La Plata County Series, Book Three: Indians & Soldiers and Ranchers & Rustlers [Paperback]

Luther Butler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 2000 | Series: Plata County (Book 3)

From Dublin, Ireland to Barbados, to Virginia, to Georgia, to Mississippi, James Wilkerson's lineage marches westward. Son Wilkerson continues to trace the roots of the people who settle La Plata County, Colorado. Two exciting novels make up La Plata County Series III. INDIANS AND SOLDIERS portrays the Cavalry's role in clearing La Plata County of the Ute Indians. RANCHERS AND RUSTLERS brings two retired Indian fighters into the County and into D.H. and Melinda Wilkerson's life. Privation follows the early settlers, but the beauty of the mountains compensates them.

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About the Author

Luther Butler was born of southern parents in Alamosa, Colorado in 1929. He holds degrees from Eastern New Mexico University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Tarleton State University. He served in the US Navy and has ranched, worked in a mental hospital, in inner city slums, and was with the Texas Department of Agriculture for 23 years. He is married to Jo Butler and has one son.http://www.erath.net/butler/aboutlb.htm

Product Details

• Paperback: 452 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (January 20, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583486194
• ISBN-13: 978-1583486191
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

More About the Author

Luther Butler has lived in Stephenville, Texas since 1968. He was born in Alamosa Colorado in 1929 while his family was returning from Cleburne, Texas to a homestead in La Plata County, Colorado where he graduated from Durango High School in 1948.He has been married to Jo Branton Butler for fifty years. They have one son. While in the Navy for two years he contacted polio and was sent to Bethesda Naval Hospital where he was used for a LSD experiment. Discharged honorably from service after almost three years he earned a BD degree to go with his BA from Eastern New Mexico and then an MA in English from Tarleton State University. In 1985 after being seriously hurt he retired from the Texas Department of Agriculture. Barely able to walk and with his vision severely damaged he began to write. His first novel, Preacher, was reviewed by Library Journal. Texas Christian University used the Preacher in a novels course as did several colleges in St Louis, Missouri. He has been listed in Who's Who for several years for having twenty-one novels published. His love for writing continues. Much of the author's early life is written as fiction in his novels Homesteaders and Sheepherders and D.H. The story continues over into I Knew a Man Who had Six Sons but most of this book is fiction. La Plata County Series is based on my father's genealogy - starting in County Dublin, Ireland it continues through Barbados, Louisa County, Virginia, Amite County, Mississippi, Fort Worth, Texas to La Plata County Colorado.
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Poetry by Luther Butler
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Growing up on a sheep ranch in Colorado
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Trip to Mexico down Baja
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