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.
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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.
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Erma Cunningham (1912-2003) taught school throughout Southern Nevada. She was born October 26, 1912 in Granby, Missouri. Cunningham taught in one-room schools in Beatty and Nelson, Nevada and retired from Gordon McCaw Elementary School in Henderson, Nevada. She passed away on March 9, 2003, in Henderson, Nevada.
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.A. Brockman Family. In the early 1950s, Gordon Bettles and his wife, Billie, moved into the abandoned T&T Ranch in the Amargosa Farm Area, Nye County, Nev. Bettles was the first occupant of the Farm Area since the closure of the T&T Railroad years before.
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