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Word: lahontan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevada, on dry beds in Lake Lahontan, near Lovelock, were found the remains of a human settlement evidently of Asiatic origin for it had camels. Piute and Shoshone Indians have legends about a wise race that lived in the Nevada desert. In 1833 a white trader found a live camel in an Indian Village. The Lake Lahontan settlement appeared to have been exterminated about 200 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

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