ary from the trash and loaned me the 1885 Kellogg book on Victorian ideals of
masculine and feminine behavior.

I'd also like to thank Hilary Masters for his kind permission to use the po-
ems from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.

I would be amiss if I did not mention all those newspaper reporters, long
gone now, who covered these events. They did not merely report the facts, but
fleshed out the people and surroundings so well that I was able to see and hear
them as if I had been there myself.

And, finally, to my editor at Praeger, Heather Ruland Staines, who took a
chance on the project and on me, and was an encouraging voice throughout.

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