Chip, of the Flying U / B.M. Bower (B.M. Sinclair) ; illustrations by Charles M. Russell ; introduction by Mary Clearman Blew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bower, B. M., 1871-1940.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ranch life--Fiction.

Ranch life.

Cowboys--Fiction.

Cowboys.

Montana--Fiction.

Montana.

Genre:

Western stories.

Western fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

264 p. ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1995]

Summary:

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 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. Chip is the typical woman-shy cowboy, but he is also a gifted artist (reputedly, Bower based the character on Charles M. Russell, who illustrated Chip). Della, a doctor, is the young woman who disrupts his solitary life. The result is a quality ranch romance. Chip of the Flying U was a great success that led to several movie versions, one of them casting Hoot Gibson as Chip. Today's readers who grew up watching westerns on television will appreciate Bower's cinematic style.

Notes:

"Bison books"--Spine.

Originally published: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co., 1906.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 9).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

0803261217

9780803261211

OCLC:

32508010

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