With the subjects arranged in approximate order of their appearance on center stage, the first person profiled is explorer John C. Fremont, and the last is current Strip executive Steve Wynn. Their stories span more than 150 years of Southern Nevada history.
History is a community treasure easily buried.
It has been extremely gratifying for me given all the work I put into it. Of the several thousand we have sold, there has not been a single return. And that is very unusual. Many of those who made the important decisions remain alive, while immediate relatives and close acquaintances of others still survive. This gives the Review-Journal a special opportunity to portray them and their accomplishments with authentic detail, which newspapers and historians in other cities would envy.