Steve recently had a good suggestion-re: searching for folks who may have jumped off the wagon train in the Nevada area........... The Carson Appeal newspaper has their index of the 1800's on line: http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/nsla/archives/appeal/appeal.htm You can search lots of other documents and records includedd at the site from the search engine http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/search.htm Best, Carolyn