Sawtooth Ranch

Bertha Muzzy Bower/ Mrs. Sinclair/ Mrs. Cowan (1871- 1940) was an author of western fiction. She was one of the first women to make a career of crafting western stories. In 1888 she became a teacher in Grand Falls, Montana and she was married at the age of nineteen. Among her works are: Chip, of the Flying U (1904), The Happy Family (1907), The Range Dwellers (1907), The Lure of the Dim Trails (1907), The Long Shadow (1909), The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories (1909), Good Indian (1912), Lonesome Land (1912), The Gringos (1913), The Uphill Climb (1913), Flying U Ranch (1914), Jean of the Lazy A (1915), The Flying U's Last Stand (1915), The Heritage of the Sioux (1916), The Phantom Herd (1916), The Lookout Man (1917), Starr, of the Desert (1917), Skyrider (1918), Cabin Fever (1918), The Thunder Bird (1919), The Quirt (1920), Cow- Country (1921), Casey Ryan (1921), The Trail of the White Mule (1922), The Parrowan Bonanza (1923), The Voice at Johnnywater (1923), The Bellehelen Mine (1924