Our former art director, Sowgand Shiekholslami, created the look of this volume. The Reverend Thomas D. Campbell suggested the subject of the first biography and many others after that. Once the feature was running, many other people suggested subjects. John Hans and Edith Old proofread the text. The Reverend T.J. Malinoski has been an irreverent sounding board. Susan Knight Gore, director of the Historical Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America, has been an invaluable resource,

Biographies included are:

• Dale Alexander
• Davy Crockett
• Roxie Hart
• Calvin Wilson
• Charles Portis
• Mattie Ross
• Ira Landrith
• William Jennings Bryan
• Jade Snow Wong & Gam Sing Quah
• James Terrell Wooten
• Myles Falls Horton
• Eric Westin
• Chow King and H. William & Company
• R.E.F. Records & Bob Scott Frick
• Bob Goss
• Fred Gladding
• Mac Davis
• Jimmy Dean
• William Hamilton Parks
• Zach Clinard
• Jeri Ryan
• Phoebe Apperson Hearst
• William Dennes Mahan
• Frank Ryan Esch
• C. Ray Dobbins
• John Price Buchanan
• Margaret Daviess Hess
• M.D. Anderson
• William Lee Davidson Ewing
• Gospel Families
• Leonard A. Coffman