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The weekly mail had just arrived at the Flying U ranch. Shorty, who had made the trip to Dry Lake on horseback that afternoon, tossed the bundle to the "Old Man" and was halfway to the stable when he was called back peremptorily. "Shorty! O-h-h, Shorty! Hi!" Shorty kicked his steaming horse in the ribs and swung round in the path, bringing up before the porch with a jerk. "Where's this letter been?" demanded the Old Man, with some excitement. James G. Whitmore, cattleman, would have been greatly surprised had he known that his cowboys were in the habit of calling him the Old Man behind his back. James G. Whitmore did not consider himself old, though he was constrained to admit, after several hours in the saddle, that rheumatism had searched him out-because of his fourteen years of roughing it, he said. Also, there was a place on the crown of his head where the hair was thin, and growing thinner every day of his life, though he did not realize it. The thin spot showed now as he stood in the path, waving a square envelope aloft before Shorty, who regarded it with supreme indifference. Not so Shorty's horse. He rolled his eyes till the whites showed, snorted and backed away from the fluttering, white object.

Chip, of the Flying U Set on a ranch in Montana, the novel introduces the "Happy Family", the bunkhouse gang including Chip as a typical woman-shy cowboy. The beautiful young doctor Della, is a distraction for poor Chip and the other cowboys. Chip of the Flying U was a great success that led to several movie versions, one of them casting Hoot Gibson as Chip.

The weekly mail had just arrived at the Flying U ranch. Shorty, who had made the trip to Dry Lake on horseback that afternoon, tossed the bundle to the "Old Man" and was halfway to the stable when he was called back peremptorily."Shorty! O-h-h, Shorty! Hi!"Shorty kicked his steaming horse in the ribs and swung round in the path, bringing up before the porch with a jerk."Where's this letter been?" demanded the Old Man, with some excitement. James G. Whitmore, cattleman, would have been greatly surprised had he known that his cowboys were in the habit of calling him the Old Man behind his back. James G. Whitmore did not consider himself old, though he was constrained to admit, after several hours in the saddle, that rheumatism had searched him out—because of his fourteen years of roughing it, he said. Also, there was a place on the crown of his head where the hair was thin, and growing thinner every day of his life, though he did not realize it. The thin spot showed now as he stood in the path, waving a square envelope aloft before Shorty, who regarded it with supreme indifference.

Chip, of the Flying U Set on a ranch in Montana, the novel introduces the "Happy Family", the bunkhouse gang including Chip as a typical woman-shy cowboy. The beautiful young doctor Della, is a distraction for poor Chip and the other cowboys. Chip of the Flying U was a great success that led to several movie versions, one of them casting Hoot Gibson as Chip.

Her first work, Chip of the Flying U, sets out a farm in Montana and presents the Happy Family, the bunkhouse gang that was shown in her subsequent works. Chip is the quintessential cowboy who has a hard time dealing with the opposite sex, but he is a talented artist. Della who is a doctor, is a young lass who falls in love with Chip. The two of them have a romantic ranch relationship. Chip of the Flying U was a huge, remarkable fame that was adapted into many film versions, among them stars Hoot Gibson as the character Chip. Modern day readers who often watch western series on television will be grateful for Bower’s theatrical art. The author lived most of her years in Choteau County, Montana, she went to Los Angeles, near the film industry that really captivated her. Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, most popularly known by her pen name B. M. Bower, was an American write who created novels, fictional short tales, and screenplays, usually of the American Old West. Her books, highlighting cowboys and cows of the Flying R Ranch in Montana, were seen as an interest in life in the ranch, the use of working cowboys as lead roles, also in themes of love, the every now and then details of eastern parts for divergence, a kind of western geography as concurrently rough and vast, and a subject on ranch matters such as cattle branding and bronc busting. She was born as Bertha Muzzy in Otter Tail County, Minnesota and she lived in Big Sandy, Montana, during her childhood years, she was married three men, first with Clayton Bower in 1890, second with Bertrand William Sinclair, also a Western writer, in 1912, and lastly to Robert Elsworth Cowan in 1921. Her 1912 book, Lonesome Land, was highly acknowledged in The Bookman magazine for its personification. She wrote about 57 Western books, and most of them were adapted into movies.

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B. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. And what a career it was—more than sixty novels published from 1904 to 1940, the year of her death, and still more posthumously. In the western orbit, Bower was—and still is—a star. Her first, Chip of the Flying U, lays out a ranch in Montana and introduces the Happy Family, the bunkhouse gang that reappears in her later books.