Credit for forensics information: Texas Ranger Sergeant Jim Huggins, Texas Ranger Company F, Waco, Texas

Credit for weapons technical information: Karl Rehn and Penny Riggs of KR Training, Austin, Texas

Front cover photograph: Deborah McConnell, Chester, Connecticut

Author Photograph: Patricia Johnson, Hamden, Connecticut

Front cover photograph location: Twin Brook Stables, Clinton, Connecticut

Author photograph taken at Double T Ranch, Madison, Connecticut

The author wishes to extend his thanks and gratitude to the Laudano family of Twin Brook Stables for the care they have provided his horses, Sizzle and Yankee, these many years.