" The Autumn of Speckled
Bird "
~
For the first time, fours years after the ending of the American Civil War, sixty-four year old Paul Lee McWhorter is faced
with the effect of attempting to 'forget' the terrors of war and his horrific months as a prisoner-of-war in a Union Army
death camp. Having reached a point where his past and his present collided explosively his shattering battle with PTSD, known
then as "Soldier's Heart" demands that he withdrawn into the wilderness and face head-on what he cannot escape.
As the spring in Utah, where he and his family witnessed the historic union of the transcontinental railroads uniting East
and West while North and South are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives, gives way to summer and autumn in the
high country of Nevada, Paul's heart finally begins to mend and he looks to the future shaped in the Autumn of Speckled
Bird.
