Cooper's Fort - Book By Lewis B. Miller Synopsis: Soon after arriving at Boones Lick, Rollin Adair and Uncle Jabe gather with their fellow pioneers to listen to a literal stump speech by Colonel Ben Cooper. Because of the impending Indian War it is no longer deemed safe to live in their scattered log cabins and Colonel Cooper decrees that a fort be built and that every settler move his cabin inside the fort. Thus began Cooper’s Fort and the life therein. And for many it proves to be a very exciting life indeed. The one-time schoolmaster, Rollin Adair, proves himself very capable as a scout and his services are much in demand by the Colonel. But in matters more personal, such as winning the heart of Rosalie Tucker, he seems almost inept. Read how in the end, sticking to his morals pays big dividends to Rollin. Although this story leaves something to be desired in non-resistant principles, the leading characters live and teach Christian morals, and by divine guidance, open a way to a civilized country, a place fit for non-resistant people to live today. 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