Stan Paregien, Editor
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Frank Mangan
Frank Mangan is the author of El Paso in Pictures (Mangan Books, 1971) and Pipeliners (Mangan Books, 1977).
Jason Manning
Jason Manning was born on July 6, 1954. He earned his B.A. degree at the University of Texas at Arlington. And he got married on July 1, 1989.He is a member of Western Writers of America and of the Western History Association. He has taught at the University of Illinois.His published books include Killer Gray (1979) and Gunsmoke on the Sierra Line (1989), Revenge in Little Texas (1990)and Texas Gundown (1990).
Manning's books for DuttonSignet include: Texas Gundown (1990), Texas Helltown (1990), Showdown at Seven Springs (1992), High Country (1993), Green River Rendezvous (1993), Battle of the Teton Basin (1994), Flintlock (1994), The Border Captains (1995), Gone To Texas (1995), Falconer's Law (1996), Promised Land (1996), American Blood (1996), The Black Jacks (1997), Texas Bound (1997), The Marauders (1998), and Mountain Passage (1998).
In addition, he wrote the following westerns for HarperCollins using the name "Hank Edwards": The Judge (1990), Gun Glory (1990), Steel Justice (1991), Lawless Land (1992), Bad Blood (1992), River Raid (1992), Border War (1993), Death Warrant (1993), Iron Road (1993), Lady Outlaw (1994), Thirteen Notches (1994), Ride For Rimfire (1995), Gray Warrior (1995), and Apache Sundown (1996).
John Mantley
John Mantley, producer and writer, has been a script writer and producer associated with such successful TV series as "Gunsmoke" and "Buck Rogers". He was the producer of the Gunsmoke "Special" aired in 1990. He won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 1978 for his TV Script, "How the West Was Won" (co-written by Earl W. Wallace and WWA member Calvin Clements).
Ted Markland
Ted Markland, actor, was born January 15, the son of an Army colonel, Ted Markland grew up all over the United States. When he decided to become an actor, he studied dramatic arts at Los Angeles City College. He also studied with famed actor Richard Boone, who rode into history as Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel.
Ted has a deep interest in comedy, and his first manager, the legendary stand-up comic Lenny Bruce, booked him into such famous nightclubs as the Blue Angel in New York City, the Purple Onion in San Francisco, and the Troubadour in Los Angeles. It was while he was performing in the Troubadour that director David Dortort spied him and wrote the part of Reno the ranch hand for him in The High Chaparral. He played that role from 1967-69.
His other TV Western roles have included appearances on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., How the West Was Won, The Wild, Wild West, and Buckskin.
His Western movie roles include appearances in The Hallelujah Trail (1965), Waterhole #3 (1967), Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns (1970), The Hired Hand (1971), Ulzana's Raid (1972), Jory (1972), Wanda Nevada (1979), and Wild Bill (1995).
When not acting, Ted's hobbies include Navajo Indian culture, mountain climbing, and writing songs and scripts. He is currently at work on a biography of Lenny Bruce. Ted is alive and well and still acting.
CLICK HERE to go to the official Ted Markham web site.
CLICK HERE to see the complete filmography of Ted Markland.
Bill Markley
Bill Markley, reenactor, was born on March 17, 1951. He lives in Pierre, South Dakota.
Bill Markley is a history buff and spends much of his spare time as a reenactor of either the Frontier times or the Civil War.
He was an extra in the Kevin Costner epic Western "Dances With Wolves". He kept a journal of that experience and published it in book form as Dakota Epic.
He was also an extra in "Son of the Morning Star," "Far and Away," "Gettysburg," and "Crazy Horse". Bill Markley is active in church and is a Boy Scout leader. He is currently the Ground Water Quality Program Administrator for the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources. He is responsible for a variety of environmental protection and cleanup programs.
Markley is also a member of Western Writers of America and a member of Toastmasters International. Bill Markley is available to talk about "Dances With Wolves" and the other movies he has worked on.
CLICK HERE to go to Bill Markley's personal web site.
Paula Mitchell Marks
A resident of Austin since 1975, Paula Mitchell Marks received her B.A. in English from St. Edward's University in 1978, her M.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980, and her Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas in 1987.
Her dissertation, a biography of Texas pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick, was nominated for best University of Texas dissertation of 1987 and was published by Texas A&M Press in 1989 under the title Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick.
Paula Mitchell Marks is also the author of a second frontier history book, And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight (William Morrow & Co., 1989), a Spur Award finalist. She has also contributed nonfiction articles to American History Illustrated, Old West, True West, Civil War Times Illustrated, and Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People.
Dr. Marks is currently an assistant professor of American studies at St. Edward's University's new college adult degree program, where she teaches Texas history, U.S. women's history, the American frontier experience, and advanced writing. Marks has worked as a research assistant for the producers of Handbook of Texas.
Mel Marshall
(Deceased)
Melvin D. Marshall was born in San Antonio, Tex. on Oct. 8, 1911. He sold his first story to Boy's Life for $2.50 when he was only 14 years old. He worked for various newspapers and radio stations from 1929 until he became a freelance writer and photographer in 1965. Along the way he ran a newspaper and broadcasting company in Pittsburg, Calif., became president of Humboldt Broadcasters, Inc. in Arcata, Calif., and then of Del Norte Broadcasters, Inc. in Crescent City, Calif.Mel Marshall established himself as an authority in the area of fishing, outdoor cooking, and handyman projects. His nonfiction books in this area include Steelhead (1971), The Care and Repair of Fishing Tackle (1976), How to Make your Own Lures and Flies (1976), How to Make your Own Fishing Rods (1978), How to Fish (1978), How to Choose and Use Lumber, Plywood, Panelboards and Laminates (1979), How to Repair, Reupholster and Refinish Furniture (1979), The Delectable (1968), Cooking over Coals (1971), Fish Cookery (1971), The Family Cookout Cookbook (1973), The Perfect Host (1975), and The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery (1983).
His short stories and articles on food and the outdoors have been bought by such magazines as Argosy, Gourmet, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life,and Ladies' Home Journal. He also writes as Ray Cory, Zeke Tyler and Carlton Mitchell. He has done a successful line of 25 "adult" westerns under other pseudonyms.
Mel Marshall's Westerns bearing his own name include Longhorns North (1969), Buffalo! (1969), McQuade (1971), Long Rider (1971), Drift Fence (1971), Two Funerals for Tombstone (1973), Buffalo Hunt (1975), Sheepherder's Gold (1980), Gato (1980) and Lannigan's Revenge (1980).
Western titles under the name of Zeke Tyler include Foxx! (1981), Foxx's Gold (1981), Foxx Hunting (1982), Foxx's Herd (1982), Foxx's Vixen (1982) and Foxx's Foe (1983).
Using the pen name of Ray Cory, Mel Marshall wrote Valley of Death (1966), Trail of Vengeance (1966), Guns on the Pedernales (1967), Riders of Tierra Roja (1969), and Hell Canyon (1973).
Mel Marshall served as president of WWA in 1976-77. In 1983 he took up the challenge of trying to get writers' organizations to band together to form an auditing agency to conduct independent audits of the way that publishing houses report sales and pay royalties to writers. In a letter to Publishers Weekly, Marshall cited one incident in his own career where an audit showed that a publisher of his had "overlooked" royalties on 135,621 copies of books that had been sold but not reported. And another of his publishers had shortchanged him on European rights by a whopping 60 percent.
In fact, he offered his own efforts through "Context, Inc.," a writer's service firm which he founded, to coordinate the formation of an audit body similar to ASCAP(American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and BMI(Broadcast Music, Inc.). He proposed calling the new organization, the American Authors Audit Agency. His company, Context, was set up to package books, to provide services in financial conservation and estate planning, and to provide consultation in computer technology.
This listing is far from complete and may contain errors.
Therefore, all Western entertainers and/or their agents
are requested to submit recommended changes by
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--- Bible: Psalm 55:22
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