Darlis A. Miller

About The Author

Darlis A. Miller is professor emerita of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.

Books by Darlis A. Miller

Captain Jack Crawford

Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman

Jack Crawford (1847–1917) entertained a generation of Americans and introduced them to their frontier heritage. A master storyteller who presented the West as he experienced it, he was one of America’s most popular performers in the late nineteenth century.

Dressed in buckskin with a wide-...
I Married a Soldier
Lydia Spencer Lane's account of her life as a young army bride on the early southwestern frontier is both invaluable history and delightful commentary. As an officer's wife, Lane left her home in Pennsylvania in 1854 to accompany her new husband to his first post in the West--the encampment at Fo...
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