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Christina Gentile was born in Colorado and her family moved to California when she was a year old. After her parents divorced, her father moved to Carson City, Nevada. Christina worked in the Hotel Nevada in Ely and became a dealer there. She moved to Las Vegas and worked as a dealer at the King 8 Hotel. It was sold to Station Casinos and became the Wild Wild West Hotel and Casino, and she got into management there. Christina also worked as a table games manager at Boulder Station, Red Rocks Casino, and at the Wynn Las Vegas.

Chris Miller is an anthropologist and a conservationist who worked at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area under the authority of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from 1984 to 1998. Miller graduated from Colorado State University in 1979 with a degree in history. In 1987, Miller enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and graduated in 1992 with a master’s degree in anthropology. As of 2020, Miller continues to work for the BLM in Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

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This is the history of Blue Diamond Village. Blue Diamond is located 26 miles southwest of Las Vegas. The village, originally known as Cottonwood Springs, changed its name when the Blue Diamond Company took ownership of the Gypsum mine and built corporate housing for the workers in the early '20s. Near the base of the Red Rock canyon, Blue Diamond Village was originally a stop on the Old Spanish Trail for traders from Santa Fe, N.M., to California between 1830 and 1848, according to the history committee's findings.