This was B. M.
Bowers 15th novel, and like her The Phantom Herd a year later, it draws on her knowledge of the movie business. Sixteen-year-old Jean Douglas, the title character, is a no-nonsense daughter of a Montana rancher, Aleck Douglas, who in the opening chapters is wrongly found guilty of murder and sent to prison.
With the help of a ranch hand, Lite Avery, she spends the rest of the novel finding the real killer. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West.
