B. M. Bower

Luck Lindsay is a movie creator and director, specializing in "Westerns". This is in olden times when movies were silent. But, he got sick of the formulaic shoot-em-up movies that Hollywood was turning out and wanted to produce something that represented the "real" west of olden times, i.e. real cowboys chasing real cows in difficult situations, but still succeeding. Luck meets an old timer at a train station and is directed to a slice of Montana...

A millionaire's son who's gotten somewhat out of hand is sent out to Dad's ranch in Montana to reform. Years ago his father had gotten into a lively feud with some neighbours, the Kings, whose ill-will is still as strong as ever. Naturally our protagonist falls for their beautiful daughter. There's a jolt of added energy in his handful of encounters with peppery old man King. (Goodreads)

Woman Hero! Around 1900 Bower started to write about the wild west - and she was one of a few women writers that 'wrote like a man' and fooled most of her readers at the time. But she knew what she was writing about, and grew up in the west, listened to all the tales, and wrote with a passion about the life, the men, the women, and the harsh conditions of the time. Not afraid to write about the violent times she is one of the best western writers...

A good read about a cowboy trying to get out from under the devastating control of alcohol. He's an honest, hard working ranch hand, but when he's drunk he is a hard-fightin' terror. When his town hastily builds a jail to throw him into because of his latest nasty fighting spree (during which he was tricked into marrying a mysterious stranger) he high-tails it out of town. He heads for the ranch of an old, trusted friend, falls in love, and tries...

Excerpt: "Casey Ryan, hunched behind the wheel of a large, dark blue touring car with a kinked front fender and the glass gone from the left headlight, slid out from the halted traffic, shied sharply away from a hysterically clanging street car, crossed the path of a huge red truck coming in from his right, missed it with two inches to spare and was halfway down the block before the traffic officer overtook him. The traffic officer was Irish too,...

He could ride anything in his string, and he was always just where he was wanted. He never went to town when the others clattered off for a few hours' celebration more or less mild, he never took part in any of the camp fun, and he never offended any man. If any offended him they did not know it unless they were observant; if they were, they would see his pale lashes wink fast for a minute, and they might read aright the sign and refrain from further...

Excerpt: "At the moment, Ed Murray, supervisor of the Absarokee Division of the Yellowstone National Forest, was peeved. "Read that!" he snorted, shoving a letter from his particular higher-ups in Washington into the hands of his stolid secretary who, by the way, comprised the entire office force of the Absarokee Division. The secretary obediently began reading in a slightly singsong tone: "Under separate cover we are mailing you blank township maps....

A man travels from Montana to San Jose to show a girl how the wide West breeds wider morals.

This volume assembles no less than 42 of the classic Old West novels and short stories of B.M. Bower. Included are many tales of the Flying U Ranch, as well as stories set in California, Montana, and many other western locales. Hours of great western reading await! Included are: Flying U Ranch Chip, of the Flying U The Flying-U's Last Stand Blink Miss Martin's Mission Happy Jack, Wild Man. A Tamer of Wild Ones. Andy, the Liar "Wolf! Wolf!" Fool's...

Una divertidísima comedia romántica ambientada en el Salvaje Oeste a principios del siglo XX, y que desmitifica muchos de los tópicos de la vida en un rancho ganadero. En el rancho de La U Alada, James G. Whitmore, el Viejo, y sus muchachos viven plácidamente entre bromas y ganado. Sin embargo, la visita inesperada de Della, la hermana del patrón, va a revolucionar el día a día de estos entrañables vaqueros, en especial de uno de ellos…...