The career of prolific writer of Westerns novels B. M.
The author, who always used initials as part of her pen name, was born Bertha Muzzy and was the first female writer to make a significant mark in the genre. Secondly, many of Bowers books were adapted for the big screen, and her characters and landscape descriptions have been indelibly stamped on the conventions of classic Western films.
Our hero, Jess Robison, a cowboy with talents as an artist, turns out to have talents as a detective as well.