No events or persons are real. Some of the place names, mountains, and fish are real, but I have moved them around in writing the story. Also I’ve made the fish a little bigger than they actually are. This is hope at work, an elemental feature of storytelling. I wish to thank Roger Day who showed me his marked copy of Finis Mitchell’s fine book, Wind River Trails, and then the mountains themselves. A note: if I was going to go into the Wind Rivers today, I would use the Bears Ears trailhead and I would go before September 10. I wrote this book in October at Ucross and I am grateful to the Ucross Foundation, especially Sharon Dynak and all of the staff. My thanks also to my friend Michelle Latiolais. VIKING Published by the Penguin Group, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St.
