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Jerome EdwardsJerome Edwards is Acting Chair of the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno where he specializes in the history of Nevada, U.S. diplomatic history, and US Constitutional history. He is author of Pat McCarran, Political Boss of Nevada.

Michael GreenMichael Green is a professor of history at the Community College of Southern Nevada where he teaches US and Nevada history, Las Vegas history, and history of gaming law.


Shawn HallShawn Hall is the Curator and Manager of the Tonopah Historic Mining Park and the author of several books about the ghost towns and mining camps of Nevada.



Jim Hulse
Jim Hulse
is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is author of numerous books about Nevada including The Silver State: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted, and Forty Years in the Wilderness: Impressions of Nevada, 1940-1980.

William MetscherWilliam Metscher is the Director of the Central Nevada Museum and the grandson of a Goldfield goldrusher.




William RowleyWilliam Rowley
holds the Grace A. Griffen Chair in Nevada and the West at the University of Nevada, Reno and is editor-in-chief of the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. Among his publications is Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands.

Sally ZanjaniSally Zanjani is adjunct professor in Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, the daughter of a Goldfield goldrusher, and the author of many books on Nevada and western history. Among her books are
Goldfield: The Last Goldrush on the Western Frontier, and A Mine of Her Own: Women
Prospectors in the American West
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