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Excerpt from General History and Resources of Washoe County, Nevada: Published Under the Auspices of the Nevada Educational Association It is not improbable that the' prehistoric man whose giant footprints still remain in the rock in the State Prison yard, maintained -a precarious existence in his ceaseless warfare upon the huge and terrible wild beasts which then infested this region. This age of coral in Nevada, though te mote from us, was a comparatively recent geo logical period which is clearly manifest in the ex cellent state of preservation in which this coral is found. Perhaps no nther lakes in America pos sess the attractions and charms for the tourist and student of nature and of science as those two wonderfirl sheets of water known as Pyramid and Winnemucca Lakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.