Ruth McGonagill and a neighbor's baby at tent house with pipe from milk can stove. The family lived here, in the Kawich Range, from about September 1904 through March 1905. (This camp was called Wheaton and was a couple miles up the gully from Silver Bow, Nevada)

Description written on the slide: "Wind storm has blown down several tents."

A black and white image of government-issued tents set up near Boulder City for people working on Hoover Dam.

Photograph of a survey team standing outside a tent, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Freight team leaving Bullfrog, Nevada, December 1, 1905. There is an inscription on the back of the photo: "Headed for Goldfield, 65 miles to the north. Bullfrog was founded after the discovery of gold in the area in 1904. By 1907 Rhyolite, the tent camp at the left in the picture, had become the city of the district with a population of over 6000. The boom was over by the end of 1907." There is a date stamp: 1980.

Jim Morgan, Clyde Jackson, and an unidentified man sit/stand in front of tent house in Mineral Park, 1907.

The first tent camp set up by the Bureau of Reclamation in Boulder City before the city was built.