Lewis Miller

Born in Cooke County, Texas, in 1861, Lewis B. Miller grew up close to frontier life, an experience that shaped much of his fiction. He graduated from Add-Ran College in 1881 and stayed on to teach Latin and Greek for several years before moving into other work.

In the 1890s he joined the Crowell Publishing Company in Springfield, Ohio, and began writing adventure stories for magazines. His books often drew on the landscapes and hardships of the Southwest, with well-known titles including The White River Raft (1910), Saddles and Lariats (1912), and Pike's Peak or Bust (1922).

Miller also homesteaded land in Oklahoma in 1904, and his life remained closely tied to the frontier world he wrote about. He never married and died in Texas in 1933, leaving behind a body of work remembered for its energetic storytelling and strong sense of place.