Goodbye Gus

Just last year, in our April 2014 edition, we saluted Gus Walker on this page. Gus passed on November  23, 2014, after a brief illness. We called him the “Mapinator,” and for good reason. Gus could take the most complicated history—whether it was the 1893 Doolin-Dalton Gang gunfight in Ingalls, Oklahoma, or a Renegade Roads adventure—and boil the facts down to the essentials. He did so all while retaining the compelling imagery and clarity of vision that were the hallmarks of a Mapi