Leadville

Leadville is a ghost town about 35 miles north of Gerlach on Highway 34. At one time, Ogle Swingle owned 3 of 5 patented claims at Leadville.

Desert Magazine references

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• Doris Cerveri, "A Trip to Leadville," Desert Magazine, June 1968, pages 10-11. LEADVILLE, a small town now ghostly and deserted, did not make much of a splash ... significance. The stretch of highway from Reno to Leadville goes through Sparks, follows the Big Bend in the Truckee River at ...

• Peggy Trego, "The 40 Wilderness Miles North of Gerlach, Nevada," Desert Magazine, November, 1960. ... begins and the pavement ends is the 40-mile Gerlach-to-Leadville Road. If you can shuck the trappings of ultra-civilized travel, do ... and swamps north of Gerlach. Most maps don't even show Leadville - a highly photogenic "ghost town" - nor the petrified forest of ...

• "On Black Rock Desert Trails,"Desert Magazine, July 1951 ... in the southern part. We knew there was a ghost town - Leadville - approximately 50 miles north of Gerlach, and we'd heard rumors of a ... station operator if he thought we could make it through to Leadville. Running a critical eye over our dust-covered car and clothing, ...

• Nell Murbarger, "Navy Land Grab in Nevada's Black Rock Country," Desert Magazine, October 1956 ... day, I continued on north toward the old mining camp of Leadville. It seemed to me that in all the years I had known this land, I ... the hill and started across the flat near the head of Leadville Canyon - a band of 14 antelopes feeding peacefully not more than 100 ...

• Lost Hardin Silver, Mystery or Hoax?," Desert Magazine, April 1955... fulfillment of a long dream. After following the old Leadville road for about a dozen miles, we turned sharply into the desert, and ...

Images

• Images of Leadville, WA-947, WA-948, WA-949, Nevada Historical Society.
• "Leadville Mine," UNRS-P1988-55-1099, ca. 1940, J. A. Carpenter Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.
• "Old Leadville Mine camp, Washoe County, Leadville District," UNRS-P1988-55-0783, 18-May-1946, J. A. Carpenter Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. Duplicate of 1099 above with date and title at top.
• Gus Bundy, 39932, 39937, 39947, 39948, 39953-39963, 39955, 39966... "Leadville [?] Color slide." UNRS-P1985-08, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. Descriptions only.

See Also

• Leadville (Silver State Ghost Towns)
• H.F. Bonham, Jr., L.J. Garside, R.B. Jones, K.G. Papke, J.Quade, and J.V. Tingle, OF1985-03: A mineral inventory of the Paradise-Denio -- and Sonoma-Gerlach," p. 91, 1985.