Within these pages will be found Western Writers of America Spur Award and Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award winning stories by writer Rod Miller. The cast of characters includes cowboys gamblers gunfighters swindlers outlaws lawmen pioneers miners mules horses cattle at least one sheep and the occasional fair maiden. There is adventure violence hardship struggle and triumph. Mystery conflict suspense and humor. Selected from among stories written over two decades are Millers first short story Good Horses published in 2000 and his most recent award winner (at this writing) Black Joe. In between are stories published in various anthologies and periodicals along with stories appearing here for the first time.