The author gratefully acknowledges her many debts to: the granddaddy of all books about Arizona’s Great Escape, The Faustball Tunnel: German POWs in America and Their Great Escape, by John Hammond Moore, Random House, 1978; John Leptich, at the Scottsdale Tribune, for sparking her interest in this story; Elizabeth Bruening Lewis, for details about the escape; Larry Jorgensen, former guard at Camp Papago, for firsthand information; former Camp Papago POW Rolf Koenigs, now a resident of Glendale, Arizona, for insights on camp life; the Papago Trackers and the Arizona National Guard Historical Society; U.S. Senator John Kyl’s office for information on Ethiopian immigration patterns; Tom Bonsall, for information on car productivity during World War II; the Phoenix Studebaker Club, for information on Golden Hawks; Steve Ralls, Director of Communications for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, for information on the treatment of gay World War II veterans; the Superstition Mountains Museum in Apache Junction, Arizona, for information on the legend of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine and topographical information on the Superstitions Wilderness; Kathleen Cady, for information about SSI payments and practices; the Sheridan Street Irregulars for their vigorous critiques; Toni Laxson, of the Scottsdale and East Valley Tribune newspapers for information on crime reporting techniques; and last but certainly not least, Marge Purcell and Debra McCarthy for manuscript troubleshooting.