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== Books ==
== Books ==
* http://www.library.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/wheeler.html www.library.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/wheeler.html -- Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 1989
* [https://library.unr.edu/nevada-writers-hall-of-fame/sessions-wheeler Sessions S. Wheeler: Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 1989], UNR.
* http://www.library.unr.edu/specoll/mss/99-01.html www.library.unr.edu/specoll/mss/99-01.html -- A Guide to the Records of Sessions S. "Buck" Wheeler, Collection No. 99-01
* [http://www.library.unr.edu/specoll/mss/99-01.html A Guide to the Records of Sessions S. "Buck" Wheeler, Collection No. 99-01], UNR.
* http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-3810(198710)18%3A4%3C470%3AGITOAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C Review: Gentleman in the Outdoors: A Portrait of Max C. Fleischmann by Sessions S. Wheeler, Author(s) of Review: Charles L. Briggs, The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 470-471
* Charles L. Briggs, "[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-3810(198710)18%3A4%3C470%3AGITOAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C Review: Gentleman in the Outdoors: A Portrait of Max C. Fleischmann by Sessions S. Wheeler]," The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 470-471
* Sessions S. Wheeler, William W. Bliss, [http://www.nvbooks.nevada.edu/books.asp?ID=1849 Tahoe Heritage: The Bliss Family of Glenbrook, Nevada], 1985.
* Sessions S. Wheeler, William W. Bliss, "[http://www.nvbooks.nevada.edu/books.asp?ID=1849 Tahoe Heritage: The Bliss Family of Glenbrook, Nevada]," 1985. "Tahoe Heritage is a lively chronicle of four generations of the pioneering Bliss family, beginning with Duane L. Bliss, a visionary who built an impressive lumbering business and later the renowned Glenbrook Inn. The inn was completed in 1907 and quickly became a destination for the elite of San Francisco. The hotel register contains the names of national figures who loved and frequented Glenbrook: Ulysses Grant, Joaquin Miller, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Clark Gable, and Rita Hayworth, to name a few. The Bliss family closed the inn in 1976. Anyone who has visited the Tahoe area, now a very different place from the idyllic days of Bliss family management, will enjoy this account of its growth and the remarkable family which brought it about."
 
Tahoe Heritage is a lively chronicle of four generations of the pioneering Bliss family, beginning with Duane L. Bliss, a visionary who built an impressive lumbering business and later the renowned Glenbrook Inn. The inn was completed in 1907 and quickly became a destination for the elite of San Francisco. The hotel register contains the names of national figures who loved and frequented Glenbrook: Ulysses Grant, Joaquin Miller, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Clark Gable, and Rita Hayworth, to name a few. The Bliss family closed the inn in 1976. Anyone who has visited the Tahoe area, now a very different place from the idyllic days of Bliss family management, will enjoy this account of its growth and the remarkable family which brought it about.


* Sessions S. Wheeler, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=gBYUBc-O4OgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Nevada's Black Rock desert]," 1978. Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
* Sessions S. Wheeler, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=gBYUBc-O4OgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Nevada's Black Rock desert]," 1978. Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
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== See Also ==
== See Also ==
* [[Bibliography]]
* [[Bibliography]]
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Latest revision as of 20:29, 19 July 2021

Sessions S. "Buck" Wheeler wrote several books about the Black Rock Desert region including the definitive history "Nevada's Black Rock Desert".

Books

  • Sessions S. Wheeler, "Nevada's Black Rock desert," 1978. Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
  • by Reginald Meaker as told to Sessions S. Wheeler and Gerald Meaker, "Nevada desert sheepman", 1981.
  • Sessions S. Wheeler, "The Nevada desert," 1971, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers
  • Sessions S. Wheeler, "The desert lake; the story of Nevada's Pyramid Lake", 1967, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers
  • Sessions S. Wheeler, "Paiute," 1965, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers

See Also