page_title: West Humboldt Range
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: West Humboldt Range / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Landscape of Basin and Range Province — in Central Nevada.
context_page_description: The West Humboldt Range is a short mountain range in the western Great Basin in northwestern Nevada in the United States.
context_section_description: In 1905 the Saurian Expedition, led by John C. Merriam and financed by Annie Alexander, explored the Triassic limestones of the range, discovering 25 specimens of Ichthyosaur.
caption: Satellite photo, view south; Carson sink at right (small, black curved range on its northwest is the W. Humboldt Range)-(Pahrump Valley, top-left; Death Valley-top; Sierra Nevada, top-right)
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