found: Author's Sand is the tool, 1953.
found: His Scorpio rising, c1985:CIP t.p. (R.G. Vliet) pub. info. (d. May 1984)
found: His Scorpio rising, 1986:CIP t.p. (R. G. Vliet) introd. (Russell Gordon Vliet)
found: At Paisano, 1989:title page (R.G. Vliet)
found: Contemporary authors online, December 23, 2016(R(ussell) G(ordon) Vliet; writer; born November 4, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois; died May 11, 1984 in North Adams, Massachusetts; other names: Russell Gordon Vliet, Russell G. Vliet; novelist, poet, and author of short stories; award-winning fiction and poetry, often set in Texas)
found: The New York Times, via WWW, December 22, 2016:R.G. Vliet, author, is dead; writings of Texas acclaimed, published May 19, 1984 (R.G. Vliet, a Chicago-born author whose writings about Texas won the praise of literary critics, died of cancer May 11 in North Adams, Mass; won two poetry awards)
found: Texas State University-San Marcos Library, The Wittliff Collections website, December 22, 2016:A guide to the Russell G. (R.G.) Vliet papers, 1900-1986 (Russell G. (R.G) Vliet; poet, novelist, playwright, and short story writer; born in Chicago, on November 4, 1929; attended Southwest Texas State University beginning in the fall of 1948; received his B.A. in 1952; completed his master's degree at SWT in 1953; in 1955 attended Yale University's School of Drama; lived in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Morelos, Mexico; died in North Adams, Massachusetts, in May 1984)