Part 2   The Death Valley Nut & Candy Company   After catching up with Lindsey and Jacob for the last hour in Lindsey's Beatty trailer, she asks us what Beatty attractions we're planning to visit today.   "Hot springs, brothel, Rhyolite…" I start listing. "But I need some candy first."   "Eddie World," Jacob says in response to my sugar-request.   "Yeah, Eddie World," Lindsey agrees.   We pile into Jacob's truck and head to a magnificently large building attached to a gas station a couple miles up the road. The Death Valley Nut & Candy Company, also known to us as Eddie World. Due to offering food and … [Read more...]

    Part 1   The Dusty Jewel of Nye County   The first time I'd ever heard of a place called Beatty was on a trip to Death Valley with my father in 2005. While on our way to Scotty's Castle in the northern part of the national park, we passed a road with a sign marking "Beatty" at the other end. Pops and I kept driving, though in retrospect I wish we'd turned down that road instead, as Beatty was celebrating its one-hundred-first anniversary that year, no small feat considering nearly all of the settlements that sprung up around the same time in this area have since died out.   Unlike most boomtowns erected in this area of Nevada and California around … [Read more...]