B.M. Bower (Author of Chip of the Flying U)

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B.M. Bower

Born

in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, The United States

November 15, 1871

Died

July 23, 1940

Genre

Fiction, Wild West

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Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, n茅e Muzzy, best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying R Ranch in Montana, reflected "an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters (even in romantic plots), the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting.

Born Bertha Muzzy in Otter Tail County, MN and living her early years in Big Sandy, Montana, she was married three times: to Clayton Bower, i ...more

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	Chip of the Flying U by B.M. Bower, Mary Clearman Blew (Introduction) 3.79 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 1906	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cabin Fever 3.67 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1918 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Shadow 3.91 avg rating — 122 ratings — 494 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	12 Western Novels: Boxed Set 3.88 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gringos 3.82 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1913 — 539 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Prairie Knight by B.M. Bower, Jennifer Quinlan (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1906 — 161 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonesome Land by B.M. Bower, Pam Houston (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Introduction) 3.62 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1912 — 176 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Phantom Herd 4.04 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1916	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quirt by B.M. Bower, Anton Otto Fischer (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1920 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The B.M. Bower MEGAPACK 庐: 42 Western Stories 3.95 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by B.M. Bower (?)

“Use your head for something more than to give your hat a ride, can't you?”
― B.M. Bower, Shadow Mountain

tags: humor, western

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“When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.”
― B.M. Bower, The Range Dwellers

tags: people, relationships

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“By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead men should have fallen and been trampled...

Nothing of this sort happened.”
― B.M. Bower, Five Furies of Leaning Ladder

tags: fiction-writing, humor, western

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