About the Author

James A. Young has spent more than thirty years in Nevada devising methods to maintain and preserve the soils and plant communities that constitute the rangelands in the Great Basin. He is co-author of the forthcoming book Purshia. The Wild and Bitter Roses (see page 11). B. Abbot Sparks is the great-nephew of John Sparks, whose life is chronicled in Cattle in the Cold Desert. B. Abbott Sparks is a retired publishing executive, who continues to devote time to numerous and wide-ranging literary projects.