On a stretch of arid desert northwest of Kingman arises what was perhaps the most unusual roadside attraction ever to grace the highways of the American West. It was a business that would eventually became a nationally famous roadside stop.
Ninon Kelly Talbot was a popular real estate agent in southern California. She tipped the scales at 300 lbs. so naturally she billed herself as the “Biggest real estate agent in California.”
The Talbots moved to Kingman in the late 1920s.

March 2013
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- Are These Arizona Rangers?
- Did Indians Really Whoop and Holler When they Attacked, or is that Just Something in the Westerns?
- What is the historical significance of Arizona’s Sierra Estrellas?
- Festival of Books
- Give Me a Homestead
- Picture-Perfect Custer
- What is the Treaty of Hard Labor?
- Wet Your Whistle at These Historic Saloons
- Red Hot Chili Weapon
- The Gentleman Vigilante
- Candy Moulton
- Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle?
- March 2013 Events
- Did Old West cowboys ever use a two-handed grip to fire their handguns?
- Canyon, Texas
- Billie Bierer’s Buffalo soldier Reads
- Dragoons in Apacheland
- Gunfighter in Gotham
- Texas Dames
- Something Big
- Honoring Elmore
- Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
- The Irish Influence
- Surviving in Tucson…
- On Wild Bunch Time
- Frank Butler
- The Yankee “Sixteen Shooter”
- The Elusive Outlaw
- Back in the Badlands
- The Arizona Rangers