Word: messler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miller was born near Asheville, N.C., where his father operated the general store and where his uncle, Billy Messer, was police chief for many years. Messer later appeared in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel thinly disguised as Big Bill Messler. At 13, Miller, big enough to pass for 16, joined the Citizens' Military Training Camps, spent a month riding the Sixth Cavalry's well-trained mares in Georgia and practicing on the rifle range until he qualified as a sharpshooter...