BM Bower Books in Order

Shy cowboy artist Chip Bennett is happiest avoiding women, until tough, capable Dr. Della Whitmore arrives at the Flying U. Their uneasy start turns into a warm western romance set inside a lively ranch crew.

Quick-tempered Rowdy has to prove himself when ranch trouble turns personal. Bower gives him action, stubborn pride, and the kind of hard-earned growth that keeps an early western moving.

One of Bower's early westerns, this novel follows ranch people through jealousy, danger, and stubborn pride on the Montana range. It already shows her gift for workaday detail and emotional tension.

The cowboys of the Flying U are back, louder, funnier, and just as loyal as before. This sequel follows the Happy Family through work, pranks, quarrels, and the everyday dramas that make the ranch feel alive.

A Native protagonist moves through a West quick to judge him by rumor and stereotype. Bower builds the novel around belonging, dignity, and the pressure of living between worlds.

An easterner arrives in Montana and learns just how lonely, beautiful, and unforgiving frontier life can be. Part romance and part homestead story, it balances wide-open country with sharp social tension.

Set in a tense borderland, this western follows outsiders trying to read a country they barely understand. Suspicion, pride, and shifting loyalties make every alliance feel temporary.

With Chip and the Old Man away, the Happy Family faces invading sheep and a growing range war on its own. Bower turns the cattlemen versus sheepmen feud into a funny, tense ranch adventure.

Sixteen-year-old Jean Douglas grows up fast on Montana's Lazy A Ranch, where danger, suspicion, and her own stubborn independent streak keep life from ever settling down.

A land-boom syndicate and a flood of settlers threaten the Flying U's hold on the range. The Happy Family answers with loyalty, improvisation, and a stubborn refusal to let their home vanish quietly.

At a New Mexico ranch tied to the movie business, Annie-Many-Ponies must navigate prejudice, desire, and questions of identity. Bower mixes romance and conflict in a story shaped by performance, power, and belonging.

The Flying U crew gets pulled into the movie business, where a phantom herd and studio trickery blur the line between make-believe and real danger. Ranch life and Hollywood illusion make a lively combination.

To save his daughter Helen May's health, Peter Stevenson uproots the family and heads for the desert. The move offers hope, but the harsh new country tests their strength, money, and faith in starting over.

A job built on watching the horizon turns risky when the danger proves close, personal, and hard to read. Bower uses a simple setup to build a lean western about vigilance, suspicion, and nerve.

Snowbound isolation and close quarters put nerves to the test in this winter western. As tempers rise and motives shift, ordinary ranch life becomes a tense struggle for trust and survival.

Johnny Jewel moves from cowboy life into the risky world of early aviation. Bower blends ranch-country grit with the thrill of flight, showing how new machines can change both work and identity.

Casey Ryan barrels through Nevada with more nerve than judgment as the old West gives way to motorcars and new schemes. Funny, chaotic, and unexpectedly warm-hearted, it follows a born trouble magnet who cannot resist adventure.

Bob Birnie heads into Nevada cow country determined to make a life for himself, only to find thieves, killers, and a world rougher than he expected. A hard-driving western about grit and judgment.

When Big Medicine rescues a stranger, the Flying U is drawn into another tangle of secrets and suspicion. A later Happy Family story with mystery tucked underneath the humor and camaraderie.

As filings and fences close in on open range country, ranch people fight to keep their independence. Bower turns a land dispute into a western about space, loyalty, and the costs of change.

Chip Bennett, Weary Davidson, and the rest of the Happy Family swing into action when trouble finds the ranch again. Fast-moving and funny, it shows the Flying U crew at their most loyal and inventive.

Set along the old whiskey trail between Montana and Canada, this western follows riders pulled into smuggling, danger, and divided loyalties on a hard northern frontier.

What looks haunted in the hills may hide a very human threat. Bower mixes frontier suspense, local legend, and ranch-country tension in a western mystery with a real eerie edge.

In a basin haunted by a deadly legend, trouble seems to arrive with every shifting shadow. Bower turns superstition and landscape into a tense western about fear, danger, and survival.

A thousand head of cattle vanish, and Wylie Brooks and Steve Tilton go hunting the thieves. What follows is a straight-ahead western about rustling, retribution, and how fast paradise can turn dangerous.

After Chip Bennett overhears a plot that could destroy good neighbors, the Flying U has to move fast. A later ranch adventure with a frame-up, murder plans, and the crew's usual mix of nerve and loyalty.

At a big rodeo far from home, young men tied to the Flying U test themselves in and out of the arena. What starts as spectacle becomes a sharp clash over pride, skill, and growing up.

Range work, town plans, and old grievances all pull at the same cluster of western lives. Bower keeps the focus on loyalty, pride, and the everyday tensions that can suddenly boil over.

Gary Marshall thinks he knows where his future lies, until Patricia Connolly buys a struggling Nevada ranch with a strange voice haunting the bluffs. Part western and part mystery, it mixes movie-world polish with real frontier trouble.

Eastern writer Bud Thurston heads west looking for material and finds a land far less romantic, and far more demanding, than he imagined. It is a western about outsiders, reinvention, and the pull of the range.

Isolated line rider Charming Billy gets an unlikely companion when a tenderfoot from Michigan blunders into his world. Loneliness, friendship, and dreams of something better hang over this rough, wintry western.

Beatrice "Trix" Lansell comes west expecting a pleasant visit and finds herself captivated by Montana, ranch life, and the stubborn Keith Cameron. It is a western romance with wit, friction, and real frontier texture.

Old weaknesses and old grudges turn dangerous when a western family is pushed past its limits. Bower ties private failings to public trouble, mixing ranch pressure, loyalty, and the hard cost of pride.

A collection of Flying U western stories built around humor, loyalty, and rough justice. In the title story, Chip Bennett helps an old friend who is dodging the law find shelter and work.

Dale Emery goes west with cash in his pocket and more confidence than caution. After he is robbed, he has to learn quickly that money, trust, and survival do not follow the same rules on the frontier.

Lynn Hayward is trapped on a failing Wyoming ranch under the shadow of an overbearing invalid father. A hidden fortune offers hope, but only if he can break free of old damage and old claims.

Cowboy and artist Jess Robison finds a dying man near camp and stumbles into a larger mystery. The more he looks into it, the more danger starts looking back.

Hopeful Bill Dale strikes gold in the Nevada desert and suddenly finds himself at the center of a boomtown. New money brings romance, schemers, and the kind of trouble success rarely keeps away.

Britt Hunter is a modest rancher trying to hold his ground against the power of the Sawtooth Ranch. Land pressure, pride, and tangled loyalties turn his quiet fight into a hard western reckoning.

Billy Louise takes over her family's ranch along the Wolverine after her father's death and hires a quiet cowboy named Ward. His hidden past brings mystery and danger to an already hard life.

Johnny Jewel returns in this sequel to *Skyrider*, still chasing the risky promise of early aviation in the West. Flying, ambition, and romance all get tangled once the stakes rise.

Casey Ryan cannot settle into city life for long, and a desert trip drops him into a bootlegging mess. Fast cars, bad luck, and one very memorable white mule keep the trouble moving.

Ford Campbell is a cowboy trying to climb back from his own mistakes. Bower turns his search for redemption into a western about trust, resilience, and how hard it is to start over honestly.

Tiger Eye Reeves leaves a Texas family feud behind and heads to Montana, determined not to become a killer. When he sees a nester shot down and falls for Nellie Murray, neutrality stops being an option.