From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.C. Hooper Family. Mayme Hooper was present, but not pictured, at this gathering of Shoshone Indians in Lone Pine, California. Those present are playing an Indian gambling game.
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Nevada businessman George Wingfield was born in Arkansas in 1876 and grew up on a ranch in Oregon. He settled in Nevada as a young man and eventually owned several banks, hotels, and mines in the state. Upon his death in 1959 he left his widow and three children an estate of over three million dollars.
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.B. Coombs Family. Taken at the tungsten mine about the Turk Ranch in Smoky Valley, Nevada, owned by Sheriff Thomas, under lease to a company, and operated by Coombs.
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