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.
• Oddie Van Norman, Wes McGirr, "I Rode For Gerlach," Old West Magazine, Fall, 1974. (Nevada Historical Society has a copy)