Chip, of the Flying U

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.