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* http://www.summitpost.org/king-lear-peak/151515
King Lear Peak (8923 feet) is located in the [[Jackson Range]] on the east side of the east arm of the Black Rock Desert.


* http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2008/08/blackrockdesert.html
King Lear appears in the [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm/ref/collection/hmaps/id/4795 1893 Disaster 1:250,000 map].


* http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=3325
King Lear appears in the 1937 Humboldt County Map.<ref>[https://nevadadot.com/uploadedFiles/NDOT/Traveler_Info/Maps/humboldt1937_002.pdf Humboldt County Map], 1937.</ref>


* http://www.nevadawilderness.org/Library/area.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=175
In 1959, an article about Nevada place names states that who ever named the anguished looking peak did so after Shakespeare.<ref>James Hulse, "[http://newspaperarchive.com/us/nevada/reno/nevada-state-journal/1959/09-13/page-24?tag=king+lear+peak&rtserp=tags/?pep=king-lear-peak Scholar Unravels Mystery of State Place Names]," Nevada State Journal, September 13, 1959, p. 24.  The article mentions Helen Carlson, who wrote the book "Nevada Place Names."</ref>


* http://www.sangres.com/nevada/blm/south-jackson.htm
== Resources ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear_Peak Wikipedia]
* [https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/841491 GNIS]
* T38N R31E
* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/hmaps&CISOPTR=1766&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 Topo map]
* [http://www.summitpost.org/king-lear-peak/151515 Description of routes] (summitpost.org)
* [http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=3325 Description of routes] (peakbagger.org)
* [http://130.166.124.2/nv_panorama_atlas/page10/page10.html Nevada Panorama Atlas]
* [http://130.166.124.2/nv_panorama_atlas/page10/files/page10-1026-full.html Nevada Panorama Atlas, Jackson Mountains]


== Photos and Blogs ==
* Basil Woon, "[http://newspaperarchive.com/us/nevada/reno/nevada-state-journal/1956/09-02/page-6?tag=sulphur+king+lear&rtserp=tags/sulphur?psi=63&pci=7&pep=king-lear Search Still Continuing for the Lost Lode Jim Hardin Found in the Black Rock Desert]," Nevada State Journal, September 2, 1956, p. 6.  Very low resolution photograph.
* Terry Richard, "[http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2008/08/blackrockdesert.html Nevada's King Lear Peak Offers the ultimate in Solitude]," The Oregonian, p. D08, July 28, 1989. [http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2008/08/blackrockdesert.html Blog version]
* [http://www.nevadawilderness.org/Library/area.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=175 The South Jackson Mountains Wilderness] (nevadawilderness.org)
* [http://www.sangres.com/nevada/blm/south-jackson.htm The South Jackson Mountains] (sangres.com)
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayephoto/5616383264/in/pool-12532544%40N00 Attempt to Ski King Lear] (Grant Kaye)
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28016468@N06/2639165817/ Rock on King Lear Peak] (Uncle Kick-Kick)
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/7425149@N06/4387050169/ King Lear Snag] (Chris Hood)


== References ==
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* http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/hmaps&CISOPTR=1766&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 topo map
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* http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayephoto/5616383264/in/pool-12532544%40N00
 
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/28016468@N06/2639165817/

Latest revision as of 20:33, 28 December 2021

King Lear Peak (8923 feet) is located in the Jackson Range on the east side of the east arm of the Black Rock Desert.

King Lear appears in the 1893 Disaster 1:250,000 map.

King Lear appears in the 1937 Humboldt County Map.[1]

In 1959, an article about Nevada place names states that who ever named the anguished looking peak did so after Shakespeare.[2]

Resources

Photos and Blogs

References

  1. Humboldt County Map, 1937.
  2. James Hulse, "Scholar Unravels Mystery of State Place Names," Nevada State Journal, September 13, 1959, p. 24. The article mentions Helen Carlson, who wrote the book "Nevada Place Names."