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Interview with Steve Brown & Rosie ArnoldEarly days in the Pahrump Valley and surrounding hills; the Indian population of the area in the 1920s and 1930s; native foods; the Indians schools at Stewart and Sherman; a dude ranch in the Pahrump Valley?; travel in the area. Mining in the area - both grandsons and grandfather; memories of Pop Buol; Indian families in the area; marriages; Indian medical practices. Medical practices and native plants; life in Beatty during the Depression; an Indian cemetery; a legend of how Indian men got their wives long, long ago; memories of the schools at Sherman and Stewart; ranch life in the 1930s and 1940s. - 1990 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Jacque RuudChildhood in California; the Ruuds meet and marry; deciding to move to Pahrump Valley; experimenting with alfalfa seed; Basin Ranch; the Pahrump Valley and its residents in the 1960s; the family adjusts. School for the children; social activities in the valley; early churches; the cotton gin is built; work in the gin - from weightmaster to manager; the decline of cotton in the Pahrump Valley; Bob Ruud's service to Nye County as a county commissioner. The Harvest Festival; trail rides and riding clubs; Bob Ruud's pleasures; bringing up children in the valley; snakes!; the problems of farming in the early days; the future of Pahrump Valley; Bob Ruud's participation in University-sponsored agricultural efforts. Ron Floyd's contributions to the community; changes in children's attitudes. Work with the Extension Service and with the 4-H Clubs promoting an understanding of agriculture. - 1989 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Perry BowmanThe Bowman family and dairy farming in the Moapa Valley; Walter Bowman buys the Manse Ranch; memories of the Kellogg and Pahrump Ranch; Mormon pioneers. The Leavitts - early settlers; Perry and his wife move to the Pahrump Valley; life in the valley in the early days. Memories of Pop Buol; problems with weather in the valley; the golden age of valley agriculture - cotton; what makes a good dairyman. Different soils in the Pahrump Valley; complexities of growing cotton; how people adjust to life in the valley; the role of the LDS Church in the valley; looking to the future. - 1989 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Deke LoweFamily backgrounds; railroading in Nevada; Amargosa Valley and tourists in the 1920s and 1930s; the clay mine. The T&T Railroad; farming and ranching; early settlers. Shorty's story; Scotty's story; devil-may-care living 50 years back; life in Shoshone. Social life in Death Valley Junction; tourists and Death Valley; railroad living. Goldfield; Beatty - a good place to be, up or down on your luck. Silver Lake alive and dead; planes from March Field. The deplorable condition of the roads in the early days; memories of Johnnie, Pahrump Valley, Pop Buol, the Pahrump and Manse Ranches; the first cotton in the valley; feuding and shooting in the area; the Lee brothers and the Lost Breyfogle Mine. Indian headquarters at the Manse Ranch; the Harsh White family and Della White Fisk's memories; the story of Eddie Miles; recollections of Lois Kellogg; acquiring land in the Pahrump Valley. - 1989 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Andrea & Castulo PallanChildhood, youth and marriage in Pecos, Texas; learning of work in the Pahrump Valley - at much better pay; commuting to work in Las Vegas and on the Test Site; various positions growing cotton on area farms; work for Tim Hafen; illegal workers from Mexico; the start of the community building; a Catholic church for the valley; the difficulties to adjusting to a very isolated area. Good neighbors to the rescue; schooling for the valley's children; raising a large and productive family; farming in the valley and the quality of Pahrump cotton; health problems; more on workers from Mexico.- 1989 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Roy and Mary VaughnThe Vaughns' beginnings in Pahrump-building their first home with railroad ties; Roy's work with the service station they created; the cafe and motel they began; Hattie Ford's famous baking; the Vaughns move to Las Vegas; the work of running a motel. Roy and Mary sell the gas station, restaurant, and motel to the Mankins; the gas companies the Vaughns worked with; further details of their cafe; the Vaughns' years in Las Vegas and return to Pahrump; changes to Pahrump and Las Vegas between 1960 and the 1970s; thoughts on the future of Pahrump; mines and businesses in the surrounding area. Some memorable people from Pahrump through the years, such as Pop Buol; Mary's years as the secretary of the middle school. - 2009 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Helen ManleyHelen and Harry's parents, Stan and Hattie Ford, and early years in California; moving to Pahrump; memories of Pahrump in the 1940s; riding horses in the area-Helen uncovers a theft; roads in and out of Pahrump; childhood in Pahrump, helping with the family farm and dairy; the Pahrump school; the owners of the Manse Ranch. Memories of the Manse Ranch; the children in the valley in the 1940s; further memories of school days; marriage to Ben Ward and a move to San Diego, then a return to Pahrump; work as the cook for the Manse Ranch; playing for local dances. Learning to cook, and food in Pahrump; remembering radio programs; a picnic at Ash Meadows; memories of atomic testing; various jobs Helen held as a teenager; Ben Ward's work driving a truck and a move to Baker, California; life in Baker and Shoshone; Helen and Ben's daughters; a high school reunion for Shoshone students, and meeting Jack Manley; the desert heat; health care and home remedies........... - 2009 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Patricia MankinsPat's parents; her childhood in Arkansas, with a move to California during the Depression; marriage to Bill Mankins and their eventual move to Pahrump, where he worked at Mercury (on the Nevada Test Site); homesteading in Pahrump; buying a service station; Bill's time on the Test Site; the Mankins' home (moved from Boulder Dam); Pat's work as a teacher in Pahrump-some of her students and some of her experiences; people in Pahrump in the 1950s and 1906s, including Elmer Bowman; some of the Native American population of Pahrump; further recollections of teaching school.Pat working as a teacher and Bill working at the Test Site while running the store and service station, then choosing to devote full time to their business; operating an oil and gas distributorship; the restaurant and store at the service station; closing the restaurant; the first gas station in Pahrump; remembering Doby Doc; travel between Mercury and Pahrump early on; remarks on the nuclear waste sites at Beatty and Yucca Mountain........... - 2009 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Roland WileyAn early trip to the Pahrump Valley; the old Yount Ranch; doing legal work for Belle Yount; bootlegging in the old days; oil rights to land; memories of the Pahrump Valley and some of its residents in the 1930s and 1940s; travel to the valley. Acquiring land for Hidden Hills Ranch; oil in the Pahrump Valley?; growing peach trees; the Mormon Trail; building an air strip; on the ranch; the beauty of Cathedral Canyon; memories of Doby Doc; trying to get the roads improved. Memories of Beatty, the Amargosa Valley and Las Vegas; predicting Las Vegas' growth; getting power to the Amargosa and Pahrump Valley; memories of the Lees and the Browns; early days on the gaming board; selling property to Hoot Gibson; air pollution.......... - 1989 - Nye County Town History Project |
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Interview with Clarabelle JimClarabelle's birth and her status as a very early Pahrump resident; remarks on Clarabelle's parents and their parents, including Whispering Ben; the Pahrump cemetery; school days in Pahrump; preparing mesquite beans and a discussion of other native foods; work on the Pahrump Ranch and other area ranches. A discussion of Chief Tecopa; recollections of old-timers in Pahrump; the various relations of the Bob Lee family; a discussion of how various Pahrump-area Paiutes are and were related. Remarks on Pop Buol; on various sacred sites around Pahrump; remembering Helldorado; Clarabelle's father's work as a horseman; on Whispering Ben, Tule Ben, and Chief Tecopa; on the Southern Paiute as a migratory people; on families' "rights" to pick pine nuts in certain areas. - 2010 - Nye County Town History Project |