Louis Gerlach
The town of Gerlach is named after Louis Gerlach.
Sessions Wheeler states that Louis Gerlach bought the Deep Hole, [Granite Creek] and [Clear Creek] ranches in the 1890's and the Bare ranch at the foot of Surprise Valley in the early 1900s.
See Also
- San Joaquin County Biographies: Louis Gerlach
- Find a grave
- Louis Gerlach's son Fred owned Fly Ranch
- James Raser was Louis Gerlach's ranch foreman (see for story about tick bite).
- Sessions S. Wheeler, "The Black Rock Desert," p. 157-158.