'Sophy's War: The Parallel Worlds of the Moon'
Trump, his Cabinet and the GOP are running roughshod over America and our Constitution. They are trashing the “rule of law” right along with our democratic human rights and social systems. And they are doing all of this right in front of our apathetically blind eyes. Millions of us seem to be waiting for the axe to fall, and still millions of others seem to be in favor of the coming loss of our country as we know it.
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The “Sweetwater Conspiracy” has had two planned publishing dates over the last five years, but both have been postponed for either marketing reasons or for storyline modifications and other iterative editing. I hope to finally publish this book by this time next year at the earliest or the year after at the latest. It is a story made for release in early July, as the critical events in this historical novel took place in that month in 1889. The following is a draft of the preface to the story. ~llaw (07/08/2018)
(An American Tragedy)
(This is taken from the Preface to my historical novel about an actual incident that occurred in the Wyoming Territory just a year before the state was admitted to the United States of America.)
“In the summer of 1889, during the settling-up of the American west a sensational news story swept off Wyoming’s high plains, making international headlines and shaking the resolve of the westward pioneering spirit. The story told of the macabre garroting murder by hanging of Ella Watson, a young, single, cowgirl homesteader (along with her friend, Jim Averell) by an ad-hoc vigilante group of influential Wyoming cattle barons. According to the press, the precocious settler was strung up for stocking her new homestead with cattle by trading sex for cows. Nothing could have been further from the truth, but the myth justified the means. They hanged Ella Watson and her boyfriend, but was someone else guilty? Or was it all a conspiracy?
This grisly incident, involving wealthy cattlemen and indigent homesteaders in Wyoming’s Sweetwater Valley, became a vital spark in the incendiary run-up to the infamous Johnson County War, leading to martial law as well as subsequent modifications to the various federal land grant acts that were profoundly influenced by that conflict.
The incident’s key role in the volatile triad of the federal government (trying desperately to equitably settle the west), the territorial government of Wyoming (in the middle of its transition to statehood), and the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (then, the most powerful jurisdictional and lobbying organization in America) must no longer be misunderstood nor ignored. The criminal, judicial, political, and historical significance of this tragic event has been suppressed, subverted, ignored, and overlooked for well over one hundred years, and most of what little has been written about it has been inaccurate if not intentionally misleading. Numerous movies, such as Heaven’s Gate, The Redhead from Wyoming, and Shane have borrowed from this tragedy. But the dark underbelly of the story seems always to be avoided. Even today the Sweetwater murders are not discussed in Wyoming’s polite social and political circles, especially in the cattle ranching community.
What follows is the dark truth behind that sensational story of so long ago – a story that headlined the front pages of newspapers from Cheyenne to Chicago to New York and on across the Atlantic to London, Paris, and Berlin, but the press, influenced by the powerful leaders of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, got it all wrong.” ~llaw
A girl may be camping out at this outpost on the Deep Springs campus, affectionately named ‘DS1’, sometime this fall. Late this summer, the first female student(s) ever, after 94 years of educating only young men, may enroll here..
This exclusive and highly rated two-year college, remotely located in the rugged high desert of eastern California between Lone Pine, California, and Dyer, Nevada (its mailing address), may be the most isolated educational institution in the United States.
Deep Springs accepts only a maximum of 15 new students each year out of nearly 200 applications. The institution and its campus is a working cattle ranch, and the students all work on the ranch in lieu of paying tuition or any other college expenses, which is one of the allures of the school.
Stay tuned to see who the first female student will become a working cowgirl at the most unique higher educational program in America. ~llaw (July 7,2018)
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Wishing all Americans a pleasant Independence Day. I hope it is not the last one. . .
Here, in my Blog, I will report and editorialize on current domestic and world affairs and events that I feel have significant impacts relating to feminine equality, politics, foreign affairs, economics, humanitarianism (including flora and fauna), as well as ecological, environmental, and educational issues that seem important or critical to a better future for our country and the world, and why I think so. ~llaw
In Stories, I will relate interesting and exciting segments from various chapters in my books or from personal experiences during my life. Those taken from my novels will be motivational tales inspired by a new breed of warrior wonder women, mostly of a wild and wily precocious and promiscuous independent nature coupled with unflinching courage, unwavering confidence and self-regard with a unique sense of values that, in some parallel world to our own, or maybe even in our own, will help to make this world a better place–a utopia of love, equality, openness and freedom where everyone can experience the felicity of life while communing in a united global world. ~llaw
In Books I will promote and update what is happening with my novels, both fully drafted and in progress, and where they stand in the process of iterative editing and publication. These books include an important fact-based American historical novel, “The Sweetwater Conspiracy”, concerning the 1889 murder of a young female homesteader by a vigilante lynch mob of wealthy Wyoming cattle barons.
Next is a series of six loosely related present-day feministic science fiction/fantasy pre-dystopian novels involving powerful young “demi-goddesses” and their disparate human recruits who take on the Great Patriarchy in wide-ranging efforts to save the world. The novels are collectively called “Sophy’s Way: Parallel Worlds of the Moon” with individual titles.
Also, I am diligently working on a new novel called “The Mormon Girl”, concerning the modern era religious patriarchy and how historical male-driven theological doctrine is socially, economically, and politically self-serving and how their beliefs dominate, diminish, and restrict one young Mormon girl’s struggles to pursue a life of happiness, equality and freedom in today’s anarchic world. ~llaw