The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories

by B. M. Bower

Overview

Bower wrote a multitude of short stories featuring the Flying U characters. This one best of the collections. These earlier stories have a more familiar flavor and focus mainly on the original characters, rather than the new ones added later. The title novella, "The Lonesome Trail," was evidently composed of several previously-published short stories woven together; the earliest of which, "Why Weary Went A-Wooing," even predated Chip of the Flying U. (Goodreads)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783987442780
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	06/10/2022
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	138
File size:	986 KB

About the Author

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 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." She was married three times: to Clayton Bower in 1890, to Bertrand William Sinclair (also a Western author) in 1905, and to Robert Elsworth Cowan in 1921. However, she chose to publish under the name Bower.