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Subject: Douglas County place names
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:48:08 -0700
From: Linda P Newman <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Folks, I would like to pass along the following announcement on the
*Place Names of Douglas County, Nevada*, just published.
I have always found her place names volumes very valuable.
Mary is now retired but `old-timers’ would remember her in WAML and GSIS.
Linda Newman
University of Nevada Reno
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PLACE NAMES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, NEVADA
By Mary B. Ansari
The fourth monograph in Camp Nevada’s place-name series is dedicated to
Camp Nevada place-name editor, the late Alvin R. McLane. This volume
gives location, historic and onomastic information on over 800
geographic and cultural names and alternate names for Douglas County.
92 pages, illus.
ISBN 0-933504-11-X
Price $15.00 (postage paid to USA addresses)
Discount for book stores and libraries: 2 – 5 books – 30%; 6 + books – 40%
Make checks payable to Camp Nevada.
Order from:
Camp Nevada
1496 Denali Ct.
Reno, NV 89506-6781
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CAMP NEVADA MONOGRAPHS
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No. 1. /Pyramid Lake – A Bibliography/, by Alvin R. McLane, 1975, 70 p.,
ISBN 0-933504-00-4, $4.00.
No. 2. /Nevada Collections of Maps and Aerial Photographs/, by Mary B.
Ansari, 1976, 39 p, (out of print).
No. 3. /Present and Extinct Lakes of Nevada/ [facsimile reprint of 1895
edition], by Israel C. Russel, 1976, 32+ p. (out of print).
No. 4. /Silent Cordilleras/ /(The Mountain Ranges of Nevada)/, by Alvin
R. McLane, 1978, 118 p., ISBN 0-933504-03-9, $8.00.
No. 5. /The Plains and the Sierra /[facsimile reprint of 1894 edition],
edited by William C. Bryant, 1979, 20 p., ISBN 0-933504-04-7, $3.00.
No. 6. /A Carson Valley Bibliography/, by Linda J. Sommer, 53 p., ISBN
0-933504-05-5. $5.00.
No. 7. /Comstock Place Names – the Names of Storey County, Nevada/, by
Mary B. Ansari, 1986, 59 p., ISBN 0-933504-06-3, $10.00.
No. 8. /Mines and Mills of the Comstock Region, Western Nevada/, by Mary
B. Ansari, 1989, 101 p., ISBN 0-933504-07-1, $11.00.
No. 9. /Carson City Place Names: The Names of Old Ormsby County,
Nevada/, by Mary B. Ansari, 1995, 68 p., ISBN 0-933504-08-X, $11.00.
No. 10. /Place Names of Lyon County, Nevada/, by Mary B. Ansari, 2001,
113 p., ISBN 0-933504-09-8, $14.00.
No. 11. /The Forty Mile Desert Emigrant Trail: Its Natural and Human
History/, by Guy King. 2003, 112 p., ISBN 0-933504-10-1, $15.00.
No. 12. /Place Names of Douglas County, Nevada/, by Mary B. Ansari,
2007, 92 p., ISBN 0-933504-11-X, $15.00.
Camp Nevada
1496 Denali Ct.
Reno, NV 89506-6781
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