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* [[James Raser]] was Louis Gerlach's ranch foreman (see for story about tick bite).
* [[James Raser]] was Louis Gerlach's ranch foreman (see for story about tick bite).
* Sessions S. Wheeler, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=gBYUBc-O4OgC&lpg=PA158&ots=jyXUt5tRZa&dq=%22Louis%20Gerlach%22%20nevada&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q=%22Louis%20Gerlach%22%20nevada&f=false The Black Rock Desert]," p. 157-158.
* Sessions S. Wheeler, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=gBYUBc-O4OgC&lpg=PA158&ots=jyXUt5tRZa&dq=%22Louis%20Gerlach%22%20nevada&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q=%22Louis%20Gerlach%22%20nevada&f=false 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)

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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.

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