The characters / Recurring character
Sheemie Ruiz
Sheemie Ruiz is recorded in 3 distinct stories.
Reveal identity notes · spoilers
Tower VII explicitly identifies Stanley, son of Stanley, as Sheemie, the tavern boy Roland knew in Mejis, and recalls his donkey and Will Dearborn. This is distinct from the Wizard and Glass bartender Stanley Ruiz.
Also recorded as Sheemie, Stanley Ruiz.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
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Once he had known a boy named Sheemie who’d had a mule. Sheemie was gone now; they were all gone now and there was only the two of them: him, and the man in black. He had heard rumor of other lands beyond this, green lands in a place called Mid-World, but it was hard to believe.
Roland recalls the boy Sheemie and his mule; the later Mejis story identifies that companion.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
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Sheemie physically carries the camel bucket through the Mejis tavern.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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So was Dinky Earnshaw and Stanley Ruiz, no problem with those boys.’ ” “Yes,” Ted agreed. “I suppose you’re right. Five more minutes?” Dinky nodded reluctantly. The sound of a siren, made faint by distance, came on the wind, and the young man’s teeth showed in a smile of genuine amusement.
Wizard and Glass's bartender Stanley Ruiz is not established as the Tower VII Breaker with the same name; their relation to Sheemie requires a separate alias review.
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Roland explicitly recognizes Stanley, son of Stanley, as Sheemie from Mejis; Sheemie replies by calling him Will Dearborn.