Editing Cloudsplitter (section)

==Literary license==
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Banks takes great license with some of the historical figures in his narrative and very clearly states in his preface that his book is a work of fiction and not to be substituted for a work of biography or history.

Notable departures between historical fact and the fictionalized events in the books include:

*Owen Brown being alive in 1909 (50 years later) when the real Owen Brown died in 1889.
* Owen accompanying his father on his trip to England.
* Kitty is an invention.
* The timeline of the Browns move to [[North Elba]].
* Owen's interest in Lyman's wife and in the pregnant young woman who kills herself jumping into the ocean during the trip  to England.
* The time Lyman Epps and his wife spent with the Browns. Much of Lyman Epps Sr.'s life was heavily fictionalized, including his age, the name of his wife, and the time and cause of his death.
* In the novel, "Dutch" Henry Sherman, a stated target in the Pottawatomie spree, is killed. In reality he happened to be absent on the morning of the killings and thus survived. His brother William, however, was present and consequently murdered.