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Jack R. Stanley is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam where he was awarded the Bronze Star. Yet, he says, "When you're in a firefight, and everybody else on both sides has guns while all you have a camera --- you get to change your pants a lot."After his military service, he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long-running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also won two of Michigan¹s most prestigious creative writing awards. Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley spent 30 years teaching Theatre-TV-Film in deep-south Texas at The University of Texas-Pan American. He directed for the stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student-staffed, cast, and crewed feature films --- writing most of the original screenplays. A few of his credits are available on IMDB.com. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle, where he writes his fiction and runs his blog, www.TheFictionWritersNotebook.com . His webpage is www.jackrstanley.com .

Town tamers like Bill Hickok and the Earps took on bad men in wild and open towns. But the most lawless land in the American West was the 70,000 square miles offrontier Western Arkansas and the Indian Territory of the Five Civilized Tribes; what later would become Oklahoma. The Territory was a magnet to outlaws and spoilers of every brand. Law, order, and justice didn't come until almost ten years after the Civil War. They came in the form of "the Hanging Judge," Isaac Parker, a new U.S. Marshal, Mace Truax, and a Choctaw Indian Territorial Policeman named John Browneagle. Rape, robbery, murder, horse theft, gun and whiskey running were the everyday crimes that often went unpunished. It took both the gavel and the gun --- and hangman's knot to tame this land.

Joshua Guymon is a small town sheriff in the mostly Mormon Star Valley of Wyoming Territory. This is back in the days when to be Mormon was to be an outsider in the American West. His younger prodigal brother seems to have settled down from his wild ways and married. Joshua goes to meet his brother's bride and see how the newlyweds are doing on a ranch in the southern part of the territory. But trouble has a way of finding Joshua, from a crooked gambler to a highwayman, to an escaped prison killer. What starts out as a social visit to his brother becomes a western adventure and a decision between his faith and being a U.S. Deputy Marshall.

The Corporate War was over in the Matheus quadrant of the spiral Kermerus Galaxy and along with it the careers of many who fought and survived. Honored and awarded Captain Ash Kennett washed up alone on an astroid as an ore miner trying to dry up from his alcoholism and the guilt of the deaths of multitudes under his command during the war. He was located years later by his old friend, Doc, who had a proposition and a new ship. THE ERRANT, an abandoned and derelict starfighter-carrier, had been refitted, rearmed, enhanced, and disguised as a cargo hauler. But THE ERRANT still had her teeth. There was a new war to be had - fighting pirates. All that's needed was for Ash to take command and find a crew of fighting space sailors.