B. M. Bower
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Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy (November 15, 1871 – July 23, 1940), 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.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Born Bertha Muzzy in Cleveland, Montana, and living her early years in Big Sandy, Montana, she was married three times: to Clayton Bower, in 1890; to Bertrand William Sinclair,(also a Western author) in 1912; and to Robert Elsworth Cowan, in 1921.[1][2] [3] Bower's 1912 novel Lonesome Land was praised in The Bookman magazine for its characterisation. [3] She wrote 57 Western novels, several of which were turned into films.[4]
[edit] Works
- Adam Chasers: 1927
- The Bellehelen Mine: 1924
- Black Thunder: 1926
- Border Vengeance: 1951 (Ghost written by Oscar Friend)
- Cabin Fever: 1918
- Casey Ryan: 1921
- Chip of the Flying U: 1906
- Cow Country: 1921
- Dark Horse: 1931
- Desert Brew: 1925
- The Dry Ridge Gang: 1935
- The Eagle's Wing: 1924
- The Family Failing: 1941
- Five Furies of Leaning Ladder: 1936
- Flying U Ranch: 1914
- The Flying U Strikes: 1933
- The Flying U's Last Stand: 1915
- Fool's Goal: 1930
- Good Indian: 1912
- The Gringos: 1913
- The Happy Family: 1910
- The Haunted Hills: 1934
- Hay Wire: 1928
- Her Prairie Knight: 1909
- The Heritage of the Sioux: 1916
- Jean Of The Lazy ‘A’: 1915
- Laughing Water: 1932
- Lonesome Land: 1912
- The Long Loop: 1931
- The Long Shadow: 1909
- The Lookout Man: 1917
- The Lure of the Dim Trails: 1907
- Man on Horseback: 1940
- Meadowlark Basin: 1925
- The North Wind Do Blow: 1937
- Open Land: 1933
- Outlaw Moon: 1952 (Ghost written by Oscar Friend)
- The Parowan Bonanza: 1923
- The Phantom Herd: 1916
- Pirates of the Range: 1937
- Points West: 1928
- The Quirt: 1920
- The Ranch at the Wolverine: 1914
- Rim O' the World: 1919
- Rocking Arrow: 1932
- Rodeo: 1928
- Rowdy of the Cross L: 1907
- Shadow Mountain: 1936
- The Singing Hill: 1939
- Sky Rider: 1918
- Spirit of the Range: 1940
- Starr of the Desert: 1917
- A Starry Night: 1939
- The Swallowfork Bulls: 1929
- Sweet Grass: 1940
- The Thunder Bird: 1919
- Tiger Eye: 1930
- The Trail of the White Mule: 1922
- Trails Meet: 1933
- Trouble Rides the Wind: 1935
- The Uphill Climb: 1913
- Van Patten: 1926
- The Voice at Johnny Water: 1923
- White Wolves: 1927
- The Whoop-Up Trail
- The Wind Blows West: 1938
- The Range Dwellers: before 1909 after 1906, listed in The Long Shadow 1909ed
- The Lonesome Trail: before 1909 after 1906, listed in The Long Shadow 1909ed
[edit] References
- ^ a b Tribune Staff. "125 Montana Newsmakers: B. M. Bower". Great Falls Tribune. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers1/bower.html. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- ^ American women: the official who's who, 1935.
- ^ a b William Bloodworth, "Bower, B(ertha nee) M(uzzy), in Twentieth Century Western Writers, edited by Geoff Sadler. Chicago and London, St. James Press, 1991, ISBN 0912289988 (pp.73-5)
- ^ Current biography: who's news and why, 1940
[edit] External links
- Works by B. M. Bower at Project Gutenberg
- Bertha Muzzy Sinclair at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about B. M. Bower in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
