All Comments on 'The Gathering'

What a nice surprice of finding this story after finishing rereading the previous stories.

I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogie.

Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

I especially loved your series "The Trail West" and am glad we are getting more of that story as well as "Winterborn." You are a great writer and I thuroughly enjoy your work. I look forward to the next piece of the story!

You have gotten me wondering about watching older Western movies for

amusement. Thanks for continuing. I really enjoy your style, Woodie!

I have enjoyed all your previous series, and I look forward to reading more. You have also got me interested in Westerns. Thanks.

hooray, some more old west tales, very good job, keep up the excellent work woodmanone, thank you , galen

An excellent story line. I enjoy a good western and this one seems to be going in the right direction. looking forward the next installment.

You started out with another great story. Can't wait for the next chapters. Keep up the great work.

Despite the ugliness and generally short and brutish life from the 1600s until the early 1900s --- in reality --- Western fiction has always held a fascination for me. I guess partly because I was born in a place and time far away, long ago (to use a Star Wars phraseology), where the nitty-gritty things in life were sort of like those real and fictionalized Western stories of the American west... <p>

This trilogy has been a good Western story. Thank you for investing the necessary time, efford, and imagination to write it... <p>

The one thing I think odd, if you've done some real historical research, is that very few women were 5'9" in the 1700 and 1800s. Indeed, 5'9" would be tall even for men, because few were over 6 feet tall. <p>

Indeed, if you take a closer look at the elderly men and women who're born in the EARLY 1900s --- which means they are currently in their 70's, 80's, and 90's --- most are still between 5'5" to 5'9" or so ... yes, old age has brought them down an inch or two; but the lack/scarcity of nutrition and other general health care as recent as the early 1900s made people of that era, many again are still iwth us, not as tall or big as those born from the 1940s onward. <p>

Due to the lack of a lot of tall people --- that is, the average height for men was likely no more than 5'7" or so in the 1800s --- when you had a few, like Lincoln, at 6'4", he's like a towering giant, compared to those who're around him during his days... especially with his tall black hat on, too.

WMO,

Again many thanks for sharing on Lit.

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i love the continuation. well writen too. yyyeeesss.

good start

Ed Grocott

edgrocott@gmail.com

Looks like a great restart for both stories.

should be interesting. The characters are so different, and they seem to be evolving on different planes.

Elizabeth's "independent" attitude is commendable but her defiance toward her husband is down right disrespectful!

Nice movement between scenes. I think they would have taken more things with them.