Joko (56 page)
Authors: Karl Kofoed
Perhaps he would return to Yale one day. Perhaps he would find his family. But he didn’t think about those things.
Not now. He only knew that he had to move, and that the night was his only true friend.
Perhaps tomorrow he would return to Johnny and Gert.
Tucking his green bag neatly under his arm, Jack entered the denser brush, barely making a sound
.
The End
Acknowledgements
Ruth Benedict,
Patterns Of Culture
, Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1934
Jim Meunninck;
The Basic Essentials Of Edible Wild Plants
and
Useful Herbs
, ICS Books, 1988
Michael Grumley,
There Are Giants In The Earth
, Doubleday & Co, 1974
Richard L. Williams,
The Cascades
, Time/Life Books, 1974
Erin Hennessy,
Pacific Northwest
, Gallery Books, 1990
Ogden Tanner,
The Canadians
, Time/Life Books, 1977
Ivan Doig,
Winter Brothers
, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980
James G. Swan,
The Northwest Coast
, University of Washington Press, 1972
John Green,
Sasquatch – The Apes Among Us
, Hancock House Publishers, 1978
Thanks to the people and resources of the Port Townsend, WA Chamber of Commerce and The Jefferson County Historical Society.
The character of James Swan, while based on a real person, is entirely fictionalized, as are the descriptions of places and characters in the towns of Port Townsend, WA and Yale, BC.
“Jacko”, the story upon which JOKO is loosely based, was reported in the pages of the Victoria, B.C. Daily Colonist, July 4, 1884