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167 Acknowledgments This book would never have come to be, had not the wonderful , and extremely knowledgeable, Gwen Granados first drawn my attention to some little-known records of these women who worked for the Indian Service in Arizona, when I was visiting the National Archives and Records Administration repository at Laguna Niguel in 2007. I am also indebted to archivist George Briscoe, especially, for his crucial help in locating the material at the central repository in Washington, DC. At the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, archivist Theresa Fitzgerald has been incredibly supportive. Jill McCleary at the Arizona Historical Society has been a great help as well. I’d also like to acknowledge the small and hardworking armies of retrievers at the places I’ve been, who untiringly brought me carts upon carts laden with boxes and boxes, and in some instances advised me directly. This book started out as a conference paper, and I’d like to thank the panel organizer, Susan Gray, for her ongoing collegial interest in my work. Two members of the audience from Tucson, Margie Youngo and Roger Nichols, were especially encouraging and generous in their responses, and I greatly appreciated their assistance when I later visited Tucson and their ongoing encouragement to develop this book. A very big thank-you to Christine Szuter, who put me in touch with Patti Hartmann, the acquiring editor of the University of Arizona Press (UAP). Patti saw the value in the project, and her enthusiasm has been carried over by Kristen Buckles. It has been a real pleasure to work with Kristen and the rest of the staff at the UAP, as well as my copyeditor Sharon Hunt. The anonymous readers of the original proposal and manuscript offered cogent and useful advice. The University of Newcastle, in New South Wales, Australia, provided the funds to carry out the original research back in 2007. 168 Acknowledgments Further research, and the writing of the book, were carried out with the generous support of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. My fellow academics and support staff at the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing and in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University have given me a warm and collegial environment to work in. I’ve appreciated the help and advice I’ve received from various colleagues and friends, including Mary Romero, Cathleen Cahill, Lisa Featherstone, and Karen Vered. And of course there is my beautiful family, whose support is constant and unwavering. My husband, John Maynard, a fellow historian and soul mate, has not only been my sounding board and advisor but has also held the home front and looked after our three boys while I’ve been away researching, most dramatically during a freak storm in 2007. To John I am deeply grateful, for his love and his belief in me, and for his steadying reminder of the most important things in life. ...

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