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Photograph of the McWilliams Las Vegas town site, circa May, 1905

Date

1905-05

Description

McWilliamsville. (Las Vegas)

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The No. 1 well, located in Stone Cabin Valley, United Cattle and Packing Company, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1920

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). The tent is the style that the cowboys slept in on round-up. Both gas and wind were used to pump water. The gasoline-powered pump is inside the shelter at left. When demanded for water was low the wind did the pumping, but when demand was high the gasoline-powered pump was also used.

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