"Miles to Lost Dog Creek' was the last work of fiction that Ron Scheer completed before his death. It's a western novelette that finds Gideon Miles taking a vacation to Nebraska in the dead of winter. He arrives at the same time as two miscreants who are being pursued not by the law but by a man more dangerous than they are, a stone killer who's more dangerous than just about anybody. Throw in a rebellions teen, a jailbreak, and that terrible weather, and you have the makings for a fine tale. Scheer's find prose is a bonus.The only drawback is that there's obviously more to the tale than has been told, and because Scheer's no longer around to tell it, we aren't likely to find out the rest of it.
The volume is filled out with another novelette, "Origin of White Deer," by Edward A. Grainger with Chuck Tyrell. It's an origin story, all right, but the name that comes at the end might be a surprise. This tale makes a nice companion to Scheer's, and both are well worth any western fan's time.
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