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Harry P. Callahan: The Callahan Family and Ranch

Harry Callahan was born in 1895. He is the grandson of Matt Callahan, an Irish immigrant who owned the major brickyards in Carson City and Virginia City during the years of the Bonanza. By 1883, the Comstock Lode was practically exhausted. Harry Callahan's oral history is largely an account of life on the ranch from 1884 through the post-World War II years. It contains descriptions of rural schooling, Indian-white relations, the economic matrix of the region, property and water rights struggles, and other topics common to ranching in western Nevada in that period. Mr. Callahan also describes his experiences as a U.S. Forest Service ranger in the 1920s. This oral history is more than a personal memoir; the experiences of Harry Callahan and his family are reflective of much that has been typical of ranch life on the rim of the Great Basin.

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