The Hanging of August Miller

Texan August Miller, Marshal for Judge Parker, and former Confederate cavalryman, could never accept the South's defeat in the war. Thirteen years have passed since the surrender, yet August will not let it go. His hatred for all things 'Yankee' only deepens over the years as he watches the Northern victors "lord-over" the defeated South, and carpetbaggers grow rich on the spoils. Finally, pushed to the brink of his paper-thin Yankee tolerance, he strikes back and becomes a wanted outlaw on the run. Envisioning himself as a Confederate patriot, he returns to Texas and delivers another blow against a hatred Yankee carpetbagger, an act that makes him both hero and villain in the eyes of Texans. It is a fame he rides until he realizes his life is spiraling out of control; he loses his family and far more than he ever gained. All that waits for him at the end of the road is the gallows. But can a man change, and with a little help from his friends make a new life? Yes, he can. Until the day August Miller is caught and hung. But was he?