The author would like to thank the following: my agent, Jonathan Williams, for his expert representation and editing; Starling Lawrence, Emma Hitchcock and the staff of W. W. Norton for their faith in, and tireless work on behalf of, Wolves of Eden; Allegra Huston for her expert copyediting and editorial suggestions; Bernard Wassertzug for his expert help with the Yiddish spoken by Kohn in the novel; Moya Nolan for her photographs; my mother and first reader, Juliet McCarthy, and novelist Ed O’Loughlin for their vital, occasionally brutal, professional edits; Colin McCarthy, Susannah McCarthy, Niall Hogan, and Diarmuid O’Dochartaigh, who read and offered valuable feedback on late drafts of the novel; Andy Connolly and Cynthia Olson for so generously lodging and feeding me on my trip to New York; Giles Steele-Perkins and Marty McGlynn for their amazing hospitality on my trip to Boston; Suzanne Matson of Boston College for her inspiration and advice, literary and academic; the staff and patrons of the Wagon Box Inn, Storey, Wyoming, for their hospitality and generously-shared knowledge of the Powder River Valley; the staff at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, for their help with my research; all my colleagues and staff at ODC—particularly my jobshare partner, Carmel Hogan—for their support and tolerance; Breda Dunne, Mary McCarthy and Sergo Gabunya, Geoffrey “Jefe” McCarthy and Karen Fullencamp, Jonathan Grimes, Gina Pavlovic–McCarthy, Seamus Dunne, Eamonn Dunne and Susan Dunne for their support and encouragement; likewise my good friends Dennis Carolan, Alex Connolly, Giovanna Tallarico, Julie Cruikshank, Georg Ulrich, Niall and Natasha Mahon and Kieran and Teresa Roe; most especially, the author would like to thank Regina, Áine and Eibhlin, without whom this novel could not have been written.