Chris Miller is an anthropologist and a conservationist who worked at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area under the authority of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from 1984 to 1998. Miller graduated from Colorado State University in 1979 with a degree in history. In 1987, Miller enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and graduated in 1992 with a master’s degree in anthropology. As of 2020, Miller continues to work for the BLM in Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

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Joan Stuart is the wife of Robert Stuart and the last private owner of the Kane Springs Ranch in Moapa County, Nevada. She sold the land to the Bureau of Land Management in 2003. She also donated the collection of records and documents regarding the history of the ranch in 2009 to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives.

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Kane Springs Ranch, Meadow Valley Wash, Nevada Records, 1930-2005. MS-00553. Special

Walter E. Lundberg was born on November 27, 1894 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota and died on January 13, 1946 at the age of 51 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

“Walter E. Lundberg (1894-1946) - Find A Grave...” Find a Grave. Accessed December 19, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131619205/walter-e_-lundberg.

Bonnie (Henley) Gragson was born February 8, 1913, in Mansfield, Arkansas, to James H. Henley and Elizabeth L. Cockrall Henley. She attended school in Mansfield, and married to Oran K. Gragson on December 21, 1934. The couple arrived in Nevada Christmas morning of that year, where Oran was employed in the construction of Hoover Dam. Except for brief periods in the 1930's when Oran was employed in highway construction in nearby Nevada cities, they lived in Las Vegas for more than 70 years.