Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8537
Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/538
Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2063
The Trail of the White Mule by B. M. Bower
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19166
The Quirt by B. M. Bower
Bower's novels have been praised for their accurate portrayal of cowboy life. She wrote factually about such things as cattle branding and bronc busting, having witnessed these events firsthand. Bower's West is a place of change in which characters embrace new technologies from barbed wire to Kodak cameras. She infused her novels with humor. Her cowboys lightheartedly josh each other, and readers are invited to laugh at the ironic situations in which her characters are entangled. There is little violence in Bower's writing. In Chip of the Flying U, the eponymous character does not even carry a six-shooter. Instead, Bower's writing is characterized by a lighthearted, pleasant mood. For example, in describing a ranch kitchen, she imagines a tea kettle "singing placidly to itself and puffing steam with an air of lazy comfort, as if it were smoking a cigarette."