Minnie P. (Nichols) Blair was born in California in 1886. She spent her early years in Folsom and Placerville. She arrived in Nevada in 1909, the bride of Ernest W. Blair, a banker in Goldfield. The Blairs lived in Goldfield for nine years, then moved to Tonopah, where they resided at the time of the Divide Boom in 1919. Following the decline of the camp, the family moved to Fallon in 1924, where they bought a farm, and Mr. Blair continued his banking career in association with George Wingfield, owner of a chain of Nevada banks. The farm, named the Atlasta Ranch, became the center of one of Fallon's most important industries, ultimately becoming nationally known.

Mrs. Blair began raising poultry, at first on a small scale. Finally, her work made the distribution of Fallon turkeys an important business. The Fallon birds were shipped all over the country, and the birds' marketability, fine quality, and excellent flavor made Fallon, Nevada, and the Atlasta Ranch significant factors in the state's economy. At the same time, Mrs. Blair supervised a truck garden and eight hundred laying chickens.

When she retired from the poultry business, Mrs. Blair opened a small coffee shop in Fallon, and with other family members, started to serve her own food creations. This led to a new interest, and it was only a short time until the "sandwich queen," as Helen Blair Millward (Mrs. Blair's daughter) became known, had received a national restaurateurs' award for the "Atlasta good beef sandwich."

Mrs. Blair's careers are only a part of her story. She was always extremely active in civic, charitable, and political affairs in every community where she lived. These activities gained her the widest possible acquaintance over her adopted state. At more than eighty years of age, she was still supervising the restaurant in Fallon. She was named a Distinguished Nevadan by the University of Nevada in 1967.

The Minnie P. Blair memoir contains her reminiscences about her early days in California; accounts of social, economic, and political affairs in Goldfield and Tonopah; descriptions of ranch work and other activities in Fallon; and a philosophical conclusion.