MY SOURCES FOR THIS novel have principally been the Missouri newspapers of the period and the following: The Man Who Shot Jesse James by Carl W Breihan, The Crittenden Memoirs by H. H. Crittenden, Jesse James Was My Neighbor by Homer Cray, The New Eldorado by Phyllis Flanders Dorset, and Jesse James Was His Name by William A. Settle. I would like to express my gratitude to those authors for their information and guidance, and to the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of Michigan Society of Fellows for grants that helped me complete this novel.
R.H.