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Acknowledgments I am grateful for helpful suggestions and encouragement all along the way. Alan Taylor and Daniel Richter read the manuscript more times than I had any right to ask. Colin Calloway, Steven Crum, John DuVal, Kay DuVal, Evan Haefli, Karen Halttunen, Bob Lockhart, Andrés Reséndez, Marty Smith, Christina Snyder, Jennifer Turner, and an anonymous reader read the entire manuscript and gave me invaluable comments. David Nichols read several key chapters, and Bethel Saler helped my introduction enormously . Stephen Aron, Ned Blackhawk, Charles Bolton, George Boudreau, Michelle Craig, Bridget Ford, Phil Garone, Michael Green, Dallet Hemphill, Don Higginbotham, Eric Hinderaker, Michael Hoffman, Ronald Hoffman, Benjamin Irvin, George Jarrett, Roderick McDonald, Bob Moore, Michael Morrison, Sherri Patton, Theda Perdue, Birte Phleger, Mark Pingree, Jack Rakove, Seth Rockman, Martha Rojas, Brett Rushforth, Nancy Shoemaker, Wendy St. Jean, John Sweet, Fredrika Teute, Karim Tiro, Clarence Walker, Gregory Waselkov, Jeannie Whayne, Patrick Williams, Stephanie Wolf, and Michael Zuckerman improved certain chapters. For stimulating conversations on the Arkansas Valley, I thank Morris Arnold, John Berry, Frederick Fausz, Joseph Key, and George Sabo III. Paul Longmore got me interested in early American history to begin with. James O’Rourke corrected many errors in my notes, and John DuVal improved my translations. Many thanks to Cynthia Franco, Leslie Green, David Miller, Kathleen Moenster, John Pollack, Jill Reichenbach, Richard Sorenson, Lou Stancari, Andy Steadham, Mary Suter, and Ron Tyler for helping me track down the illustrations and to Erik Moore for indexing. The American Philosophical Society, the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, and the University of California, Davis, provided invaluable assistance in the initial stage, as did an Alfred M. Landon Historical Research Grant administered by the Kansas State Historical Society. The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and its director, Daniel Richter, gave me two heavenly postdoctoral years at the University of Pennsylvania, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, funded the finishing touches. I particularly want to thank the staffs of the Historic New Orleans Collection and of Special Collections at the University of Arkansas, the University of California, Davis, the University of North Carolina, and Duke University for their great help and good humor. Without all of this assistance, this book would be thinner in every way. Without my friends and colleagues at Davis, the McNeil Center, and now here at Chapel Hill, my work would be less good and less fun. I particularly want to thank Alan Taylor for his mentorship and friendship. I dedicate the book to my family, especially Marty, Kay, John, Niell, Anne, Steve, Carol, and Dan. It is also for Mary, Hélène, and Erin, who were here when I started all this. And for Quentin, who has come. 320 Acknowledgments [3.81.222.152] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:51 GMT) [3.81.222.152] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:51 GMT) [3.81.222.152] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:51 GMT) ...