Sources Consulted

Primary Sources

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, editor. The Journals of Alfred Doten 1849-1903. 3 volumes. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1973

Collins, Charles, complier, Mercantile Guide and Directory for Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and American City, Comprising a General Business and Residential Directory for those Cities, with Sketches of Their Growth, Development and Resources. Virginia: 1864-65.

Drury, W. An Editor on the Comstock Lode. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936.

White, W.W. Caring for the Environment: My Work with Public Health and Reclamation in Nevada. Reno, Nevada: Oral History Program, University of Nevada, Reno, 1970.

Secondary Sources

Dawson, A.W. and L. Greener Grass. Idaho: Dawson House Publishing, 1984.

Butler, A.M. "Mission in the Mountains: The Daughters of Charity in Virginia City". Ronald M. James and C. Elizabeth Raymond, editors. Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998. Chap. 7, pp. 142-164.

James, R.M. The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Load. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998.

Mills, E.S. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Second Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2009.

Sohn, A.P. Healers of 19th-Century Nevada. Reno: Greasewood Press, 1997.

Townley, J.M. Tough Little Town on the Truckee 1868-1900. Reno: Great Basin Studies Center, 1983.

Census Images

New York, Franklin County. 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. Digital images. Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com : 2010.

Family Trees

"Public Member Trees." Database. Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com : 2010.

Nevada Newspaper Images

Daily Nevada State Journal. 1875-1926. Digital images. Newspaperarchive.com. http://www.newspaperarchive.com : 2010.

Reno Evening Gazette. 1876-1977. Digital images. Newspaperarchive.com. http://www.newspaperarchive.com : 2010.

Weekly Gazette and Stockman. 1888-1900. Digital images. Newspaperarchive.com. http://www.newspaperarchive.com : 2010.

Periodicals

Pillard, Ellen F. "Nevada's Treatment of the Mentally Ill, 1882-1961". Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Summer 1979, 83-99.