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Two boys including Hazel Denton's son, Ralph Denton, sitting on edge of garden in front of a house: photographic print
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Larry Easton, Don Phillips, Jay Wilden, and Ronald Rose around fire truck in Caliente, Nevada (identified from left to right): photographic print
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Allen and Bob Mortell at the No. 1 well, United Cattle and Packing Company in Stone Cabin Valley, Nevada: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). During World War I, the Mortell brothers designed and produced airplanes, assembling them at the Cedar Pipeline south of the Kawich Mountians; an attempt to sell the aircraft to the U.S. government failed.
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No. 3 well of the United Cattle and Packing Company located in the Pine Creek: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Unidentified persons in the photo. After installing a small windmill at this site and finding that it did not perform as expected, the company furnishing the wells installed this experimental mill, which had large blades and provided more pumping power than the smaller windmill.
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Ed Reed's home at Cedar, at the end of Cedar Pipeline near the south end of Kawich Mountains: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Ed Reed, brother of O.K. Reed and partner in the United Cattle and Packing Company, made his Residence here; he never married. This site is known for its very strong winds.
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Children and workers at Orville Knighten Reed's ranch in Nevada: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Frank May is on the far left in the back row. George Bruno is the tall man in the dark hat in the middle of the back row. It may be O.K. Reed on the far right in the back row. The three children kneeling in the front row belong to May and O.K. Reed.
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Orville Knighten Reed's ranch in Nevada: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Cuny Clifford and George Bruno (identified from left to right) standing next to horses. Clifford, an Indian, was adopted by the Clifford family, local ranchers, and raised much as Johnny Reed had been raised by the Reeds. Bruno was a cowboy actor in Hollywood; he once bet that he could ride a bucking horse with a 4-by-4 board sitting under him for the length of the ride. He won the bet. Bruno later married Maude Reed.
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Preparing for the spring round-up at the United Cattle and Packing Company: photographic print
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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 older man in front with the baby carriage is a joke: There was no baby in the carriage. It was symbolic of the fact that old men did not participate in the round-up, but were instead told to stay home and take care of the ranch and the baby. This old man is Wake Catlet, described by Ed Slavin as a “residue of the Civil War.” Catlet was said to be the only man in Nye County of whom Jack Longstreet was afraid.
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Jack Longstreet with his Ford Model-T: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). It's said that Jack Longstreet had been shot in the arm, and refusing to see a doctor, lived with an infected arm for many years. He did get Maude Reed attend to the arm, and also Maude's daughter, Helen Reed, when she got older. The arm, it's said, had a foul odor. When Longstreet made some money at his Longstreet Mine, he finally went to Los Angeles and had his arm treated.
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The No. 1 well, located in Stone Cabin Valley, United Cattle and Packing Company, Nevada: photographic print
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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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