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Idyllwild is the second story in the "Sheriff Wyler Scott Series" novels authored by "Mark Paul" Sebar. It is known as a "Odd Western" and a Modern Day Western combining action, adventure, with modern western detective and crime stories mixed with fantasy and fiction. The story was originall published in 1985 and takes place in the early Coachella Valley of Southern California. PLOT SUMMARY |
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The story opens in the spring of the early 1960's with two Cahuilla (Ka.Wee.Yuh) Indian boys running and playing near a Tee-Pee exhibit on the Morongo Indian Reservation at the Molkai Museum in the Banning area of Southern California. The older boy is Garyson Tivol and the younger boy is Mohany Rodriguez. Needless to say, their game of hide and seek ends with Garyson collapsing the exhibit tee-pee around Mohany and Mohany's shaman father Black Claw coming for the both of them. Fast forward to January 1980 and Mohany is a man with an aging father who has been teaching him the ways of the Pu`ul (Palm Springs Witchman) and not only the ways of the Cahuillian Indians but Mohany is also a former Green Beret decorated Viet Nam Veteran. He can survive off the land with ancient farming as well as fight a combative battle if required, but that's not all. His father has been teaching him Puuvalism and in it he has begun the budding talents of being able to see things a bit ahead of time as well as his new ability to start and stop small fires with his mind (Pyrokinesis) and move small objects with his mind (Telekinesis) With Black Claw's days numbered, he urges Mohany to go out in the world and leave home, make a life of his own, and so Mohany heads to the main resort town nearby, Palm Springs. September 1982 nighttime in a disco bar in Cathedral City California, Mohany meets the woman of his life and they become tight knit. Across the way at a resort, lay former Sheriff Wyler Scott by poolside under the twinkling stars. An older woman gets stung by a scorpion and Mohany happens nearby. He pulls a pocketknife and edges the poison from the sting wounds of the deadly insect. This is the first time Wyler and Mohany cross paths and the sheriff notes that Mohany saved her life after he has vanished. October 1983, reporters confronting Wyler Scott on stage. He has decided to run for the (fictitional sheriff) of Riverside County California. There he meets a persistent reporter named Ileen and there is chemistry here between Wyler and Ileen that may well last a lifetime through the series and beyond. High in the towering San Jacinto Mountains just outside Idyllwild near Foster Lake, Mohany is confronted by two henchmen wanting to buy his property and cabin. He refuses to sell to them. They set their sights on a next door neighbor's cabin property at the insistence of an unscrupulous businesswoman and murder the neighbor. Mohany happens to stumble in and he is cold-cocked and setup for the murder by some crooked county deputies in the very department where incoming Wyler Scott might be sheriff.
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Some Facts The Cahuilla Indians are today, the wealthiest tribe in North America, with ownershop of the Morongo Casino. Pu`ul's are real and are also known as "The withcmen of Palm Springs" California. Tahquitz (taw.kwish) Rock is also known as Lily Rock and a favorite place for those practicing rock climbing. The famous Molkai Museum has had tee-pee displays and the Morongo Indian Reservation also hosts an annual Barbeque inviting many other Native American Indian Tribes from across the United States. Interesting comment: COTFK Hollywood's leading character actor J.T. Walsh had read the orinal story "Idyllwild" and decided to co-author the filmplay for a Hollywood feature. James Patrick Walsh and "Mark Paul" Sebar are listed in the Library of Congress Copyright for that filmplay version title. J.T's comments - 1996 "I just couldn't put it down, read it all night!" |
Author: "Mark Paul" Sebar Country: United States of America Language: English Genre: Action Adventure Western
Sci-Fi Publisher: Sebar Publishing Publication Date: 1985 Media Type: Paperback, EBook Pages: 324 (Paperback) ISBN: 978-1-930246-39-3
