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el gran poder de Dios. For a deeper understanding of Tomóchic, and Teresita’s role in the debacle, you must begin with Heriberto Frías’s Tomóchic. Paul Vanderwood has written the definitive Tomóchic history, God and Guns Against the Power of Government. Brianda Domecq will, perhaps, forgive me if I confess I have not read her no-doubt fine novel about Teresita, La insólita historia de la Santa de Cabora. Aside from giving me an epigraph for the first section of this book, Ms. Domecq’s work remained a mystery to me, since I didn’t want any fiction affecting the fiction I was composing. I have read her excellent historical notes and essays, however, in such places as the Arizona Historical Society.

I owe a great deal of gratitude to the Lannan Foundation for their generous support. The award is just a small part of it.

Finally, Geoff Shandler, my careful editor, has walked back and forth through this epic, trimming and shaping an unruly text. I couldn’t put my work in finer hands. Along with Geoff, everyone at Little, Brown has been kind and supportive as I’ve bashed my way through this book—thanks to Michael Pietsch, Liz Nagle, Shannon Byrne, Peggy Freudenthal, copyeditor Melissa Clemence, and proofreader Katie Blatt, among so many others. Everyone at the Sandra Dijkstra Agency watches over me and makes my career possible; Mike Cendejas at the Lynne Pleshette Agency battles Hollywood for me and makes dreams come true.

Cinderella did tireless work in support of the creation of The Hummingbird’s Daughter. Any husband would be wise to say this, but in my case it’s true: without her help, there would be no book.

More Urrea family members than I can name here gave me hours, days, years of their time. Please see the Web site.

Thank you all. Y gracias, Teresita.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LUIS ALBERTO URREA is the author of The Devil’s Highway, winner of the 2004 Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction; Across the Wire, winner of the Christopher Award; and By the Lake of Sleeping Children. He is the recipient of an American Book Award, a Western States Book Award, and a Colorado Book Award, and he has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. His poetry has been collected in The Best American Poetry, and his short-story collection, Six Kinds of Sky, won the 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Editor’s Choice for Fiction. He teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois in Chicago.