Published by Marian Jensen
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Copyright © 2013 Marian Jensen
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used ficticiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or organizations is entirely coincidental.
Cover Design by Terri Porter
Book Design by Luanne Thibault
Dedication
To Butte, “the most unplastic place in America,”
and what’s left of the Wild West
Acknowledgements
It may not take a village to write a book but it feels like it takes a similar kind of support to see one to publication. The first person to give me the confidence to call myself a writer was Liz Trupin-Pulli, my one time agent who I met at the still fabulous Antioch Writers’ Workshop. She invested time and effort in me and did her best to place my work in an increasingly turbulent publishing world. Without her encouragement, I would not have continued to write.
Likewise I must acknowledge my writerly buddies coast to coast (women, you know who you are). You read drafts and offered critiques, cheerleaded, and commiserated, and never once did any of you shake your head or say, “Give it up.” Many of you still struggle to write, when so often keeping body and soul together is a full time endeavor. I honor the creative spirit in each of you as it certainly inspires me.
In Butte, Sheriff John Walsh; Coroner Lee LeBreche; and Butte Weekly Publisher, Norlene Holt, provided me with factual information and helped ‘keep it real.’ Also, thanks to pilots Hugh Dresser and David Daughtery who generously flew me around the twenty plus mountain ranges of Southwestern Montana and never snapped at me once when I asked questions like, “If you had to bring this plane down right now, where would you put it?”
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