Spring Creek

Teenagers grow up alongside each other in the dust and noise of a Saturday event.

Just outside Elko sits Spring Creek, not quite a town in its own right.

It's more a sprawl of ranch houses and dirt roads spread across the valley floor.

Nothing much ever happens there.

And the first breath she took, I looked at it and I straightened my life up, sobered up, and devoted my life to raising my kids.» Her parents divorced when she was young, and Brittany settled into a life with her father while staying close with her mother, Alicia, as well.

She also had an older brother, James.

The family had moved over to Spring Creek in Nevada by this point, and Brittney had discovered a love of horses.

Her mother later said it wasn't quite the polished kind of horses, not the rodeo queen stuff.

He'd been doing test flights on the plane for several days around the Elko Airport.

He had taken his flight further into the Spring Creek area.

You know where that is, Spring Creek.

It's just down the road from the Jiggs Highway.

And his engine lost power.