Appreciation …

… Friends and fans recall Richard Wheeler's legacy of prolific writing, gentleness and generosity | State & Regional | ravallirepublic.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In many ways, Wheeler’s life is the stuff of a different kind of fairy-tale, one of a curious boy with a hunger for knowledge who becomes one of the country’s most awarded western novelists. His “noble mansion” was a charming 1913 home on Fifth Street in the idyllic town of Livingston, and in this mountainous and richly historic state he loved so much, he met his match, an “elegant and wise woman” he would eventually call his wife.