Editing Lovelock, Nevada (section)

===Poetry and fiction===
Lovelock has had a poet of its own in [[Adrian C. Louis]], who was brought up on the small reservation for the Lovelock Paiute Indians there. Even after he moved on, its Indian Cemetery was a point of reference for him to which he often returned in memory:
:::I'm at that place I grew up to leave.
:::Alkali-crusted [[sand waves]] have drifted against my markers of blood.<ref>"Indian Cemetery: Lovelock, Nevada", ''Fire Water World'', Albuquerque NM, 1989 ({{ISBN|0931122511}} / 0-931122-51-1)</ref> 
Other poems in which the town's name figures record the impressions of passing travellers. They include Shaun T Griffin's broadside, "Rain outside Lovelock, late March”<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700278898 Black Rock Press (Reno, 2010)]</ref> and two titles in the work of Kirk Robertson. "Lovelock to Twin Falls" dwells on abandoned shacks in the desert while “Monday Night, Lovelock” focuses on houses there surrounded by junk.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9myVDwAAQBAJ&q=Lovelock+to+Twin+Falls Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State], University of Nevada, 2016</ref>

[[Stephen Bly]]'s Wild West novel ''Dangerous Ride Across Humboldt Flats'' (Crossway Press, 2003) deals with the area along the river before the town was built. In the opening chapters, an orphaned [[Pony Express]] rider comes across Trent Lovelock and his family on Humboldt Flats in 1860 and is befriended by them.<ref>The first two chapters are currently available [http://www.gnpcb.org/assets/products/excerpts/1581344724.1.pdf online]</ref> The author has acknowledged that he had the town's later founder in mind in his fictitious Trent Lovelock.<ref>“Lovelock Avatars”, ''Lovelock Lines'' 6, December 2007 [http://lovelock.free.fr/l-lines/lovelock-lines-6th-ed.pdf p.7]</ref>

Another novel, ''Lovelock, Nevada: an explanation'' (Booklocker, 2010) by Leslie Hale Roberts, plays another variation on the transient theme, starting with a breakdown in the desert.<ref>Detail on [https://www.amazon.co.uk/LOVELOCK-NEVADA-Leslie-Hale-Roberts/dp/160910188X Amazon]</ref> And a stopover in the town was the subject of Fred Leebron's prize-winning short story “Lovelock”, later adapted into his novel ''Out West'' (Doubleday 1996). There an ex-convict staying overnight at a motel picks up a retarded woman and guiltily sees her and her sister off in their car the next morning.<ref>[https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/engfac/7 The Cupola, Gettysburg College]</ref>