Acknowledgements
Ruth Benedict, Patterns Of Culture, Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1934
Jim Meunninck; The Basic Essentials Of Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs, ICS Books, 1988
Michael Grumley, There Are Giants In The Earth, Doubleday & Co, 1974
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Thanks to the people and resources of the Port Townsend, WA Chamber of Commerce and The Jefferson County Historical Society.
The character of James Swan, while based on a real person, is entirely fictionalized, as are the descriptions of places and characters in the towns of Port Townsend, WA and Yale, BC.
“Jacko”, the story upon which JOKO is loosely based, was reported in the pages of the Victoria, B.C. Daily Colonist, July 4, 1884