Tracey Buswell Simmons, for providing information on Continental Trailways Bus Company.
Lorraine Kay Lorne and Randy Thompson of the Young Law Library, University of Arkansas, for their help with legal research.
My colleagues at the writers group, whose sharp perceptions and unfailing support helped to guide the journey in creating this book.
My husband, Frank, whose insight and probing questions helped guide me to the finished product and who listened with rapt attention to each chapter as it sprang to life.
And to those fans of In Those First Bright Days of Elvis who accosted me with the singular demand: “Hurry up and write Book II.”
Some of the sources consulted in this book:
Butler, Brenda Arlene, Are You Hungry Tonight? Avenel, N.J.: Gramercy Books, 1992.
Clayton, Marie. Elvis Presley Unseen Archives. Bath, UK: Paragon Publishing, 2002.
Fessler, Ann. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe v. Wade. New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 2006.
Lowell, James Russell, (author), H. Garrett (illustrator). The Vision of Sir Launfal. Boston and New York: Houghton and Mifflin, 1890.
Presley, Priscilla Beaulieu, and Sandra Harmon. Elvis and Me. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1985.
Yancey, Becky and Cliff Linedecker. My Life With Elvis. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1977.
For a complete bibliography, visit www.KeenanNovels.com/blog.