NYE COUNTY PUBLICATIONS

Pahrump, Nevada is located west of Las Vegas in a beautiful desert valley with vast land and water resources, clean air, and plenty of sunshine. For thousands of years, Pahrump's magnificent free-flowing springs have sustained a number and variety of cultures: prehistoric hunters and gatherers, the Southern Paiute, and finally white settlers who came in search of opportunity in the last half of the nineteenth century.

Pahrump, Nevada is located west of Las Vegas in a beautiful desert valley with vast land and water resources, clean air, and plenty of sunshine. For thousands of years, Pahrump's magnificent free-flowing springs have sustained a number and variety of cultures: prehistoric hunters and gatherers, the Southern Paiute, and finally white settlers who came in search of opportunity in the last half of the nineteenth century.

The rich silver ore in Tonopah literally stuck out of the ground, and thousands flocked to the area. The town boomed. But companies dominated by wealthy Eastern capitalists controlled the mining; they were in mining for the money and generally cared neither for the town nor the miners. They took what they could and left, pirating away the wealth that the hills once concealed, leaving the town to survive on its own. - And survive it did: through the end of the era of the underground miner to the time of nuclear testing and modern-day defense related activities. The spirit of the Old West, embodied in its inhabitants' sense of adventure and their love of personal freedom, still exists in Tonopah.

In the spring of 1942 a lovely young woman born and raised in the small central Nevada mining camp of Round Mountain submitted her master's thesis to the history department at the University of Nevada in Reno. It was an authoritative account of the history of the Tonopah/Round Mountain region of central Nevada between 1827 and 1942. In writing her thesis, Lucile Berg drew upon three essential sources of historical information: existing published works, old local newspapers, and interview with individuals having firsthand knowledge of the area's vigorous past. Her thesis is a classic that remains to this day the best general source on the history of central Nevada up to 1942. Now, in this volume, it will become more accessible and widely appreciated for generations to come.

On a spring day in 1905, John C. Humphrey, a cowboy in Smoky Valley, Nevada, got lucky and found gold in Manhattan Gulch, on the west side of the Toquima Range about 45 miles north of Tonopah. word of Humphrey's discovery quickly spread and the town of Manhattan was born. Manhattan is the twelfth book in the series of histories of communities in Nye County, Nevada. It traces the story of human activity in the Manhattan area from the first Native American occupants some 12,000 years ago through its early exuberant yeas as a boomtown and subsequent decades as a steady place where a miner could make a living. it is illustrated with more than 130 of the finest photographs and maps available, most not widely viewed before.

Smoky Valley, located in northern Nye County in southcentral Nevada, is one of the longest valleys in the state. Flanked by rugged mountain ranges with high snowcapped peaks, the valley offers magnificent vistas of desert, mountains, and sky. A grand and beautiful country, Smoky Valley has had a long and interesting history.