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- ↑ Bean's history and directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a complete history of the county, with sketches of the various towns and mining camps ... also, full statistics of mining and all other industrial resources (Public domain ed.). Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office. 1867. p. 40. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ↑ "About The Nevada journal. (Nevada City, Calif.) 1851-18??". Chronicling America, Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ↑ United States census office (1884). History and present condition of the newspaper and periodical press of the United States, with a catalogue of the publications of the census year, by S.N.D. North (Public domain ed.). pp. 360–. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
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