Welcome to Beatty, Nevada
A once-prosperous town and the people who still proudly call it home
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(Image credit: (Christina Stetson)It was while she was an artist-in-residence at Nevada's Goldwell Open Air Museum that Stetson found Beatty, Nevada — a Gold Rush town that struggled after the mining jobs d)

(Image credit: Christina Stetson.)









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Nikkitha Bakshani is a freelance writer and editor at The Morning News. Her writing has appeared in Departures.com, Yahoo Travel, The Paris Review Daily, and more.
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