Editing Searchlight, Nevada (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Rex Bell]], westerns actor and politician. Owned the [[Walking Box Ranch]] with his wife [[Clara Bow]]. The ranch was a popular destination for Hollywood actors.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scavone |first=Jason |date=November 23, 2021 |title=Artifacts From the Past: Walking Box Ranch |url=https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/artifacts-past-walking-box-ranch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602185816/https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/artifacts-past-walking-box-ranch |archive-date=June 2, 2023 |access-date=July 30, 2023 |website=[[University of Nevada, Las Vegas]]}}</ref>
* [[Edith Head]], costume designer who won more Oscars than any other woman.<ref>{{cite news |author=Duka |first=John |date=October 27, 1981 |title=Edith Head, Fashion Designer for the Movies, Dies |page=D07 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/27/obituaries/edith-head-fashion-designer-for-the-movies-dies.html |quote=Miss Head, was born in San Bernardino, Calif., and was raised in the mining town of Searchlight, Nev. She began her professional career not as a designer but as a teacher. |via=}}</ref>
* [[William Harrell Nellis]], aviator for whom [[Nellis Air Force Base]] is named<ref>{{cite web |title=Lieutenant William Harrell Nellis |url=https://www.nellis.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/284158/lieutenant-william-harrell-nellis/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626105629/https://www.nellis.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/284158/lieutenant-william-harrell-nellis/ |archive-date=2022-06-26 |access-date=2010-07-26 |website=[[Nellis Air Force Base]] |publisher=[[United States Air Force]]}}</ref>
* [[Harry Reid]], United States senator, 1987–2017, senate majority leader, 2007–2015<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kane |first=Paul |date=December 29, 2021 |title=Searchlight, Las Vegas and the two identities of Harry Reid |work=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/searchlight-las-vegas-and-the-two-identities-of-harry-reid/2021/12/29/46a7887e-6855-11ec-96f3-b8d3be309b6e_story.html |access-date=July 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127013402/https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/searchlight-las-vegas-and-the-two-identities-of-harry-reid/2021/12/29/46a7887e-6855-11ec-96f3-b8d3be309b6e_story.html |archive-date=November 27, 2022 |quote="Born in Searchlight, living in a shack without indoor plumbing or a high school anywhere nearby, Reid grew up with a father who worked the mines, only to fall into depression and kill himself at the age of 58. His mother worked as a laundress at the brothels in town. As a teen he hitchhiked 40 miles each Monday to get to high school and stayed with relatives."}}</ref>