
Numaga, Chief of
the Pyramid Lake Paiutes (Nevada
Historical Society)
[click on image to enlarge].
Nevada History:
Nineteenth Century Nevada Travel
Narratives
Pioneer Stagecoach Trip
Over The Sierra Nevada (1857)

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].

J. Ross Browne
[Click on image to enlarge].

Austin, photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan
(1868) [click on image to enlarge].
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]

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]
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.
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)
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]
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)
-
Part One (Introduction, Preface, Table of Contents, Chapter I
[The First Settlers in Nevada], Chapter II [The Search for
Gold], Chapter III [Adventures of Early Prospectors], Chapter IV
[What They Discovered])
-
Part Two (Chapter V [Discovery of the Great Comstock Mine],
Chapter VI [The Discovery of Silver], Chapter VII [Reminiscences
of Early Mining Days], Chapter VIII [The Fate of the Discoverers],
Chapter IX [Comstock's Matrimonial Venture], Chapter X [A Letter
from Comstock], Chapter XI [Old Virginia and his Stories],
Chapter XII [Misled by the "Spirits"])
-
Part Three (Chapter XIII [Early Mining], Chapter XIV [Migration
on a Large Scale], Chapter XV [Trouble with the Indians],
Chapter XVI [State of Society], Chapter XVII [Early Comstock
Mining Explorations], Chapter XVIII [Loss of the Precious
Metals], Chapter XIX [The Social Aspect of the Territory],
Chapter XX [The Mountain Region of Nevada], Chapter XXI [The
Sierra Nevada Mountains])
-
Part Four (Chapter XXII [Bonanza and Borrasca], Chapter XXIII [How
the Mines are Worked], Chapter XXIV [Firedamp - A Mine in
Flames], Chapter XXV [Death in the Mine], Chapter XXVI
[Destruction of the Belcher Shaft], Chapter XXVII [War in the
Mine], Chapter XXVIII [A Chapter of Accidents], Chapter XXIX
[Mining Fatalities], Chapter XXX [The Towns of the Big Bonanza])
-
Part Five (Chapter XXXI [Construction of Railroad Lines],
Chapter XXXII [An Engineering Triumph], Chapter XXXIII [How Wood
is cut in the Sierras], Chapter XXXIV [The "Six Hundred and
One"], Chapter XXXV [The "Washoe Zephyr"], Chapter XXXVI [The
Red Proprietors], Chapter XXXVII [Winnemucca and His Braves])
-
Part Six (Chapter XXXVIII [Sketches of Indian Life], Chapter
XXXIX [Concerning "Lo" and his Family], Chapter XL [A Visit to
the Mines], Chapter XLI [Descending in the Safety-Cage], Chapter
XLII [Below the Surface])
-
Part Seven (Chapter XLIII [Curiosities of Ventilation], Chapter
XLIV [Underground Business Arrangements], Chapter XLV
[Ghost-Haunted Shafts], Chapter XLVI [Extracting Silver from the
Ore], Chapter XLVII [Assays of the Silver Bullion], Chapter
XLVIII [Saloon Birds], Chapter XLIX [Some Very Queer Customers]
-
Part Eight (Chapter L [Original Characters], Chapter LI [The
"Heathen Chinee"], Chapter LII [Chinese Opium-Dens], Chapter
LIII [How Fortunes are Made and Lost], Chapter LIV [Curious
Speculations in Stock], Chapter LV [Holidays and Fun], Chapter
LVI [Terrible Story of the Donners])
-
Part Nine (Chapter LVII [Traces of the Tricksy Miner];
Chapter LVIII [The Paradise of Bogus Miners]; Chapter LIX
[Pay-Day at the Mines]; Chapter LX [The Hottest Place in the
Mine]; Chapter LXI [Underground Battles]; Chapter LXII [The
Wealth of the World]; Chapter LXIII [Fluctuations of
Fortune]; Chapter LXIV [The Richest Spot in the World];
Chapter LXV [Aggregated Wealth]; Chapter LXVI [Concerning
Ventilation]; Chapter LXVII [Below the Water Deposits])
-
Part
10 (Chapter LXVIII [Some Interesting Creatures]; Chapter LXIX
[Millionaire Proprietors]; Chapter LXX [Fun and Frolic]; Chapter
LXXI [The Bright Side of Prospecting]; Chapter LXXII [The Comical
Story of Pike]; The Great Fire, October 1875; Appendix)
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)
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)

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)
Life in Churchill and Lyon
Counties: A Newspaper Scrapbook 1865-1899

Nevada (1886)
[Click on image to enlarge]

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]
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)
-
Part 1 (Table of Contents, Chapter I [Miners and
Mining Camps, Chapter II [A Land of Precious
Metals], Chapter III [Mormons and Pioneer Gold],
Chapter IV [The Placer-Mining Period], Chapter V
[The First Quartz Prospectors])
-
Part 2 (Chapter VI [Discovery of the Comstock],
Chapter VII [Placer Mining on Quartz Ledges],
Chapter VIII [The Rush Across the Sierras], Chapter
IX [Old Times in Virginia City])
-
Part 3 (Chapter X [Finding, Testing and Working
Ores], Chapter XI [Great Mechanical Problems
Solved], Chapter XII [Dependent Industries])
-
Part 4 (Chapter XIII [Mining Litigation], Chapter
XIV [Stock and the Stock Speculators], Chapter XV
[Borrasca and Bonanza])
-
Part 5 (Chapter XVI [Days of the Great Bonanza]),
Chapter XVII [The Sutro Tunnel])
-
Part 6 (Chapter XVIII [Outside View of a Mine],
Chapter XIX [The City Underground])
-
Part 7 (Chapter XX [The Mining Community], Chapter
XXI [The Comstock As It Is], Chapter XXII [The
American Miner of To-Day])

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)
_small.jpg)
Riding
the Flume -- Harper's Weekly Magazine, June 2,
1877 [click on image to enlarge].
C. C. Goodwin,
As I Remember Them (1913 - 22 MB pdf file)