Izzy’s story is completely fiction, but I have based some parts on a real event. There really was a train robbery that took place in the Crowsnest Pass area of Alberta, Canada in 1920. While I have fictionalized the name of one of the robbers (Richard Ausby) and his family’s homestead for my story, as well as the value and extent of the loot, information about the Bellevue Café shootout was taken from the Wikipedia entry on Bellevue, Alberta. It is used here, in a modified format, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. The page can be found here.