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* Asa Merrill Fairfield, "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California: Containing ...," p [http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA44&ots=P_KLf-qFDt&dq=%22Ladue%20Vary%22&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q=Vary&f=false 89] (1916). Description of Vary searching for cattle stolen from Deep Hole. (Full text from [http://archive.org/details/fairfieldspionee01fair Archive.org].)
* Asa Merrill Fairfield, "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California: Containing ...," p [http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA44&ots=P_KLf-qFDt&dq=%22Ladue%20Vary%22&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q=Vary&f=false 89] (1916). Description of Vary searching for cattle stolen from Deep Hole. (Full text from [http://archive.org/details/fairfieldspionee01fair Archive.org].)
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:846123 GNIS Deep Hole] Deep Hole Post Office, Deep Hole Spring and Deephole Ranch are other GNIS names located at the same location.
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:846123 GNIS Deep Hole] Deep Hole Post Office, Deep Hole Spring and Deephole Ranch are other GNIS names located at the same location.
* George Duncan, "[http://museums.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1117&Itemid=462 Copy of letter to his sister, May 13, 1894 and notes of his traveling from Rye Patch to Sisson, April 30-May 13, 1894, including stops at Rabbit Hole, Granite Creek, Deep Hole, Smoke Creek, Susanville, Eagle Lake, Haden Hill, Bieber, Fall River Valley, Pittsville, Glenburg, Dana, Mt. Shasta, and Bartles,]" Nevada Historical Society.

Revision as of 03:19, 10 February 2013

Deep Hole is located on Highway 447 west of Gerlach near the Smoke Creek Desert road and Planet X Pottery. Deep Hole was founded by Ladue Vary in 1856 who created a stone building that still stands. (Vary went on to found Varyville).

Ingalls writes: "Deep Hole is at the north end of Smith (sic) Creek Desert, 115 miles north of Reno, nine miles northwest of Gerlach, on Western Pacific Railway, which is its telegraph, express and shipping station. It was named after several deep springs near by."

Frederick W. Lander negotiated peace with Chief Winnemucca at Deep Hole on August 21, 1861.

Louis Gerlach owned Deep Hole and hired James Raser as his ranch foreman.

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