Henry C. Wieking was born January 5, 1906 in Alameda, California. He worked as a draftsman in Oakland, California until 1929, when the United States Bureau of Reclamation hired Wieking to work in Las Vegas, Nevada. He moved to Las Vegas in approximately September of 1929, and he worked on the construction of Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) and the reconstruction of the Las Vegas Mormon Fort. Wieking died May 25, 1998 in Pleasant Hill, California.

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Geneva Stark Merwin was born on June 23, 1917. She worked as a teacher first in Pahrump, Nevada, then later in Las Vegas, Nevada after Maude Frazier recommended her to the city's school board. Merwin taught in Las Vegas for over thirty years, winning an award for her work in 1975. She died April 12, 2016.

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Shelley Bristol is an AIDS activist in the Las Vegas, Nevada community. During the early 1990s Bristol was a legal prostitute in Winnemucca, Nevada. By 1993 Bristol left the brothel and decided to become an AIDS activist. During this time there was a great demand for legal prostitutes' testimony in AIDS prevention campaigns in Nevada. Besides providing her testimony about her experience with HIV/AIDS testing as a prostitute, Bristol also volunteered as a hotline operator with AIDS for AIDS of Nevada.

When interviewed by daughter Mary Hogan, Mr. James Hogan discusses moving to Las Vegas, early Las Vegas, Boulder Dam, and the Stewart Ranch.

Colonel T. W. Miller and Vic Whittlesea are also mentioned.

Don Laughlin was born and raised on a farm seven miles northeast of Owatonna, Minnesota. In about 1953 he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. In about 1966, he moved to the area that is now Laughlin, Nevada and purchased what would become the Riverside Resort Hotel and Casino.