Page 94 - The Westerner Magazine Halloween 2018

RIDING When Outlaws Publishing signed R.G. Yoho, it

was a match made in heaven—a great author
and a great publisher put together to create
literary magic. This interview should be a good
THE introduction to this great author—so, readers,

listen up—this is a brand new interview with
R.G. Yoho… especially for you.
TRAIL Interviewer: So, R.G., what’s going on

with you?

R.G. Yoho: Oh, I just had some errands to
WITH run this morning and had to hustle back

‘cause I knew this interview was coming.

Interviewer: How did you get into writing
R.G. Westerns? What is it about Westerns that

gets you excited?

YOHO R.G. Yoho: Well, to be honest with you, it’s
a long and strange story when you really
get down to it. I had no interest in being a
writer when I was a child. And if you told
me in high school, in college, that I’d have
AN INTERVIEW WITH interest in being an author or even a writer,

I would have just laughed at you.
WESTERN WRITING

I was always interested in Westerns. My
SENSATION R.G. YOHO
dad got me started watching John Wayne
movies and I loved them. I loved the West. I
loved the Westerns, and the Western TV
shows from the time I was a kid. My dad
always had a Louis L’Amour book in his
lunch bucket when he went to work. And,

of course, back then I used to make fun of
him for carrying those dime store novels.
Then one day I decided, well, I’m making
fun of him all the time, I ought to sit down
and read one of them. I read a Louis
L’Amour book called Flint. And the truth is