The Great Basin has more than its share of legends and myths regarding the demise of humans in its open spaces and mining camps. Some are true, others fabricated, many exaggerated. During the wild boom periods of the Great Basin, men and women defied law and order, getting themselves into trouble and into the slammer.

This series of pages contain what my research over the years has extracted regarding crimes and arrests, death and hazardous experiences by naturals causes, and accidents. Some of these incidents will come directly from newspaper quotations, others summarized if I didn't note the entire article or take the time to type it out at the time I was doing research. An occasional entry here is taken from other notes applicable to the topic of this page. There are occasional guest documentaries.

These pages will be updated as I run across new information. To aid those who regularly check this page for updates, all new entries will be indicated by a symbol indicating that fact for ease of finding new items.

Newspaper Sources
Beatty Bullfrog Miner – Beatty, Nevada (the newspaper in its earliest issues published as the Bullfrog Miner)
Inyo Register – Bishop, California
Inyo Independent – Independence, California
Mineral County Independent-News – Hawthorne, Nevada
Rhyolite Herald – Rhyolite, Nevada

Newspaper articles are typed verbatim. Wherever there is a spelling error in the original article, it is typed as published, but denoted with “[sic].” If an upper case letter is typed in lower case, then it is denoted with “[caps].” If punctuation is missing, then “[punct]” is inserted. Other notes may be inserted as deemed necessary for explanation.

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