" The Coast Road "
Book #3 1865
Since Federal Judge Wiilard Orrville is
too busy attempting to integrate the returning veterans into the expanded justice system Marshall McWhorter and his family
leave Carson City to winter in the port of San Francisco, responding to an urgent call for help from the Widow Brooks. Her
move to San Francisco this spring has left her vulnerable to the crooked politics and corruption in the Anglo and Chinese
world following the collapse of the war Movement. As fourteen-year old Becka Fosee` and 12-year-old Manolito Gonzales see
the mighty waters of the Pacific for the first time, Paul McWhorter is confronted with an age-old enemy he's faced too many
times as his deepest struggles are the consequences of what he was, what he heard, and what he did, in The War.
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December
30th, 2010
I learned so much in completing the middle six books that I am now completing the joyful expansion
and revision of the first three books, the Rancho Pacifica Collection, before I return to finishing " Stands At The Shoulder"
and " Antelope Dancing Drum" which will complete the series at fifteen books, although they arrived mid-section
in the series chronologically. I will then be free to complete the sixteenth, and final book in the Paul Lee McWhorter Western
Life Series. The Story of Spring Rayne at 21 seen through the eyes of her daughter Anamosa at the Turn of the Century. Between
them, I think they represent the aging of the Old West into the New America I am familiar with having listened to so many
stories the Old Folks used to tell about their childhood. Although, at the time, it might as well have been playing on the
Moon, it has since become a place I may lovingly call my own. A.R. Koheen
