Research

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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

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

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