Acknowledgments

I am grateful for financial support during the writing of this book from The Vermont Council on the Arts and from The Ucross Foundation of Ucross, Wyoming.

I appreciate the help given me by librarians at Dartmouth College Libraries in Hanover, New Hampshire, and The Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library in Sheridan, Wyoming.

Many people eased the passage of this story with time, advice, money, lunch, garden help, encouragement, silence, barbecue, music. Thank you Roberta Roberts, Tom Watkin, Elizabeth Guheen, Laurent Gaudin, Lois Gill, Abigail Thomas, Bob Jones, Gordon Farr, John Glusman, Ernie Hebert. Special thanks to my editor, Barbara Grossman, and to my sons, Jonathan, Gillis and Morgan Lang.