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Prospector Jim Butler and his wife Belle (on the right) with two unidentified men and a dog sitting outside of a tent with a stovepipe coming through the top, probably in Tonopah, Nevada. Jim Butler struck the first gold and silver ores in Tonopah and Belle Butler struck the Mizpah Mine claim in Tonopah.

Portrait of Lemuel (Lem) and Johana Compton. Handwritten on back of photo: "Had a ranch in Nye County at Peavine, in the early nineties. Both of these people are buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Austin [in Lander County, Nevada]. Present owner of the Peavine ranch now Charley Keough, nephew of Mrs. Compton. Mrs. Johana Compton in the late nineties or 1900 used to deliver potatoes from Peavine Ranch to [Y?illegible] Canyon and Berlin, Grantsville [both in Nye County] which they raised at Peavine Ranch." Johana Compton, a former Union Army nurse, died whle trying to save the Peavine Ranch from fire in November 1900.

Several men pose outside of a tarpaulin-covered wood and tin structure near the Gold Reef Mine in Goldfield, Nevada. Signs on the front of the building say "Gold Reef," "Restaurant," "Saloon," "Groceries." Some of the men carry rifles or guns. A woman and man are behind an open service window in the front of the building. Caption: "Gold Reef. The first store. Oct. 11, 1908."

Belle Butler (wife of Jim Butler, lower left), and Daisy Rendall (later married to Nevada Governor Tasker Oddie), pose outside of adits at a mine near Tonopah, Nevada where Jim Butler first discovered gold.

A group of schoolchildren pose with their teacher, Clarice Bateman (center of back row), in front the elementary schoolhouse in Tonopah, Nevada. The woman to the left of Bateman is unidentified.

A group of schoolchildren pose with their teacher, Clarice Bateman (at left), in front the elementary schoolhouse in Tonopah, Nevada. An unidentified woman is seen in the second row. An African-American boy and and Native American Indian boy are seen in the back row; another Native American Indian boy is seen in the front row at the right.

L-R: Mary Manning, Las Vegas Sun reporter, with Bill Wright, general manager of the Las Vegas Review-Journal at a reception for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' University Library Society, Las Vegas, Nevada.