The King of Texas - Book By Lewis B. Miller Synopsis: In the spring of 1842, a young lawyer in St. Louis by the name of Owen Willoughby, stands gazing out on the greening grass, as the south wind blows, caught up in what might be called spring fever or perhaps American author Horace Greely’s oft-quoted Go West, young man and grow up with the country. Owen quickly responds to an advertisement for a teacher at a traveling school. After a very lengthy interview he is accepted, and a short time later he is off. He travels by steam boat to Shevesport Louisiana, and by wagon train for the remainder of the trip, to Camp Malone in the wilderness. This is where he meets his employer, Alcade Malone, more commonly called The King of Texas. Malone is a traveling rancher, very strict, almost eccentric in his dealings. This makes very interesting material for young Willoughby, who is also very strict with his habits, and practices sound religious morals. Perhaps the most interesting of all to Willoughby is Miss Azcal Malone, granddaughter and heir-apparent to The King of Texas. We challenge you to read and discover the details of this well-written narrative. About the Author: Among the least known but better authors of tales of adventure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century era was Texan Lewis B. Miller, whose stories appeared in serial form in a weekly farm paper, The National Stockman and Farmer, and a regional edition of the publication, The Pennsylvania Stockman and Farmer. Lewis B. Miller was born at Blocker Creek, Cooke County, Texas, on May 27, 1861. His father’s name was Henry Miller and his mother Lurilla Osburn Miller. He received his early education in frontier schools in Texas. In 1881 he obtained an A.B. degree at Texas Christian University. He moved to Marlin, Texas, in 1931, apparently to live with relatives, and died there on July 26, 1933. He was buried at Hico, Texas, which is about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Lewis B. Miller was an excellent writer with a good education, and his stories were very accurate from a geographical and historical standpoint. He wrote adult, young adult tales of adventure, dealings with frontier life, cattle driving. His base writing is about the southwest frontier pushing civilization into the wild west, French and Spanish territories or into the Indian’s hunting grounds. Besides frontier life, his novels cover a wide field of subjects, such as: homesteading, trapping, hunting, fur trading, logging, rafting, gold-seeking, Indian life and about all that confronted frontier life which most Americans have forgotten and many have never known. Many early American statesmen and patriotic pioneers appear in his stories, who are authentic. The frontier stories involved confrontation with the Indians and the hard life of the pioneers. Due to the fact that Miller’s stories appeared originally only in a farm weekly, they did not receive a wide circulation and thus remained unknown to much of the reading public. This neglect has been partially corrected by a small church foundation press in Pennsylvania. They have published a number of soft cover reprints of his work and more are pending. For those who collect adventure books for the pleasure of reading, there can be no better investment than in Lewis B. Miller tales. By Robert E. Walters