A series of earthquakes between 1915 and 1955 ruptured over 200 km of fault length in a limited 200x300 km area of central Nevada. We investigate stress transfer in this earthquake sequence to determine what role stress changes from earlier events may have played in triggering or limiting rupture in later events. We model the earthquakes as slip on finite dislocations in a 3D elastic half-space, and determine changes in Coulomb failure stress (CFS) on the fault planes of the later events. We find that the 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake (M=7.5) increased CFS on the fault plane of the 1954 Dixie Valley earthquake. The 1932 Cedar Mtn earthquake (M=7.2) increased CFS on the fault plane of the 1934 Excelsior Mtn earthquake. The 1932 earthquake also increased CFS along most of the 1954 Fairview fault rupture but decreased CFS on the southern end of the rupture. The combined effects of both the 1915 and 1932 earthquakes on the 1954 Rainbow Mtn/Stillwater rupture plane increased CFS on the northern part of the rupture and decreased CFS at the south end. The July and August 1954 Rainbow Mtn/Stillwater earthquakes (M=6.6 and 6.8 respectively) decrease CFS over most of the rupture zones of the December 1954 Fairview Peak and Dixie Valley earthquakes. Although these stress changes are small (generally < 0.1 MPa), our results suggest stress transfer from the 1915 and 1932 earthquakes may have set the stage for the four earthquakes in 1954 by increasing CFS in that region. Negative CFS resulting from the 1932 earthquake also may have played a role in limiting the southern extent of rupture in both the 1954 Rainbow Mtn/Stillwater and 1954 Fairview Peak earthquakes. However, the effect of the July-August 1954 earthquakes on the faults that ruptured in December 1954 are primarily negative, indicating that processes other than static stress triggering are required to explain the timing of those earthquakes.