[Letter: 1865 October 13, Washington (D.C.): J. M. Edmunds, General Land Office to Register and Receiver, Carson City Land Office]
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Description
- Title
- [Letter: 1865 October 13, Washington (D.C.): J. M. Edmunds, General Land Office to Register and Receiver, Carson City Land Office]
- Creator
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Edmunds, J. M. (James Madison), 1810-1879
United States. General Land Office - Contributor
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Gallup, O. H
Hinckley, F. H
Lockhart, Warren T
McMartin, James
Noteware, Chauncey
United States.--Carson City Land Office (Carson City, Nev.)
United States.--General Land Office
Waitz, Adolphus
Wright, S. C - Published / Created
- 1865 October 13
- Publication Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Description
- The Carson City Land Office was the first Land Office in Nevada. Registers and Receivers of the Land Office in the years covered by the papers are: Chauncey Noteware, Adolphus Waitz, James McMartin, F.H. Hinckley, O.H. Gallup, S.C. Wright, and Warren T. Lockhart
- Extent
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1 v.
30 cm. - Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA MSS S-2393
- Collection Title
- United States Carson City Land Office papers
- Collection/Other Creator
- United States. Carson City Land Office (Carson City, Nev.)
- Collection Date
- 1863-1891
- Collection Note
- Collection of eight volumes containing incoming and outgoing letters and accounts for the Carson City Land Office and Eureka Land Office in Nevada. The first volume contains over 200 letters to the Register and Receiver of the U.S. Land Office from January 1863 to May 1866, mostly from the Commissioner of the Land Office in Washington, together with twelve Land Office circulars relating to the Sioux Half-Breed Scrip and other land matters. The letters include materials on the beginnings of Carson City, Ophir City, Virginia City and other Nevada towns, and also relate to mines and mining, timber and railroad lands, and the attempt to establish a reservation for the Washoe Indians.
- Container / Volume
- Box 1
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Account books.--aat
Correspondence - Subject (Geographic)
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Carson City (Nev.)
Gold Hill (Nev.) - Subject (Name)
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Gallup, O. H
Hinckley, F. H
Lockhart, Warren T
McMartin, James
Noteware, Chauncey
United States.--Carson City Land Office (Carson City, Nev.)
United States.--General Land Office
Waitz, Adolphus
Wright, S. C - Subject (Topic)
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Homestead law--United States
Mines and mineral resources--Nevada
Real property--Nevada
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- United States Carson City Land Office Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4662592
- Object ID (OID)
- 10115467
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