ORAL HISTORIES

Early Indian workers on the railroad and at Scotty's Castle; the Indian community in Beatty; pine nuts and other foods; trapping birds and animals; school in Beatty; Sheriff John Vignolo; World War II. Working as a miner; the ribbon factory; foreman on the county roads. Memories of Wes Moreland in Rhyolite and others; camping under the trees in the summer.

Parents' background; lumber companies in Verdi and Tonopah; the Depression; some Nevada politicians The Reverts move to Beatty; the Shirk Estate; Beatty water; mining; stores in Beatty. Service stations in the Beatty area; bootlegging during Prohibition; law enforcement; transportation; electric power. World War II and its effects on Beatty; Reno; and Tonopah; electric power; service stations. The Cottonwood family; electric power; service stations; banking; law enforcement; transportation; tourism; the Nevada Test Site. Low-level nuclear waste; the Beatty water supply; Beatty's future.

father and grand-father Slavin were blacksmiths; moving to Goldfield, then 'Tonopah; father becomes a law enforcement officer; school in 'Tonopah; the town burros; summertime freedom; protecting Father; Tonopah's outstanding basketball team. Halloween mischief; honesty; community help; delivering groceries; Tonopah-Goldfield rivalry; from Sheriff to County Clerk and Treasurer; the Reeds: Hawe's Canyon and the United Cattle and Packing Company; drought; Jack Longstreet. Jack Longstreet; travel in the early days; Ed Reed; the Reed brothers; O.K.'s daughters; marriage license. Death Valley Scotty; mining claims on the bombing range; the Belmont fire of 1939; Silica dust; grocery store credit; a paper boy in the saloons; breweries; dance-hall girls; prostitution.

Homer Weeks and the Senator Stewart Mine; working mill tailings; the John Delfs Scholarship. The Lisle hardware store; the fire department then and now; the Beatty economy. Ethnic groups in Beatty; tourism; a trip up the road. The Spicer inquest; on up the road.

Growing up in the east, then Los Angeles; moving to Nye County; meeting Bombo; waitressing in Beatty; holding horse shows and problems with getting ribbons and trophies; starting a business that grows and grows . . Rewards of the ribbon company; one of Beatty's largest employers; a loyal workforce; Beatty's future.

Where Shorty came from; working for Pacific Coast Borax Company and the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad; Shorty's family; generosity; moving to the Amargosa Valley; country life; Death Valley Junction in the 1950s; work in Beatty and Carrara; underground rivers. A healthy life; burials; the Japanese Ranch; the radio; trees; freedom in the desert; a turquoise mine; a generous and religious man.

Family backgrounds; a horse-trader; homesteading in Ash Meadows; a boarding house in Tonopah; memories of the Bradford ranch and Bob Tubbs; Ash Meadows Lodge and Anne Weller; the Japanese Ranch. Dad Fairbanks; Death Valley Junction; Bob Fox and clay; work on Boulder Dam and a tragic accident; Mrs. Garner's dress shop; Las Vegas brothels; pupfish.

The flood of 1931; a houseful of youngsters; Lillian Berg's work in the home; Round Mountain churches; social life in Round Mountain; school days in Round Mountain, and teachers Bessie Bolts and Mrs. Earl Carl; marriage and a move to Ely; work and play as a child on the Berg Ranch. Karl and Kate Berg; John and Blanche Berg; Gold Hill; the Round Mountain of 40 years ago; Will Berg's dairy and his ice business; Will Berg's industriousness; Lillian Berg's health. Shirley Ann's return to Round Mountain from Ely; working at Carver's Station; the food at Carver's and at the Palace Club; work at Round Mountain Gold Corporation - responsibilities in the maintenance shop; boarding-houses in Round Mountain in the 1940s; memories of Fred Oliver.

The Bairds - a western family; Warm Springs, Rattlesnake, Nyala; evidence of early mines; the stone house and community at Eden Creek; the United Cattle and Packing Company; Giovanni Fallini moves to the United States. Giovanni Fallini in Tybo; Mr. Fallini discovers Eden Creek; area ranchers in the 1930s; the bathing range in World War II; fallout and radiation burns; the wild horses. Different miners in the area; area Indian families; education on the ranch; the yearly cycle on a ranch. Memories of Tonopah, Weepah and Tybo; meeting Joe Fallini; Warm Springs; Giovanni Fallini's character; ranch workers. Problems with the BLM; water; the air strip; the satisfaction of having created a ranch.

Family background; a dairy ranch in California; entering the Navy during World War II and service in the South Pacific; various work in California after the war; prospecting; working on the Nevada Test Site - drilling deep. The camp at Mercury; re-entries; turquoise mines and mining. Turquoise mines and other properties.