Rather than my dedicating this book to anyone or anything, I’m going to let a pair of Western-novel inscriptions, both by Nelson Nye in 1944, serve instead. Nothing I could come up with would be more fitting here than these.
| For | —a great hand with the organ. | —CARTRIDGE-CASE LAW |
| For my long-suffering wife | —who deserves it. | —WILD HORSE SHORTY |