Massacre Ranch

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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], though a later study brings doubt to whether a massacre occurred there.[2]

References

  1. Helen S. Carlson, "Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary," p. 164
  2. Thomas N. Layton, "Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.

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