1 The Annotated Alice, by Marin Gardner. W.W. Norton & Co. Reprinted by permission.
2 Blair Jackson, in Dupree’s Diamond News, “In Phil We Trust: A Conversation.” Spring 1994, pp. 12–22. Used by kind permission.
3 Excerpt from Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling, by Stuart R. Kaplan © U.S. Games Systmes Inc. 1970. Further reproduction prohibited.
4 Excerpt from Rock Scully and David Dalton’s Living with the Dead. © 1996 Little, Brown, and Company. Used with kind permission.
5 Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Reprinted by permission.
6 Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Reprinted by permission.
7 Gates of Eden. Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
8 Blair Jackson, in The Golden Road, 1993 annual. Used by kind permission.
9 A Dictionary of Symbols, by Juan Eduardo Cirlot. Routledge, 1983. Used by permission.
10 Gabriele Tergit. Flowers Through the Ages, Material originally published by: Berg Putlishers, Oxford, New York. www.bergpublishers.com.
11 Blair Jackson, in Grateful Dead: The Music Never Stopped. Used by kind permission.
12 David Gans. Used by kind permission.
13 Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Reprinted by permission.
14 Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Reprinted by permission.
15 Dennis McNally, in A Long Strange Trip. Random House, Inc. Used by permission.
16 Interview by Blair Jackson in The Golden Road magazine, Spring 1991, p. 30. Used by kind permission.
17 It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry. Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
18 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
19 David Gans, in Conversations with the Dead. Used by kind permission.
20 From Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins. Copyright © 1991 by Harper & Row Publishers Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
21 From The Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by David Noel Freeman. Random House, Inc. Used by permission.
22 From Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins. Copyright © 1991 by Harper & Row Publishers Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
23 Gabriele Tergit. Flowers Through the Ages, Material originally published by: Berg Putlishers, Oxford, New York. www.bergpublishers.com.
24 Gabriele Tergit. Flowers Through the Ages, Material originally published by: Berg Putlishers, Oxford, New York. www.bergpublishers.com.
25 From Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins. Copyright © 1991 BY Harper & Row Publishers Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
26 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
27 Arthur C. Jones. Wade in the Water: The Wisdom of the Spirituals. Used by kind permission.
28 David Gans, from an interview on KPFA’s Dead to the World.? Used by kind permission.
29 A Dictionary of Symbols, by Juan Eduardo Cirlot. Routledge, 1983. Used by permission.
30 Excerpt from Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling, by Stuart R. Kaplan © U.S. Games Systmes Inc. 1970. Further reproduction prohibited.
30a Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
31 Blair Jackson, in Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by kind permission.
32 From Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins. Copyright © 1991 by Harper & Row Publishers Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
33 Ballin’ the Jack. James Henry Burris & Chris Smith. © 1913. Renewed Christie-Max Music. Permission secured. All rights reserved.
34 Blair Jackson, in Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by kind permission.
35 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
36 Blair Jackson, in Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by kind permission.
37 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
38 Excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien. Copyright © 1954, 1965 by J. R. R. Tolkien. Copyright © renewed 1982 by Christopher R. Tolkien, Michael H.R. Tolkien, John F.R. Tolkien and Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien. Copyright © renewed 1993 by Christopher R. Tolkien, John F. R. Tolkien and Priscilla M. A. R. Tolkien. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. © 1954, 1965 by J. R. R. Tolkien.
38a Jennifer Smith and Colleen Whittaker, “Sacred Woods and the Lore of Trees.” Used by kind permission.
39 Used by permission of Songs of Universal, Inc.
40 A Dictionary of Symbols, by Juan Eduardo Cirlot. Routledge, 1983. Used by permission.
41 Downstream from Trout Fishing in America. Copyright © Keith Abbott 2005.
41a Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
42 “Shuffle Off to Buffalo,” by Al Dubin and Harry Warren. Used by permission of M. Witmark and Sons.
43 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
44 From The Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by David Noel Freeman. Random House, Inc. Used by permission.
45 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
46 Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Reproduced by permission from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
47 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
48 Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Adapted and reproduced by permission from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
49 By Dylan Thomas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright © 1939 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
50 Dennis McNally, in A Long Strange Trip. Random House, Inc. Used by permission.
51 From American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder, edited by James T. Maher, copyright © 1972 by Alec Wilder. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
52 David Gans, in Conversations with the Dead. Used by kind permission.
53 From The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
54 Dr. J. L. Morton, in Color Matters. Used by kind permission.
55 David Gans, in Playing in the Band. Used by kind permission.
56 A Dictionary of Symbols, by Juan Eduardo Cirlot. Routledge, 1983. Used by permission.
57 David Gans, in Conversations With the Dead. Used by kind permission.
58 Reprinted with permission of Callerlab, The International Association of Square Dance Callers.
59 From Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins. Copyright © 1991 by Harper & Row Publishers Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
60 From Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins. Copyright © 1991 by Harper & Row Publishers Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
61 Katherine Anne Porter. Ship of Fools. Little, Brown and Company.
62 Used by kind permission of John Perry Barlow. All rights reserved by the author
63 Blair Jackson, in Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by kind permission.
64 From American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder, edited by James T. Maher, copyright © 1972 by Alec Wilder. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
65 Robert Petersen. Alleys of the Heart. © 1988, Robert M. Petersen. Used with permission of Hulogosi Publishers.
66 Used by permission of author, Allan W. Eckert, May 6, 2005, from The Owls of North America . . . (Doubleday, 1974)
67 Blair Jackson, in Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by kind permission.
68 Blair Jackson, in Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by kind permission.
69 Van Morrison, “Astral Weeks.” Used by permission.
70 “All in green went my love riding.” Copyright 1923, 1951, © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1976 by Geroge James Firmage, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
71 From Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins. Copyright © 1991 BY Harper & Row Publishers Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
72 Blair Jackson, in Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by kind permission.
73 “Standing in the Soul,” by Steve Silberman. Used by kind permission.
74 Robert Hunter’s translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus. ©1993, Robert Hunter. Used with permission of Hulogosi Publishers.
75 © 1993 Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
76 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
77 A Dictionary of Symbols, by Juan Eduardo Cirlot. Routledge, 1983. Used by permission.
78 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
79 Time Passes Slowly. Copyright © 1970 by Big Sky Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
80 David Gans, in Blair Jackson’s Grateful Dead: The Music Never Stopped. Used by kind permission.
81 David Gans. Conversations with the Dead. Used by kind permission.
82 Courtesy Roger Felton. Thanks, Roger!
83 From American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder, edited by James T. Maher, copyright © 1972 by Alec Wilder. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
84 Blair Jackson, in Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by kind permission.
85 From The Dictionary of American Biography, by Thomas Cripps, Gale Group, Reprinted by permission of The Gale Group.
86 From The Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by David Noel Freeman. Random House, Inc. Used by permission.
87 “Standing in the Soul,” by Steve Silberman. Used by kind permission.
88 Gerrit Graham. “The Crime, and Its Victims.” Essay for the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics. Used with the author’s permission.
89 By Anne Mattson, copyright by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, University Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
90 Blair Jackson and David Gans, from unpublished material for Jackson’s Garcia: An American Life. Used by kind permission.
91 David Gans. Used by kind permission.
92 Excerpt from Rock Scully and David Dalton’s Living with the Dead. © 1996 Little, Brown, and Company. Used with kind permission.
93 Quoted with permission from Robert Hunter. All rights reserved by the author.
94 Blair Jackson, from Goin’ Down the Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Used by permission. Copyright Blair Jackson. All rights reserved.
95 Phil Lesh. Excerpts from Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead. © 2005 Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved.
96 Richard Cannings, from “Northern Saw-wWhet Owl,” in The Birds of North America. used by permission of the American Ornithologists’ Union and the Academy of Natural Sciences.
97 John Kessler. Excerpt from “On Cloud 9, Cream Puffs Revive Classics.” Denver Post, May 31, 1995. Reprinted by permission of the Denver Post.