Dave Miller

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Dave Miller was an American business magnate who was business partner to his brother, Jim.
== Biography ==
Dave was born in 1866 to Bob Miller, a Confederate General in the Civil War who now lead a gang of bandits known as the Louisiana Raiders. When he was 17, his brother founded Miller Oil and he was allowed to co-own it, though his responsibility and profits would be limited until he got older. In 1885, he would marry a woman who he would have three children with. 
In 1895, Miller and his family were attacked by 4 Louisiana Raiders while in a stagecoach. Miller attempted to fight back, but was disarmed and incapacitated. The Raiders knew who he was and believed that he was a Yankee sympathiser because of his business activities. Because of this, they decided to punish him. They killed his family in front of him, and then shot him in the head.
But he survived.
When he woke up after being treated by a doctor, he was able to recall the names and appearances of the men who had shot him and murdered his family. He decided that he would go on a quest for vengeance, so he sold his share of the company to his brother and used the money to buy weaponry and to hire the Pinkerton Detective Agency to help him track down the Raiders and kill them. 
Over the years, they encountered many Raiders and usually killed them, but none of them were the men Dave was looking for. In 1899, Dave had very little money left, and only had one Pinkerton working with him. He found himself in a town out West where he had followed the trail of the killers. Here he would encounter one of the men, who when confronted, killed the last Pinkerton and wounded Dave, but he was saved by the local Sheriff, who was veteran of the Civil War and fought for the Union. As he recovered, Dave told the Sheriff of his mission, who taking sympathy at what he was being told, and feeling it was his duty to apprehend the criminals, decided to help him.
Together with the Sherriff, as well as two African-American deputies, one of whom was also a Union veteran of the Civil War, while the other was his son, Dave tracked down his family's killers who had moved West due to the failure of their organisation in the East. They were found with a new gang, and all killed. Dave found out that his brother had become an outlaw, and disgusted at the fact, decided to become a lawman in the town he had found himself in.