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Massacre Ranch is located south of Highway 8A in the [[Sheldon - Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge]]. | Massacre Ranch is located south of Highway 8A in the [[Sheldon - Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge]]. | ||
Carlson states that forty settlers were killed there <ref>Helen S. Carlson, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&lpg=PA164&ots=KQBwWdi3sb&dq=nevada%20place%20names%20Massacre&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q=Massacre&f=false Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary]," p. 164. Carlson cites "Nev. Guide, p. 216; OPN p. 68." Nev Guide is "Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State, Federal Writer's Project, W. P. A. Portland, 1940." OPN is "Origin of Place Names: Nevada. Federal Writers' Project, W. P. A Reno, 1941"</ref>"[http://books.google.com/books?id=XRdZL0gd3QMC&lpg=PA309&vq=massacre&pg=PA216#v=snippet&q=massacre&f=falseNevada: A Guide to the Silver State]," Federal Writer's Project, W. P. A. Portland, 1940. Description of the event.</ref><ref>"[http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm/ref/collection/hmaps/id/2026 Origin of Place Names: Nevada | Carlson states that forty settlers were killed there <ref>Helen S. Carlson, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&lpg=PA164&ots=KQBwWdi3sb&dq=nevada%20place%20names%20Massacre&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q=Massacre&f=false Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary]," p. 164. Carlson cites "Nev. Guide, p. 216; OPN p. 68." Nev Guide is "Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State, Federal Writer's Project, W. P. A. Portland, 1940." OPN is "Origin of Place Names: Nevada. Federal Writers' Project, W. P. A Reno, 1941"</ref>"[http://books.google.com/books?id=XRdZL0gd3QMC&lpg=PA309&vq=massacre&pg=PA216#v=snippet&q=massacre&f=falseNevada: A Guide to the Silver State]," Federal Writer's Project, W. P. A. Portland, 1940. Description of the event.</ref><ref>"[http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm/ref/collection/hmaps/id/2026 Origin of Place Names: Nevada]," Federal Writers' Project, W. P. A Reno, 1941.</ref><ref>OPN cites: Effie Mona Mac, "Nevada: History of the State from the | ||
Earliest Times through the Civil War," 1936.</ref>, though a later study brings doubt to whether a massacre occurred there.<ref>Thomas N. Layton, "[http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/statepubs/epubs/210777-1977-4Winter.pdf Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850]," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.</ref> | Earliest Times through the Civil War," 1936.</ref>, though a later study brings doubt to whether a massacre occurred there.<ref>Thomas N. Layton, "[http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/statepubs/epubs/210777-1977-4Winter.pdf Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850]," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 01:41, 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]"A Guide to the Silver State," Federal Writer's Project, W. P. A. Portland, 1940. Description of the event.</ref>[2][3], though a later study brings doubt to whether a massacre occurred there.[4]
References
- ↑ Helen S. Carlson, "Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary," p. 164. Carlson cites "Nev. Guide, p. 216; OPN p. 68." Nev Guide is "Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State, Federal Writer's Project, W. P. A. Portland, 1940." OPN is "Origin of Place Names: Nevada. Federal Writers' Project, W. P. A Reno, 1941"
- ↑ "Origin of Place Names: Nevada," Federal Writers' Project, W. P. A Reno, 1941.
- ↑ OPN cites: Effie Mona Mac, "Nevada: History of the State from the Earliest Times through the Civil War," 1936.
- ↑ Thomas N. Layton, "Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.
Resources
- GNIS
- Google Maps
- Massacre Ranch Outing 2007 (California-Nevada Chapter Oregon-California Trails Association)