Lost Frontier: Momentous Moments in the Old West You May Have Missed

by Rod Miller

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral and the Dead Man s Hand to focus on the gunfights, massacres, and daring deeds that are the stars of local historians but not featured in general histories of the old west. These events, while less well known, offer new territory for the Wild West buff to explore.Each chapter in this book tells a story that deserves to be remembered either because of its importance, its intrigue, or just because it s interesting. From cowboys and Indians to explorers and electricity to warfare and gunfights to royalty and rogues, the stories here cover a frontier West your education may have missed."

256 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2015

About the author

Four-time winner of the coveted Western Writers of America Spur Award--for a novel, for poetry, and twice for short fiction --twice winner of the Westerners International Fred Olds Award for Poetry, winner of the Academy of Western Artists award for Best Poetry Book, and winner of a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for a novel, Rod Miller is a versatile writer. His books include fiction, history, and poetry, his short stories and poems appear in several anthologies, and he writes for a number of Western magazines.

Born and raised in Utah, Miller is a graduate of Utah State University where he earned a degree in Journalism and rode bucking horses for the intercollegiate Rodeo Team. He works as an advertising agency copywriter and creative director, and is a member of Western Writers of America, where he served on the executive board. The League of Utah Writers named Miller 2012 Writer of the Year. He is a frequent presenter on a variety of subjects to writers groups and public forums.

Visit his web sites at www.writerRodMiller.com, www.RawhideRobinson,com, and writerRodMiller.blogspot.com.

Reviews

[Joseph Carrabis · Rating 1 out of 5]

An apologetic for all bad behavior, historic and modern, done by the Mormons, and written from an extremely forgiving and prejudicial point of view.
Might be good for students of comparative idiocy...i mean "ideology"...and not much more.