Potato Patch (Winnemucca Lake)
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Potato Patch was a small Paiute village,[1][2] located "about 32 miles north of Nixon and 31 miles south of Gerlach."[3][4]
There is also a Potato Patch Spring in the Lake Range, west of Needle Rock.[5][6]
See Also
- Potato Patch Spring, located near Fox Mountain
References
- ↑ Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada), Sunday, May 23, 1954, Page 6
- ↑ "Lost Lands of Pyramid Lake Area Have a Constantly-Changing Charm," Basil Woon, Nevada State Journal, p. 72.
- ↑ Dick Shutler, Donald R. Tuohy, John Andrew Price, Francis A. Riddell, Richard Shutler (Jr), Mary Elizabeth Shutler, "Lost City: Pueblo Grande de Nevada," p. 71, 1962.
- ↑ Norm Cavanaugh, "Beverly Brazzanovich & Harold Miller", Oral History Interview, Great Basin Indian Archive (GBIA) 010, 2006
- ↑ "Lake Range," Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 2013]
- ↑ GNIS
External links
- Potato patch storytelling with Randy Burns (facebook)
- "In this video, Farmer speaks with Randy Burns (Kooyooe Tukadu) about Potato Patch, a historic ranch overlooking Winnemucca Lake on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation that has been in his family for over 125 years."
- "Randy Burns tells Farmer about the old road that used to run by the Potato Patch spring, which would serve as an important carriage stop on the way from Gerlach to Reno before Highway 447 was created. Randy relays the story of how his family met mistreated Chinese railroad workers who camped nearby after escaping oppressive conditions building the rail line through Gerlach. At that time there was still water in (now dry) Winnemucca Lake, before the Derby Dam was built on the Truckee River."
- "According to Randy, Reno was so segregated that neither blacks nor natives were allowed to gamble in the casinos. Despite that, Randy’s Grandfather was so successful growing alfalfa for cattle, as well as plums and other fruit to sell in Gerlach, that he became the first person to own a Model T Ford on the Reservation."
- "The video closes with Randy talking about picking wildflowers on the west side of the nearby Limbo Mountain Range."
- "Recorded in April 2022"