aka George Proctor - he enjoyed action and adventure throughout his life as he delved into numerous avenues in developing ideas, storylines, and characters. He was on-call as a guest lecturer and discussion leader at several colleges and community groups as well as Science Fiction and Western Writers' conventions. The five books in THE TEXIANS (early Texas settlers characterized themselves with this name) western series were published between May 1984 and early 1985 under the penname Zach Wyatt.
From Spur Award nominee, George W. Proctor writing as Zack Wyatt aka comes the adventures of the early days of what we now call the Texas Rangers. They were young, proud - and they were all that stood between defenceless settlers and the warring Comanche. The Texas Rangers, struggled to bring law and order to the infant Republic of Texas.
Between a rock and a hard place. That’s where Texas Ranger Josh Sands finds himself when he joins an expedition from Austin, Texas, to New Mexico, with a crew bent on wooing Santa Fé from the Mexicans—peacefully. The trouble is, the Mexicans have their own idea about how to greet this brave but inexperienced band who endured hardship and danger in hostile Indian territory: Ambush and imprisonment!
With the Texas Rangers depleted, Comanche raiders have cut a bloody trail as far south as San Antonio. Now it’s up to Josh Sands and his rag-tag bunch to come to the aid of the republic. Along with the undermanned Rangers, they’re going to make a daring foray into the heart of Comanche territory—to stem the tide of terror and destruction—and give the Texians back their future.
It would be unlikely that there would be no Texan republic without the fierce and fearless band of Texians who put their life on the line everyday, in service to their beloved country. At the border, a precisely trained and inexorable machine of death gathered - mustering the might of the Mexican Army to test the strength of the embattled Rangers, and the whole fledgling republic.
The last thing hard-riding Ranger Josh Sands expected was to be corralled into Captain Isaac Burton’s mad scheme for capturing the warships himself. But Josh had to pursue a private vengeance as well: to hunt down a death-dealing devil known as Cotton Blue; a vicious gunrunner who had killed Josh’s partner in cold blood; killed for the same pleasure other men found in a woman’s arms...
They were young, proud—and they were all that stood between defenseless settlers and the warring Comanche. They were the Texas Rangers, struggling to bring law and order to the infant Republic of Texas. Josh Sands is only twenty-two years old, Captain Jack Hayes a veteran. The only way to fight the Comanche is with their own brutal means. This is their story. The story of the winning of the West.