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It isn’t possible to acknowledge everyone who supported and encouraged the six-year process of writing this book, but first and foremost I want to recognize my family, and my great friend Trish Reeves, and two very amazing, and patient, writers and mentors, Charlie Baxter and Margot Livesey, and my colleagues at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, in particular Bob Stewart, Michelle Boisseau and Whitney Terrell. My thanks also to the University of Missouri System for grant support of this project in the form of a University of Missouri Research Board Grant, which afforded me time off to research and write the book, and to UMKC for grant support through a Faculty Research Grant. Many thanks also go to my editor, Greg Michalson, Fred Ramey, and the other fine folks at Unbridled Books, for discovering The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis and putting their positive energies and resources behind its publication. Also, thank you to New Letters magazine and its wonderful staff for publishing my novel excerpt, “Reason to Believe He Hath Deserted.”

In addition, I’m grateful to all the Lewis & Clark scholars, too numerous to mention, who wrote the books I relied on for my own research, and especially to Gary E. Moulton for his 13-volume edition of The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, University of Nebraska Press, 1986.

Finally, thank you to all of my friends, and my students, at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, at MU, and at UMKC, who have continued to support me through this long, long voyage of discovery between my first book and my second, especially Lee Polevoi, Fred Mayfield, and Donn Irving Blevins (1933–2007).