Herein will ye be finding an incomplete list of research that I either read, mined, or aspired to read during the course of writing my novel (not included, every book I have ever read, every place I have ever been, and every fun fact I ever heard that helped shape me as a writer and a reader):
- A New Look at Old Words: Street Slang from the 1600s-1800s by Catherine Flush
- Badger by Daniel Heath Justice
- Selis Nyonuntn Medicine for the Salish Language : English to Salish Translation Dictionary by Tachini Pete
- Home Ground by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney
- Weird Oregon by Al Eufrasio and Jeff Davis
- Ballads and Songs of the Civil War by Jerry Silverman
- Trick or Treat by Lisa Morton
- Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
- The Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage by Webb Garrison
- Ghost Towns of the Northwest by Norman D. Weis
- All Quiet on the Yamhill by Corporal Royal A. Bensell
- Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings by Varla Ventura
- Midlothian Folk Tales by Lea Taylor
- Civil War Recipes by Lily May Spaulding and John Spaulding
- The Sea Kingdoms by Alistair Moffat
- Mysteries and Lore of Western Maryland by Susan Fair
- Looming Civil War by Jason Phillips
- Scotland: A History from Earliest Times by Alistair Moffat
- The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by Robert Kirk
- The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
- Monsters of Maryland by Ed Okonowicz
- The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege by Mark M. Smith
- The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
- The Curious History of Irish Dogs by David Blake Knox
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane: Scots Edition by JK Rowling
- Where Bigfoot Walks by Robert Michael Pyle
- Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum
- Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
- Hiking Through History: Washington by Nathan and Jeremy Barnes
- Images of America: Tumwater by Heather Lockman, Carla Wulfsberg, and the City of Tumwater’s Henderson House Museum
- Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth by Mark Williams
- Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Song of the Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
- Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Last Podcast on the Left by Marcus Parks, Ben Kissel, and Henry Zebrowski
- Lore by Aaron Mahnke, whether book, podcast, or Amazon show
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