Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern

Acknowledgments

xi acknowledgments We would like to thank three editorial fellows from the Western American Literature office for their considerable professional help. Diane Bush kept track of files, copyedited manuscripts, compiled an early bibliography, and consulted with authors. Jaquelin Pelzer helped with the final copyediting and bibliography, compiled cast and episode lists, formatted the manuscript, and proofread. Joshua Anderson caught errors in the final proofreading. All offered insights from their own Deadwood viewing. We would also like to thank the two anonymous readers for the University of Nebraska Press for their extraordinarily attentive, detailed , and useful evaluations of the manuscript. Jennilyn Merten has our gratitude for her tremendous work in gathering images for this volume. And thanks to Brian McCuskey, always as quick witted as Al Swearengen, for our title. As always Melody owes thanks to Sabine Barcatta, the superb managing editor of Western American Literature, for all her support. She would also like to thank her husband, Brock Dethier, who is not a television fan, for putting up with her endless repetitions of Deadwood lines and plot developments, and her colleague, Brian McCuskey, for giving her someone with whom to talk tv. Nic expresses his gratitude to his fellow panelists and the members of the audience who attended the 2007 ala and 2011 mla sessions in which he presented his work on Deadwood, for the many excellent comments and questions that helped him strengthen and consolidate his argument. And his deepest gratitude is reserved for Meg Dupuis, whose sustaining spirit is an ever-present reminder to stay grounded and whose careful eye for interpretive detail and logic have always provided much-welcomed course corrections. ...