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Cosgrove); Paul Clark Home, Butte (Corri Evans, Betty Ostoj); Pearl S. Buck Family Trust, New York (Craig Tenney); Princeton University’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, New Jersey (Christa Cleeton, Charles Greene, Anna Chen); Santa Barbara Historical Museum (Michael Redmon); Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (Anne Petersen); Save Our Seminary,Silver Spring, Maryland (Bonnie Rosenthal); Sotheby’s, London and New York (Blair Hance, Virginia Harley); the Surrogate’s Court, New York City (Suzan Tell, Eugene McCusker, Omar Colon, Marcia Goffin, Diana Sanabria); Tokyo String Quartet (Louise Beach); United Daughters of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia (Jane Durden); University of Montana, Missoula (Kathy Zeiler); University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Su Kim, Kelli Luchs); University of Virginia Law School Foundation, Charlottesville (David Ibbeken); Wildenstein & Company, New York (Joseph Baillio); William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles (Gerald Cloud, Rebecca Fenning Marschall); World Museum of Mining (Dolores Cooney, Tina Davis, Tom Satterthwaite).
    Advice and assistance with photographs came from John Makely, Jonathan Sanger, David Britt-Friedman, Jim Seida, Meredith Birkett, and Damon Kiesow. We acknowledge the granting of publication rights by Cris Molina, Buddy Moffet, David Fulton, Patrice Gilbert, and Stefen Turner.
    Thank you to early readers for suggestions on the manuscript: JoNel Aleccia, Andrew Alpern, Ted Anthony, Linda Dahlstrom, Steven Epley, Gene Foreman, Tish Fried, Don Fry, Lisa Holewa, Tom Johnson, Dave Kindred, Lenette Kosovich, Claire Viguerie Layrisson, Andrew Meyers, and Leslie Spangler.
    I thank co-author Paul Newell for his good humor, gentlemanly spirit, and respect for the truth.
    Deepest thanks go to my family for enduring the latest Huguette stories, and for their loving support: my mother, Bobbye Schroeder; my brother, Scott Dedman; my son, Justin, and daughter-in-law, Brittany; my wife, Pam Belluck; and our girls, Arielle and Jillian.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 
    Legal Documents and Official Records
    Civil War muster rolls and service records from Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Missouri. Searched by staff of Ancestry.​com .
    Iowa Wesleyan University, now Iowa Wesleyan College, catalogs and enrollment records.
    Los Angeles, affidavit of George John Palé regarding W. A. Clark, Jr., August 27, 1935.
    Maine death records, 1617–1922, via Ancestry.​com .
    Montana, District Court of the Second Judicial District, Silver Bow County, 1926, case 7594, in the matter of the estate of William A. Clark, deceased, Alma E. Clark Hines, Effie I. Clark McWilliams, and Addie L. Clark Miller, plaintiffs, v. Anna E. Clark, Huguette Marcelle Clark, Mary C. de Brabant, Katherine L. Morris, Charles W. Clark, William A. Clark, Jr., et al. A transcript in the Newell family collection includes testimony and transcriptions of documents, including portions of the journal of W. A. Clark.
    Montana, District Court of the Second Judicial District, Silver Bow County, last will and testament of William A. Clark, Jr., 1934.
    New Canaan, Connecticut, assessor records, zoning records, and minutes of the Planning and Zoning Commission, relating to 104 Dan’s Highway.
    New York, County Court, Nassau County. People of the State of New York v. Irving H. Kamsler, case 00532N-2008.
    New York, Surrogate’s Court of New York County, case 1995-1375A, the estate of Huguette M. Clark, 2011–. Beyond the material filed in court, the authors have reviewed the deposition testimony of more than fifty witnesses.
    New York, Surrogate’s Court of New York County, the last will and testament of Anna E. Clark, 1963.
    New York, Surrogate’s Court of New York County, the last will and testament of William Andrews Clark, 1925. Copy at http://​msnbcmedia.​msn.​com/​i/​msnbc/​Sections/​NEWS/​William_​Clark_​Will.​pdf .
    New York City Office of the City Register, property records related to 907 Fifth Avenue.
    New York Department of Education, Office of the Professions, disciplinary recordof Irving Kamsler. License no. 030909, calendar no. 25303, action date February 8, 2011.
    Passenger ship records, via Ancestry.​com .
    Passport applications, W. A. Clark, Anna Clark, and Huguette Clark. W.A.’s application is available through Ancestry.​com . Anna and Huguette’s are among Huguette’s papers.
    Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention Held