Was he the one who wrote in vernacular? If so, I could never stand that writing style. Never liked it in Western fiction either: "I'm a-fixin to go to tha boardin' house and et me some hens' aigs."
Blech, I can never make it past the first paragraph of any of that, including Skelton or whoever the gun writer was that wrote like that. To each their own. Just not for me.
Skeeter most definitely did not write in what you describe as "vernacular." The quality of his writing stands alone among gunwriters. Try, for example, his short story "The Golden Spurs of Dobe Grant."
If I recall, his ashes were scattered in the mountains near his New Mexico home.
