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Gelsey Kirkland

Her father was Jack Kirkland, a renowned playwright who penned the Broadway adaptations of Tobacco Road and Tortilla Flat.

Spreckels, California

Spreckels is associated with the writer John Steinbeck, who lived and worked there for a time, and used it as a setting in Tortilla Flat.

Tortilla Flat

Steinbeck often used myths and themes or biblical stories in his novels: Cup of Gold is a retelling of the myth of Henry Morgan the pirate; Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row employ the King Arthur fables.

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Pirate promised that if God would save his sick dog, he would buy a golden candlestick for St. Francis.

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Tortilla Flat was an immediate hit for Steinbeck's publisher, Pascal Covici.

Tortilla Flat, Arizona

Forest Service records show Tonto National Forest being established in 1905 as kind of a "package deal" with the Salt River Reclamation Project.

My Father's Dragon

The illustrations within the book are black and white done with a grease crayon on a grained paper, done by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, who also illustrated other children's books such as My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Paco Goes to the Fair, Miss Hickory, Hipo the Hippo, and adult books such as Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck and Cream Hill by Lewis Stiles Gannett, the author's father and husband of the book's illustrator.

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