Notebooks
Research Notes on 19th Century Miners Union
no.1: Hard rock miners and mines. 1863-1893.
no.2: Comstock miner's unions. 1863-1893.
no.3: Expansion of miners labor movement. 1869-1873.
no.4: Expansion of miners labor movement. 1869-1873 (continued).
no.5: Union against the Chinese. 1869-1893.
no.6: Miners labor notes. 1872-1880.
no.7: Mining labor notes. 1872-1880 (continued).
no.8: Leadville strike. 1880.
no.9: The $4 fight. 1884-1885.
no.10: The $4 fight. 1884-1885(continued).
no.11: Butte miners union. 1878-1893.
no.12: Miners labor notes. 1886-1891.
no.13: The miners war. 1892-1893.
no.14: Western federation of miners. 1893.
Manuscripts of Publications. 1957-67
First Through the Grand Canyon (1958)
Manuscript [typescript] with illustrations.
Scope and Content Note
James White. Manuscript.
Scope and Content Note
Galley sheets.
James White's Voyage Down the Colorado River, 24 August-7 September 1867
Research notes, maps & illustrations. Miscellaneous holograph notes & correspondence re researching the volume. ca. 1957-1959.
Presses of the Pacific Islands, 1817-1867
Manuscript.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript [final typescript, photocopy] with holograph annotation.
Scope and Content Note
Proof sheets.
Card index in binder, Honolulu & New Caledonia.
Card index in binder, Bibliography - New Zealand.
Card index in binder, Hawaiian Islands.
First Directory of Nevada Territory.... (1962)
Introduction by REL. Manuscript [typescript] with holograph notes. Miscellaneous notes, etc. re directory.
Songs of the American West (REL, R.A. Dwyer & D. Cohen, comps. & eds. 1968)
Notes on sources.
Research notes.
Correspondence ca. 1965-1968.
Manuscript.
Galley sheets.
Proof sheets.
Note
Song texts.
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The 'Non Pareil' Press of T.S. Harris (REL & R.A. Dwyer. 1957)
Manuscript [typescript] with illustrations. 1954-1957.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript.
Scope and Content Note
Galley sheets.
Page proofs.
The Cement Hunters: Lost Gold Mine of the High Sierra (J.W. Wright. 1960)
Manuscript, REL editor.
Scope and Content Note
Newspaper clippings, REL editor.
The Rush of '89: the Baja California Gold Fever.... (1967)
Galley sheets.
Research notes.
Scope and Content Note
Hardrock Miners, a History of the Mining Labor Movement in the American West, 1863-1893
Manuscripts, Correspondence, Research Materials. ca. 1970-1974
Page proofs.
Illustrations.
UC Press announcements of the publication for June 1974 & other announcements.
Research materials.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence. ca. 1970-1971.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts, Correspondence, Research Notes. ca. 1970-1974
Manuscript [original] with some typescript leaves.
Manuscript, 1st copy.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript, revised copy with extensive holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Galley proofs.
Steam Navigation on the Colorado River
Research Materials
vol.1: General histories of Colorado River steam navigation.
vol.2: 1849-1852.
vol.3: 1849- ca. 1865.
vol.4: 1862-1870.
vol.5: 1864-1870.
vol.6: 1870-1877.
vol.7: 1877-1885.
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vol.8: 1885-1905.
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vol.9: Upper Colorado. 1890-1971.
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Photographs.
Scope and Content Note
Negatives.
Research materials.
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Publication Files
Various. ca. 1950s-1970.
Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916
Manuscripts & Correspondence
Manuscript.
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Manuscript, 1st draft.
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Manuscript, revised draft with holograph corrections.
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Manuscript, final draft with holograph corrections.
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Correspondence with publisher. 1978.
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Page proofs.
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Photographs.
Scope and Content Note
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Hardrock Miners: a History of the Mining Labor Movement in the American West, 1863-1893 (The)
Manuscripts & Photographs
Manuscript, 1st copy with holograph corrections.
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Manuscript, final draft with holograph corrections.
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Photographs.
Scope and Content Note
Note
Steamboats on the Colorado. 1952-1958
Manuscript [original] and photographs used in publication.
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Colorado River Steamboats
Correspondence.
[Research notes].
Songs of the American West
42 ink drawings (Steven M. Johnson).
Permissions.
Manuscripts
Manuscript [typescript, photocopy], final draft with holograph corrections.
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Corrected page proofs.
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Various Scientific Writings
Final Proofs
Manuscripts [typescripts] of various articles on scientific subjects.
Scope and Content Note
Newspapers of Nevada
Newspapers of Nevada, 1858-1958 (The)
Manuscripts and Research Materials re 1st Edition (1964) & Revised Enlarged 2nd Edition (1982)
Manuscript, 1st edition.
Manuscript [draft], revised edition.
Research notes.
Research notes.
Miscellaneous Nevada newspapers.
Discards, used notes.
Correspondence re research for books. 1955-1981.
Correspondence.
Newspapers of Nevada, 1854-1979
Original Version Manuscript.
Title page - Contact.
Copperfield (see Arena) - Kingston.
Lander - Reno County (Recreation Whirlwind).
Reno (Nevada Independent) - Index.
Death Valley & Armagosa
Manuscript.
Manuscript.
Galley & page proofs.
General Death Valley Descriptions & Fantasy
Naming of Death Valley.
Lost wagon train myths.
Depth of Death Valley.
Topography.
Death Valley temperature.
Desert physiology.
Fantastic views of Death Valley.
Ancient civilizations.
Strange creatures.
Poisonous gases - bloody geysers.
Biblical Hell & Eden.
Sandstorms, etc.
Flora and fauna.
Lost mine (synopsis).
Mundane descriptions.
Gold Boom Camps
Montgomery district.
Confidence mine.
Lee - Echo - Schwab.
Transvaal - Flourine - Telluride.
Government Surveys
Government surveys and explorations of Death Valley.
Township surveys - 1850s.
California - Nevada boundary reconnaissance.
Inyo and Nye County tax rolls.
Old Spanish Trail and Chaguanosos
Old Spanish trail.
Chaguanosos.
Census enumerations - Death Valley and vicinity.
Panamint and other Death Valley Mining Camps
19th Century Death Valley mining camps.
Palmetto.
Tule Canyon.
Lida.
Sylvania.
Deep Springs.
Ubehebe and Wacoba.
Silver Peak.
Slate Range.
Coso.
Panamint (town).
Panamint (crime).
Panamint (transportation).
Panamint (miscellaneous).
Wild Rose district.
Darwin and Lee.
Great register of voters. 1871- .
Pioneer & Keane Wonder
Keane wonder and South Bullfrog district.
Pioneer.
Private Explorations
Pre Hunt parties.
Hunt party.
O.K. Smith party.
Rynierson party.
Flake - Rich party.
Stover party.
Derr - Dallas party.
Pomeroy party.
Huffaker party.
Egan party.
Pinney - Savage party.
Jayhawkers.
Bennett - Arcan party.
Brier party.
Martin - Town party.
Culverwell party.
Wade - Earhart party.
Davis expedition.
Blasdel expedition.
Bendire expedition, etc.
Wheeler's expedition - lost guides.
Private explorations of Death Valley and vicinity to 1890.
19th Century Death Valley and Amargosa Ranchers
Death Valley and Amargosa ranchers.
Ballarat
Ballarat.
Borax Mines and Mule Teams
Death valley borax (19th Century).
Eagle borax.
Coleman operations in Death Valley and Amargosa.
Death Valley works.
Borax wagons and teams' routes.
Borax claims and companies in Death Valley.
Biographical information: W.T. Coleman, et al.
Calico borax.
Death Valley borax - miscellaneous.
Bullfrog & Rhyolite
Bullfrog & Rhyolite. 1904-1906.
Bullfrog & Rhyolite. 1907-1909.
Bullfrog & Rhyolite. 1910-.
Bullfrog & Rhyolite (miscellaneous).
Death Valley '49ers
Death Valley '49ers.
Secondary accounts of Death Valley '49ers.
Secondary accounts of Death Valley '49ers.
Joel H. Brooks.
Death Valley Indians and Archaeology
Death Valley Indians - general.
Death Valley Shoshone.
Death Valley Kawpiisu.
Ash Meadows and Pahrump Paiute.
Northern Death Valley Paiute.
Death Valley archaeology.
20th Century Boom Camps (Before 1912)
Harrisburg.
Skidoo.
Greenwater - Death Valley Chuck - Walla.
Ubehebe after 1890.
Crackerjack and Avawate.
Sylvania. 1890-1910.
Willow Creek.
Palmetto. 1890-1910.
Lida. 1900-1910.
Tule Canyon. 1890-1910.
Gold Mountain and Tokop. 1890-1910.
Hornsilver and Limepoint.
Johnnie.
Tecopa after 1890.
Antimony, Manganese, Tungsten.
Carbonate.
Lead mines Tecopa/Ubehebe.
Skookum, etc.
Miscellaneous Southern End mines after 1900.
Desert King.
20th Century Borax & other Minerals
Death Valley Borate/Colemanite operations.
Old Ryan - Lilac.
New Ryan.
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad.
Death Valley Borate - miscellaneous.
Death Valley ranching after 1906.
Ashford / Augerberry and Ballarat after 1912.
Rhyolde / Pioneer / KWz after 1912.
Death Valley oil.
North End, Tule, Sylvania, Hornsilver, etc. after 1912.
Nitrate and other salts in Death Valley.
Epsom salt monorail.
Carrara marble.
Precious gems in Death Valley.
Death Valley Talc mines.
Amarosa Clay Pits.
Neighboring districts.
Death Valley Exploration (After 1890) & Arts
Death Valley exploration after 1890.
Death Valley exploration after 1890.
Death Valley poetry - fiction - movies - radio - television.
Death Valley movies, radio, television.
Death Valley poetry, fiction and art.
Death Valley books - non-fiction.
DVA clippings.
Bibliographical notes.
Miscellaneous unsorted Death Valley notes.
Unsorted research material.
Tourism & Death Valley National Monument
Trips thru Death Valley after 1910.
Death Valley auto trips after 1910.
Great Race New York - Paris (through Death Valley - 1908).
Death Valley auto trips after 1910.
Death Valley as a resort - early suggestions.
Stovepipe Wells - Bungalow City.
Furnace Creek Inn - Death Valley view, etc.
Other resorts.
Death Valley tourism before 1933.
Death Valley tours (bus - rail - air) before 1933.
Death Valley promotion.
Death Valley roads, signs and samaritans.
Death Valley National Monument - formation and development.
Death Valley National Monument - formation and development.
Maps.
Early Panamint mining claims and deed records.
Death Valley - Gateway Gazette (vol.3, no.18-19).
Death Valley & the Amargosa: a Land of Illusion
Correspondence.
Correspondence.
UC Press - miscellaneous.
Death Valley book promotion.
Death Valley 49ers & UCLA Extension lectures.
Death Valley - Information Jaws of Hell[?] - [illegible] - revisions to make.
Death Valley Borax - additional notes.
Death Valley bibliography miscellaneous.
Unsorted Death Valley.
Unsorted Death Valley notes.
LeRoy Johnson correspondence.
Death Valley photos - originals.
Lingenfelter - half tone originals.
Final - photo correspondence.
Final line art & half tones.
Final line art.
DVA chapter maps - originals.
[DVA] line art masters.
Death Valley conference on history.
Death Valley conference on history.
Walker Cut-Off - Death Valley history conference [illegible].
UC Press - 1986 Spring catalog - California.
Original manuscript.
Manuscript bibliography.
Manuscript revisions.
Revised manuscript, with holograph notes.
Revised manuscript, with holograph notes.
Line art to be obtained.
Death Valley Lore
Manuscript [typescripts], correspondence, galley and page proofs for Death Valley Lore. 1987-1988.
Death Valley Lore: Classic Tales of Fantasy, Adventure & Mystery
Death Valley lore.
Death Valley lore - correspondence.
Death Valley lore - permissions.
Death Valley lore - illustrations.
Death Valley lore - masters 1.
Death Valley lore - masters 2.
DVNP [Death Valley News].
Manuscript (folder 1 of 3).
Manuscript (folder 2 of 3).
Manuscript (folder 3 of 3).
Lying on the Eastern Slope: James Townsend's Comic Journalism on the Mining Frontier
Lying Jim Townsend, dated 1966.
Truth with variations by James W.E. Townsend, dated 1964.
Lying on the eastern slope, dated 1981.
Lying on the eastern slope. 1982 copy with related correspondence.
Lying on the eastern slope (April 1984).
Manuscript.
Alvord & Breyfogle
HOW comments (Howard Wright). 1979-1980.
Book Reviews by Richard Lingenfelter
Correspondence and manuscripts re book reviews.
Cement Hunters
Correspondence re reprint. 1984.
Correspondence
Alan Hensher. ca. 1983-1984.
[ ca. 1955-1974].
[ ca. 1963-1986].
History correspondence.
History correspondence.
Historical correspondence [and research notes].
Historical correspondence. ca. 1993-1998.
Dan De Quille
Card index DDQ published works. 1860-1897, DDQ manuscripts, secondary sources.
Card index - DDQ clippings.
Dan De Quille, the Washoe Giant
Original manuscript (folder 1 of 3).
Original manuscript (folder 2 of 3).
Original manuscript (folder 3 of 3).
Correspondence and galley proofs (folder 1 of 3).
Galley proofs (folder 2 of 3).
Galley proofs (folder 3 of 3).
Master set galleys (folder 1 of 2).
Master set galleys (folder 2 of 2).
Master set proofs (folder 1 of 2).
Master set proofs (folder 2 of 2).
Manuscripts and Articles
Biography & bibliography.
Master file.
Bibliography & checklist.
Manuscripts & articles.
[Research material, photocopy].
Duplicates [research materials, photocopy].
New DDQ.
About the precious opal.
The demon coroner of the Comstock.
The demon hand.
The ingenuity of Mrs. Smiley.
A Piute legend. Pahnenit, prince of the land of lakes.
The sorceress of Attu.
Stuttering Tom.
Traveling stones.
[Newspaper articles - San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Post, Salt Lake Tribune].
[Newspaper articles - Territorial Enterprise].
[Copies of material from the William Wright Collection - UCB, various newspapers and research notes].
[Copies of articles by Dan De Quille].
[Copies from the Willaim Wright Papers - UCB and various newspapers].
The Golden Era.
Territorial Enterprise.
Secondary.
[Notes and research material].
The Nevada sketches of Dan De Quille.
First Through the Grand Canyon
Page proofs. May 16, 1958.
Gold Rush Songs
Correspondence, etc.
Hardrock Miners
Quires.
J.W. Gally
[Notes and research material].
James Townsend
Card index - life: 1870-1879; 1800-1881; 1882-1887; 1888-1895; 1896-1900, commentary.
Card index - At the Mosquito Ranch, Antioch steamboats, Lundy Jim-Jams, High Sierra justice, Mill Creek millionaires, Homer mining index.
Card index - Washoe zephyrs, S.Y.D.Y., Lundy revisited, The big winter, Whiskey visions, Bodie doldrums, etc.
Lying Jim Towsend (Lying Jim Townsend)
Manuscript, correspondence and related material.
Manuscript.
Manuscript with holograph corrections.
Mining
[Original documents from Keystone Incorporated, Mineral Park Milling Company. ca. 1916-1946].
Mojave Desert Notes
RWW duplicates.
Jonas B. Osborne.
McFarlanes.
Views of the land.
Trails & Railroads.
Early settlers.
Death in the desert.
Soldiers & Indian troubles.
Land boom.
Searles Lake Borax.
Bob Waterman.
Mojave.
Cleovaro Chavez.
Calico.
Daggett & subsidiary districts.
Hard lessons - mines of '60s.
29 Palms, Lone Valley, Black Hawk, etc.
Needles area.
Searchlight, Hart & Vic.
Searchlight, Hart & Vic.
[Correspondence with Alan Hensher & research materials on Mountain Pass and Eagle Mountain].
Ghost towns of the upper Mojave Desert by Alan Hensher & Larry Vredenburgh, vol.1: San Bernardino County (Preliminary draft: text only).
Material on Antelope Valley gathered by Dorothy Barbara Guenther.
California Desert Studies Consortium, third biennial desert conference - programs and abstracts. May 11 & 12, 1990.
National Park Service Workshop on Historic Mining Sites, Death Valley National Monument. January 23-27, 1989.
The Invanpah Loop / The Mojave Road, Mojave Road report 37. September 1, 1985.
[Articles and correspondence re the Mojave Road].
Guide to the Mojave Road by Dennis G. Casebier. c. 1982.
[Notes, correspondence and information on the Mojave Desert].
[Notes on Almondale - Llano Colony from Alan Hensher].
[WPA report on San Bernardino County from Alan Hensher].
[Histories of desert towns].
History of the significant factors contribuitng to the development of the Mojave Desert by James William Lawrence. June 1959.
History of the town of Lancaster, center of Antelope Valley, California by Lucie Morris. February 1934, MA thesis, USC.
Agricultural and industrial survey of Inyo County, California ...June-July 1917, Thalia Wood Newcomb, Field Agent.
A brief history of the schools of Inyo County and a statistical and financial report covering sixteen years. December 1954.
The California desert: A critical environmental challenge. California State Office, Bureau of Land Management. October 1969.
Environmental consequences of mineral extraction: Death Valley and Organ Pipe Cactuc National Monuments. Department of the Interior. August 1978.
The California Desert: Conservation area plan1980. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.
Photo notes.
Final (2nd choices) - [illustrations].
[Illustration choices?].
Odd-sized illustrations.
Final line art (3rd etc. copies) & extras.
[Illustrations].
Nevada Press, 1858-1900
Manuscripts
Manuscript, rough and final drafts.
Prints and Negatives for Various Publications
Colorado River (primarily steamboats).
Scope and Content Note
Death Valley - negatives for photos in Death Valley & Amaragosa book & miscellaneous other salt mining.
Inyo, Mojave & Colorado Desert.
Miscellaneous (mining labor & Guano Islands).
Death Valley, Searles Lake, Salton, etc. (includes Borax & other salt mining).
Colorado River.
Mojave & Colorado Desert.
Miscellaneous.
Sagebrush Trilogy: Idah Meacham Strobridge and Her Works
Idah Strobridge.
Idah Strobridge.
T.S. Harris
Biographical notes on T.S. Harris. 1836-1893.
Various Materials
Western Oil Promotional Materials. 1919-1922
Microfilm of various source materials, including newspapers.
Scope and Content Note
Western American Mining Stock Certificates
The Wilson administration, organized labor, and the Colorado coal strike, 1913-1914 (dissertation), by Manfred F. Boemeke. Princeton University. 1983.
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The Wilson administration, organized labor, and the Colorado coal strike, 1913-1914 by Manfred F. Boemeke, dissertation, Princeton University. 1983.
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Bibliography of mining stock.
Mining stock certificate companies.
Correspondence and notes.
Correspondence, notes, catalogs.
Correspondence, notes, catalogs.
Correspondence, notes, catalogs.
Friends of Financial History catalog & yearbook. 1984.
W.H. Collectables Limited, London, catalogs: n.d.; 1984; 1984/85; 1987; 1988; 1988/89.
Scripophily catalogs: November 18, 1985; December 19, 1986; August 28, 1987; December 30, 1987; June 23, 1988; November 28, 1988; February 10, 1989; March 23, 1990.
Criswell's 35th anniversary paper Americana (catalog in 4 parts). n.d.
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