The works I consulted while writing this novel are too numerous to cite, but I would like to make particular mention of several. Paul Sharp’s Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-American West, 1865-1885 (University of Minnesota Press, 1955); Wallace Stegner’s Wolf Willow (The Viking Press, 1962); James Willard Schultz’s My Life as an Indian (Beaufort Books, 1983); and articles in the Montana Magazine of History: Jay Mack Gamble’s “Up River to Benton,” and Hugh A. Dempsey’s “Cypress Hills Massacre” and “Sweetgrass Hills Massacre.”
I would also like to acknowledge Richard Schickel’s D.W. Griffith: An American Life (Simon and Schuster, 1984); Frances Marion’s Off With Their Heads!: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (Macmillan, 1972); Diana Serra Cary’s The Hollywood Posse: The Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History (Houghton Mifflin, 1975); John Tuska’s The Filming of the West (Doubleday, 1976); Neal Gabler’s An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (Crown Publishers, 1988); and Christopher Finch’s and Linda Rosenkrantz’s Gone Hollywood (Doubleday, 1979).
I would especially like to thank my editor, Ellen Seligman, and my agent, Dean Cooke, for all the advice and the assistance they have given me.
Excerpts from this novel, in slightly different form, appeared on CBC Radio’s “Ambience” and in the journal Planet: The Welsh Internationalist.