Reconstructing B. M. Bower’s daily life as it is documented in her diaries, letters, and family papers, this biography claims Bertha Muzzy Bower as a progenitor: a writer and western maverick whose daily life proved as dramatic as her fiction.
Victoria Lamont is a professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of Westerns: A Women’s History (Nebraska, 2016) and coauthor of Judith Merril: A Critical Study.