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Buffalo Meadows "is a flat located east of the [[Smoke Creek|Smoke Creek Desert]] and north of Twin Mountain" (Carson)
Buffalo Meadows "is a flat located east of the [[Smoke Creek Desert]] and north of Twin Mountain" (Carson)


=== Place Name Links ===
=== Place Name Links ===

Revision as of 17:45, 31 December 2013

Buffalo Meadows "is a flat located east of the Smoke Creek Desert and north of Twin Mountain" (Carson)

Place Name Links

  • Helen S. Carson, "Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary
  • George R. Stewart, Western Folklore, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr., 1948), p. 174 quotes a local as saying that the name came from an Indian by the same name. The local qualified his statement with saying that there was an old Indian with that name and that he supposes that the area was named after the Indian.
  • GNIS cites "Paher, Stanley W. Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1970, 492 pp. Gives historical background for mining towns and camps in Nevada. p154"

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