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Rhyolite,NV - Nye County - 1992-2000 - Rhyolite Publications :

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Rhyolite,NV - Nye County - 1992-2000 - Rhyolite Publications :
Lot of 4 includes: 1) Rhyolite, Nevada: Historical Report and Survey for the BLM, Tonopah, NV by McCoy, Suzy. Soft cover, approximately 200 pages with numerous photographs, maps, and illustrations. Copyright April, 2000 by Suzy McCoy. Starting with the discovery of gold a few miles east of Death Valley in 1904; the mining camp of Rhyolite's population grew to 2500 by May, 1905; to 8,000 by 1907; down to 675 by 1910; down to 250 by 1913; and by 1924 there were no residents in Rhyolite, obtaining "ghost town" status. Work shows the location, photographs, and descriptions of many of Rhyolite's ruins. 2) Babysitting a Ghost Town by McCoy, Suzy. Soft cover, 136 pages including various photographs. Boss Publishing, Pahrump, NV, 1998. Autographed from author to Gil Schmidtmann on cover page. The story of the author and her husband, and how they became temporary "Caretakers" of Rhyolite, a ghost town about 4 miles west of Beatty on Hwy 374.

3) Beatty: Frontier Oasis by McCracken, Robert D. SSoftcover 103 pages including many photographs and illustrations. Published by Nye County Press, Tonopah, NV, 1992. Of those towned spawned by the Rhyolite boom of 1904, Beatty is the only one to have survived. While situated in the middle of am inhospitable desert, Beatty had two assets others did not: water and relative accessibility on the route from Las Vegas to Tonopah. This book "traces the area's history from prehistoric times to Beatty's present status as a tourism and mining center." 4) Modern Pioneers of the Amargosa Valley by McCracken, Robert D. SSoft cover 87 pages including many photographs and illustrations. Published by Nye County Press, Tonopah, NV, 1992. The Amargosa Valley, although not as famous as it's neighbor to the west, Death Valley, remains formidable. The work covers the history of the valley from the early exploration of the Death valley 49'ers; the founding of Ash Meadows, the first community in the valley; the crossing of the railroad tracks in 1906; the modern development beginning in the early 1950's; and electric power finally supplied in the early 1960's.