Beatty, Nevada
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Beatty is an unincorporated town along the Amargosa River in Nye County, Nevada, United States. U.S. Route 95 runs through the town, which lies between Tonopah, about 90 miles to the north and Las Veg
Beatty NV downtown
The Montgomery Hotel in 1905. It was owned by Bob Montgomery, namesake of the Montgomery-Shoshone Mine in nearby Rhyolite.
Advertisement in 1906 Sunset magazine
The Amargosa River flows through Beatty.
Rhyolite, Nevada
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Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park.
Beatty, Nevada
…the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad in 1905, the town became a railway center for the Bullfrog Mining District, including mining towns such as nearby Rhyolite. Starting in the 1940s, Nellis Air Force Base and other federal installations contributed to the town's economy as did tourism related to Death Valley…
Ruins of the Cook Bank building in Rhyolite, Nevada
Rhyolite Mercantile, a general store built in 1906 that burned to the ground in September 2014 after being hit by lightning (image taken circa 2007).
The town's former railway station (Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad) in April 2026
Amargosa Desert and Bullfrog Hills near Rhyolite