The web was an invaluable source of info in writing this book.
So what if some of the information available there was hysterical, ill informed and wrong?
It was exactly the kind of stuff Sid and Danny themselves would have accessed.
ARIZONA

http://www.hotelcongress.com/ - Hotel Congress, Tucson
http://www.meteorcrater.com/ - Meteor Crater online.
http://www.sanxaviermission.org/ - Mission San Xavier del Bac website.
http://www.aztrogon.com/Local%20Info/Nogales/nogdirect.htm Nogales map.
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/camera-ie.html a website of Tucson with webcam.
FREEMASONRY

http://www.guigue.org/guitex28.htm tells us about early attempts to introduce The Craft to the USA
FREEMASONS IN SPACE

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/spacemason/ – a checklist of NASA masons.
http://www.mt.net/~watcher/masonapollo.html More of the same.
http://scenewash.org/lobbies/chainthinker/ctheory/mann/stupid31.html Information linking John F Kennedy to putting Masons on the moon.
FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS

http://www.chick.com/ is the ultimate on-line source for easy to digest, bite-sized Biblical weirdness.
KING ARTHUR/HOLY GRAIL

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tomgreen/arthur.htm – is a good overview of Arthur in history and myth
http://www.a1.com/isms/holygrail.html explains how the Holy Grail is actually in Indiana
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3636/indexe.htm is a comprehensive overview of assumed Grail locations
http://www.nullensc.dircon.co.uk/jch/jch_anx1.htm#Holy%20Grail - how the Knights Templars got the Holy Grail.
HOAX MOON LANDING

http://www.webaxs.net/~noel/moon.htm Men didn't go to the moon.
HOPI CULTURE

http://www.psv.com/hopi.html is the official site of the Hopi Cultural Centre.
http://www.nau.edu/~hcpo-p/ I did a number of re-writes in the light of information presented here.
http://www.recycles.org/hopi/index.htm Chat and exchanges of views.
http://www.nau.edu/~hcpo-p/arts/tihum.htm Information about katsina dolls.
http://www.csulb.edu/~aisstudy/nae/chapter_1/001_002_1.09.txt - stuff about Walpi.
MUSIC

http://www.melbourne.net/beasts/beasts.html - The Beasts Of Bourbon. Their album Gone somehow helped me get this story into shape.
http://www.borderlinebooks.com/us6070s/us60stop.html - Fuzz, Acid & Flowers is a great book that helped me find out all about the kind of bands Luther's is based on.
http://www.giantsand.com/ - Being a Giant Sand fan is what first led me to the South West, and Hotel Congress. Check out all the links here for other Arizona music.
http://www.thedavegraneyshow.com/ - for what it's worth it was Dave Graney's 2nd band The Moodists I was listening to for the moment I remembered for page 152.
http://www.myfirstband.com/ - Here's endless photos and biogs of US 60's Garage bands that never even made records.
PEYOTE

http://www.roninpub.com/Peyote.html – suggested reading.
http://www.kifaru.com/peyroad6.html - more peyote books and legal info.
SECRET AIRBASES

http://www.ufomind.com/area51/links/ - hooks into source material for the secret airbase where the Holy Grail is rumoured to be stored.
http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/NAZNWO39.TXT – Someone suggested I read up on the lost highway called Route 666. Who would have thought it would dovetail into yet more conspiracy theories.
WANDERING JEW

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/1720/wj.htm - ideas for Peter Rugg character.

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