Martha Miller Pfaff Ivan

Martha Miller is the pseudonym of Martha Ivan. She is married to Gus Ivan, with whom she has worked in collaboration on four books for boys and girls, under the pesudonym of Gus Tavo.

As a young girl on the West Texas plains, Mrs. Ivan spent her summers on cattle ranches, where she learned to ride and hunt. She and Mr Ivan love the outdoors, and spend their summers in the West--NM, CO, SD, WY, Southern CA.
Mrs. Ivan holds a BA and an MA in Engllish from Texas Technological College, and did graduate work at the University of Texas and the University of California. Formerly chairman of the English department at Kilgore College, she is now Director of Guidance. (from book Timberline Hound, publ 1963). Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas, named its Liberal Arts Building after her (shown on a virtual tour across the mall from the Randolph Watson Library) but as of Feb 2020 no building on the campus map displays that name. Some of her papers are archived here: https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/3591
Her book, Timberline Hound, is listed as one of recommended books about Colorado on https://www.historycolorado.org/recomm...