Michael M. Miller

Submitted by jd0307 on Fri, 07/09/2021 - 2:20pm
Graduation Year: 
2011

Michael M. Miller (M.A., ’17 Ph.D.), The Colony, is the author of XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana (University of Oklahoma Press), which explores Gilded Age business and politics within the American cattle industry. He wrote about the XIT Ranch for his dissertation at UNT, and his article about the ranch, which appeared in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, won the 2016 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America. A former teaching assistant and fellow at UNT, Miller currently serves as an adjunct professor at Tarrant County College’s Northeast Campus and Dallas College’s Brookhaven Campus. He is active in the Western History Association, the Texas State Historical Association and the Montana Historical Society.