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ix I produced this work with the assistance of a J. Evetts Haley Fellowship Award granted to me in 2006.Administered by Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library in Midland,Texas,with funding received from Summerlee Foundation,the fellowship allowed me to dig deeply into the Haley Library’s remarkable holdings in search of material related to the Devils River. I wish to thank the Haley Library Board ofTrustees and the Summerlee Foundation for their vital roles in making this book a reality.I also express my gratitude to United Daughters of the Confederacy, Texas Division, for permission to use material from theTexas Confederate Museum Collection in the Haley archives. I would like to single out the following Haley Library personnel for their tireless support in my long and involved quest:Jim Bradshaw,Pat McDaniel,Nancy Jordan,Susie Chambers,and Glenna Gifford. Each one truly made my exhaustive research all the more enjoyable and rewarding. AUTHOR’S NOTE ...

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