Voices in the Cedars represents spirits on the wind in the land that they who had gone before lived and loved in. In the evening, Wade's daughter would sit alone on the porch of the old cabin and sometimes hear the distant bawl of a cow not there, a horse's hoof clinking against a rock, the squeak of a saddle, faint voices of riders, a whisper through time of voices from the past, fading on the wind.