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== Images ==
== Images ==
* Images of Leadville, WA-947, WA-948, WA-949, Nevada Historical Society.
* Images of Leadville, WA-947, WA-948, WA-949, Nevada Historical Society.
* "[http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/spphotos,4941 Leadville Mine,]" UNRS-P1988-55-1099, ca. 1940, J. A. Carpenter Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.
* "[http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/spphotos,5769 Old Leadville Mine camp, Washoe County, Leadville District,]" UNRS-P1988-55-0783, 18-May-1946,  J. A. Carpenter Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.  Duplicate of 1099 above with date and title at top.
* Gus Bundy, 39932, 39937, 39947, 39948, 39953-39963, 39955, 39966... "Leadville [?] Color slide." [http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/materials/specoll/photodesc.aspx?AccNo=UNRS-P1985-08 UNRS-P1985-08], Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.  Descriptions only.


== See Also ==
== See Also ==

Revision as of 07:17, 9 February 2014

Leadville is a ghost town about 35 miles north of Gerlach on Highway 34. At one time, Ogle Swingle owned 3 of 5 patented claims at Leadville.

Desert Magazine references

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  • Doris Cerveri, "A Trip to Leadville," Desert Magazine, June 1968, pages 10-11. LEADVILLE, a small town now ghostly and deserted, did not make much of a splash ... significance. The stretch of highway from Reno to Leadville goes through Sparks, follows the Big Bend in the Truckee River at ...
  • Peggy Trego, "The 40 Wilderness Miles North of Gerlach, Nevada," Desert Magazine, November, 1960. ... begins and the pavement ends is the 40-mile Gerlach-to-Leadville Road. If you can shuck the trappings of ultra-civilized travel, do ... and swamps north of Gerlach. Most maps don't even show Leadville - a highly photogenic "ghost town" - nor the petrified forest of ...
  • "On Black Rock Desert Trails,"Desert Magazine, July 1951 ... in the southern part. We knew there was a ghost town - Leadville - approximately 50 miles north of Gerlach, and we'd heard rumors of a ... station operator if he thought we could make it through to Leadville. Running a critical eye over our dust-covered car and clothing, ...
  • Nell Murbarger, "Navy Land Grab in Nevada's Black Rock Country," Desert Magazine, October 1956 ... day, I continued on north toward the old mining camp of Leadville. It seemed to me that in all the years I had known this land, I ... the hill and started across the flat near the head of Leadville Canyon - a band of 14 antelopes feeding peacefully not more than 100 ...
  • Lost Hardin Silver, Mystery or Hoax?," Desert Magazine, April 1955... fulfillment of a long dream. After following the old Leadville road for about a dozen miles, we turned sharply into the desert, and ...

Images

  • Images of Leadville, WA-947, WA-948, WA-949, Nevada Historical Society.
  • "Leadville Mine," UNRS-P1988-55-1099, ca. 1940, J. A. Carpenter Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.
  • "Old Leadville Mine camp, Washoe County, Leadville District," UNRS-P1988-55-0783, 18-May-1946, J. A. Carpenter Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. Duplicate of 1099 above with date and title at top.
  • Gus Bundy, 39932, 39937, 39947, 39948, 39953-39963, 39955, 39966... "Leadville [?] Color slide." UNRS-P1985-08, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. Descriptions only.

See Also