13. KOLO-TV – Authors Sandra McGee and Peggy Wynne Borgman talk Nevada divorce ranches with Karlie Drew, May 7, 2024
12. RENDEZVOUS WITH A WRITER, June 5, 2025
11. RENO MEMORIES – Special Featurette on Charlie Chan in Reno DVD (Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox)
10. BOOK TRAILER: The Divorce Seekers – The Intimate True Story of a Nevada Divorce Ranch Wrangler, 2nd Ed. 2023
9. BOOK TRAILER: The Divorce Seekers – A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler, 1st Ed. 2004
8. WELCOME TO RENO: AMERICA’S DIVORCE RESORT – Special Featurette on Charlie Chan in Reno DVD (Clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox)
7. RENO and the Romance of Divorce – Fundraising Trailer
An upcoming documentary that tells the remarkable true story of how a small town in Nevada redefined the American marriage. Writer/director/producer and acclaimed documentary filmmaker John Cork says, “This documentary will not ‘glorify’ divorce, but it will tell the story of how changing our divorce laws created a more equal society. It’s a great story.”
John Cork and Lisa van Eyssen, Producers, MadeInCloverland
San Francisco Film Society, Fiscal Sponsor
KNPB Reno, PBS Sponsor Station
William and Sandra McGee, Creative Consultants
6. KOLO-TV – Ed Pearce and former divorce ranch wrangler Bill McGee on the site of the famous Flying M E divorce ranch in Washoe Valley, Nevada. Air date: Nov 8-9, 2004
5. Divorce ranch author Sandra McGee at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, June 19, 2009
4. Former Nevada divorce ranch wrangler and author Bill McGee at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Oklahoma City, OK, June 19, 2009
3. A RETURN TO THE FLYING M E
On May 16, 2004, the gates of the former Flying M E divorce ranch (now a private residence) were opened to 70 guests. The occasion was the release of William and Sandra McGee’s book, The Divorce Seekers: A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler. Nearly every guest had a story to tell about the exclusive divorce ranch and its legendary proprietor Emmy Wood.
2. ROMANTIC NEVADA – 1943 TravelTalks documentary short produced and narrated by James A. FitzPatrick.
[Missing from this video: footage from 00:03:44 to 00:04:58 was shot on the Tumbling DW divorce ranch (later the famous Flying M E) in Washoe Valley. The gentleman in the white hat is Dore Wood, the Eastern blueblood who started the Tumbling DW in 1938 with his then-wife Emmy Wood.]
1. Scene “On the train for Reno” from The Women (1939)