West With Giraffes(97)

The people of San Diego Zoo Global, especially CEO Douglas Myers, for all you do every day for the world’s endangered animals. Words fail.

Danielle Marshall, whose book sense is extraordinary.

The remarkable sources that made the research for past-world building possible—San Diego Zoo Global’s archives; the San Diego History Center; newspaper databases and oral-history accounts of the 1938 hurricane, WPA/CCC, Great Depression, and the Dust Bowl; and book, film, and photo publications, including The San Diego Zoo: The First Century 1916–2016, John Steinbeck’s 1939 The Grapes of Wrath, Victor Hugo Green’s 1936 The Negro Motorist Green Book, Timothy Egan’s 2006 The Worst Hard Time, Ken Burns’s 2012 documentary film The Dust Bowl, plus the timeless documentary photography of Dorothea Lange and Margaret Bourke-White.

And, of course, my nearest and dearest, both human and animal, who continue to put up with the writer in the house.