Rawhide Robinson Rides The Tabby Trail

by Rod Miller

When Rawhide Robinson, babysitting a herd of beeves on a train bound for
Chicago, reads about a rat infestation in the mining boomtown of Tombstone, he
hatches a plan that results in yet another string of extraordinary adventures.
Retired mountain man Longshot Hawken shows the way down the Santa Fe Trail. Arlo
Axelrod ramrods a reluctant cowboy crew of Zeb Howard, Johnny Londo, Tony
Morales, and Frenchy Leroux. And as if handling an unpredictable herd wasn’t
trouble enough, the shiftless Buckskin Zimmer does his best to do the worst to
crew and critters. Then, the designing Don Carlos Valencia’s woeful wooing of
the magnificent Magdalena Maria Martinez y Montez de Monterrey forces her to
throw in with the cowboy band in an attempt to escape his clutches. And all
along the way, Rawhide Robinson holds the enterprise together as he meets every
adventure head-on, and regales his drovers—and anybody else who will listen—with
campfire tales of insane adventures, exploits, and escapades experienced
elsewhere during his extraordinary cowboy career on the western frontier.

253 pages, Hardcover

Published December 16, 2015

About the author

Four-time winner of the coveted Western Writers of America Spur Award--for a novel, for poetry, and twice for short fiction --twice winner of the Westerners International Fred Olds Award for Poetry, winner of the Academy of Western Artists award for Best Poetry Book, and winner of a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for a novel, Rod Miller is a versatile writer. His books include fiction, history, and poetry, his short stories and poems appear in several anthologies, and he writes for a number of Western magazines.

Born and raised in Utah, Miller is a graduate of Utah State University where he earned a degree in Journalism and rode bucking horses for the intercollegiate Rodeo Team. He works as an advertising agency copywriter and creative director, and is a member of Western Writers of America, where he served on the executive board. The League of Utah Writers named Miller 2012 Writer of the Year. He is a frequent presenter on a variety of subjects to writers groups and public forums.

Visit his web sites at www.writerRodMiller.com, www.RawhideRobinson,com, and writerRodMiller.blogspot.com.

Reviews

[Marg Corjay · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can not get over how much I enjoyed this book! I have not laughed so hard in a very long time! The spoof of a story of a "cat-tail" drive across the Old West frontier captures the feline personality to a T. Rawhide's tall tales are told so convincingly that you can almost believe them. The cast of cowboys embodies the typical oldtime movie trailhand perfectly, right down to their names. Not your average Western.