Larry Lyon Editor

DENIS WOOD, an independent writer and geographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina, was a distinguished professor of design at North Carolina State University from 1974 to 1998. His many acclaimed and influential books include The Power of Maps, which was a History Book Club and a Quality Paperback Book Club selection, Rethinking the Power of Maps with John Fels and John Krygier, Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas, Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land, and the classic, Home Rules, with Robert Beck. Larry Lyon, Ph.D., is a psychologist who has worked in the mental-health field since 1979 in a variety of settings, including more than two decades in private practice in The Dalles, Oregon. He currently works for the Veterans Health Administration in Las Vegas, Nevada. Arthur Lyon was born in the mining camp of Pearl, Idaho, in 1904. The Lyon family ran a trucking business based in Nevada, and, in 1935, pioneered the Boise-Winnemucca Bus Line, which they operated until 1946. In 1930, Arthur and his brother, Joe, drove their 1929 Ford Model A Roadster from Manhattan through Mexico and Central America. Sally Denton born in Elko, Nevada, in 1953, is a third-generation Nevadan. She attended the Uni- About the Author versity of Nevada-Reno before completing her B.A. at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1974. Denton received a Lannan Literary Grant in 2000, Western Heritage Awards in 2002 and 2004, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in General Nonfiction in 2006. In 2008, she was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Her career as an investigative reporter resulted in articles in The Washington Post, Penthouse, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, and American Heritage. Her books include The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs, and Murder;The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and its Hold on America (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001) co-authored with Roger Morris, which was made into a documentary film broadcast on the History Channel, Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006); Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Frémont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America (Bloomsbury, 2007); and The Plots Against the President: FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right(Bloomsbury, 2012). Denton currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and her Website is www.sallydenton.com.