Dan Dagget has been an environmental activist and ecorestoration consultant for over thirty years, fighting coal strip mines in Ohio and uranium mining near the Grand Canyon, designating wilderness areas, and working to resolve conflicts between western ranchers and environmentalists.... more

Robert Dawson is a gifted photographer of the American West. His photographs have been recognized by a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruttenberg Fellowship from The Friends of Photography, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (with Gray Brechin) and several other major grants, awards, and fellowships.... more

Poet and artist Joanne de Longchamps (1923-1983) grew up in Los Angeles and studied art and music in France. She came to Reno in 1941 after marrying mining engineer Galen Edward de Longchamps.... more

Kelly J. Dixon is a professor of anthropology at the University of Montana. She specializes in Historical Archaeology in the American West, with recent research at the site of the ill-fated Donner Party in the eastern Sierras and in mining boomtowns such as Virginia City, Nevada.... more