Major: A Soldier Dog. Trevor Jones

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      Edited by Chul R. Kim and Coert VoorheesDesigned by Patrick Seymour, Tsang Seymour Design

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      MAJOR: A SOLDIER DOG

      Published by Six Foot PressCoert Voorhees, President

      Chul R. Kim, Publisher

      First edition 2019© 2019 Six Foot Press

      published in association with History Nebraska

      Text © 2019 Trevor JonesIllustrations © 2019 Ming HaiArchival photographs and documents

      © History Nebraska

      Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication data

      available from the publisher.

      Thanks to the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation for initial funding for this project. Thanks also to the amazing History Nebraska staff for background research, the late Tom Buecker for collecting materials related to soldiers at Fort Robinson, and for colleagues across the country who answered questions about dogs and World War II. Any factual errors in this book are my own. —Trevor Jones

      Thanks to Six Foot Press and History Nebraska for including me in this project. Thanks especially to Chul R. Kim and Trevor Jones for their wonderful direction and guidance. —Ming Hai

      Trevor Jones is Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nebraska State Historical Society. He is the creator of the award-winning Civil War exhibit and YA graphic novel Torn Within and Threatened Without. He has written numerous articles on American history and is one of the authors of the book Active Collections.

      Ming Hai is an illustrator originally from the east coast of the United States who now lives in Dallas, TX. She enjoys drawing, meditating, and drinking scalding beverages.

      For more information on Major, Sid, and the Fort Robinson War Dog Training Center, visit https://history.nebraska.gov.

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      When I was little, my best friend was Sid. He smelled like soap, dirt, and syrup, and we played

      all day in the snow.

      I loved to sleep close to him at night, where I heard branches on the roof and the snores