"Undoubtedly the best biography of Western fiction writer Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, best known as B. M. Bower. Based on research in scattered archives and especially family papers, lore and oral history, Lamont has produced a meticulous portrayal of Bower's personal and publishing life."—Charles E. Rankin, Roundup Magazine
“This excellent volume . . . dramatically reframes the literary history of the western, confirming Bower’s foundational but heretofore unacknowledged role in establishing the genre; the western, Lamont proves, was never the sole province of male authors, its most genuine plots crafted by a woman whose gender was too long obscured.”—Jennifer S. Tuttle, coeditor of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts
“Victoria Lamont’s compelling biography—packed with verve, deep archival research, and the everyday dramas of B. M. Bower’s writing life—changes the story not only on one fascinating woman and her work but on larger assumptions, legacies, and lineages of western women writers.”—Christine Bold, author of The Frontier Club
“Meticulously researched, eminently readable. . . . Lamont traces a remarkable tale of Bower’s persistent creativity and remarkably varied contributions to early twentieth-century mass culture.”—Mary Chapman, author of Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism
