Research

This article contains information about how to do research about the Black Rock Desert and Nevada in general.

Books

• Searching Google Books can be of value.
• See Bibliography for a list of books. Carlson's "Nevada Place Names" and Fairfield's "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California" are very valuable.

Censuses

• The Censuses page has links to historic Nevada Censuses

Historical Societies

• Friends of the Black Rock/High Rock
• Humboldt Museum
• Nevada Historical Society

Libraries =

• University of Nevada Reno

Magazines

• Desert Magazine has articles from the 1950s.

Maps

• The Maps page contains a number of useful maps. In particular, the Historic Maps page has links to old topo maps and township plats.
• County assessor maps can be useful, Pershing County has maps that are of use.
• GNIS has information about place names that sometimes includes useful citations.

Newspaperarchive.com

• When using Google, to find newspaper articles, try adding "site:newspaperchive.com" to a search.

Oral Histories

• UNR has Oral Histories