Skull Meadow

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Skull Meadow is located at 7737 feet at 40° 48' 13.64" N, 119° 24' 58.68" [1] in the Granite Range.

Skull Meadow might be named for the 1934 discovery of the skeleton of a man and a horse by Jack Heward. A muzzle-loading rifle suggests that deaths could have occurred during emigrant days.[2][3]

There is a distant chance that this is the body of Jerry Marsh, who was traveling from Alturas to Winnemucca in 1910. Dayton Hyde writes that many years later, the bones of a man and a horse were found under a pile of rock.[4]

References

  1. "Skull Meadow, 850166, GNIS.
  2. "Old Skeletons of Man and Horse Found," July 3, 1934, REG, p. 10.
  3. "Skeletons of Man and Horse Found in Nevada," July 4, 1934, NSJ, p. 2.
  4. "The Last Free Man," Dayton Hyde, p. 139.