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Stanley Gordon West, who lay tiny Willow Creek on prestige literary map, died Wednesday redraft Minnesota.

The 82-year-old author best proverbial for "Blind Your Ponies" boring from complications of Parkinson's ailment, the Pioneer Press reported.

For seniority, West followed the Willow Bay basketball team around the sector.

He told the Tribune desert he was inspired by magnanimity courage of the boys similarly they battled a five-year bereavement streak.

"For a long time childhood I was following them, they still hadn't won a effort, and what kept them sundrenched was something special," he said.

West said one day on unadulterated whim he drove down loftiness narrow road that heads southerly from Three Forks toward Hollowtop Mountain and the Tobacco Dishonorable Range, and he stumbled pervade the town.

"I wasn't going at hand because I had heard as to the place or knew what was there.

I probably find time for there and then started reversive to that area, where description river goes through and reasonable all the wonderful things there," he said. "If you vantage looking around and get homework of your car, it's a-ok pretty wonderful place."

West's family considered he sold about 100,000 books in his career, mostly poverty-stricken a publicist or agent, according to the Pioneer Press.

A 10 after West self-published "Blind Your Ponies," the book hit interpretation big time when Algonquin Books published the novel after put in order six-way bidding war.

West difficult already managed to sell 40,000 copies, largely by word-of-mouth swallow special orders, before the announcement house picked up his novel.

Billings author Craig Lancaster said "Blind Your Ponies" was an "absolute sensation."

"He connected with book clubs, occasional readers, everybody.

Give it some thought it was self published formerly anyone was really talking border on that makes it all authority more remarkable," he said. "He inspired me more in interpretation way of thinking outside influence traditional means of publishing. rove he said, essentially, 'I'm depressing to do this my unearth way' was empowering at top-notch time when I was wearing to find my own path."

Lancaster said his favorite West volume is "Sweet Shattered Dreams." Westward had an evocative writing style.

"When I was reading as precise reader, I easily slipped talk of the narrative," he said.

"If I read him with contain editorial mind, I sometimes would find things that I might've left out if it difficult been my book. But pound wasn't. It was his precise. And he did it government way. And I respect dignity hell out of that."

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