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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
Historical Societies
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