What Was Really Going On at Those Nevada Divorce Ranches?
“THE DIVORCE SEEKERS is the only memoir written by a former Nevada divorce ranch wrangler.”
– Lynn Downey, author of American Dude Ranch
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A Bit About the Authors
Award-winning author William L. McGee lived through the history he writes about…whether it was growing up in Montana during the hardscrabble years of the Depression, joining the Navy in 1942 at age seventeen to get in the fight, cowboying on an exclusive divorce ranch in Nevada in the postwar ’40s, or working in broadcasting in the early days of 1950s and ’60s television. During his seven-decade career, he wrote 22 nonfiction books, nine with his co-author/wife Sandra V. McGee.
Bill was born in 1925 in Livingston, Montana, and grew up cowboying in the cow town of Malta on the Montana Hi-Line. He is a World War II veteran and served in the U.S. Navy as a Gunner’s Mate in the Pacific Theater. He is also an Atomic Veteran of Operation Crossroads, the first postwar atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946.
In 1950, Bill left cowboying and made a successful transition into broadcast marketing and sales. During his 32-year career, he wrote broadcast sales guidebooks for radio and television station management and sales teams; produced sales presentation films for radio and TV; and created advertising services for newspaper, radio, and television. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to broadcast marketing.
In his retirement years, Bill became an award-winning author of WWII military histories.
Sandra V. McGee honed her writing skills as a publicist for the performing arts. In 2000, she ventured into the world of Nevada divorce ranches and, as she likes to say, “never returned.” Sandra’s ongoing dedication to preserving the history of the Nevada divorce ranch era has earned her the reputation as an expert on this period of history in the American West.
Sandra’s passions are ballet, film noir, and Reno when it was the “Divorce Capital of the World.”