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This series on our nation’s prehistory wouldn’t be possible without the contributions of the following people: Michael Seidman cooked up the idea of doing a series of novels on North American prehistory, written by archaeologists, during his days as Executive Editor of Tor Books.
Tappan King, who edited this manuscript, did a bang-up job on the line-edit and flagged the rough spots for revision. Ray Leicht, Wyoming State Archaeologist with the Bureau of Land Management, provided information and encouragement. Marv and Patricia Hatcher, Principal Investigators of Pronghorn Anthropological Associates, helped with the photocopying of stacks of archaeological reports gathered from across the West. Dr. George Prison, of the University of Wyoming, deserves our deepest gratitude for publishing so many of his observations on hunting techniques and Paleo-Indian weaponry, and for sharing his personal thoughts on the Mountain Archaic. Phyllis Boardman and the Torrey Lake Ranch deserve thanks for access to petroglyphs. Jo Hubbard eased the way. Walter Williams’s The Spirit and the Flesh proved invaluable for information on berdache after Dale Walker turned us on to the book. Jim Miller and John Albanese receive special mention for their study and interpretation of Holocene geology. (See, we remembered all those lectures in the test pits!) [Catherine Cook and Katherine Perry read the manuscript and provided helpful comments. Burt and Rose Crow of the Ramshorn Inn kept Guinness on hand for us when we needed a place to brainstorm plot. Irene Keinert and Justin Bridges of Wind River Knives photographed archaeological resources. Finally, we’d like to acknowledge our dirt-archaeologist colleagues for all the years of bull sessions over a beer or the crackling of a campfire. You know who you are. If you see your pet idea here, you’ve made a difference.
