From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.A. Fishel Family (T&T Ranch). The Ford tractor belongs to Gordon Bettles. Glessner was retired from the Marine Corps, lived for many years in Beatty and is buried there. In the distance are mountains of the Funeral Range.

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family. A bar stood to the left of the building pictured here, and a school stood to the right, near the present site of the big, stone corral. Mrs. Wilson ran a boarding house in the largest building pictured here.

A portion of a map of southern California and southwestern Nevada prepared by The Automobile Club of Southern California during the early 1920s. The portion pictured here well illustrates the development of railroads and communities in the south central Nevada area, from Tonopah to the Pahrump Valley note the number of roads in the area between Tonopah and the Kawich Mountains. (Courtesy of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada.)

A man sitting atop of a pair of mules in Death Valley. The hottest place on Earth, Death Valley is located between California and Nevada. The man wears an all black outfit complete with a hat whose brim provides a shadow that conceals his face. Transcribed onto the bottom border of the image: "Death Valley "Prospectors" Near Beatty, Nev. Frashers Foto - Promo."