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La Plata County Series, Book Two: Amite County and Mississippi Woman

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I am the author, and LaPlata County Series, Book Two is the culmination of years of study about an era and part of the South my people helped develop. Both novels in this series are a tribute to both the Black and White people of Amite County Mississippi. After considerable research into Black English, I have made an attempt to write the dialogue of slaves and former slaves somewhat close to the way they spoke the language; this is not to ridicule but to preserve a way of life that needs preserved. (Book Cover) Luther Butler continues his LaPlata County Series. James Butler's (alias James Wilkerson) descendents find themselves caught up 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 Fort Worth, Texas where, for health reasons, two of her sons leave for LaPlata County, Colorado where the mountains touch the sky. A section of Fort Worth is called, "Hell's Half Acre." Here Bret Sloan took the exslaves from Mississippi and opened a house of prostitution. Like the characters in GONE WITH THE WIND, AMITE COUNTY'S people adjust to a South that is lost in gun smoke and fancy mirrors.

Amite County is the story of two Mississippi boy cousins (one black the other white)who go to Vicksburg to rescue a prisoner of war.

La Plata County Series
Book one... County Dublin... James Butler comes to Virginia as James Wilkerson
Book two... Blood on The Moon... General William Wilkerson spies and gains land in Amite County, Mississippi
Book three... Amite County... A Civil War novel involving the Wilkerson family. Humorous
Book four... Mississippi... Woman based partly on my grandmother coming to Fort Worth. D.H. Wilkerson takes brother to La Plata County, Colorado to cure him of Tuberculosis
Book five...Indians and Soldiers... Ute Indians driven out of La Plata County, fiction and some facts
Book six...Cowboys and Rustlers...Conflict of early settlers and rustlers in La Plata County. D.H. Wilkerson homesteads land
Book seven...Homesteaders and Sheepherders...D.H. Wilkerson and his sons can't make a living farming so they raise sheep. Conflict with nature and people in the County. Son Wilkerson, small boy, narrates the story.
Book Eight...D.H... Son Wilkerson, because of his father's ill health taken from La Plata County to New Mexico and Arizona
Book Nine...I Knew a Man who Had Six Sons...D.H.goes nuts. Lives in earth cellar, takes up with college teacher until Son Wilkerson marries the teacher before he goes to Korea as a pilot. Son comes back blind and starts life by writing La Plata County Series with the help of his wife.
Book Ten...Squash Blossom...story of young Ute widow and her infant son after being driven from La Plata County and being captured by Navajo from Ship Rock, New Mexico. Her grandson comes back to La Plata County.
NOTE...Since the author spent the best part of his life in La Plata County before college and the Navy, some of this is his life. The series begins and ends on the land my father homesteaded.