Lava Beds
The Lava Beds are located in the Sheepshead mountains. The Lava Beds are granite, not lava. Elephant Head Rock is an arch that is 40 feet across and 20 feet high.
A 1903 Nevada Supreme Court Case mentions The Lava Beds: "The indictment charges that the defendant on the 1st day of July AD 1899 or thereabout at the county of Humboldt State of Nevada did feloniously steal take and drive away one steer of the personal property of Howard McKissick and Jacob McKissick. There is evidence tending to show that said steer together with fifty head of other neat foot cattle of the personal property of Howard McKissick and Jacob McKissick were stolen in Lassen county State of California and driven to the "lava beds" in Humboldt county State of Nevada ..."[1]
References
- ↑ Nevada Supreme Court, "Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada," Nevada v. Victor Bouton, Volume 26, 1903.
External Resources
- The Lava Beds (GNIS). See Forms and Correspondence for background information about the name.
- Elephant Head Rock (GNIS)
- H.F. Bonham, Jr., L.J. Garside, R.B. Jones, K.G. Papke, J.Quade, and J.V. Tingle, OF1985-03: A mineral inventory of the Paradise-Denio -- and Sonoma-Gerlach Resource Areas, Winnemucca District, Nevada," Staggs District, p 166, 1985.
- National Geographic Society, "America's Hidden Corners: Places Off the Beaten Path," p. 17-19, 1983. Alvin McLane takes a photographer to Elephant Head Rock.
- http://www.lrrforums.com/showthread.php?13361-Oct-3-2009-Elephant-Rock-Lava-Beds
- http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/elephant-head-rock-lava-beds.html
- http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/lava-beds-citizens-proposed-wilderness_11.html
- Mark Vanderhoff, "Lava Beds Rest Quietly," Reno Gazette-Journal, April 7, 2004. (Dead link as of 2014-01-01)
- BLM, "State Herd Area: Lava Beds (NV)."
- Springer Tungsten Property (1937)