Cora's "guiding star" and pessimism as the "religion of the unsuccessful" came from "Jacksonville's Most Famous Madam," by Peggy Friedmann, Jacksonville Magazine, May/June 1980, page 14; "I am a strange woman..." was provided by Cora Crane: The Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane, by Lillian Barnard Gilkes; "It was the afternoon of New Years" came from "Stephen Crane's Own Story: He Tells How the Commodore Was Wrecked and How He Escaped," reproduced at the Suffolk County Community College (New York) website, at http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/lewiss/CraneStory.htm ; "blossomed in a mud puddle" and "painted cohorts of the city" were obtained from an online version of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; the Columbia Encyclopedia reference in regard to The Monster was accessed at Bartleby.com at  http://www.bartleby.com/65/cr/Crane-St.html; "I wonder if husbands are so often unfaithful..." is quoted in The Double Life of Stephen Crane, by Christopher Benfey, page 187; "demonocracy" and other descriptions of Carry Nation's visits were copied from the Florida Times-Union of February 14, 1908; "homelier than a mud fence..." is from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 5, 1998; "keeper of a disorderly house," "woman of the underworld," and "Yes, I did it..." came from Stephen Crane, A Biography, by R. W. Stallman, pages 532-533; "alleged wife" is from Cora Crane: The Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane, by Lillian Barnard Gilkes; "toward the end of her career..., she became restless..." was provided by the Jacksonville Metropolis, September 5, 1910; the description of the weather & Pablo Beach on September 4, 1910, came from the Florida Times-Union the next day; and references were made to info obtained from a "Booknotes" interview with Linda Davis, author of Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane, at http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1479

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