The Parowan Bonanza

B. M.

• Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns.

• The Parowan Bonanza is one of her stories.
• This short but engaging novel contains all of the elements that made B.
• M.
• Bowers books a mainstay of the genre of classic Westerns.

Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters, the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting.