Mark Spragg - 1974

Former U.S. ambassador

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, native Mark Spragg grew up working on Wyoming's oldest dude ranch just east of Yellowstone National Park. His memoir, Where Rivers Change Direction, won the Mountains & Plains Book Award for nonfiction in 2000. His novel, An Unfinished Life, was made into a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez in 2005. Spragg also wrote the screenplay.

Spragg resides in Cody, Wyoming. For more information on Mark Spragg, click here.

Photo courtesy of Wyoming State Library