Wetherill
A History of Discovery
William Shaffner
William Richard Sidney Shaffner
(Ricky) was born in Tucumcari, New Mexico August 4th, 1948. He graduated
from Tucumcari High School in 1966 and attended
Eastern
New Mexico University (ENMU) until joining the Navy in 1968. He was an
accomplished artist, painting and drawing
beautiful introspective pieces of which only a
few remain of the hundred or so that he produced. Ricky was engaged to the
lovely Paula Vuras of Tucumcari, New Mexico before his death in an
automobile accident in Yosemite National Park, California. Ricky loved the
outdoors and enjoyed riding and training his own horses. While growing up he
owned and trained his own horses developing his own technique for training
using only gentle methods, which resulted in animals that children could
ride without fear.
Drawing by William
