DENNIS CASSINELLI,

avid outdoorsman, history buff and archaeology enthusiast, is the author of three books about early Great Basin inhabitants. Raised in Sparks, Nevada, Cassinelli developed an interest in Indian artifacts as a young boy working on his family’s ranch. In the early 1990s, he painstakingly identified hundreds of projectile points to create the Cassinelli-Perino Artifact Collection, now located at the Carson Valley Museum and Cultural Center in Gardnerville, Nevada.