City of Baraboo

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

After subtracting the many debts I owe in the researching and writing of City of Baraboo, I find little remaining save the responsibility for whatever inaccuracies that managed to escape detection before they saw print. First, for suggesting the development of the star-circus idea used in one of my short stories, and for many suggestions that should earn him a generously declined byline, my thanks to George Scithers, editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

Special thanks go to Robert L. Parkinson, Chief Librarian and Historian of the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, for taking a highly unreasonable request for information and supplying it. Sincere thanks go, as well, to Betty Austin, Colleen Condon, and Barbara Watt of the Cutler Memorial Library in Farmington, Maine, for their long hours of searching that produced several invaluable circus histories the absence of which would have made this book, at least in its present form, impossible. Many thanks also go to Glenys Gifford of the Mantor Library at the University of Maine at Farmington both for the books she found for me, and for the length of time I was allowed to keep them.

My remaining thanks go to my chief critic, first reader, researcher, copy clerk, and wife, Jean.

To George H. Scithers

and My Wife, Jean