Sagebrush to Sandstone:
A Humanities Guide to Outdoor Nevada

Nevada Humanities would like to especially thank Kathleen Kuo and Scott Dickensheets, co-editors. Kathleen for dreaming and nurturing this project from a small seed in the desert, and Scott for his unwavering support and willingness to jump off the deep end together with Kathleen to make this book a collective reality.

We offer our deep gratitude to AB Gorham and Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada, Reno, for taking this remarkable journey with us and for her generous talents and skills as publication designer and letterpress printer.

We are grateful for the permission granted to reprint previously published works contained in this guide by their copyright holders, publishers, and representatives. The works provided herein are presented with permission of the authors, artists, and in some instances, their estates. Visitors Guide: Wild Horse State Park by Gailmarie Pahmeier is part of the collection, Of Bone, Of Ash, Of Ordinary Saints: A Nevada Gospel, Wayne State College Press, 2020.

Thank you to the following poets from around the state of Nevada for their contributions to this guide: Michelle Aucoin Wait, Jennifer Battisti, Gayle Brandeis, Angela M. Brommel, Echo Clark, Shaun T. Griffin, Karen Laing, Heather Lang-Cassera, Rodney J. Lee, Joanne Mallari, Waddie Mitchell, nila northSun, Gailmarie Pahmeier, Melanie Perish, Elizabeth Quiñones-Zaldaña, Drew Seevers, Gary Short, and Charlene Stegman Moskal. A special thank you to the family of Kirk Robertson, the family of Elaine Dallman, the family of Stephen Shu-Ning Liu, and the estate of Adrian C. Louis for granting us permission to share these poets’ works.

Thank you to the visual artists inspired by Nevada who contributed their beautiful work to this publication: Pat Hansen, Jack Malotte, Tiffany Pereira, and Sharon K. Schafer.

Scientists, scholars, and students contributed notes and prompts about the environment around us, and we would like to thank: Kevin Burls, Kelsey Fitzgerald, Matt Forister, Benjamin Hatchett, Steve Hromada, JD Lancaster, Elizabeth Leger, Morgan Long, Tatianna Menocal, Danielle Miles, Cynthia Scholl, Kacie N. Shourd, Devon Snyder, Katherine Strain, Benjamin Sonnenberg, Henry Sun, and Alexandra Urza.

Special thanks to Nevada Humanities staff, including Christina Barr, Aliza Berlin, Stephanie Gibson, Bobbie Ann Howell, and Kathleen Kuo; to the Nevada Humanities Board of Trustees members, with particular gratitude to Debra Harry and Shaun T. Griffin; to Black Rock Press staff and volunteers Josh Galarza, Aiman Murtaza, and Kelsey Reiman; Kellee Morgado; and to Deborah Fant, Meghan Collins, Deanna Ackerman, Ann Barnes, Kate Fennimore, Christianna Shortridge, Bridget Lera, Drew Cohen, Christine Kelly, Danilo Thomas and Baobab Press, Erica Vital-Lazare, Heather Lang-Cassera, Michael P. Branch, National Park Service, Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, and the Desert Research Institute.

Sagebrush to Sandstone: A Humanities Guide to Outdoor Nevada has been made possible in part by funding from the Library of Congress; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Nevada Center for the Book; City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission; the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University; and the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust.