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- ↑ "Entry for Cook, Will(iam Everett)," Encyclopedia of Frontier and Western Fiction edited by Jon Tuska and Vicki Piekarski, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983, page 52 to 54.
- ↑ "Entry on William Everett Cook" by R. E. Briney, Twentieth-Century Western Writers edited by Geoff Sadler, St. James Press, 1992, pages 140 to 142.
- ↑ Wade Everett in Fantastic Fiction , retrieved 2008-10-31
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