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I am deeply grateful to Cambria Press. In particular, I thank Dr. Paul Richardson for believing in my work. Dr. Richardson gave invaluable advice and knew how to hearten a writer’s soul. I also thank Toni Tan for her help in leading this work to publication. Thank you both for my lucky break. Finally, thanks go to Sharon Berger for her help during the final stages of publication.
Mark Shepard, thank you for providing a safe haven for creative ideas. Margie Towery’s indexing guidance was invaluable. She taught me with precision and efficiency. I am grateful for her kindness and generosity. Special thanks to Terri Hudoba and Kara West for their help in the final stages of the book.
I thank Michael E. Lynch, Ronald R. Kline, and Trevor J. Pinch for their helpful comments on this work. My special thanks to Stephen H. Hilgartner for his kindness and his comments, which encouraged me to expand this project. Any weaknesses in argument or misinterpretations of scholarly work are entirely mine.
The many wonderful images, in both pictures and words, were made possible by Jacqueline Côté-Sherman; Bill Spears; Norm Booth; Elizabeth Bender at Feld Entertainment, Inc., Vienna, Virginia; Erin Foley at the Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin; Joe Mischka at Heart Prairie Press/Mischka Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Paul Carnahan and Marjorie Strong at the Vermont Historical Society, Barre, Vermont; Tracy Powell at Automobile Quarterly, New Albany, Indiana; Aloma Harris and Jonathan M. Gordon, Esq., at Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish LLP, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the William H. Mauldin Estate; and Dan Curnow and Schoolmaster Robert Weaver at the Crossroads School for reprints of Trudl Dubsky Zipper’s watercolors.
I am grateful for the assistance of Arlene Pasciolla of The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.; Heidi Reuter Lloyd of RDA Milwaukee; and Trudi Bellin of Reiman Publications, who together led me to the Circus World Museum. I am indebted to Kristine Withers of the U.S. Cavalry Association, who in her generosity of time and skill filled in many missing pieces in the second case study. I also thank, for their warm support, Professor Emmanuel Torres, and Mrs. Gilda Cordero Fernando, owner and publisher of GCF Books.