A NOTE ON SOURCES

Although this is a work of fiction, I depended on information and derived inspiration from a variety of sources, most prominently: The Pity of It All by Amos Elon; Land of Enchantment by Marian Russell; We Lived There Too by Kenneth Libo and Irving Howe; Pioneer Jews by Harriet and Fred Rochlin; At the End of the Santa Fe Trail by Sister Blandina Segale; Santa Fe, the Autobiography of a Western Town by Oliver La Farge; Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan; The Wind Leaves No Shadow by Ruth Laughlin; Rachel Calof’s Story edited by J. Sanford Rikoon; Women of the West by Cathy Luchetti in collaboration with Carol Olwell; Covered Wagon Women, Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862–1865 edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes; and finally The Centuries of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan, where I am grateful to have found my title. Thank you to all.