Remarks on the elder J. Irving Crowell; J.I.'s schooling; J. Irving's railroad accident forces J. I. to leave Stanford; J. I.'s memories of summers helping J. Irving at Chloride Cliff; early railroads. Working in Los Angeles; returning to Beatty to re-open the fluorspar mine. Dorothy and her mother visit Beatty; first impressions; the floods of 1969 and 1923; raising children in Beatty; health care; the three-day drive to Los Angeles; later travels. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

The family ranch in the Grapevines, and gathering pine nuts there; Indians leave Beatty when the T&T departs. Work at Janda Ribbons; raising a family; views on the nuclear waste repository; putting children through college. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Claudia's parents-their arrival and meeting in Nevada; Claudia's first memories of Beatty; Beatty as a close-knit community; various types of local entertainment; old-timers and characters in Beatty; A discussion of religion in Beatty; Beatty's brothels; prospecting in the hills around Beatty; early memories of Rhyolite and of Westmoreland. Memories of communications (radio, phones, newspapers); discussion of some social attitudes in Beatty; recalling Beatty school teachers; further recollections of old-time Rhyolite and Beatty and some of their citizens. Recollections of Carrara and of other area communities-Ash Meadows, Lathrop Wells, the Amargosa Valley, Springdale, Pioneer, Furnace Creek, Las Vegas, and Indian Springs. - 2009 - Nye County Town History Project.

Early Beatty deputies; enforcing the law in southern Nye County; representing southern Nye County in the Assembly -getting a phone exchange and working for roads for the county; observations on today's law enforcement; law enforcement on the Test Site; Nye County's lawsuit with the Test Site. Work on the Test Site; how the Assembly operates; views on Bullfrog County; Esmeralda County; the Verdi Lumber Company -fire!; Albert and Henrietta Revert. Sidewinders in the bar!; law enforcement in Amargosa Valley; recollections of Sheriff Bill Thomas; the structure of Nye County offices; old-time Socialists in Nye County; observations on the Nevada State Legislature; water and St. Joe. - 1988 - Nye County Town History Project.

Early Indian workers on the railroad and at Scotty's Castle; the Indian community in Beatty; pine nuts and other foods; trapping birds and animals; school in Beatty; Sheriff John Vignolo; World War II. Working as a miner; the ribbon factory; foreman on the county roads. Memories of Wes Moreland in Rhyolite and others; camping under the trees in the summer. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Parents' background; lumber companies in Verdi and Tonopah; the Depression; some Nevada politicians The Reverts move to Beatty; the Shirk Estate; Beatty water; mining; stores in Beatty. Service stations in the Beatty area; bootlegging during Prohibition; law enforcement; transportation; electric power. World War II and its effects on Beatty; Reno; and Tonopah; electric power; service stations. The Cottonwood family; electric power; service stations; banking; law enforcement; transportation; tourism; the Nevada Test Site. Low-level nuclear waste; the Beatty water supply; Beatty's future. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Homer Weeks and the Senator Stewart Mine; working mill tailings; the John Delfs Scholarship. The Lisle hardware store; the fire department then and now; the Beatty economy. Ethnic groups in Beatty; tourism; a trip up the road. The Spicer inquest; on up the road - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Growing up in the east, then Los Angeles; moving to Nye County; meeting Bombo; waitressing in Beatty; holding horse shows and problems with getting ribbons and trophies; starting a business that grows and grows . . Rewards of the ribbon company; one of Beatty's largest employers; a loyal workforce; Beatty's future. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Family beginnings; J.I. and J. Irving early on in area; growing up in mining. Schooldays in Beatty in 1930s; social life centered in the bars; Hotels and other buildings in Beatty. A professional miner; into the Navy and back to Beatty all in four years. Burro races; service clubs. Community service; the volunteer spirit and pride in one's community.Rural electrification changes life in Beatty; changes in water, sewer and telephone services. Town politics; the advent of the Citizens' Advisory Council; local economy. The Test Site; the Nye County suit to collect taxes from the Site; problems of nuclear waste disposal. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Early arrival in Beatty; marriage to Fred Davies; Beatty residents. More memories of early Beatty. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Family background and early days in Colorado; moving to Nevada; working at the Gold Ace mine; building a mill; Carrara in 1933; milling at Gold Point. Mining in California, then Silver Peak; work with Ralph Lisle; a flash flood in the Panamints; shift foreman at Wells Cargo; wartime duty in the South Pacific; return to Beatty; mechanic work in Beatty, Hawthorne and Gabbs; beginning what is now U.S. Ecology; work on the Nevada 'Best Site; building a garage. Depression-area Beatty - restaurants, movies, dances; early tourism; the CCC work in Death Valley; burro races; more memories of the flash flood. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Gordon Bettles' parents; Edith is raised by her grandmother; Gordon and Billie live in Fernley and Reno, then move south; developing a home on the T&T. Gordon and Billie build a home on the Mecca Road and begin the Mecca Club; Billie completes the home after Gordon's death. The Brockmans move to Beatty; Frank discovers how Nevadans do business; building a motel. An ambulance for Beatty; the brothels in town; a beef roast goes awry; promoting Beatty with a burro; Gordon Bettles as a Mason; the Meander Inn. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Gordon Bettles' parents; Edith is raised by her grandmother; Gordon and Billie live in Fernley and Reno, then move south; developing a home on the T&T. Gordon and Billie build a home on the Mecca Road and begin the Mecca Club; Billie completes the home after Gordon's death. The Brockmans move to Beatty; Frank discovers how Nevadans do business; building a motel. An ambulance for Beatty; the brothels in town; a beef roast goes awry; promoting Beatty with a burro; Gordon Bettles as a Mason; the Meander Inn. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Early days in Fernley and at the Clay Camp at Ash Meadows. Early days in Beatty; the Lisle family trip from Fernley to Ash Meadows; some mimes in the Beatty area. Stories of Dad Fairbanks and Death Valley Scotty. Mining tungsten during World War II; service in the army; returning to Beatty after the war. Fourteen years as Nye County Commissioner; how the hardware store got started. The growth of service organizations in Beatty; Bert Lemons; movie theater; Beatty in the 1930s. Beatty as a supply point; Beatty is a caring town. - 1987 - Nye County Town History Project.

Bobby’s beginnings and his grandfather’s history, from France to Beatty; the Reverts’ mercantile store and fuel business in Beatty; old-time miners in Beatty; how Bobby’s mother came to Nevada, and mining at Clarksdale and Yellow Gold; fur trapping; growing up in Beatty; the can-do attitude in Nevada. - 2009 - Nye County Town History Project.