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Coleville
October 23, 2026
Coleville is on a survey plat of 1874. Nine small marks stand for its buildings, three rows of three, on the west bank of the West Walker River. A road goes...
Gardnerville
October 16, 2026
The State of Nevada keeps a cast marker at 1426 US 395 in Gardnerville, numbered 129. The town’s first buildings, it says, were a blacksmith shop, a saloon,...
The Bonneville Basin
October 9, 2026
Plate 1The basin as it drains now. Map of Lake Bonneville showing the present Hydrographic Divisions of the Bonneville Basin. G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville,...
The Lahontan Basin
October 2, 2026
Plate 1The two Pleistocene lakes of the Great Basin, with the water that is left of them. USGS Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-694-C, sheet 1, fig. 1,...
The Great Basin
September 25, 2026
“The Great Basin and its Lakes.” G. K. Gilbert, Lake Bonneville, U.S. Geological Survey Monograph 1, 1890, Plate II. Every region on that map but one is...
C. L. Starks
September 18, 2026
Frontispiece to J. O. Snyder, “A New California Trout,” California Fish and Game 20(2), April 1934. At nine o’clock on the morning of October 7, 1933, a...