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A Reporter At Large: Dateline: Pyramid Lake, Nevada

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In 1949, renowned journalist A. J. Liebling came to Reno to procure a divorce, which required that he establish residency in Nevada for a period of six weeks. Liebling stayed at a guest ranch at the shores of Pyramid Lake. Even as there, his reporter’s curiosity was once engaged by a bitter dispute raging between the Paiutes and non-Indian squatters who were claiming essentially the most agriculturally productive lands of the reservation and the waters feeding the lake that was once the economic and religious heart of the Paiutes’ ancient culture.

Liebling recorded the litigation over the fate of the Pyramid Lake Reservation lands in a series of articles published in The New Yorker in 1955. Reprinted here of their entirety, the essays discuss the affair in detail, following it from the shores of the lake to the halls of Congress, and introducing readers to the colorful world of 1950s Nevada. It is a valuable record of one among Nevada’s most enduring and significant debates over the uses of the land and the dear water that nourishes it. Introduction by Elmer R. Rusco.


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