There are several, who participate in this documentary:

Kevin Starr
PhD. Renown historian, State Librarian of California, professor of history at USC, past chairman of the California Sesquicentennial Commission, and author of the landmark six-volume series, Americans and the California Dream.

Philip Fradkin
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Seven States of California and other books on the American West.

JoAnn Levy
Author of the critically-acclaimed They Saw The Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush and Daughter of Joy.

Lyn Landauer
PhD. Lake Tahoe historian, educator, and author of The Mountain Sea: A History of Lake Tahoe.


Gail Holmes
Author and expert on the Mormon trek westward through the Council Bluffs area in the 1840's, and on the history of the Indian tribes of the Missouri Valley.

James Henley
Western historian, writer, and manager of the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collections Center.


James Rose
Nevada County historian, champion of recognition for the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy party and author of Sierra Trailblazers, First Pioneer Wagons Over The Sierra Nevada.