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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.
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The Wilson Family Papers (1875-1918) document the personal and professional lives of James B. Wilson Sr., James B. Wilson Jr., and George Twison "Tweed" Wilson, early pioneers in Southern Nevada. The collection is comprised of personal correspondence, invoices and advertisements from the Wilson family business, the Sandstone Ranch, and photographs of the extended Wilson family.
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