Who We Are

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The Boomtown History Event came into being because a few dedicated Historians decided such a important piece of Nevada’s history should not slide into oblivion, but that the effort necessary to preserve it was worth-while and something they could do. They first met in April of 2005 and decided a conference dedication to the hardy adventurers who trod the Nevada desert with nothing more than a few tools and a burro for companionship.

Names like Seldon Seen Slim, Shorty Harris, Jack Longstreet, Shotgun Kitty Tubbs, and may more fired their imagination, and they knew the stories had to be told. The first Boomtown History Event happened about nine months latter, a Herculean effort that brought out the best in a team of dedicated people. During the second week of February 2006 some 200 authors, historians, Nevada buffs, and others gathered at Longstreet’s Hotel & Casino in Armargosa Valley for two days of presentations that centered on the places, people, and occurrences that took place one hundred years ago.

The conference began with a tour of an operating brothel and ended with a tour of an operating mine, two prime industries in the Nevada Boontowns. The Event was memorialized in a Keepsake booklet titled “How to Build a Boomtown:. And a proceedings titled “Boom Town History”. It was such a success we did it all over again in 2007.



Organizing Committee

Clair Blackburn……………. Chairman
John Campbell………..Vice Chairman
Denise Nelson...…………..... Secretary
Jean Johnson.……………....Treasurer
Bob Perchetti …..Publicity Chairman
Angela Haag…Great Race Chairman