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Woodland Stream 2

     With the passing of ninety-seven year old lawman, Paul Lee McWhorter, the life at the ranch he built above the deserts at Lake Lohontan to preseve the site sacred to the People for thousands of years remained unchanged -outwardly - as it passed to the next generation, but the world of 1917 has a little in common the life he lived in the years of social change and upheaval after the American Civil War as his Miwuk granddaughter's life has in common with her beloved grandmother Speckled Bird, the mother of Paul's McWhorter's only child, Spring Rayne.   

Stream, Shell Creek Canyon, WY

 The Paul Lee McWhorter Western Life Series  

A Federal Marshall takes his family with him on his travels in the years following the American Civil War, loaning his strength to small ranchers and farmers unable to defend themselves against the men who would use the rawness of the now-States and Territories to their own advantage. These earthy, down home books are about Justice on behalf of the ordinary citizen rather than taking down the bad guys by force                                

  1.     Rancho Pacifica      circa 1865             
  2.     Fires in the Night Sky “   circa 1865   
  3.     The Coast Road     circa 1865    
  4.     Soldier’s Heart      circa 1865 
  5.      [Shaddle Junction]  under contract until 2016     
  6.      The Autumn of Speckled Bird       circa 1869                                           
   7.     Stands by The Shoulder      circa 1869                                                                   
  8.     Devil’s Paradise. California      circa  1869   
  9.     Wolf Crossing      circa 1869     
10.     September Strawberries     circa 1871   
11.     Winter Wheat      circa 1872   
12.     Indian Summer “    circa 1872  
13.     Spring Rayne      circa 1873  
14.     Sumner Hidalgo “  Circa  1897