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Oddie, Tasker L. (Tasker Lowndes) 1870-1950

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Works: 32 works in 41 publications in 1 language and 1,722 library holdings
Classifications: f841, 979.302092
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6 editions published between and 2004 in English and held by 654 libraries worldwide
Of the many easterners who went west at the close of the nineteenth century, Tasker L. Oddie was one of the most purposeful. The twenty-seven-year-old attorney and business executive from East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Austin, Nevada, in 1898 as secretary of the Nevada Company, which had mining interests in central Nevada. There he uncovered for his employers, the Stokes family, a fraud committed by the firm's general manager. In the aftermath of the scandal, Oddie.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 58 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 49 libraries worldwide
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in English and held by 25 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 16 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
The letter reviews Oddie's involvement with Jim Butler and a mine in Tonopah, Nevada. Oddie became general manager for the Tonopah Mining Company.
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Mainly concerning the promotion of the highway. Includes letters from T.C. Du Pont, Theodore Roosevelt, J.M. Carey, A.J. Beveridge, Elbert Hubbard, G.H. Lorimer, Enos A. Mills, T.L. Oddie, Mark Sullivan, and H.C. Wallace.
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Included are letters to and from Nevada politicians Pat McCarran, Berkeley L. Bunker, Edward P. Carville, George W. Malone, Tasker Oddie, Key Pittman, James G. Scrugham, and Walter S. Baring; and from Harry S. Bunker, treasurer of Speidel Newspapers, Inc.
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Chiefly correspondence and other papers detailing Oddie's service in the U.S. Senate (1921-1933); together with papers from his term as governor (1911-1915), and papers relating to his mining interests.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Collection consists mainly of correspondence from the period 1910-14, beginning when Oddie initiated his campaign for governor and ending when he was about to terminate his administration. The correspondence is arranged in 19 boxes in alphabetical order by author. There are also 6 boxes and 4 rolls of Nevada State papers, almost entirely copies of legislative bills for the year 1873, and a small number of documents from other years. Subjects include: mining, politics, and government in Nevada (including divorce laws), women's rights, the financial panic of 1907, the Progressive party, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
The collection contains a small amount of correspondence and papers relating to Oddie's term as governor (1911-1915), while the bulk pertains to his career as U.S. Senator from Nevada (1921-1933).The balance deals with his mining activities during the intervening years.
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Letters and correspondence, 1927-1931, as governor of Nevada, regarding the public activties of John Armstrong Chaloner, loaning the materials of the Nevada Historical Society to Robert A. Allen and George Sanford, and transmitting an oath of office from Virginia City.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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