I finished my first Cash Laramie short story in over seven years and before I crossed the finish line, I spent some time with an old cowboy friend of mine named Ron Scheer. I met Ron online,
here at Blogger, over our mutual appreciation for the Western genre. Before he sadly passed away in 2015, I had the distinct privilege of publishing his three volume series
How The West Was Written with BEAT to a PULP. The third volume contains colloquial words he had found in the numerous classics he had read, and it was an indispensable resource while working on my latest hardboiled western. Thank you, Ron, for sharing this gem not only with me but with everyone.
6 comments:
Nice tribute to Ron, a great friend to the Western genre and all-around great guy, who is missed by all who had contact with him.
Also nice to hear Cash is back in the saddle again!
Hi, Wayne! Good to hear from you. And yes, Ron was so supportive of the western community leaving a small, but essential body of work.
I miss Ron very much. He was quite a well of information about Westerns. I was supposed to meet up with him in Palm Springs the week he was diagnosed. So sad we couldn't get together.
These amazing connections we meet either online or in person that leave such powerful, positive dents in our lives. Ron was one of those life forces and hardly a day goes by that I don't think of him. His wife kindly sent me a pair of his spurs that she said he wanted me to have. They hang near my writing desk and I spin them often to kickstart my day.
I remember Ron's blog fondly, terrific fellow and wonderful writer.
Ron expressed a great affection for the topics he wrote about—that love radiated through.
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