Research

This article contains information about how to do research about the Black Rock Desert and Nevada in general.

Books

• Searching Google Books can be of value.
• See Bibliography for a list of books. Carlson's "Nevada Place Names" and Fairfield's "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California" are very valuable.

Censuses

• The Censuses page has links to historic Nevada Censuses

Genealogy

• Genealogy

Historical Societies

• Friends of the Black Rock/High Rock
• Humboldt Museum
• Nevada Historical Society

Libraries

• University of Nevada Reno

Magazines

• Desert Magazine has articles from the 1950s.

Maps

• The Maps page contains a number of useful maps. In particular, the Historic Maps page has links to old topo maps and township plats.
• County assessor maps can be useful, Pershing County has maps that are of use.
• GNIS has information about place names that sometimes includes useful citations.

Nevada Outdoor School

• Interpretive Kits - #NevadaOutdoorSchool resources useful for the classroom.

Newspaperarchive.com

• When using Google, to find newspaper articles, try adding "site:newspaperchive.com" to a search.

Newspapers

• Historic Nevada newspapers (Library of Congress)
• Humboldt Register

Territorial Enterprise

• About Daily territorial enterprise. [volume (Virginia, N.T. [Nev.]) 1861-1916] (Library of Congress)
• Vol. 1, no. 26 (1859 July 30) (UC Berkeley Law Library) account required for online access
• Daily Territorial Enterprise January 2, 1883 through December 30, 1900 (Pershing County Library)
• Territorial enterprise and Virginia City news 1952-1969 UC Berkeley
• Territorial enterprise and Virginia City news (Virginia City, Nev. : 1952) 1952-1969 Microfilm N0034 (UNR)

Oral Histories

• UNR has Oral Histories