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

Miller, Rod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493007351 ISBN 13: 9781493007356

Publisher: TwoDot, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

 Rod Miller is author of three books of history (Go West: The Risk & The Reward; Massacre at Bear River: First, Worst, Forgotten; John Muir: Magnificent Tramp) and contributed several articles for The Settlement of America: Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion. He is also author of three novels, two books of poetry, and numerous essays, magazine articles, and book reviews. He is winner of two Western Writers of America Spur Awards and the Westerners International Poetry Award, along with other awards and recognition as a writer. 

Review:

Durn it—I’ve long known Rod Miller was a much better bareback rider, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer, screenwriter, and general all-around cowboy and storyteller than I could ever hope to be. Now the many momentous moments I first learned about in The Lost Frontier make it look like I need to add biographer and historian to the long list of Rod’s astonishing talents.

Will Bagley, award-winning author and historian



The Lost Frontier is the way history should be written: riveting, involving, and filled with verified facts that make the era of the Old West come alive. Miller is a talented writer and a first-rate historian—a combination rarely present in the same person.

Chris Enss, New York Times bestselling Western history author


Rod Miller’s humdinger of a new book, The Lost Frontier, is a jam-packed roundup of the most overlooked, underappreciated people, events, episodes, and accomplishments—good, bad, and ugly—of the Old West. No dry history here: The award-winning author’s subjects are fully fleshed, clothed, and howling for attention! I pity the reader—young or old, history buff or casual page-flipper—who overlooks this book. Give Rod Miller three minutes and you’ll sign on for the whole trip, an eye-opening tour through an Old West you only thought you knew. If this is history, make mine a double, barkeep!

—Matthew P. Mayo, Spur Award-winning author of Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen

About this edition

• Publisher: TwoDot
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1493007351
• ISBN 13: 9781493007356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256