A big thank-you to June and Janet Yearwood for lending me their business expertise, and to Tom Weeks for helping me fill in the gaps in my eastern Oregon memories. I’d also like to thank my latest laptop for predictably dying in the midst of the last week before my deadline, and Visions Electronics in Lethbridge, Alberta, for saving the day. My editor, Mary Altman, deserves huge credit for bringing clarity and focus to what arrived on her desk as a meandering mess, and my agent, Holly Root, for being the voice of calm and reason when I lose all vestiges of both.
And to the Pendleton-Hermiston-Tri-Cities area of Oregon and Washington—thanks for letting us call you our home for a decade. We miss you, especially during watermelon season and when it’s twenty below and snowing sideways here in Montana.