Hard Trail

This is a work of fiction. The events, characters, business firms, organizational entities, and groups depicted herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual business firms, organizational entities, or groups is merely coincidental.

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 AND -- 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 Consequently, outdated cultural references, words, and phrases may be depicted, including but not limited to racial, ethnic, sexual preference, and gender slurs.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 digital transposition errors in conversions and transfers to and between text file types and publishing systems. Informal pronunciations are offered as a convenience but are not derived from an official lexicon.

4. Content Advisory - This work may contain depictions of graphic violence, including but not limited to 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.