Bear Flag Revolt

by Robert Lee Murphy

650 pages, Library Binding

Published March 19, 2025

About the author

Award winning author Robert Lee Murphy graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a business degree. Throughout his career, he worked with national and international agencies and institutions on all seven continents, including Antarctica, where Murphy Peak bears his name.

In conducting research for The Iron Horse Chronicles trilogy, Murphy traveled the route of the transcontinental railroad and walked the ground where the action takes place.

Eagle Talons,the first book in The Iron Horse Chronicles was awarded the 2015 Bronze Will Rogers Medallion. In 2016, Bear Claws, the second book, received the Silver Will Rogers Medallion and was awarded First Place in Fiction by The Wyoming Historical Society. Golden Spike, the final book in the trilogy, won the Silver Will Rogers Medallion in 2018.

Bozeman Paymaster: A Tale of the Fetterman Massacre was awarded First Place in Fiction by the Wyoming Historical Society in 2023. Bozeman Paymaster: A Tale of the Fetterman Massacre also received a Copper Will Rogers Medallion in 2023.

Robert's latest historical novel, Bear Flag Revolt was released by Thorndike Press in March 2025. This tells the tale of how Kit Carson and John Frémont "steal" California from Mexico in the 1840s.

Robert is a member of Western Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and the Historical Novel Society.