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The town of [[Gerlach]] is named after Louis Gerlach. | The town of [[Gerlach]] is named after Louis Gerlach. | ||
Louis Gerlach hired [[James Raser]] as his foreman. | |||
Sessions Wheeler states that Louis Gerlach bought the [[Deep Hole]], [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:856462 Granite Creek] and [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:850393 Clear Creek] ranches in the 1890's and the Bare ranch at the foot of Surprise Valley in the early 1900s. | Sessions Wheeler states that Louis Gerlach bought the [[Deep Hole]], [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:856462 Granite Creek] and [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:850393 Clear Creek] ranches in the 1890's and the Bare ranch at the foot of Surprise Valley in the early 1900s. | ||
Revision as of 20:00, 9 February 2013
The town of Gerlach is named after Louis Gerlach.
Louis Gerlach hired James Raser as his foreman.
Sessions Wheeler states that Louis Gerlach bought the Deep Hole, Granite Creek and Clear Creek ranches in the 1890's and the Bare ranch at the foot of Surprise Valley in the early 1900s.
See Also
- San Joaquin County Biographies: Louis Gerlach
- Find a grave
- Louis Gerlach's son Fred owned Fly Ranch
- James Raser was Louis Gerlach's ranch foreman (see for story about tick bite).
- Sessions S. Wheeler, "The Black Rock Desert," p. 157-158.
- Oddie Van Norman, Wes McGirr, "I Rode For Gerlach," Old West Magazine, Fall, 1974. (Nevada Historical Society has a copy)