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Missing our old friend.
Oakie
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Read all his books. A true gentleman. Wish I could have had the opportunity to meet him and shake his hand. I do have an autographed book. Some members touch us beyond the forums!!!!! Oakie
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I felt honored when he sent me a few of his manuscripts for input/editing. Some fine memories recalled with that pic.
I made this statue in honor of him. When it was done, it had a barbwire fence and the book he was reading looked realistic. I can't find the picture of the final completion. I mailed it to his wife. She sent me a touching letter back, which I still have today. I believed he passed in February.
I'm embarrassed to have to ask, but who?
I have an autographed copy of one of his books....he was a fine gentleman..
Awesome tribute.
I remember him well. Years ago, I made a funny smart aleck answer to a random post. It amused him and he asked me if he could use that line in a book.
I'll never forget.
I think some of the characters in his books were based on personalities from GunBroker!
Anyone have a link to his books? I remember him now by screen name.
Rocky...Google...Wallace J Swenson
(Joseph Wallace Swenson)...
Combat Vet VN
D.A.V Life Member
That is true.
He sent me some clips from his books while he was writing them, I made some suggestions, some he liked, some not so much.
I was just thinking about him a couple of days ago, I miss him and his contributions to the forum.
R.I.P. Wally
Another one of the many awesome members that are no longer with us, for many reasons.
Joe
It''s sad to see anyone go, I do remember his forum name here but I've got to ask, what did he write about ?
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/wallace-swenson/
Just about all his characters were, and if you've been here long enough, read his books and you can figure out who. I found myself in Morgan's Pasture, after I had told him about something that happened to me in my teens. In the Pine Marten series, BigDaddyJr is pretty easy to figure out. That's just one of many.
The producer of the Longmire TV series, read his books, and said it was the best Western he had read since Lonesome Dove. The last I heard, he wanted to do a series on them after the books had been in print for a few years.
On two separate all day trips, he showed me all the areas in Idaho where he got his inspiration from, even a hidden canyon with a herd of wild horses. We had yearly camping trips at Slate Creek, near the White Cloud Ranch too. Those were good times that I sorely miss. RIP Wally.
I never read any of his books but do remember he was a very well liked and respected member of the forum
RIP
I was on the phone with CritterGetter this morning, and remembered a book Wally had finished, but wasn't edited, never published, because he was too busy getting the Pine Martin series published when he passed. Crit has the manuscript.
It was called "Calliope's Call", that he wrote shortly after Morgan's Pasture. Strangely prophetic, it takes place in the US after a financial collapse, caused by a Marxist soft coup of our government. The main character is a middle aged woman, tough as rawhide, that lives off the grid. Half the plot, and a lot of the story details, came from the old MC forum chatroom denizens input.
She had to have two pistols in shoulder holsters, smaller than a 1911, with more punch than a .380. I just picked up a Tokarev TT-33. Sent him a pic of it next to my 1911, and he told me to bring it with me to Slate Creek. Before the trip I had picked up another one, and a spam can of ammo. After he shot it, he had me shoot both pistols at the same time while he took video, and that ended up in the book.
Crit is digging out the manuscript, and we'll see if Wally's wife and the publisher is interested.
The old forum chatroom used to get purty wicked at times! Miss those days and Mr. Clouder. Don