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References
- ↑ "Interview. Kenn Thomas". Karmapolis. Retrieved November 29, 2016.[ dead link ]
- ↑ Conspiracies: Not All the Same Nuts, New York Times, June 4, 1995[ dead link ]
- ↑ Dean Genesee. "Interview with Kenn Thomas". The Excluded Middle. Retrieved November 29, 2016.[ dead link ]
- ↑ "Steamshovel Press: Issue #17". ABE Books. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ↑ Kenn Thomas and Philip Gounis, Steamshovel Press #7, 1993, Steamshovel Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 1993. 8x11, 59 pages
- ↑ Mind Control, World Control, Jim Keith, Adventures Unlimited Press, 1997, ISBN 0-932813-45-3
- ↑ The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: History's Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals, Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, Citadel Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8065-2531-2
Books and journals referencing Steamshovel Press
- A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer, Nina Burleigh, Bantam, 1998, ISBN 0-553-38051-6
- American Extremism: History, Politics and the Militia Movement, Darren Mulloy, Routledge, 2004, p. 219, ISBN 0-415-32674-5
- ‘Play It Again, Sam, and Again’: Obsession and Art, Lennard J. Davis, Journal of Visual Culture 8, SAGE Publications, 2006, vol. 5: pp. 242–266
Books mentioning Steamshovel Press
- The Pushcart Prize XVIII: 1993 1994: Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press, 1993, p. 550, ISBN 0-916366-89-8
- Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Purdue University Press, 1999, p. 31, ISBN 1-55753-114-5