Born early in 1915 to poor diversified farmers in Southern Illinois, Penny Malcolm insisted on a high-school education even though it was considered tomfoolery. At nineteen years of age she hitch-hiked to Peoria, illinois and found a job paying $2.50 a week. She moved to Los Angeles, California and strted life as a prosititute, buying her first house in Fresno, California in 1940. In 1962 she moved to Winnemucca, nevada and bought My Place Bar...

Marianne Etchart was born June 8, 1900 in a small village in the French Pyrenees Mountains, Esterencuby. Her father and mother left her in the care of her maternal grandfather and grandmother when she was one and a half years old and they moved to the United States. She psent the first nineteen years of her life on the family farm in France before joining her parents and brothers in Golconda, nevada in 1919. She then met and married Pete Etchart,...

Born July 6, 1905 at Miranda Stataion on the east side of the Steens Mountain in southeast Oregon, Waltzy Elliott was raised in a ranching family and started working at an early age on the famed Miller & Lux Ranching empire until 1929. He ended his buckarooing days and worked as a grocer for Safeway Stores throughout Nevada for eight years until 1938. Waltzy then began his long 48-year career of gaming in Winnemucca until his retirement in 1986....

Jeanne Crawford Duarte was born February 6, 1911 in Cripple Creek, Colorado and moved to Winnemucca in March of 1912. Her father, John Howie Crawford was involved in freighting and was a muleskinner for freighters such as Haviland and Hoskins and Summerfield. This oral history tells about the early freighting. It also tells about living in the small mining town of National and of early Winnemucca and it's people when they lived around the 6th Street...

Noel Anchart's City Bakery was one of the many businesses in Winnemucca owned by Basques from the old country. This oral history is told by Noel and Genevieve Anchart's two daughters, Denise Anchart Parry and Andre'e Anchart Richards. They relate stories about living in a French and Basque speaking home where life revolved around the bakery and its relationship to Winnemucca. This was a time when most women did not drive and bakery goods were delivered...

Leslie Stewart's oral history has wonderful stories about the renowned 96 horses and the buckaroos and ranch hands that worked and played in areas of the Santa Rosa Mountains, the Owyhee desert and Paradise Valleys. he details the organizations he and his father and grandfather have been so active in.

This oral history begins in a small ranching community in Oregon in 1917, a time when Ruth's mode of transportation was horse and buggy. In mid-life she and her husband Virgil, and their family moved to the Rock Creek Ranch near Golconda, Nevada. They later bought the historic Circle Bar Ranch on the Humboldt River. There is good information on Ruth's twenty-five year career in Agricultural Statistics along with ranching and raising a family,...

William (Bill) Arant's Winnemucca roots began in the late 1800s with the marriage of Ermalinda Arana Mendosa to Phil Roberts. Their daughter, Rosale Roberts, married John Banks Arant. Both families lived in the old Record House, now Desert Mountain Surveying, until the 1950s. Bill's father and grandfather were railroad men. Bill Arant served in two wars and completed his education at UNR, Reno. He became a successful businessman in realty and...

Norman Doughty was born in Council, Idaho June 14,1915 and moved to Winnemucca in 1936. He first worked for the Winnemuca Mercantile and he relates a very different downtown in 1936.