B. M Bower
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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)
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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. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected "an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters (even in romantic plots), the occasional appearance...
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Excerpt: "Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the centre where what water there was hurried along to the pools below. For a mile or more, where the land lay fairly level in a platter-like valley set in the lower hills, the mud that rimmed the pools was scored deep with the tracks...
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"The Parowan Bonanza'' by B. M. Bower Follows "Hopeful Bill Dale," a good man who is sometimes a little too naive for his own good. After prospecting in the American West only turns up enough money to pay his expenses, he's about to give up. However, when one of his companions, a talkative parrot named Luella, starts to spread word about a potential turn of luck, Dale is stuck between striking it rich and losing everything.
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Black Rim country is called bad. The men from Black Rim are eyed askance when they burr their spur rowels down the plank sidewalks of whatever little town they may choose to visit. A town dweller will not quarrel with one of them. He will treat him politely, straightway seek some acquaintance whom he wishes to impress, and jerk a thumb toward the departing Black Rim man, and say importantly: 'See that feller I was talking with just now? That's one...
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This is B. M. Bower's 1931 novel, "Dark Horse - A Story of the Flying U". Big Medicine was a hero among the cowhands of the Flying U after he saved the stranger on horseback who had been struck by lightning. However, their mysterious guest seemed to have amnesia and couldn't remember who he was. A fantastic sequel to "Chip of the Flying U", "Dark Horse" is not to be missed by fans of Bower's wonderful work.
7) Blink
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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...
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In The Ranch at the Wolverine, we meet a little girl born on a lonely settlement, her only friend the grouchy old lady who lives nearby with her shiftless husband. It's a hard life for both families as Billy Louise grows up and eventually goes away for a better education. When she returns home after the death of her father, she must take up the reins and run their little ranch. Enter, a couple of strangers who may, or may not, be friends. Adventure,...
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Though not yet a state, California is now a U.S. possession. The old Dons possess vast tracts of land, but how good is their claim to this land? Enter California in transition, experience insight into the lives of the Spaniards of California and the irreparable gulf between the cultures, and prepare for some surprising twists in one of Bower's deepest novels.
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Excerpt: "The proper way to begin this story would be to assure the reader, first of all, that I have never believed in ghosts, that is the way ghost-stories usually begin, I think. Also, I should say that what I am about to relate is perfectly true-but I won't begin it like that. As a matter of fact, I don't care much whether you believe me or not, and I always did believe in ghosts-at least, I always hoped they were truer than Santa Claus, and that...
11) Andy, the Liar
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Of all the men who had slept under Flying-U tents and eaten beside the mess-wagon, Andy Green was conceded to be the greatest, the most shameless and wholly incorrigible liar of the lot.
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Excerpt: "The reappearance of Olafson, the violinist, who had gone out in the blizzard and was lost seeking the north wind that he might learn the song it sang, and who, according to Happy Jack, returned to earth on moonlight nights to play his violin in the doorway of the deserted shack in One Man Coulee."
13) The Lamb
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"When came the famine in stock-cars on the Montana Central, and the Flying U herd had grazed for two days within five miles of Dry Lake, waiting for the promised train of empties, Chip Bennett, lately promoted foreman, felt that he had trouble a-plenty." The Happy Family return for more adventures at the Flying U.
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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...
15) Fool's Gold
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A man travels from Montana to San Jose to show a girl how the wide West breeds wider morals.
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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…...
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The floor manager had just called out that it was 'ladies' choice,' when the schoolma'am laid proprietary hand upon his cinnamon-brown coat sleeve, and led him into another corner, and announced that she was tired and wanted a nice long talk with him. Happy Jack sighed a bit and sat down obediently, and thereby walked straight into the loop which the schoolma'am had spread for his unwary feet.
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A man is very much like a horse. Once thoroughly frightened by something he meets on the road, he will invariably shy at the same place afterwards, until a wisely firm master leads him perforce to the spot and proves beyond all doubt that the danger is of his own imagining; after which he will throw up his head and deny that he ever was afraid-and be quite amusingly sincere in the denial.
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"The Flying U Strikes" is a 1933 novel by B. M. Bower. Another installment in the Flying U series brings with it more trouble for the gang! After a suspected cattle-rustling incident turns into attempted murder, Chip soon realises that his old nemesis, Big Butch Lewis, has bigger and more sinister plans. An action-packed adventure romp in the American Old West, "The Flying U Strikes" is not to be missed by those with a love of Western fiction and...
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