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Occasionally I do a Google search on my name to see what’s being picked up, if anything. In which I usually encounter a mathematician and an actor by that name, and this Wyoming cowboy who also ran a Wild West show–the Stanley Bros. Congress of Roughriders–about a hundred years ago, featuring, among other later to be stars, Hoot Gibson. None of these Dick Stanleys are related to me, as far as I know. I rather like the cowboy, a bronc rider who had this postcard (copyrighted) done of his ride on a horse named Steamboat. Should have left it at that. Didn’t. Searched some more on him, and discovered he was really Earl Carl Shobe using a pseudonym because of a murder and post office robbery he’d committed and was trying to evade arrest. Ah, well, back to the mathematician and the actor, I guess.