Fanny G. Hazlett

Frances Ann "Fanny" Gore Hazlett (August 31, 1837 - April 3, 1933) was one of the oldest pioneer women of Nevada. Early life Frances Ann "Fanny" Gore Hazlett was born on August 31, 1837, in Massachusetts, the daughter of Stephen Gore and Joan Whitcomb. Career Fanny G. Hazlett was a pioneer and writer. She crossed the plains from Iowa with her brothers, Charles and Johnny Gore, in 1862 to Nevada in the days of the Comstock Mines. They stayed at Buckland's Station for two days and then moved to Dayton, Nevada. The trip lasted 4 months. Hazlett wrote: "This is mining country and the society is rough... with shooting affrays being frequent and drinking, gambling at every other door... about 20 men to one woman." Her brothers worked in the wood business and Hazlett, first lived with Charles in a tent at a woodcutting camp, with 30 miners and 200 local Native Americans, and then opened a boarding house in the El Dorado Canyon (Nevada), "a cloth-covered frame, about ten by twelve, one-half of one side open for a door". She contributed considerably to newspapers. She published under the name "Frank Hazlett", since it was difficult at the time being published as a woman.