Night Birds/1
Copyeditor’s Style Sheet
Thomas Maltman, The Night Birds, Soho Press
Elements Within Text
PT = chapter number (pp. 4, 36, 68, 86, 167, 177, 219, 236, 299, 308, 376)
CT = chapter title, U/lc (pp. 5, 20, 37, 55, 69, 87, 103, 114, 128, 144, 158, 168, 178, 220, 237, 254, 271,
286, 287, 300, 309, 332, 344, 355, 377, 387, 395)
L = letter (pp. 21-22, 217-218, 243-244)
EX = extract (pp. 40, 41, 80, 104, 232, 326)
EPI = epigraph (p. 86)
S = epigraph source (p. 86)
DL = dateline/diary head (pp. 178, 180, 182, 185, 186, 190, 191, 194, 196, 200, 201, 203, 207, 209,
210, 211, 215 (x2), 217)
399 pages (1-398 + 1 insert page); 27 titled chapters
no further elements
author queries on pp. 9, 11, 14, 15, 43 (x2), 44, 52, 55, 57, 60, 65, 72, 74, 76 (x2), 78 (x2), 80, 81, 83,
85, 89, 91 (x2), 105, 110, 124, 155, 159, 173, 175, 184, 186, 189, 191, 193, 195, 196, 198, 203, 214,
216, 235, 237, 240, 243, 247, 250, 252, 258, 271, 272, 274, 276, 282, 285, 292, 316, 317, 318, 319,
326, 339, 344, 346, 347, 364, 381, 388, 396
Style Notes
serial comma used
direct thoughts in italics
ordinal numbers spelled out
spell out numbers in dialogue
Words and Phrases Used
Anderson, Capt. Joseph
(324)--commands Cullen
Guards
armbands (137)
backbreaking (213)
bedroll (332)
Blue-Face (212)--Indian
warrior
Blue Sky Woman (91)-cousin of Pretty Singer;
loves Eben Godfrey; has
Winona in 1850; speaks
English
bluestem (100)
boneyard (175)
bootheel (46)
breechclout (55)
bullhead (20)--ugly fish
carpetbag (33)
checkmate (81)
Cinnamon (44)--Jakob’s roan
mare
clean-shaven (64)
Cloud Woman (392)--Asa
Senger’s wife; father of
Jakob White Bear Senger
conjurefolk (149)
cookfires (240)
cornbread (322)
crabapple (388)
currycomb (172)
Cut-Nose (212)--Indian
warrior
Driebel, August (155)-shopkeeper; killed by
Indians
dust devils (6)
Dutch oven (128)
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Ecksteins (7)--Bohemian
farmers
Esther (172)--one of Sengers’
barn cats in 1876
everpresent (8)
fenceposts (118)
fieldwork (50)
Flandrau (104)--New Ulm
land speculator Jakob buys
from
Fort Ridgely (9)
Freyja (109)--Jakob’s cat in
MN
Frietz, Wendell (22)--doctor
at St. Peter Hospital for
the Insane
Gardner, Abbie (85)-survives 1859 Indian
massacre
Gere, Lt. (274)--boyish; sick
with mumps; commands
Ft. Ridgely after Capt.
Marsh is killed
Godfrey, Eben (91)--loved by
Blue Sky Woman
Good Star Woman (91)--dies
in 1850?
Good Thunder (93)--warrior
who saves Pretty Singer
from bear
goosepimples (57)
Gormann, Hans (108)-farmer who poisons
blackbirds; daughters
Cassie and Sallie
Grant, Capt. Hiram (332)-commands company A of
6th Minnestora Volunteers
grapevines (224)
Grolsheim, Henrietta (264)-fat captive
Gustavsons (99)--Swedish
family whose oxen are
killed by Pretty Singer
Hah-pahn (6)--name given by
Indian Asa releases from
jail; spoke no English;
broad features; silver
braids twined with strips
of hair; aquiline nose
handpress (42)
Hanyokeyah (88)--medicine
man; “Flies in the Night”;
called “Elijah” by
missionaries he lived with
as a boy; speaks English
hayloft (17)
haymeadow (64)
haymow (168)
henhouse (10)
Henrickson, Reverend (27)
Hinyan (125)--Wanikiya’s
burrowing owl; sacrificed
Hissing Turtle (196)--cousin
of Wanikiya
hoofbeat (155)
horsehair (14)
humpbacked (7)
Inkpaduta (82)--renegade
Indian; Pretty Singer lives
with in 1857; connected to
Hazel; dead brother was
Sintonamaduta
Jackson, Fred; “Stonewall”
(Frank James pseudonym)
(171)--bushy goatee; long
sideburns; large man
Jackson, Jordan (Jesse James
pseudonym) (171)--lean,
boyish face; spidery beard;
crossed revolvers; gray
eyes; rides big, beautiful
bay
jailhouse (220)
Jenkins, Lt. (91)
Jingling Dress (93)--courted
unsuccessfully by Pretty
Singer
Jones, Sgt. (276)--artillerist at
Ft. Ridgely
Keene, Rev. Benjamin (58)-in MO
Kelton, Josiah (46)--Kate
Moriah’s rich slaveowning
dad in MO; killed after
Civil War by Jayhawkers
Killing Ghost (250)--Indian
warrior
Kingdom of Jones (222)
Kolar, Dr. (358)--doctor in
Mankato; specializes in
mental disorders; black
carriage has ads for cureall elixirs; gray eyes
Kolar, Ida (357)--doctor’s
wife in Mankato; light
brown hair; small wrenlike
woman; daughter is Leah
Krieger, Justina (334)-woman who survived
attack
lightheaded (43)
littermates (188)
Little Wheat (89)--little sister
of Pretty Singer; dies in
1850?
lodge poles (162)
Meighen, Julius (80)-blacksmith; broadshouldered; walrus
mustache
Meighen, Orlen (226)-Julius’s son
Macaby, Silas (130)--from
Maine; reedy voice; pale
skin; white hair; stub of
nose
Marsh, Captain (274)--killed
in ambush
McGrew (276)--artillerist at
Ft. Ridgely
Merton’s Dry Goods (42)--in
Saline Springs, KS; run by
oversized Frau Volsmann
Merton, Timothy (65)-barkeep at Merton’s
Meyers (8)--own hotel; have
twins
Milfords (249)--sawmill
destroyed in attack
momma (23)
Moriah, Asa (50)--red hair;
Hazel’s age; from Kate’s
previous marriage; killed
in Indian attack
Moriah, Kate (46)--Jakob’s
second wife; widowed
schoolteacher; Auburn
hair; Asa and Matthew are
sons from previous
marriage; disappears on
the trip to MN; comes
back in 1859 and later has
baby Ruth; injured in
Indian attack; takes Ruth
and goes back to MO after
war
Moriah, Matthew (51)--born
1852; blind and simple
from scarlet fever; dies in
Indian raid
Moses (52)--Jakob’s Morgan
draft horse
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Moses (78)--Sengers’s
Percheron draft horse
nightstand (13)
nitpicking (112)
Noles (274)--at Ft. Ridgely;
shot through mouth;
flowing bloack beard;
about 40; dies fighting
Indians
Old Germans (75)
Otter (196)--cousin of
Wanikiya
pickaxe (38)
pocketknife (301)
pockmarked (84)
punch drunk (170)
Ravoux, Father (369)--monk
razor grass (7)
Renville Rangers (275)--from
St. Peter
ribcage (76)
roughsod (47)
Running Rattler (334)
rushlight (128)
sandbars (211)
scalp-lock (89)
Schillings (7)--own rundown
dry goods store and livery;
August is husband, wears
spectacles; Myra is wife,
son Franz (14) is two
years older than Asa;
bought up land after
Indian war; daughter
Jenny
schoolbell (46)
Seeing Stone (87)--tribal
leader; died 1849
Senger, Asa; Tun-kan-wanya-kapi (5)--dark, thin;
born April 1863; named
for Asa Moriah; Hazel and
Wanikiya’s son, but raised
by Caleb Senger and
didn’t know Hazel until
1876; becomes a doctor
serving the Dakota; father
of Jakob White Bear
Senger; marries Cloud
Woman
Senger, Caleb (5)--raised
Asa; wheat-gold hair; lean
features; hawk's profile;
born 1844; lawman
Senger, Cassie Gormann (5)-raised Asa; slender;
flaxen-haired; daughter
Sallie and mother killed by
Indians
Senger, Daniel (38)--born
1855; white hair; saves
Ruth from Indians in 1862
by walking 60 miles, then
dies
Senger, Emma (38)--Jakob’s
first wife; loves to sing;
healer; dies of
consumption in 1855,
leaving Caleb, Hazel, and
newborn Daniel
Senger, Hazel May (22)-epileptic; got pregnant
while captive of Dakota;
locked in insane asylum
for years; green eyes; dark
brown hair; born March
1846
Senger, Jakob (31)--Asa's
grandfather; Bohemian
immigrant; short,
bowlegged; dark beard;
collects folklore; first wife
Emma dies of
consumption in 1855,
leaves kids Hazel, Caleb,
and Daniel; marries Kate
Moriah in 1860 but she
disappears on the trip to
MN, leaving her kids with
him; killed at Antietam
Senger, Jakob White Bear
(392)--Asa Senger’s son;
born 1898
Senger, Ruth (238)--baby at
time of Indian attack;
copper hair; green eyes;
taken by Kate back to MO
after Daniel dies saving
her
Sheehan, Lt. (275)-commands soldiers from
Glencoe; angular face;
prominent cheekbones;
gray eyes; well-groomed
beard
Shylock, township of (7)
Simons, Mr. (7)--teacher;
long downturned face; one
arm; wire-rimmed glasses;
brown eyes; thin chestnut
hair, balding on top
single file (75)
singleminded (249)
slaveholding (44)
slaveowner (55)
sleepwalking (303)
Spider Woman (281)--old
woman
spiderwebs (205)
springhouse (15)
Stoltens (250)--farmers in
MN; killed in Indian
attack except for one son
sun-dried (271
Sweet, Joshua (343)-chaplain
talespinner (39)
tallgrass prairie (6)
Tamaha (269)--ancient
warrior; Blue Sky
Woman’s grandfather
Taoyoteduta (269)--leader
Tatanyandowan (88)--Seeing
Stone’s oldest son; “Pretty
Singer”; born 1837?; face
mutilated by bear; killed
by Hazel when he attempts
to rape her
teepee (87)
Thompsons (74)--tenanted
land that once belonged to
Cassie’s family
tomtoms (240)
Touches-the-Treetops (89)-Pretty Singer’s brother;
dies in prison for theft
tree line (115)
Turnip (245)--one of Daniel’s
half-wolf dogs
Wamiditanka (165)
Wanikiya (87)--born 1849;
“Savior”; youngest son of
Seeing Stone; abandoned
to die by brother Pretty
Singer; single lock of
silver in his hair; hanged
after uprising
washbasin (12)
water-witching (34)
Weschke, Dr. (358)--in New
Ulm
Whispering Cloud (97)--girl
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Wichapewastwan (87)-woman; “Good Star
Woman”
Winona--Blue Sky Woman’s
half-white daughter; born
1850; gray eyes; kills
herself in 1859 after Asa
Moriah rapes her
Wright, Alastor (22)--doctor
at St. Peter Hospital for
the Insane
yellowjackets (383)