Flint and Steel - Book By Lewis B. Miller

Description: Flint and Steel - Book By Lewis B. Miller Synopsis: The title Flint and Steel is doubtless borrowed from the implements of firemaking used by our ancestors at a time long since gone. I remember my parents and grandparents talking about something that might be called “shift matches,” a small piece of wood or splinter that was dipped in a sulphur concoction and held to the fire to make a light. But flint and steel is apparently so old that I do not remember hearing tell of anyone using it to strike a fire. I do remembering leafing through an old farm magazine and seeing an advertisement for matches. One lady wrote to the editor asking if this was for real, or if it was a joke, and that if it was for real, would he please send her a few to use at the odd times when she lost seed to her fire? So it is in this fast-changing world. What seemed like a novelty a hundred years ago, seems more like a necessity now. Perhaps this is why Miller worked so hard to write these stories. One account says that Miller continued to write in spite of the arthritis in his hands. One must wonder if this is why the last story is incomplete. Still he managed to chronicle many details of the western pioneer. And to weave them into genuinely entertaining and credible adventures, full of suspense, all the while keeping in mind and practice his motto which was “Never write a line that dying, he will wish to blot.” This title may well be called the best of the best. 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

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Location: Gordonville, Pennsylvania

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