Friday, January 13, 2012

Welcome to our new internet home.

I am making a lot of changes as we enter this new year of 2012. And most of them involve trying to simplify my life.

One big step in that direction involves combining my two current web sites-- cowboydirectory.com and paregien.net --into one new web site, this one (paregien.com). Very soon I'll begin moving most of my material located for years at my paregien.net web address to this new site. I will not renew my former web site, so it will expire and drift off to computer heaven on January 23, 2012. And, since it will take considerable time and effort to transfer most of that site's materials to this new one, much of it will not be available for whatever period of time that takes. I do apologize for any inconvenience.

And effective no later than June, 2012 my CowboyDirectory.com web site (www.cowboydirectory.com) will be closed as well. Believe me, friends, that was a traumatic decision for me. I've poured my heart and soul and sweat into making it the largest internet database of Western (cowboy) writers and entertainers in the world. I sure did enjoy researching the material and compiling it in my own, . . . well, unique style. But the fact is I cannot keep up with it. Somebody with a paid staff of research assistants and writers might swing it, but it clearly is an impossible challenge for me at my age and with the other things I want to do with whatever time the good Lord allows.

I will transfer a small part of that very large web site, CowboyDirectory.Com to this one, www.paregien.com . Then I hope to publish parts of that Cowboy Directory material as a whole series of Kindle e-books on some the better known Western/cowboy writers and entertainers. Those E-books, like my current books listed on our "Products" page, will be available for purchase at www.amazon.com. The basic idea, you see, is to try to actually earn a buck or two through the E-books 'cause I never made a nickle from all of the information as it stood for years and years as Cowboy Directory.Com. Yep, sad but true. But it was a great ride while it lasted, all the way from 2000 to 2012. Time to move on.

I extend my sincere thanks to all of you who have followed my postings on my various web sites over the years. And I invite you to continue that tradition at this new location.

Please stop by the "Products" page, in the menu below, and check out all the Kindle E-books I currently have available on Amazon.Com. I recently added two more. One is titled Clara Luper: The Mother of Oklahoma's Civil Rights Movement. The other new one is titled Jim Shoulders: Oklahoma's Rodeo King.

And now . . . I've gotta get to work. Right after I take a nap.

Best wishes to one and all.

--Stan Paregien Sr

stan*@paregien.*com
*see note, above

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