Green Eyed Lil'
| Lilita "Green Eyed Lil" raised among the mission Indians, where her father a French sailor and her mother a Californio descendant of a Spanish family made their home. At the age of 14 both her parents died of Small Pox, she continued to live and work with the Mission community. She met and married Jim, which she called Cactus because he was tough and rugged as the cactus plant and could eat nopales (cactus) at every meal. She and Cactus left Mission Santa Clara and traveled the El Camino Real to Los Angeles, where Lilita had family among the Californios. |
| On a business trip from Las Vegas to California, Jim and Lili traveled through Beatty on a motorcycle with a small tent in tow. On the return trip to Las Vegas Jim and Lili decided to make it a touring vacation again stopping in Beatty. After living and working at the Beatty RV Park and 11 months in Springdale, Jim and Lili never returned to Las Vegas. |