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Son Wilkerson continues the saga of La Plata County Serieswith HOMESTEADERS AND SHEEPHERDERS and D.H. In HOMESTEADERS AND SHEEPHERDERS, the Wilkersons struggle to make ends meet. The Utes are gone, but the sagebrush, pinyon, and cedar still remain to be cleared from the Dryside land. Suddenly, D.H. Wilkerson realizes he cannot make a living on the land he has accumulated so he turns to a large herd of sheep for money. Along with the sheep, death stalks the Dryside land in the form of angry Mormons, Diphtheria, Wallis Yonger, and Swamper, a child molester. Son Wilkerson steps in to help drive the sheep to the beloved La Plata Mountains.

D.H., is the continuation of the story of D.H. Wilkerson as told by Son. Driven from La Plata County by sickness, Son and D.H. wander the badlands of New Mexico and Arizona. Son returns to La Plata County to help his brother, Frank, run the ranch during World War II. Son is forced to grow up during a time when the world is coming unglued. While trying to cope with an insane father, he finds friendship with Duane and love with Dorothy Tuttle.
The author began this book in a Fort Worth Hospital after an insecticide accident had a bizarre affect. Drawing from his childhood memories, Homesteaders and Sheepherders, is based on events that happened to a boy in his beloved La Plata County Colorado.
..., Homesteaders and Sheepherders, and D.H., are not biographical, but the character, Son Wilkerson, is an alter ego of the way I would have liked to be. Son pretty much follows the patterns of my life as he lives in La Plata County, Colorado on a sheep ranch and finally is pulled away from this ideal life to travel through New Mexico and Arizona. You've heard about the Waste Lands and this was what it was like to be torn from the sheltering La Plata Mountains to the bad lands of the two southern states. As you read Book Four of the five series try to imagine the pathos and sorrow of a boy growing up in an alien world where mountains drift into the barren deserts, and he always want to go home to La Plata County

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homesteaders and sheepherders: A Novel - Google Books Resultby Luther Butler - 1999 - Fiction - 448 pages
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