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OUTLAWMAN: The Life and Times of Matt WarnerMatt Warner was an outlaw. And a lawman. In a word, an outlawman.Once among the most notorious bandits in the Old West, riding with Butch Cassidy and other famous outlaws, Warner was wanted for crimes across the Southwest, the Northwest, and the Mountain West. After serving time on overblown charges following a shootout, Warner changed his prison stripes for a badge and served as a town marshal, justice of the peace, and deputy sheriff. Whether wearing a black hat, a white hat, or some shade of gray, Warner outlived the Old West but never abandoned its wild and wooly ways.Follow the trail through Brown's Hole, Robbers Roost, and other outlaw enclaves as a mysterious old man tells the outlawman's story in a rundown barroom once owned by Matt Warner himself.

"Unlocking Success: A Modern Take on a Time-Honored Method" Discover the transformative power of a time-tested approach in "Unlocking Success," a guide that breathes new life into a 60-year-old premise of sharing information through magazine ads. Adapted for the digital age, this book delves into the intricacies of a system designed to empower you to create and execute a program for a fee. Technology has revolutionized the landscape, revolutionizing the once labor-intensive process into an efficient and accessible endeavor. "Unlocking Success" is your gateway to understanding how to harness these technological advancements, enabling you to streamline the implementation of this powerful strategy and yield remarkable results. With clear insights and practical wisdom, this book unveils the secrets to setting up the program effectively, offering you a blueprint to navigate the evolving landscape of information dissemination. As you immerse yourself in these pages, you'll find that "Unlocking Success" is not just a guide-it's a roadmap to unlocking your potential and achieving the success you've always envisioned. Embark on a journey of transformation, guided by the wisdom of a timeless method, enhanced by modern innovation. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or someone seeking to tap into the power of information, "Unlocking Success" is your key to charting a course towards a more prosperous future. Get ready to unlock the doors to success like never before.

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR - ROD MILLEROn a lonely road in a remote desert stands a roadhouse. Formerly a home station on a now abandoned stagecoach route, it is the only source of water and supplies for miles. Accommodations are crude and coarse, the hospitality rough and raw, the proprietor boorish and vulgar. Travelers are few and far between, and almost all must stop for water-which comes at a price. A mounted mail carrier who visits the roadhouse with some regularity suspects there is more to the place than meets the eye, and he comes to believe that for some travelers the roadhouse is the end of the road...All My Sins Remembered is destined to join the ranks of the frontier classic. Here is suspense as taut as freshly strung barbed wire, rock-solid period detail, and an emotional roller-coaster ride set against a West that is both historically accurate and stunningly immediate. Rod Miller does what only a handful of writers have ever done: make you care about (and even perhaps root for) an astonishingly evil man. -Loren D. Estleman Western Writers Hall of Fame authorOne of the more powerfully haunting novels to come along in years, Miller's All My Sins Remembered stands shoulder to shoulder with such literary classics as Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. A brutal, beautifully rendered masterpiece, guaranteed to stay with you long after the last page is turned. -Michael Zimmer Winner of the Spur Award and Western Heritage Wrangler AwardIt is not by chance that Rod Miller has taken his title, All My Sins Remembered, from Shakespeare's Hamlet for this novel. Comparable to the Bard, his book is about madness-with Biblical dimensions. -True West magazine

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.

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.

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?

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

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.