An Interview With
An Interview with Win BrownOral History produced by Robert D. McCracken Nye County Town History Project Nye County, Nevada Tonopah 2009 COPYRIGHT 2009 Nye County Town History Project Nye County Commissioners Tonopah, Nevada 89049 DeAnna Brown and her husband Darryll Brown 2007 Gwendolyn and Leon Hughes, 1945. From left: Georgie Ann Bell and unidentified woman picking cotton. Pahrump Ranch, Pahrump, Nevada, 1937. Red Schoolhouse, Pahrump, Nevada. From left: Norma Steve, Ben Spencer (his mother was Pahrump's postmistress), Don Ward, Marie Hughes (DeAnna's aunt), DeAnna Hughes (fifth grade), Okemah Spencer (Ben Spencer's sister), 1952. From left: Leon Hughes, DeAnna Hughes, Larry Hughes, Gwendolyn Hughes, 1945. Cabin at Lost Lobo Mine, west side of Charleston Mountains above Pahrump Valley, Nevada, 1990. Portal of Lost Lobo Mine, west side of Charleston Mountains, Nevada, 1990. Children of Gwendolyn and Leon Hughes, 1954. Back row, from left: Leonard, Pam, Oneta, Michael. Front row, from left: Sharon, DeAnna (holding Raymond), and Larry. Children of John and Beryl Hughes, 1942. Standing, from left: Maxine Hughes, Betty Hughes, Byron Hughes, Bea Hughes, Leon Hughes and wife Gwendolyn. Sitting, from left: Baby DeAnna Hughes, John Hughes (DeAnna's grandfather), Kenneth Hughes, Beryl Hughes (DeAnna's grandmother), and Marie Hughes. CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv CHAPTER ONE 1 DeAnna's parents and their life in California; her grandfather John's ranch in Pahrump in the 1930s; DeAnna's childhood, traveling between Pahrump and California; her father, Leon's, attempt to grow cotton in Pahrump early on; John Hughes's mine; living at the Blue Diamond Mine and commuting to high school in Las Vegas; schooling in California and in Pahrump; life in Pahrump before a good road connected it to other communities; working in the cotton fields as a youngster; Leon's farming at the north end of the Pahrump Valley.
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