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Lander County NVGenWeb Part of the USGenWeb Project |
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- Index to The Town That Died Laughing - by Oscar Lewis - The story of Austin, Nevada, as told through the pages of the Reese River Reveille. Perhaps your ancestors were mentioned!
- Reese River Reveille - This Austin paper was one of several that were owned by members of the Fairchild family. Information transcribed from some copies of the Reveille!
- Pyramid Lake Battle - A first hand account in a personal letter by Myron Angel to his sister, bearing sad news.
- Lookups! I own a copy of The History of Nevada and combined with the index for it I'm now ready to do lookups!
- Ink For Blood - The History of the Fairchild Family, several of whom played an important part in Nevada and Lander County history. Updates September 2006
- Look-up Results - Sharing the information
that others have asked for. Might as well make use of the typing I
do in response to requests to add to the available web sources! Eventually,
I'll end up with the entire History of Nevada on-line!
Print from "Our New West" By Samuel Bowles, Published 1869
The county is named after General Fredrick W. Lander a road builder for
the Department of the Interior. He was key in negotiating a peace settlement
with the Indians during the Pyramid Lake War. The central location attracted
prospectors fanning out across the Great Basin after the discovery of the
Comstock Lode in 1859.
The county seat is Battle Mountian.
Did you know? The Pyramid Lake Battle is a site on the Music CD by Tori Amos, Scarlet's Walk. Owners of the CD can place it into their computer and it provides access into a special web site that provides links to many key places in Native American History.
| I'd love to have your help with items that we can include here!
If you are willing to do Look Ups in books you have that include Lander
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View and Post Lander Country Queries |
Family
Search - The Latter-day Saints' search site |
Cyndi's
List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet (A must see!) |
Other sites on the WWW (Uses Yahoo!)
Suite101.com
- Articles on Genealogy with tips and helps. |
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