Omer C. Stewart (1908-1991) was Professor Emeritus of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado and a renowned scholar of indigenous religions, particularly peyotism. He was also an outspoken advocate for the indigenous nations of the United States. Omer C. Stewart and Martha C. Knack wrote a book together in 1984 titled As Long as the River Shall Run: An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation.

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Seth Schorr is the Chief Executive Officer of Fifth Street Gaming and Chairman of the Downtown Grand Las Vegas. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, Schorr worked as an executive in the marketing department at Bellagio Resort and Casino. Between 2000 and 2003 he held a position as Director of Interactive Gaming at Wynn resorts and was also in charge of developing the Wynn Collection of Fine Art. In 2003, Schorr moved to Macau, China to be a part of the Wynn Macau development team.

Sadie Kiel George was born on June 19, 1868 to Franklin and Elizabeth Kiel in Mansfield, Ohio. Sadie was the granddaughter of Conrad Kiel, one of Las Vegas Valley's earliest settlers and owned Kiel Ranch in the 1880s, which was the second oldest ranch in the Las Vegas Valley. Sadie Kiel married Hampton E. George on November 28, 1887 and they had a son, Willard Hampton George. Sadie Kiel George passed away on October 16, 1943 at the age of 75.

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Tom Ehlen has been passionate about the trumpet from an early age. He discovered his musical roots in his hometown of Kenton, Ohio and pursued that passion throughout his life. He caught his first break as a musician while studying at Ohio State University.

Barbara Bates Kirkland was born 1934 in Shreveport, Louisiana. On a sunny day in 1946, Kirkland and her mother stepped off the train from Shreveport and onto the Western street of Fremont in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Kirkland’s mother, Atha Toliver, found employment as a maid. Toliver, who was determined that her daughter would get an education and a finer future, saw this as her opportunity to achieve this for her daughter. Later, she opened Eva’s Flower Basket, a floral shop that Kirkland would operate after retiring from teaching.

Anna Peltier was born September 12, 1978 and grew up in Escanaba, Michigan, on the Upper Peninsula. She studied music performance at Michigan State University, but after discovering her love of landscape architecture, she changed majors and earned her degree in landscape architecture. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2007 and first worked for JW Zunino Landscape Architects. While with Zunino, Peltier did design work for Lorenzi Park, the Mob Museum, the Neon Museum, and designed the award-winning Cactus Avenue Interchange.