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acknowledgments This volume is the latest in a series of collections sponsored by the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University (SMU), always in collaboration with a similar institution elsewhere. In our case the collaborator has been the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. We are most grateful to the staffs at both centers for the extensive help they have given us, not just their general sponsorship but also their help in organizing preliminary conferences in Philadelphia and Dallas. At the Clements Center, we need to thank the former director Benjamin Heber Johnson, the current director Andrew Graybill, the former associate director Andrea Boardman, and the current assistant director Ruth Ann Elmore. At the McNeil Center, our gratitude is great to Daniel Richter, the Richard S. Dunn Director and a coeditor of the Early American Studies monograph series, and to the associate director Amy Baxter-Bellamy. Michael Jarvis and Kathleen DuVal commented on the conference presentations to good effect and from two very distinct perspectives. More Penn and SMU graduate students than we can name took time from their own busy schedules to help with the conference arrangements. We thank both Dan Richter and Andrés Reséndez for readings of the nearly finished manuscript. Their thoughtful comments helped both us and the individual authors to bring the project to completion. Robert Lockhart of the University of Pennsylvania Press offered many wise comments at the preliminary conferences and as we saw the project to completion. Rachel Taube at the press gave us invaluable direction in collecting, managing, and placing all our illustrations and permissions. When the project was in the early planning stage we did our best to keep it secret from David Weber. But he figured out that something was going on, pitched in, arranged the collaboration with the McNeil Center, and left his own imprint on this volume just as he left an imprint on each one of us. This book holds David’s memory and his influence, and we dedicate it to him. Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman ...