I started this carving in August of 2010 and then wrecked on my bike. After surgery and healing I went back to this project and finished in January of 2011
I gave him the handle of Dr Willie Woodcock and here is his story. He is a historic fictional character.
A Confederate Medic during the Civil War and discharged in 1864, he migrated to the Montana Territory practicing in and around the newly found gold fields of Bannock and Virginia City. Most of his patients died, and with little success as a doctor, he turned to crime; stealing gold from prospectors and killing them if necessary. His taste in expensive clothes, a beautiful mount, and money flashed in the local brothels, gave him away to the Vigilantes of Virginia City, Montana. Caught, tried, convicted and hung by the Vigilantes, he was last of their 21 convictions before the Virginia City Vigilantes were dismantled.
