I would like to thank my friends and mentors, Craig and Judy Johnson, for their advice and support; my literary agent Tiffany Schofield for her faith in my writing; editors Terri Bischoff and Sandy Sullivan for their wisdom and guidance; longtime-retired Cheyenne Police Officer Steve Brown, retired railroad engineer Howard Dykes, and Roy Bechtholdt for their intimate knowledge of the area; and my wife, Heather—who never tells me what to do.