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Crews, Ed. Captain Jack Jouett’s Ride to the Rescue . Colonial Williamsburg. http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer06/ride.cfm.

Jack Jouett: Louisa County’s Revolutionary Hero . Louisa County, Virginia. http://www.louisacounty.com/LCliving/jouett.htm.

“Jack Jouett of Virginia: The ‘Other Ride.’ ” Valley Compatriot . February 1984. Donal Norman Moran, ed. http://americanrevolution.org/jouett.html.

Jack Jouett’s Ride . History Happens: Stories from American History on Music Video. http://www.ushistory.com/story_jack.htm.

Jack Jouett’s Ride . Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia. http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jack-jouetts-ride.

Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton . National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/cowp/historyculture/lieutenant-colonel-banastre-tarleton.htm.

The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress: 1781 . http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/1781.html.

Timeline of the Revolutionary War . Ushistory.org. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm.

Visit the Home of the “Paul Revere of the South.” Jack Jouett House Historic Site. http://www.jouetthouse.org.

Notes on specific scenes and characters:

The scene in which Jouett overhears a conversation in the tavern is factual, but some of the dialogue is imagined to provide historical context.

The scene with Tarleton and a young, unnamed soldier at the campfire is imagined, though all of the information conveyed in the scene is factual.

The scene in which Jouett arrives at Monticello is factual, but the dialogue is fictional. There is no record of what he actually said to Jefferson, but the imagined dialogue is supported by reports of how Jefferson reacted.

The scene in which the Dragoons arrive in Monticello is based on the records that we believe are most authentic. That said, there are varying accounts of how Jefferson responded to Jouett’s news (some have him eating breakfast before heading out) and where he rode to first (one account says that he rode up the mountain and hid in the hollowed-out shell of an oak tree).

The scene at the end with Jouett and Stevens is factual, but the dialogue is imagined.

Chapter 2: Shays’ Rebellion: A Loud and Solemn Lesson

Most of the facts used to create this story came from the following sources:

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Allen, Herbert S. John Hancock: Patriot in Purple . Beechhurst Press, 1953.

Barry, John Stetson. The History of Massachusetts . Ulan Press, 2012.

Buckley, Kerry W. A Place Called Paradise: Culture and Community in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654–2004 . University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

Clogston, William, and Moses King. King’s Handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts: A Series of Monographs, Historical and Descriptive . Ulan Press, 2012.

Copeland, Alfred Minott. “Our County and Its People”: A History of Hampden County, Massachusetts . Vol. 1. Ulan Press, 2012.

Cushing, Thomas. History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men . Vol. 1. J. B. Beers, 1885.

Danver, Steven L., ed. Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History: An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO, 2010.

Davis, Kenneth C. America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation . Harper Perennial, 2009.

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Feer, Robert A. Shays’ Rebellion . Garland, 1988.

Field, David Dudley. A History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, in Two Parts: The First Being a General View of the County: the Second, an Account of the Several Towns . Ulan Press, 2012.

Fiske, John. The Critical Period of American History, 1783 to 1789 . Kessinger, 2010.

“Friday December 1st. 1786.” National Archives. http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0001-0011-0001.

Harlow, Ralph Volney. Samuel Adams, Promoter of the American Revolution . Henry Holt, 1923.

Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American History Told by Contemporaries . Vol. 3. University of Michigan Library, 1917.

Herrick, William Dodge. History of the Town of Gardner, Worcester County, Massachusetts from the Incorporation, June 27, 1785, to the Present Time . Ulan Press, 2012.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert. History of Western Massachusetts: The Counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, Embracing an Outline, or General History, of the Section, an Account of its Scientific Aspects and Leading Interests, and Separate Histories of its One Hundred Towns . Repressed, 2012.

Kaufman, Martin, ed. Shays’ Rebellion: Selected Essays . Institute for Massachusetts Studies, 1987.

Leibiger, Stuart. Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic . University of Virginia Press, 2001.

Lockwood, John Hoyt. Westfield and Its Historic Influences, 1669–1919: The Life of an Early Town, with a Survey of Events in New England and Bordering Regions to which it was Related in Colonial and Revolutionary Times . Vol. 2. Nabu Press, 2012.

Masur, Louis P. Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776–1865 . Oxford University Press, 1991.

Minot, George Richards. The History of the Insurrections, in Massachusetts, in the Year 1786 and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon . British Library, 2010.

Munroe, James Phinney. The New England Conscience: With Typical Examples . Richard G. Badger, 1915.

Richards, Leonard L. Shays’ Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle . University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Sears, Lorenzo. John Hancock: The Picturesque Patriot . Gerbert Press, 2008.

Starkey, Marion L. A Little Rebellion . Knopf, 1955.

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Thompson, Francis McGee. History of Greenfield: Shire of Franklin County, Massachusetts . History of Greenfield Ulan Press, 2012.

Trumbull, James Russell. History of Northampton Massachusetts from Its Settlement in 1654 . Forgotten Books, 2012.

Willard, David. Willard’s History of Greenfield . Kneeland & Eastman, 1838.

Most of the dialogue in this chapter was imagined, but the following quotations were taken in whole or in part from the historical record:

“We are either a united people, or we are not”: Stan V. Henkels, Washington-Madison Papers Collected and Preserved by James Madison, Estate of J. C. McGuire . 1892, p. 25.

“Tell ’em we can’t afford to pay neither debts nor taxes”: Fiske, 179.

“Gentlemen: By information from the General Court”: Holland, 250.

“They say Captain Shattuck has perished in his prison cell”: Richards, 21.

“The men of property”: Hart, 191–93.

“You know it. Your very manner tells me you know it”: Starkey, 130.

“If the matter isn’t settled by sunset”: Starkey, 131.

“If you advance”: Lockwood, 109.