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    Lincoln County Record: Retired Alamo engineer, school teacher now a published author

    June 19, 2018 By The Complete Nevadan Leave a Comment

    by The Complete Nevadan
    June 19, 2018June 15, 2018Filed under:
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    By Dave Maxwell

    After a distinguished career as an engineer with the Hughes Corporation and as a middle school teacher and coach, Mike Prince Sr. of Alamo retired and is now a published author.

    Courtesy photo
    Alamo’s Mike Prince at a book signing in April at the regular meeting of the Las Vegas Historical Society. Prince has three books in print and is working on a fourth

    On April 10, Prince was invited to be one of the guest speakers and do a book signing at the Las Vegas Historical Society’s monthly meeting.

    Prince noted that, “… the invited speakers were former rodeo queens of the Helldorado Days celebration in Las Vegas, dating as far back as the early 1940s, and what that experience had meant to them.” He added that “one of the women invited to share her story was a former resident of Lincoln County, Naomi (Lytle) Gibbs, who was Helldorado rodeo queen in 1954. Mrs. Gibbs’ husband suggested to the group that they invite me, as a southern Nevada boy and successful author … And they did. They were very gracious to me and I was well received.”

    Prince is also a known author of cowboy poetry and said he recited some of his poems to the delight of the audience.

    He said he told the group that he was a storyteller and “relied on my background and education growing up as a young cowboy in a third-generation ranching family. My father was a ranch and rodeo cowboy in the southwest for a number of years. He punched cows in Arizona, California, and Nevada, and as a rodeo contestant won the amateur calf roping event at the 1947 Elks Helldorado.”

    Prince said he “grew up a lot around storytellers, who were all cowboys.”

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    • Hughes Corporation
    • Lincoln County

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