Luther Butler continues his La Plata County Series. James Butler's (alias James Wilkerson) descendents find themselves caught up in the great American Civil War. Nat who dreams of becoming a soldier in the Southern Army narrates AMITE COUNTY. Eleven year old Nat is engaged in a conflict that tears him and his Black comrade, Charles Ray, from the Amite County farm to a dangerous Yankee prisoner of war camp. MISSISSIPPI WOMAN continues the series after the Civil War. Nat Wilkerson's wife, Sally Ann, loses the Amite County farm and moves to Texas where, for health reasons, two of her sons leave for La Plata County, Colorado where the mountains touch the sky!
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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Trip to Mexico down Baja
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