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Dedication For Emmy and (as always) for Bill and Elisabeth.

Author's Notes and Acknowledgements In the past few years I have
learned that writers of historical fiction must hang together or go
aground. Without the support, advice, insight, finger-wagging,
ranting, and the tons of factual information others have shared with
me, this book would not exist in a form worthy of consideration.

In particular, I am thankful to:

J. F. Cooper for inspiration, and S. Clemens, for perspective;

Diana Gabaldon for constant and consistent encouragement, for contacts
of enormous value, for her generosity in matters small and large, and
for long discussions about this strange and compelling undertaking of
writing historical fiction;

Kaera Hallahan for reading the entire manuscript at a difficult
juncture, for providing priceless commentary and badly needed,
no-nonsense encouragement and giving me the skinny on horses, and for
bookmarks that tell tales;

Michelle La France for help with things historical and Gaelic, for
finally falling in love with Nathaniel, and for her companionship and
friendship along the way;

Doctors Jim and Janet Gilsdorf for medical details, Janet on infectious
disease; Jim on the nature and treatment of wounds. Jim in particular
for invaluable technical and historical detail on hunting and trapping
and canoeing in the bush;

Marty Calvert for listening, as she always does, with skill, and for
putting her finger on holes with gentle insistence;

Margaret Nesse, for careful readings and entertaining discussions;

The writers who grace the Research and Craft section of the CompuServe
Writers' Forum, for sharing their experience and expertise in a wide
variety of subjects, from the nature of black fly bites, rifle slings,
and left hooks to eighteenth-century terms for hard candy and
pregnancy. I am indebted to Mac Beckett, Merrill Cornish, Susie
Crandall, Hall Elliott, Rob Frank, Karl Hagen, Walter Hawn, Ed
Huntress, Janet Kaufmann, Janet Kieffer, Rosina Lippi-Green, Susan
Martin, Janet McConnaughey, Don H. Meredith, Susan Lynn Peterson,
Bonnee Pierson, Michelle Powell, Barbara Schnell, Beth Shope, Elise
Skidmore, Phyllis Tarbell, Arnold Wagner, and Karen S. White, for their
time, interest, and generosity. In particular, I am thankful to Dr.