Subject: Amargosa Valley, Nevada, 1959 or 1960, looking southwest toward the Funeral Mountains. The property pictured is on the corner of Section 7. the home pictured was a frame structure moved out from Las Vegas. It is the first town-built home in the Amargosa Farm Area. the trees pictured here were as high as 50 feet in 1988.


Subject: Digging a ditch for installation of a 10" water line to supply a sprinkler system in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980.

Subject: Amargosa Valley looking southwest toward the Funeral Mountains, 1980, showing a 10" water line and pump to supply a circle sprinkler system. The pump is a 75 horsepower electric turbine pump that supplies two sprinkler systems with a total of 1,450 gallons per minute. At that capacity, the pump only draws water down 3 inches in the well.

Subject: Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, looking west over land in Section 7, Township 17S, Range 49E. The soil is fine-grained and contains few rocks. The profile of the Funeral Mountains in the distance is referred to locally as the 'old man,' with the notch below the sharp pointed peak forming the open month of a sleeping man, his body stretching to the left.

Subject: Land on the T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1958 or 1959. commercial electricity was not available in the Amargosa Valley until 1964. Until then all water pumping was done with combustion engines running at the wells. Pictured here is a butane-operated motor, running a pump on the property belonging to Hank Records.

Subject: Ditch leading to an overhead pivot sprinkler system on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980, looking west toward the Funeral Mountains.

Subject: Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980. Pivot watering system has just been installed on the property belonging to Hank Records and the alfalfa is beginning to grow. When alfalfa is first seeded, oats are also planted as a cover crop. The oats, which protect the tender alfalfa seedlings, are later cut, and the alfalfa takes over.

Subject: Pivot irrigation system operating on land belonging to Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980. Alfalfa and oats have just been planted. The boy pictured is the son of a Mexican farmhand.


Subject: Undetermined location in Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada about 1959, showing saplings that were newly planted.

Subject: The trailer holds alfalfa pellets produced on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada 1984. Note the many horse tracks, horse droppings, and scattering of alfalfa cubes left by wild horses which are a constant problem for farmers in the Amargosa Valley Farm area.
Subject: At left, Nye County Deputy Sheriff Glen Henderson, whose area of responsibility included Beatty, the Amargosa Valley and Pahrump; at right, Hank Records, Amargosa Valley Farm Area pioneer; celebrating in their new leather jackets in Las Vegas, about 1968. Henderson's home in the Amargosa Valley became known locally as "Fort Henderson" and is sometimes still called that. it is located not far from the present (1988) site of the Senior Center.


Subject: Alfalfa cubes produced on the property of Hand Records, in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1984

Subject: Damaged alfalfa bales on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1984. wild horses caused this damage in just one night.

Subject: An antique cattle chute owned by Hank Records, used for more than 30 years, although it is much older. Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1988.

Subject: Water flowing from a pump located on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1979. The view is toward the west.

Subject: The same alfalfa fields shown in Photographs 2, 3, and 4 of this collection. A swath has been cut through the mature alfalfa. Looking towards the south, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1980.

Subject: Horses on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1956. The colt, named Cindy, was 32 years old in 1988; she's pictured with her mother and several other mares.

Subject: House constructed by Hank Records on the T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada. Records and his brother Robert planted many trees in the valley about the time this photograph was taken, ca. 1955. Balm of Gileads, maples, elms, and other varieties were planted.

Subject: Detroit diesels powering pumps on Hank Record's property, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1956. Diesels were installed by Mantzer Detroit Diesel out of Sparks, Nevada. Records brought the trailer in the background from Prescott, Arizona; it was the first structure in the Amargosa Valley Farm Area aside from those on the T & T Ranch. The trees are Balm of Gileads.

Subject: The first building constructed in the Amargosa Valley aside from those on the T & T Ranch, middle 1950s. Hank Records property, Nye County, Nevada.

Subject: Robert Records, pictured, and his brother Hank were the first settlers in the Amargosa Valley Farm Area in the middle 1950's. Records stands beside a pump on the Records property.
Subject: Ribbon-cutting ceremony at the dedication of the All-Purpose Building, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, November 2, 1984. on the right are pictured former Nye County commissioner Jacque Rudd, Nye County Commissioner Bob Revert, Betty-Jo Boyd. State Senator Ken Redelsperger is in the mustache and white collar, standing beside and slightly to the left back of Betty-Jo Boyd. others unidentified.


Subject: Robert Records, Amargosa Valley Farm Area pioneer, about 1960.
Subject: From left, Hank Records with Ann Redelsperger and State Senator Ken Redelsperger at the dedication of the All-Purpose Building, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, November 2, 1984. Records was asked to be the dedicator at the ceremony because he was the first to arrive in the valley and take advantage of the "Desert Entry Program," and with his brother Robert, he "knew what years people came."

Subject: Property developed by Hank Records in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1974. Looking west at the Funeral Mountains, showing the profile of the 'old man of the mountains.'