Soldier and explorer Joseph Christmas Ives graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1852. In 1855, he married Cora Semmes Ives. From 1857 to 1858, Ives commanded an expedition to explore up the Colorado River to the lower end of the Grand Canyon. He then crossed the desert to Fort Defiance in Colorado. The Ives expedition produced one of the important early maps of the Grand Canyon. Ives served in the American Civil War for the Confederate Army and was promoted to aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel.

Cora Semmes Ives (1834-1916) was an American writer during the mid-1800s. She was well-known for writing the pro-Confederate utopian novel, The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story.

For Leonardo Martinez, the United States was never meant to be a destination—it was merely a short stop along the way as he awaited the day he could safely return to his family in El Salvador. Now a man who embraces the occasional Big Mac from McDonalds but never turns away a Salvadoran pupusa, Leonardo has embraced both places as home with memories that took him from his humble upbringings in Santa Lucía to the bright lights of the city of Las Vegas.

Brian Jones is a photographer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jones has been working with the Las Vegas News Bureau for twenty years.

Source:

Magone, Brendan. "The Las Vegas News Bureau "Re-Visualizes Las Vegas" with Traveling Exhibit." Published August 27, 2015. http://lasvegastoppicks.com/las-vegas-news-bureau-re-visualizes-las-vegas-traveling-exhibit/