Fort Blocker Boys - Book By Lewis B. Miller Synopsis: Blocker Creek is a tributary of the Trinity River which flows about 400 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. This particular region, near the present day city of Dallas, in Cooke County, Texas, was likely a semi-prairie land with streams, ravines, sage brush and woods with fertile virgin soil in the uplands. This was a prime region for eastern mountaineers to stake out homesteads in this early “Lone Star State” era. This is where our author was born, and where he gained a wealth of knowledge - some from nearly a generation before - which in later years he carefully penned for a farm magazine. Even though the vast territory was admitted to the Union a decade or so before, it was yet in a primitive state, and was sparsely patrolled. These early frontiersmen deemed it necessary to build a fort for protection for their families and livestock. Their cultivated fields were from one half to a  dozen miles away. This is not only a great story, but is also very rich in detail about life in the Southwestern frontier. 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