Kate Ruland-Thorne

Kate Ruland-Thorne, AKA Sylvia Ruland, was born in Del Norte, Colorado. She has been a journalist/historian for over thirty years. More than one hundred of her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. She has been a feature writer for the Denver Post, Arizona Highways, Southwest Art and Wild West, among others. Her first regional history book was Lion of Redstone in 1981. After moving to Sedona, Arizona in 1986, she became the feature writer and later editor of the Sedona Magazine and the first woman editor of the historic Sedona Red Rock News. She wrote seven regional history books on Sedona and Arizona subjects, the most recent Gold, Greed and Glory. Currently she lives in Grand Junction, Colorado and is working on an historical novel and a narritive non-fiction.