Durango Herald Online: "Galloping Goose railcar "LUTHER BUTLER'S EARLY MEMORIES OF LA PLATA COUNTYCABIN EAST OF MANCOSOn November 14, 1929, my parents were returning to La Plata County after a year in Cleburne, Texas trying to sell a boxcar or two of Delicious apples grown in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Their journey was halted in Alamosa, Colorado by my birth in a Luthern Hospital. From this hospital, I got my name. I'm thankful they didn't make it to La Plata County for my birth since the hospital in Durango, county seat, was Mercy Hospital. Luther is hard enough to bear, but think of a name like Mercy!Before my birth, my father had owned a music and a Singer Sewing Machine store in Durango. Many times he had taken land in trade for merchandise so when he returned to La Pl
://lutherbutler.tripod.com/Luther Butler's WritingsLa Plata County Series, Book One Dublin and Blood on the Moon by Luther ButlerCounty Dublin is the first of ten novels in the La Plata County Series. The reader meets James Butler (alias James Wilkerson) was destined to rule the House of Ormonde in Dublin, Ireland. County Dublin has blood-seeking sharks, slavers, slaves and Irishmen who kill and mutilate to keep James Butler from his destiny. These obstacles drive him to Louisa County, Virginia. It is here he fathers two sons who are destined to travel across the South, until one homesteads in La Plata County, Colorado.La Plata County Series, Book Two County and Mississippi Womanby Luther ButlerLuther Butler continues his La Plata County Series. James Butler's (alias James Wilkerson) desc
