West of January

Copyright

Copyright © 2002 Dave Duncan

Published in the United States in 2003

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of Red Deer Press or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a license from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, ON M5E IE5, fax (416) 868-1621.

The Publishers

Red Deer Press

813 MacKimmie Library Tower

2500 University Drive N.W.

Calgary Alberta Canada T2N 1N4

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Credits

Edited for Bakka Books by John Rose and Salman A. Nensi.

Cover design by Mike Speke, Speke Visual Communications.

Text design by Dennis Johnson.

Printed and bound in Canada by Friesens for Red Deer Press.

Acknowledgments

Financial support provided by the Canada Council, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, a beneficiary of the Lottery Fund of the Government of Alberta, and the University of Calgary.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Duncan, Dave, 1933-

West of January

ISBN 0-88995-252-3

I. Title.

PS8557.U5373W47 2002 C813’·54 C2002-910249-9

PR9199·3·D874W47 2002

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