utah [House Exec. Doc. No. 78, 36th Cong., 1st Sess.; Serial 1056] (1860) [32 MB pdf file]
Speech of John Cradlebaugh of Nevada, on the Admission of Utah As a State (1868) [45.3 MB pdf file]
Exhibits to the Speech of John Cradlebaugh of Nevada, on the Admission of Utah As a State (1868) [34.2 MB pdf file]
Salt Lake City Tribune, The Lee Trial! An Exposé of the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1875) [42 MB pdf file]
Lt. Randolph B. Marcy, The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions (1859) [off-site link to the Project Gutenberg website]
Brig. Gen. James Hervey Simpson, The shortest route to California : illustrated by a history of explorations of the great basin of Utah with its topographical and geological character and some account of the Indian tribes (1869) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Discovery of the Comstock Lode, 1859 [click on image to enlarge]. The original painting can be seen in the M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA.
From The Washoe Silver Mines, Correspondence of the San Francisco Herald (1860)
Samuel S. Buckland, Indian Fighting in Nevada (1879)
Henry DeGroot, Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines (1860)
Glenn D. Bradley, The Story of the Pony Express (1913) [off-site link to Books About California website]
Virginia City 1861 [click on image to enlarge].
J. Wells Kelly, First Directory of Nevada Territory (1862)
The Curse Of Orson Hyde (1862)
Nevada (1865)
Emory Fiske Skinner, Life in Austin 1863-1865, An extract from The Reminiscences of Emory Fiske Skinner (1908)
Official army register of the volunteer force of the United States army for the years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 (1865-67) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Sand Dunes, Carson Desert, photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan (c. 1868) [click on image to enlarge].
Nevada Photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, from Clarence King's 40th Parallel Exploring Expedition of 1867-1868
Map of the Carson Valley 1868 [Click on image to enlarge].
Mrs. Orsemus Bronson Boyd, A Cavalry Wife in Nevada 1868, An extract from Cavalry Life in Tent and Field (1894)
Chauncey M. Depew, A Tale of Senator Nye, told by President Ulysses S. Grant (1868)
Guido Küstel, Nevada and California processes of silver and gold extraction (1868) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Clarence King, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Railroad lands in California and Nevada (1872) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Report of a majority of border county delegations, on joint resolution of Legislature of Nevada, asking the cession of territory east of the summit of the Sierra Nevadas (1874) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Henry DeGroot, Comstock Papers (1876) Part 1; Part 2
Papers Relating to the Sutro Tunnel [off-site links to University of California Libraries website]
Dan DeQuille, History of the Big Bonanza, An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World Renowned Comstock Silver Lode of Nevada (1877)
Martha Summerhayes, An Army Wife At Fort McDermitt 1878-1879; An extract from Vanished Arizona (1911)
The opinion of the Circuit court of the United States, for the district of Nevada, in the case of the Eureka Consolidated Mining Company, vs. the Richmond Mining Company, of Nevada, delivered March 22, 1878 (1878) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
G. Thureau, Synopsis of a report on mining in California and Nevada, U.S.A. (1879) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Chicago and North Western Railway Company, The North and West illustrated : for tourist, business and pleasure travel : the popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota ... (c. 1879)
Maj. Ben C. Truman, A Midnight Adventure in Nevada, An extract from Occidental Sketches (1881)
Railroad wrongs in Nevada. Speech of Hon. Rollin M. Daggett, of Nevada, in the House of Representatives February 25, 1881 (1881) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Myron Angel, Thompson & West's History Of Nevada (1881)
Indians and Their Wars in Nevada [Pyramid Lake Paiute War of 1860] Part 1; Part 2
The Owens River War [Includes Paradise Valley and Black Rock Indian Wars]
D.R. Sessions, School History of Nevada
In the matter of the court martial of Capt. Timothy Connelly. Proceedings of the general court martial, held at Camp Halleck, Nevada. Together with other documents relating thereto (1881) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
William Jennings, Carson Valley (c. 1883)
Jacob Klein, Founders of Carson City (1883)
A.H. Hawley, Lake Tahoe (1883)
William M. Cradlebaugh, Nevada Biography (1883)
Samuel A. Nevers, Nevada Pioneers (1883)
Henry Van Sickle, Utah Desperadoes (c. 1883)
Sarah Winnemucca (Nevada Historical Society) [Click on image to enlarge].
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883)
Chapter I First Meeting of Piutes and Whites
Chapter II Domestic and Social Moralities
Chapter III Wars and Their Causes
Chapter IV Captain Truckee's Death
Chapter V Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes
Chapter VI The Malheur Agency
Chapter VII The Bannock War
Chapter VIII The Yakima Affair
Tufa domes at Pyramid Lake, photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan (c. 1867) [click on image to enlarge].
George Davidson, The Carson fossil footprints (1883) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
The Gould & Curry reduction works, photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan (c. 1867) [click on image to enlarge].
Eliot Lord, Comstock Mining and Miners (1883)
Chapter I The Discovery of Gold
Chapter II The Carson Cañon Placer Mining Colony
Chapter III The Discovery of the Comstock Lode
Chapter IV The Mining Camp
Chapter V The Foundation of a Great Mining Town
Chapter VI The Inevitable Litigation
Chapter VII Constructive and Disorganizing Agencies
Chapter VIII Interminable Litigation
Chapter IX Industrial Conflicts
Chapter X The Mining City
Chapter XI Six Years of Progress
Chapter XII The Contest With Water
Chapter XIII A Controlling Combination
Chapter XIV A Hazardous Task
Chapter XV A Fortunate Deliverance
Chapter XVI The Great Bonanza
Chapter XVII Feats of Labor
Chapter XVIII The Laborers of Washoe
Chapter XIX Pains and Perils of Mining
Chapter XX A Significant Contrast
Life in Churchill and Lyon Counties: A Newspaper Scrapbook 1865-1899
Nevada (1886) [Click on image to enlarge]
Frances Fuller Victor, Popular Tribunals of Utah and Nevada (1887)
Gold Hill, photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan (c. 1867) [click on image to enlarge].
Dan DeQuille, History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines (1889) Part 1; Part 2; Part 3
"Money answereth all things" : speech of Hon. Wm. M. Stewart, of Nevada, in the Senate of the United States, January 2, 1889 (1889) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming 1540-1888 (1890) [off-site link to 1st-hand-history.org website].
Money : speech of Hon. John P. Jones of Nevada, on the free coinage of silver in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 (1890) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
William Daugherty, Tales of the Nevada Frontier (1891) Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4
Geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, with an atlas (1892) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Trinity Church (Reno, Nev.), Woman's Guild , Riverside recipes : collection of choice tested recipes (1894) off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Twenty-five years a parson in the wild West : being the experience of Parson Ralph Riley [pseud.] (1896) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Charles Howard Shinn, The story of the mine, as illustrated by the great Comstock Lode of Nevada (1896)
William A. Hickman (Utah Historical Society) [click on image to enlarge] .
William A. Hickman, Brigham's Destroying Angel (1904 - 33 MB pdf file)
Facts abut Goldfield, Nev. the greatest gold camp in the world (c. 1904) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Charles Howard Shinn, Nevada silver (1896) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
John Allen Reid, Preliminary report on the building stones of Nevada, including a brief chapter on road metal (1904) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Maude Morrow Garwood, Greater Nevada : its resources & possibilities (1905) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Geology of the Tonopah mining district, Nevada (1905) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Robert Hollister Chapman, The deserts of Nevada and the Death Valley (1906) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Mrs. W. R. Sanner, Dainties (c. 1906) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Condensed report of the condition of the Nye & Ormsby County Bank at the close of business December 31, 1906 [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Bessie Beatty, Who's who in Nevada: Brief sketches of men who are making history in the Sagebrush state (1907) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Papers relative to labor troubles at Goldfield, Nev. : message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of Special Commission on Labor Troubles at Goldfield, Nev., and papers relating thereto (1908) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
William M. Stewart (Nevada Historical Society) [click on image to enlarge].
William M. Stewart, Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada (1908)
Allen C. Bragg, Pioneer Days in Nevada (1909)
Mining and other resources of Eureka County, Nevada (1909) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Fanny G. Hazlett (Nevada Historical Society) [click on image to enlarge]
Fanny G. Hazlett, Historical Sketch and Reminiscences of Dayton, Nevada (1910)
Andrew Jackson Wells, Government Irrigation and the settler. California, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, including a description of the Imperial valley project (1910) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, Hints to the husbandman regarding opportunities in Utah, Nevada and California (c. 1912) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Cora Fay White, Lyon County, where it is and what it contains: close to California, made up of rich valleys and mineral-laden hills ... Nevada, U.S.A (1913) [off-site link to University of California Libraries website]
Sam P. Davis [Click on image to enlarge]
Sam P. Davis, History Of Nevada (1913)
Riding the Flume -- Harper's Weekly Magazine, June 2, 1877 [click on image to enlarge].
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C. C. Goodwin, As I Remember Them (1913 - 22 MB pdf file)