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o2fauaa tate louraal'aNews of NevadaAnd Nearby CaliforniaNell Murbarger, Well-Known Western Writer, Wins Two Awards for Nevada StoriesNell Murbarger, well known writer of western lore, took two top awards recently for stories on Nevada.The California Association of Press ^Vomen awarded her story on “Josie Pearl, Prospector on Nevada s Black Rock Desert,” first place for interviews, and gave her story of Old Fort Schellbourne second prize lor special feature articles, Miss Murbarger also took two other lirst arizes and another second prize for her articles on areas• other than Nevada.Both the winning stories appeared in Desert Magazine last year. In the April issue of thehand. A violent windstorm greeted them and they had a dickens of a time putting up their kirchen tents. Those who tried it found themselves being dragged across the premises trying to hang on to the billowing canvas. When the storm finally let up. the pooped Marines stood aside while Army Engineers put up the tents.The GI, my agent would haveyou know, called on his ingenuity to solve a problem at the camp. For insulating field ice boxes, the Army used roots of the Yucca ^ nlnnf. native to the area. The;magazine, Miss Murbarger will have a story on Hardin City and the lost Hardin silver ledge at the edge of Black Rock.Miss Murbarger has traveled widely throughout Nevada, and lias ’frequently used its picturesque past or unusual present as subject matter for her writings. A resident of Costa Mesa, Calif,, she spends a portion of every year in this state, particularly in the Black Rock area. •
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Nevada State Journal
Reno, Nevada, US
Fri, Mar 11, 1955
Page 3
Full Page
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