Weepah, Nevada is known as "the last gold rush" in the West. Gold was discovered at Weepah in 1927, almost two decades after most of the major gold districts had been located.

Included here are four press photos documenting the town’s boom. One, a general overview of the area, has a caption noting that “the town is expected to grow to a population of more than 20,000 people.” One shows some people selling blankets by automobile. Another photo shows Frank Horton Jr. sitting proudly atop numerous sacks of ore, each valued at about $1000 a bag. He is shown in another photo with his friend Leonard Traytor, his father, himself a miner in Tonopah two decades past, and numerous other prospectors. The last photograph shows a woman and her young dog posed in front of a tent with a makeshift sign for the” Weepah Club, “ the area’s first cabaret.