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An important protector of the American wilderness, John Muir emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1849 and became a widely sought expert in botany, glaciers, and forestry. He also gained renown during his life as an explorer, naturalist, and conservationist. Best known for his long association with the Yosemite Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Muir also explored the southern states, Alaska, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert, and traveled around the world studying nature.Constantly at odds with powerful political and financial interests, he was instrumental in creating federal protection for forests as well as the establishment and expansion of national parks. The wars he waged are still being fought and the threats to the environment he encountered are as real today as they were in his time. Muir's ideas are still relevant to the lives of Americans. Muir is remembered as the founder of the Sierra Club, the father of America's conservation movement, and the architect of an ever growing environmental ethic. Larry Fahn, president of the Sierra Club, has called Rod Miller's biography, "a fascinating new take on a true American icon. John Muir comes alive again in Rod Miller's "Magnificent Tramp.""

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SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLERPEACEMAKER WINNERRAWHIDE ROBINSON RIDES THE TABBY TRAIL: THE TRUE TALE OF A WILD WEST CATASTROPHEA Spur Award-winning series: Babysitting a herd of beeves on a train bound for Chicago, Rawhide Robinson reads about a rat infestation in Tombstone and hatches a plan for another astonishing adventure. All along the way Rawhide holds the enterprise together, and regales his drovers―and anybody else who will listen―with campfire tales of insane exploits and escapades experienced elsewhere during his extraordinary cowboy career on the western frontier.

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER"Miller's solid historical research is bound to win him a lifetime of dedicated fans . . . and I am one of those fans."-Loren D. Estleman, author of The Ballad of Black BartRAWHIDE ROBINSON RIDES A DROMEDARY: THE TRUE TALE OF A WILD WEST CAMEL CABALLERORawhide Robinson sails across the sea to help the Army acquire camels for military service in the desert Southwest. With Major Benjamin Wayne and Ensign Ian Scott, our ordinary cowboy teams up with camel trainer Harry and his precocious orphaned niece Hurry to fight off the evil Hasan Hussein and his henchman Balaban to fulfill their mission. Back in America, the ungainly camels cause nothing but upheaval. Army and civilian packers claim the camels are no match for their mules, and a desert challenge is mounted. Will Harry and Hurry and Rawhide Robinson convince the army that camels are the way to go? Find out as an ordinary cowboy becomes a camel caballero.

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLERWhen Jonathon "Pinebox" Collins loses his right foot and lower leg to a cannonball in his first Civil War battle, the course of his life is forever changed. While recuperating, he learns The Dismal Trade of undertaking, the emerging art of arterial embalming, and coffin construction. His first customer is the victim of Wild Bill Hickok's first showdown, and Collins crosses paths with the legendary gunfighter-and occasionally his victims-across the Old West. Lost love, monotony, and violence at the hands of men and Mother Nature repeatedly put the young undertaker on the road in pursuit of new places and new opportunities across the Western frontier. Violence is always there to greet him and there is never a shortage of clientele. Old West legends Phil Coe, John Wesley Hardin, Jim Levy, Porter Rockwell, Colorado Charley Utter, and Calamity Jane come and go in the life of Pinebox Collins, but death is ever-present. Often avoided and sometimes shunned owing to his practice of The Dismal Trade, Pinebox Collins learns to drink alone. Love eludes him and friends are hard to come by. His recurring acquaintance with Wild Bill proves the most lasting, even after Hickok is in the ground.

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHORROD MILLEROrphaned, homeless, and on the verge of manhood, Wilson Hayes finds refuge in the employ of powerful rancher Jesse Longmore. Cowboy skills, tenacity, and grit propel the young man's rise to a powerful position on the Fishhook Ranch and membership in the family-but Longmore's belief that he has become a threat results in his driving Hayes away and into the uncomfortable company of an outlaw band and then a rival rancher. Follow Wilson Hayes on an empire-building quest of biblical proportions as he seeks a way home to the Fishhook."Rod Miller has been taking home those Spur Awards, and it's no small wonder. He's a cowboy who writes like one, and even talks like one. But he's got a real grip on the genre with Cold as the Clay. Don't read it in an isolated line shack, it's a tough story by a master storyteller." -Dusty Richards, Western Writers Hall of Fame author

FROM SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLERLatigo Brown is a cowboy. A real cowboy, not like those TV and movie cowboys who ride everywhere at a high lope firing off six-shooters and hardly ever come into contact with a cow. But he finds himself lured to Hollywood by a rodeo hero, where he unexpectedly becomes a box-office star. Amidst the glitter and glamour of the movie business, he still harbors resentment for the way he-and other cowboys-are portrayed.Will Latigo Brown swallow his pride and pocket the money? Will the starlets, the luxuries, the acclaim, the big bucks turn his head? Or will the lure of the ranch and rodeo arena and real cowboys overcome all that?

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER"Forget Pecos Bill, Deadwood Dick, and even Buffalo Bill. Rawhide Robinson tops them all."-Johnny D. Boggs, Western Writers Hall of Fame authorExtraordinary things often happen to ordinary cowboy Rawhide Robinson. While riding herd on a ranch in the remote Nevada desert, a lightning strike zaps him into the middle of the twentieth century and the middle of Area 51, a top-secret experimental airbase where strange things are said to happen. A chance encounter with Eric, a young teenager, helps the discombobulated cowboy escape the clutches of military police, the CIA, and local law enforcement, and gets him mixed up in a kidnapping by Las Vegas mobsters. All the while, Rawhide Robinson entertains with his signature tall tales as he wonders if he will ever get out of the modern world and back to the Old West."Move over Pecos Bill. Step aside Bunyan, and take that mangy blue ox with you. There's a new man riding the range, a teller of tales as tall as the Rocky Mountains and as slick as a goose on grease. His name is Rawhide Robinson." -Michael Zimmer, Wrangler and Spur Award-winning author

It is 1840. The fur trade has all but ended and trappers in Taos feel the pinch. With a band of Ute Indians, they follow the Old Spanish Trail to California to steal horses and mules, then return and reap the profits in Santa Fe. The unprecedented raid results in the theft of some 3,000 animals.Daniel Boone Pickens, a young man on the run from the law in Missouri and in search of a future, signs on for the adventure. Nooch, a young Ute, follows the leader of his band to prove his worth as a warrior. A young vaquero from California, Juan Medina, finds himself involved more from circumstance than choice. Along the trail, the young men forge bonds that surpass race and culture as they face hunger and thirst, fire and flood, bullet and blade.And together they grieve the deaths of more than a thousand of the stolen horses and mules on a mad dash across the dry and desolate Mojave Desert.Based on the real-life exploits of mountain men "Pegleg" Smith, "Old Bill" Williams, and Jim Beckwourth with Ute leader Wakara, A Thousand Dead Horses dramatizes conflicts in the evolving Old West.

Fred Olds Western Poetry Award, 2015, Awarded by the Westerners InternationalRod's poetry is infused with a genuineness that elevates his work above the medium's predictable yarns and gives the reader a front-row seat at a captivating reality-based dramedy. You observe from a respectful distance the poignant moment shared by a young girl and her horse. You take a seat at the kitchen table in a ranch house in which the "romance of cowboy life" is balanced against the realities of mortgages, droughts and volatile markets. And you're let in on the West's unique brand of humor, shaped by hard luck, eccentricity, and the unpredictability of lives shaped by the land, weather and livestock. Rod is a truthteller.And truth can, on occasion, be dangerous.

was Awarded a Spur Award for Best Western Short Story, 2012, by the Western Writers of AmericaA three-time Spur award-winning author, "Miller is a talented man. Writer. Cowboy. Poet. He understands the complexity of the West and the good people who live on the land and make it work, and his skill with words tells the tale well." RANGE magazine

""Rawhide Robinson sails across the sea to help the Army acquire camels for military service in the desert Southwest. In America, the ungainly camels cause nothing but upheaval and a desert challenge is mounted"--