The History of
The Kingdom of The West

Thanks go out to the following for their assistance:

• Gregory Blount: Who hosted this site for a couple of years on his own server. The site was moved due to some technical issues, but Gregory's assistance has been greatly appreciated, even if you never really knew he was even there hosting the site.
• Nicholas Bawcock of Petersfield, Aja du Jardin, Beatrix zum Dunklenturm, Evaine MacGreger, Khevron Oktavii Tikhikovich Vorotnikov, and Robert of Ynys Taltraeth for their efforts in drawing and coloring the arms of the past Royalty of the West Kingdom. That was a tremendous undertaking, and they've been a lot of help doing it.
• Kevin Peregrynne, who spend a long time scanning photos and saving them to a CD, with a key to help me know what I was looking at. Nearly 200 photos were added to the site based on his archives for the early years (raging from the third tournament up to events in AS XIII).
• Hal Ravn, who is giving me photos by the box-load to go through and scan the ones I want to use ...
• Felix MacAvady, who helped with the first version of this history. In addition, he put it up on a server, and so on ...
• Ian the Fariner, who allowed this to go up on the new West Kingdom server ...
• Katherine Goodpasture, who helped seed the photos by spending a lot of her off-work waking time scanning and emailing them to me, and continues to get photos from her friends and scan those, and send them when she has time.
• Steven MacEanruig, who allowed me to pull photos from his website (which is cool -- it's at: http://www.maceanruig.homestead.com/index.html and worth checking out -- he has tons of songs and other nifty things from the early days of the West Kingdom's history), as well as sending me photos directly, which also helped seed the site.
• Megan nic Alister of Thornwood, who photocopied calendars from several issues of The Page that were listed as 'missing' ... (this helps to ensure listings of all events are there).
• All donors of photographs, and others who helped get parts of the history correct, and those who will be doing so over time.

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The West Kingdom History Website was created by and is maintained by Hirsch von Henford (mka Ken Mayer).