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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_Lake
"Massacre! What Massacre? An Inquiry into the Massacre of 1850
by Thomas N. Layton
MASSACRE LAKE (Washoe County, Nevada)
Some small lakes , or dry sinks , also called Massacre Lakes , east of Vya in the northern portion of the county .... A large and well equipped wagon train was attacked near here in 1850 by Indians of the High Rock Canyon country. Forty men of the emigrant party were killed in the battle and interred in a common grave .... A creek which empties into the south end of the lake and a ranch on the creek are also named ., Massacre" for the lake.'
www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/Massacre_Layton_1977.pdf
Massacre Lake is a lake in the northwest of the U.S. state of Nevada.[1] It was named in commemoration of a supposed 1850 massacre of a party of pioneers.[2][3][4] However, a later study suggested that the supposed massacre never took place, due to it being absent in contemporary records.[5]
References
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Massacre Lake
Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 70.
The Origin of Place Names cites: Mack, Effie Mona (1936). "Nevada: A History of the State from the Earliest Times Through the Civil War". Retrieved May 24, 2023.
Mack cites "Nevada Section is Weird Land". Sacramento Bee. March 11, 1931. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
Thomas N. Layton, "Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.
References
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Massacre Lake
Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 70.
The Origin of Place Names cites: Mack, Effie Mona (1936). "Nevada: A History of the State from the Earliest Times Through the Civil War". Retrieved May 24, 2023.
Mack cites "Nevada Section is Weird Land". Sacramento Bee. March 11, 1931. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
Thomas N. Layton, "Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.
"Massacre! What Massacre? An Inquiry into the Massacre of 1850
by Thomas N. Layton
MASSACRE LAKE (Washoe County, Nevada)
Some small lakes , or dry sinks , also called Massacre Lakes , east of Vya in the northern portion of the county .... A large and well equipped wagon train was attacked near here in 1850 by Indians of the High Rock Canyon country. Forty men of the emigrant party were killed in the battle and interred in a common grave .... A creek which empties into the south end of the lake and a ranch on the creek are also named ., Massacre" for the lake.'
www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/Massacre_Layton_1977.pdf
