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162:, in 1898. Her experiences in Big Sandy gave her intimate knowledge of cowboy life on the open range. Bower gave birth to three children during her marriage to Clayton: Bertha Grace in 1891, Harold Clayton in 1893, and Roy Noel in 1896. Eventually, Clayton moved the family to a lonely hayfield cabin, which Bower nicknamed "Bleak Cabin," about a mile out of Big Sandy. To help with rent, the Bowers accepted a boarder named Bill Sinclair. Sinclair, aged twenty-two, was nine years younger than Bower, but nevertheless a partnership began between them. Bower lent books to Sinclair and tutored him in writing while he helped her understand the finer points of cowpunching and critiqued the Western stories she had begun to write. 237:. The book introduced readers to the fictional Flying U Ranch and the "Happy Family" of cowboys who lived there. The story line centers on a cowboy named Chip and his relationship with Dr. Della Whitmore, a self-reliant doctor from the East who "can shoot a coyote, laugh off a hazing, doctor a horse, and turn cowboys into pediatric orderlies." Their relationship begins coldly when Della takes credit for a painting done by Chip. But they fall in love after Della restores credit to Chip and after Chip rescues Della from a runaway horse. The book was so popular that it was re-released in hardcover in 1906 with three watercolor illustrations by famed painter 120:. 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 1449: 1500: 1383: 145:, in 1889. That fall, just before her eighteenth birthday, she began teaching school in nearby Milligan Valley. The school was a small, hastily converted log outbuilding, and she taught twelve pupils. Her experiences as a teacher informed the characters of schoolma'ams who appear frequently in her in the writings, notably in 177:, to stay with her brother Chip and his wife Elvina. The divorce was finalized in 1905. Clayton took custody of Bertha Grace and Harry, while Bower moved back to Great Falls and took custody of Roy. Throughout this difficult time, Bower continued to advance her career, signing her first short-story writing contract for 342:
the eponymous character does not even carry a six-shooter. Instead, Bower's writing is characterized by a lighthearted, pleasant mood. For example, in describing a ranch kitchen, she imagines a tea kettle "singing placidly to itself and puffing steam with an air of lazy comfort, as if it were smoking
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Bower began writing to "save my sanity" after moving to Big Sandy with her first husband. Seeking financial independence from Clayton, she began sending stories to publishers in 1900. She regularly wrote new material while continuing to send out her old stories once a month. Bower published her first
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Bower's novels have been praised for their accurate portrayal of cowboy life. She wrote factually about such things as cattle branding and bronc busting, having witnessed these events firsthand. Bower's West is a place of change in which characters embrace new technologies from barbed wire to Kodak
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Bower and Sinclair married on August 13, 1905, at the Great Falls Methodist-Episcopal Church. They rented a two-story home at 111 Sixth Street North where they both focused on their writing careers. A daughter, Della Frances Sinclair, was born during a blizzard on January 24, 1907. That same hard
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called Bower "a strong but not altogether silent man who, during the intermissions in his professional duties, has found time to write thirty-four books." Other reviewers dodged the question entirely by replacing the pronouns he or she with such vague epithets as "this veteran novelist."
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winter destroyed the Sinclairs' breeding horse herd on land in eastern Valley County where they had hoped to move in the spring. After losing their herd, Bower and Sinclair left Montana for good and moved south and settled in a house on the coast in
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cameras. She infused her novels with humor. Her cowboys lightheartedly josh each other, and readers are invited to laugh at the ironic situations in which her characters are entangled. There is little violence in Bower's writing. In
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In 1920, Bower moved to Hollywood and married her third husband, Robert "Bud" Cowan, a cowboy who she had met in Big Sandy. In 1921, Bower and Cowan reopened a silver mine in Nevada and operated it for several years until the
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review stated: "there has always been an authenticity about them, a genuine smell of sagebrush and saddle leather, which many of her pretentious rivals lack. Her humor, too, is native and unforced, and lingers in the mind."
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On December 21, 1890, Bower shocked her family by eloping with her first husband, Clayton J. Bower. Their marriage was unhappy. The newlyweds lived first with the Muzzy family, moving later to Great Falls and then to
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Reviewers praised Bower for her use of "chaste English," her "true-to-life fiction," her "real background of life among the bow-legged brethren," and her "playful, humorous vein." A 1922
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her husband had begun to call her "my little red-headed gold mine." The final break came after he arrived home in a drunken rage. With Sinclair's help and with money from the sale of
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short story, "Strike of the Dishpan Brigade," locally in 1901. Her first short story to be published nationally, "Ghost in the Red Shirt," appeared in
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was adapted for film four times; however, each of these films significantly altered Bower's narrative. Bower also collaborated with director
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Swanson, Jo-Ann (October 8, 1995). "They Called her Bert: Montana Range Writer, A Woman Ahead of her Time". Great Falls Tribune.
1475: 1471: 1394: 1453: 124:(also a Western author) in 1905, and to Robert Elsworth Cowan in 1921. However, she chose to publish under the name Bower. 313:(1915). Bower used her experiences working within the studio system as the source material for several novels, including 1594: 138: 1437: 1413: 283:, writing stories and screenplays for seven Westerns under the name Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, including the 1921 film 194: 1427: 285: 280: 121: 876: 253: 1387: 186: 817: 622: 1448: 141:, to Washington Muzzy and Eunice Miner Muzzy, Bower moved with her family to a dryland homestead near 1554: 1549: 190: 142: 1039: 1523: 1084: 985: 174: 159: 1432: 1408: 1279: 916: 1518: 1466: 1043: 234: 206: 117: 1485: 354:
Both readers and reviewers frequently assumed that Bower was a man. In 1926, a reviewer for
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rocketed Bower to fame, and she wrote an entire series of novels set at the Flying U Ranch.
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In the meantime, Bower's first marriage had deteriorated. After Bower had published
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A Gathering of Memories: A History of the Big Sandy Community
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Later that year, Bower published her first Western novel,
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William Bloodworth, "Bower, B(ertha nee) M(uzzy), in
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Mix starred in the first adaptation of 1585:People from Otter Tail County, Minnesota 1077:Montana: The Magazine of Western History 205:forced them to move again, this time to 1018:Montana The Magazine of Western History 909:"Bertha Muzzy Bower: A Montana Pioneer" 786: 1011: 1009: 1007: 826: 815: 594:: 1952 (Ghost written by Oscar Friend) 390:: 1951 (Ghost written by Oscar Friend) 1130:"Dark Horse--A Story of the Flying U" 1102:Current biography: who's news and why 1060:Big Sandy Historical Society (1990). 875:. Great Falls Tribune. Archived from 7: 1605:20th-century American screenwriters 1580:20th-century American women writers 805:(2). Great Plains Quarterly: 95–104 35:Portrait of B. M. Bower, circa 1890 1590:American women short story writers 846:"Writing a Rough-and-Tumble World" 797:William A. Bloodworth Jr. (1981). 14: 1615:20th-century pseudonymous writers 1036:Twentieth Century Western Writers 968:. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 289:. She developed friendships with 1498: 1447: 1381: 1575:20th-century American novelists 844:Hanshew, Annie (10 June 2014). 1526:on Women Film Pioneers Project 1: 1482:Works by or about B. M. Bower 448:Five Furies of Leaning Ladder 1600:Screenwriters from Minnesota 1570:American women screenwriters 1438:Resources in other libraries 1414:Resources in other libraries 1280:"The Ranch at the Wolverine" 852:. Montana Historical Society 139:Otter Tail County, Minnesota 1497:(public domain audiobooks) 990:Women Film Pioneers Project 913:Western History Collections 725:The Trail of the White Mule 252:. 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author
novels
short stories
screenplays
American Old West
Bertrand William Sinclair
Otter Tail County, Minnesota
Great Falls, Montana
Big Sandy, Montana
Tacoma, Washington
Santa Cruz, California
San Jose, California
Little, Brown & Company
Great Depression
Depoe Bay, Oregon
Street & Smith
Charlie Russell
Western novels
Los Angeles, California
Elmer Kelton
films
Colin Campbell
The Wolverine
Gary Cooper
Tom Mix
The Quirt


"Mulford and Bower: Myth and History in the Early Western"

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