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Settings In Blythe, Battle Mountain And Las Vegas

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There are many settings in this book including Blythe, Battle Mountain, and Las Vegas in Nevada, San Francisco, California; Midland, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Welch, West Virginia; and New York City. The time when this story happens is approximately 1957 to 2005. Jeannette was born in Tucson, Arizona. Then the family moved to Las Vegas in Nevada. The family lives in a small hotel. Rex Walls develops a winning method for blackjack and buys everyone vests, cowboy hats and numerous dinners out, the most fun to everyone was in an old west themed restaurant which tops off the evening with a flaming ice cream cake. This method was discovered by the casino staff the next day and the family had to move and get out of town.
The family then moved

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