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Near Ashepoo River

  " Fires in the Night Sky "

Book #2   1865

In returning to work as a federal Marshall under Judge Willard Orrville in Carson City, Paul McWhorter is able to reunite his family for the first time since his release from a Union Prisoner of war camp, but with a growing teen aged Ward and a wilful boy uncertain of the path he will choose in life between his outlaw Pa and what he sees growing up wild at Paul Lee McWhorter's side, it isn't as simple as crossing his fingers and wishing "King's X" in a child's game as the new world formed by the War Between the Brothers shapes one vastly different from the one they left to fight. The challenges, and successes of Freed men and women in a Country ill-equipped to assimilate them without further struggle over barely healed wounds. 


 

December 30th, 2010     11:30 am   PST

I've been making good use of the lovely sunshine! And of these six 'lame duck' days between Christmas and the new year. I'm getting accustomed to only being able to write here on the Web and I'm grateful even for that partial use because I found some glaring flaws in the presentation of my Western Life Books when I went to rename the Second Book, " Fires in the Night Sky". Those have been corrected and brought up to date. Last night I was working on Chapter Five and it finally sunk in that I was rather far into the book to have Paul and the Judge meeting up for the first time, and sure enough there was a single bland paragraph written when I had no idea what the book was about and I had to shake my head in dismay! When I started writing these introductory books to the written series in January of this year I was in deep pain and couldn't sit more than twenty minutes at a time. By His Grace, that pain has ended and though I'm housebound, having the site to peck at really helps. Because I can't reclaim anything I removed I exchanged places-where it now makes sense and makes for a powerful intro, I simply put the excised points in red so I could remove them once I had them successfully copied. I getting a whole new respect for the monks from the Middle Ages who wrote all those texts by hand!!!It's becoming an entirely new book now that O know in advance what I'm going to be saying about Paul and his relationship with the orphaned children and I've been better able to detail my initial goal-how Blacks were as profoundly affected by the post war changes as the White community.

Asia Rachael Cohen