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Interview with Hollis HarrisWorking in the farming business as a bookkeeper for Mel Carberry; moving with Carberry to Pahrump and acquiring land there; moving into the real estate business in Pahrump; the properties originally acquired by Carberry; proving up Desert Land Entries. Acquiring, developing, and subdividing land in Pahrump; the Harris subdivisions and their buyers; Tim Hafen's role in Hollis's real estate work; Pahrump as a supportive community; remarks on Calvada; the cotton industry in Pahrump; growing different crops, such as mint; remembering Joe Kelly; the Harris family's role in building a hospital in Pahrump; Mel Carberry's influence on Hollis's life; Daniel Harris's career and return to Pahrump; Bob Ruud builds a house; remembering various Pahrump residents. - 2009 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Leon HughesFrom a teamster in Texas to a California and Arizona farmer; purchasing the Pahrump Ranch; the Pahrump Valley in the 1930s; pioneering in growing cotton; a hog-raising project ends in disaster;. a return to California and a later return to the Pahrump Valley; the valley in the 1940s. Work for C.B. Dickey on the Pahrump Ranch; the Mizpah Farm operation; mining gypsum and talc; a career with Cal-Vada; state land and homestead land - 1988 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Loraine CrowtherLoraine discusses her parents and the Bowman family's move from Moapa to Pahrump; she discusses her parents and other family members; her aunt Loretta's marriage; the Bowmans settle on the Manse Ranch; memories of living on the ranch as a child; how the Manse property was divided among the Bowman children; a discussion of some of the ranches in Pahrump; the Manse Ranch springs; remembering workers and their families on the Manse Ranch. Atomic testing on the Nevada Test Site; memories of grade school days in Pahrump and in Logandale, with upper grades in Las Vegas and Shoshone; college years, then working as a teacher and starting a family; returning to the Pahrump Valley and teaching there in various grades; being a science teacher. Memories of various people in Pahrump, further recollections of the Manse Ranch: horseback riding as a youngster; various childhood friends; the role cotton played in Pahrump Valley in the late 1960s; the Bowman family's role in the development of the LDS community in Pahrump Valley. - 2009 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Celeste Lisle LoweDad Fairbank's early days; Betty Lisle at Fairbanks Springs; life in Annabella. Fairbanks Mercantile in various locales; Charlie Brown; Grandma Fairbanks' arrival at Fairbanks Springs; Betty Fairbanks meets John Quincy Lisle; Dad Fairbank's character; the Lisle farm in Hayward. The Clay Camp; going away to school. Grandmother Fairbanks' character; education; Betty Lisle's Birthday; Betty and John Q. Lisles' characters; Celesta and Deke meet and marry. Camping trips to the Pahrump Ranch from Shoshone; recollections of Kazarang and Pop Buol; bootlegging; newspaper work during the Chicken Ranch bombing; Dad Fairbanks' memories of Johnny Tecopa and the Younts; learning about the old days from Bob Lee and Della White Fisk - 1990 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Cynthia V. LynchEarly life in the Pahrump Valley; relatives of Cynthia Lynch and her parents; the definition of a "scattered Indian"; living with and on the land - hunting and learning about and describing plants used for food and medicine; memories of C.B. Dickey and others; an early trip to Las Vegas; living and working in Las Vegas; marrying Charles; memories of ancestors - Hungry Bill, Panamint Tam, Chief Tecopa, Whispering Ben and others. Other early area Indian residents; discussion of language; memories of the valley in an earlier, unspoiled time; ownership of the land; the children and their careers; planting a garden; learning to paint; plants used for food and medicine; the meaning of "Pahrump"; a plaque to Chief Tecopa - 1988 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Linda Rosen Sterling & Paul VenzeLeonard's extraordinary gifts as a salesman; thoughts on the immigrant mentality; new ways to sell land; Cape Coral, Florida - a top town in the U.S.; the importance of education; finding the Pahrump Valley; changes and losses; never give up. - 1988 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with William L & Francis "Dutch" TurnerBill and Dutch are married in and settle in Las Vegas; an early trip to the Pahrump Valley and memories of that; the Brooks' trading post; the Manse and Raycraft Ranches; the Turners move to the Pahrump Valley; building a tie house. The little red schoolhouse; working on the Pahrump Ranch and raising crops; postmaster to the valley; early churches and social life; memories of Pop Buol; commuting to Las Vegas. Predicting population growth; business establishments in the valley; memories of the post office; school teachers; problems farmers must deal with; growth and a changing lifestyle; the value of honesty; medical care in Pahrump; government jobs for the Turner family. The life of a full-time, part-time deputy sheriff; recollections of Sheriff Thomas and Judge Beko; a new dentist may come to Pahrump. - 1988 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Walter WilliamsMoving to Nevada; recalling ranches in the Pahrump Valley in the 1950s; growing cotton and rotating crops; getting the land in shape on the Pahrump Ranch. The labor situation in Pahrump in the 1950s and the Braceros Program; Johnson grass - hoes and geese; travels around the state by road and air; donating land to the valley; bringing a cotton gin to Pahrump; alfalfa cubes; selling the land. Thoughts on growing cotton; the advent of electricity in Pahrump, and how electricity was generated prior to that; starting the Harvest Festival; thought on California farming; the Pahrump Ranch in the early days; the coming of Preferred Equities; the Williams family and Rick Williams. - 1988 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Theodore BlosserA job in Santa Cruz, California; entering the Navy - officer's training, then on to the South Pacific; memories of "Bull" Halsey. Return to California and to Marie; a trip to Fish Lake Valley and word of the Pahrump Valley; buying land to grow cotton; getting some paved roads into the valley. A way to bale cotton; the Dorothy ranch; problems with drilling wells and pumping water; memories of the Ash Meadows Lodge; problems with inflation and farm prices; early days in the Pahrump Valley and the search for electric power; the unpaved roads of the 1950s. Remembering the early days of Cal-Vada; a retirement dream; subdividing the land; memories of various community members; early days in aviation; a boy and his car - 1988 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Edmund FlemingEarly days in the east; the Diemels of the Pahrump Ranch; a trip from Virginia to Nevada; the Pahrump Ranch itself; a dude ranch; ranch work and well-digging. Ed returns to the Pahrump Valley as a school teacher; life with Pop Buol; early valley residents. More early residents; moves to Goodsprings and Nelson; mining; a move to Oregon, then back to the desert and teaching; on Lois Kellogg; hot tempers in the area. Frontier justice; funding for schools. - 1988 - Nye County Town History Project |