Warlock: Prefatory Note

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    This book is a novel. The town of Warlock and the territory
    in which it is located are fabrications. But any relation of
    characters to real persons, living or dead, is not always
    coincidental, for many are composites of figures who live
    still on a frontier between history and legend.

    The fabric of the story, too, is made up of actual events
    interwoven with invented ones; by combining what did happen
    with what might have happened, I have tried to show what
    should have happened. Devotees of Western legend may consequently
    complain that I have used familiar elements to construct a
    fanciful design, and that I have rearranged or ignored the
    accepted facts. So I will reiterate that this work is a novel.
    The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

                                                -- Oakley Hall

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