Editing Indian Springs, Nevada (section)

==="Wild Bill" Williams===
George and Belle Lattimer owned a ranch where the Indian Springs Hotel & Casino was located until October 1, 2014 when it was closed by the USAF to expand a security buffer around Creech AFB.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcasinodirectory.com/casino/indian-springs-hotel-casino-2663|publisher=[World Casino Directory]|access-date=2014-11-16|title=Indian Springs Casino Closed}}</ref>  In 1906, George Lattimer was bitten by an insect, or perhaps a [[brown recluse spider]], and Belle hitched the wagon to take him into the doctor.  A 16-year-old Paiute Indian boy named Coachie Siegmuller was left to watch the ranch.<ref name="Walt Chamberlain">{{cite news|last=Earl|first=Phillip|title=Indian Springs has interesting history|newspaper=Henderson Home News, Boulder City News, Green Valley News|date=November 4, 1993}}</ref>

While they were gone, Siegmuller saw another Paiute named Bill "Wild Bill" Williams approached the ranch.  Williams was known as "bad" and Siegmuller was terrified of him. Williams was notorious for exploiting young Paiute men by hiring them out to local ranchers and then pocketing their wages.  Williams was there that day to collect some of these wages. Finding no one home, Williams stretched out on the porch and was soon fast asleep.  Siegmuller felt he needed to defend the ranch, fetched a rifle from the kitchen, silently crept up on Williams, and shot him dead in the head.<ref name="Walt Chamberlain" />

Coachie Siegmuller pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to death.  The area's Paiute Reservation, the [[Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony|Las Vegas Indian Colony]], threatened to go to war over the death penalty, and to keep the peace Siegmuller was instead sentenced to three years in the Carson City Prison.  The Lattimers buried Wild Bill Williams behind the ranch. Dogs kept digging his remains up, so they were buried a few times before staying under.<ref name="Walt Chamberlain" />