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==Resources==
==Resources==
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:841963 GNIS]
* [https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.561111,-119.586670&spn=0.011403,0.021822&t=k Google Maps]
* [https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.561111,-119.586670&spn=0.011403,0.021822&t=k Google Maps]
* [http://www.canvocta.org/massacreranch2007.html Massacre Ranch Outing 2007] (California-Nevada Chapter Oregon-California Trails Association)
* [http://www.canvocta.org/massacreranch2007.html Massacre Ranch Outing 2007] (California-Nevada Chapter Oregon-California Trails Association)

Revision as of 01:17, 30 November 2014

Massacre Ranch is located south of Highway 8A in the Sheldon - Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.

Carlson states that forty settlers were killed there [1], though a later study brings doubt to whether a massacre occurred there.[2]

References

  1. Helen S. Carlson, "Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary," p. 164
  2. Thomas N. Layton, "Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.

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