Back Trail

Author’s Notes

1. Historical Accuracy - To a large degree, relevant historical accuracy has been purposely maintained; however, narrative utilities take precedence. Accordingly, coincident historical events, organizations, and characters should be understood as fictional. As such, events may be foreshortened, combined, recast in time or place, or otherwise altered for plot development. Characterizations may likewise be subject to interpretation, distortion, or misattribution.

2. Cultural References - The American English vocabulary used in dialogue and internal discourse has, as much as possible, been made accurate to the depicted cultural periods through historical n-gram analysis and published research. Consequently, outdated cultural references, words, and phrases may be used, including racial, ethnic, sexual preference, and gender slurs.

3. Non English Usage & Representation - Certain accent, diacritic, and non-standard punctuation marks have been removed from translations of non-English words and phrases to make them more accessible to the casual reader and to reduce code transposition errors in transfers to and between digital text-publishing systems. Informal pronunciations are offered as a convenience, but should not be understand as an official lexicon.

4. Content Advisory - This work may contain depictions of graphic violence, including homicide, torture, sexual assault, child abuse, and animal cruelty, and with attendant circumstances in keeping with the context of the setting’s period and culture.