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The author on a backpacking photography expedition,

on the flank of Mount Sheridan above Vallecito Creek,

in the 13,000-foot peaks of the Weminuche Wilderness.

|Gary Courtney | |

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|Author, Photographer, Outdoor Adventurer & Historian - | |

|Business Automation & Organization Pioneer | |

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|Raised in Oklahoma as a woodsman, hunter & fisherman. | |

|Research and development geophysical technician. | |

|Partner in a private detective agency. | |

|Air Force radio electronics technician. | |

|Owner of a computer consulting firm in Houston. | |

|Discoverer and owner of a lost 1880’s gold mine. | |

|Front Page Feature writer and books – | |

|historical and outdoor adventures. | |

|Author, photographer, designer & creator of the San Juan Mountains 60-page | |

|online magazine, “”, including local US Forest Service| |

|stories, and his pictures from backpacking area trails, since 1998. | |

|Creator of museum exhibits at Northeastern State and Oklahoma University Sam | |

|Noble Museum. | |

|Creator and Editor of the Cookson Hills 100-page online magazine, | |

|“” in 2000 . | |

|Designer, builder and owner of the Cookson Hills Gallery of fine art, | |

|award-winning Western and American Indian paintings, scrimshaw, sculpture & | |

|pottery. | |

|Pioneer in cave exploring, backpacking, S.C.U.B.A. diving & new computer | |

|technologies. | |

|Organizer & foundation builder of prominent nationwide companies in Oil and | |

|Distribution. | |

|Collector-dealer and authenticator of Civil War weapons, antique books, maps,| |

|and cameras. | |

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|Keynote guest speaker on:  | |

|-      His history - “A Portrait of the Cookson Hills”, “Cookson Hills | |

|Chronicles” & “The Historic Cookson Hills Dictionary of Old Time & Slang | |

|Words & Phrases”. | |

| -     “Carl Janaway – Smartest Bandit of the Cookson Hills, Last Surviving | |

|Bank Robber of the 1930’s” book & month-long museum exhibit at Northeastern | |

|State University. | |

| -     The “History of Caving in Oklahoma”, keynote speech & museum exhibit | |

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|Oklahoma University Sam Noble Museum and Northeastern State University – | |

|Tahlequah. | |

| -     “Growin’ Up Okie”, his outdoor & business adventures. | |

| -     “Okies in the Outback”, a two-week Colorado backpacking adventure off | |

|the steam train between Durango and Silverton, Colorado. | |

| -     Advice to CEO’s & CFO’s of nationwide Distribution companies. | |

| -     Business Project Planning and Management & Methodologies. | |

| -     The Civil War & Artifacts Collecting, Authentication. | |

|-      “The Evolution of Technology in Information Systems since the 1960’s”.| |

| -     Backpacking Tips ‘N Techniques - short trips & extended expeditions. | |

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|Find his stories & photography on: | |

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The author on a trail ride through the backwoods

to the Old Qualls Store and Café,

site of the movie “Where the Red Fern Grows”,

for his front page feature newspaper story.

The Writings of Gary Courtney

Corporate/Industry:

• Computer User manuals.

• System technical manuals.

• Software license agreements for $100,000+ systems.

• Technical support service, and consultant engagement agreements.

• Business plans for multi-million dollar venture capital, with monthly detail five-year financial projection spreadsheets.

• Royalty agreements for marketing of software packages.

• “The Courtney Methodology” for major (12 – 18 month) computer conversion/development projects.

• System design specifications.

• Budgets, corporate and departmental.

• Forms, including: Sales Orders, AFE’s (Authorization for Expenditures), Purchase Orders, Checks for: Accounts Payable, Royalty, Oil Lease Rentals, and Payroll, Lease Operating Statements, Accounting Entries, and Invoices.

• AFE’s, and procedures for creating, approving, and processing (justification similar to Grant writing).

• Resumes.

• Job descriptions.

• Proposals.

• Policies, procedures and standards for an international Corporate Information Systems.

• By-laws for corporations (first done at age 14).

• Software package descriptions and marketing brochures for his IBM Business Partner company,

marketing IBM AS/400 computers and a Distribution Industry software package.

Personal:

• Book - “The Evolution of Control –

Generation by Generation Expansion of Government”

(published in limited edition in 1994 in Houston, Texas.)

• Book – “Carl Janaway – Smartest bandit of the Cookson Hills”, last surviving bank robber of the 1930’s, “The only inmate in Alcatraz Al Capone both feared and respected.”

• Book – “Cookson Hills Chronicles”, which includes some of his front page newspaper stories over four years.

• Book – “Growin’ Up Okie”, a five-volume autobiography, which includes some of his front page stories.

• Book – “The Historic Cookson Hills Dictionary” of 3,500 old time and slang words and phrases.

• Book – “Wild West Arts Club International Competition”

• A poem of the author’s philosophy:

“I Am An Adventurer”.

• The entire content of his 100-page+ online directory and history magazine of the Lake Tenkiller area, ‘’.

• The entire content of his 60-page+ online magazine of the Durango, Colorado area, ‘’.

• Newspaper front page feature articles and ads, including “Charley Kirk – A Cowboy’s Cowboy”, which resulted in the 76-year-old rancher being nominated to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum in Oklahoma City.

• A weekly community action front page column, “Ramblings”, written in “Will Rogers” style, and directed at local leaders.

• Two month-long museum exhibits, filling the entire lobby of the John Vaughn Library at NSU:

”Carl Janaway – Smartest Bandit of the Cookson Hills”, including his personal effects, and

“The History of Caving in Oklahoma”, with 1960’s cave maps , equipment , and artifacts.

• Keynote speeches at Sam Noble Museum of Natural History at OU, and local civic organizations.

• Press releases, including those for Richard Gray, who won election as District Attorney.

• Radio spot scripts.

• Advertising brochures.

• Informational flyers to enlist the community of Atascocita on Lake Houston, the entire town of Humble, Texas and, later, the City of Houston, in a successful four-year fight against an underground toxic waste dump.

• Invitations to celebrities, such as Crystal Gayle, James Earl Jones, and Jim Halsey, Roy Clark’s manager, for the

Grand Opening of his Cookson Hills Gallery of fine art.

• A constitution and by-laws for civic organizations (at age 14 and 16), “Teenation” and the Tulsa YMCA youth group.

• Royalty agreements for publication and marketing of nationally famous artists’ paintings and sculptures.

Related Efforts: Photography for:

• His books.

• His & BlackhawkPublishing online magazines.

• His front page feature newspaper stories, including The swearing-in ceremonies of a District Attorney & Sheriff.

• His weekly front page newspaper community action column, “Ramblings”.

• Newspaper ads he sold, designed, and wrote.

• Three calendars.

• The Nashville album cover of “The Nobles”, “Slow Glowin’ Dream”,

with Dolly Parton and Carl Jackson.

• Custom photo shoots of: family portraits, artist’s paintings, horses, and special aerial shots.

• Limited edition sales in his Cookson Hills Gallery of fine art.

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