Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Bower, B. M., 1871-1940

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926
• Blew, Mary Clearman, 1939-
• University of Nebraska Press publisher.
• G.W. Dillingham Co. publisher.

Description

264 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

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.

Subject

• American fiction > Women authors
• Ranch life > Fiction
• Cowboys > Fiction
• Montana > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Western fiction
• Novels

Note

• "Bison books"--Cover.
• Originally published: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co., 1906.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The old man's sister -- II. Over the "hog's back" -- III. Silver -- IV. An ideal picture -- V. In Silver's stall -- VI. The hum of preperation -- VII. Love and a stomach pump -- VIII. Prescriptions -- IX. Before the round-up -- X. What Whizzer did -- XI. Good intentions -- XII. "The last stand" -- XIII. Art critics -- XIV. Convalescence -- XV. The spoils of victory -- XVI. Weary advisors -- XVII. When a maiden wills -- XVIII. Dr. Cecil Granthum -- XIX. Love finds its hour.

ISBN

0803261217 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95004570^

OCLC

• 32508010
• SCSB-11761280

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library