Flying U Ranch

Step into the rugged heart of Montana's Bear Paw country with B.M. Bower's The Flying U Ranch, a classic Western tale brimming with humor, camaraderie, and frontier challenges. Life at the Flying U Ranch flows with the rhythm of cowboy routines until the arrival of Miguel Rapponi, a flamboyant newcomer whose ostentatious attire and aloof demeanor unsettle the tight-knit group known as the Happy Family. As tensions simmer, a more pressing threat emerges: thousands of sheep encroach upon the cattlemen's territory, igniting the age-old conflict between cowboys and sheepherders. With the ranch's leaders, Chip and the Old Man, away in Chicago, the Happy Family must navigate these challenges, balancing pride, prejudice, and the preservation of their way of life. Bower's narrative, rich with authentic dialogue and vivid depictions of ranch life, offers readers a window into the complexities of early 20th-century Western America, where loyalty and resilience are tested against the backdrop of an evolving frontier.


  1. Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

    H. and Heron, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Edward Bellamy, Arnold Bennett, S. Baring-Gould, Daniil Kharms, E F Benson, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Richard Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, Julian Hawthorne, A. E. Mason, Richard Middleton, Pierre Louÿs, Sir Hugh Walpole, Ethel Richardson, Gertrude Stein, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, Andy Adams, Bertha Sinclair, Fitz-James O’Brien, Eleanor H. Porter, Valery Bryusov, John Ulrich Giesy, Otis Adelbert Kline, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Barry Pain, Gertrude Bennett, Francis Marion Crawford, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert Parker, Harriet Elizabeth Spofford, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Richard Austin Freeman, Alice Duer Miller, Leonard Merrick, Anthony Hope, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anne O'Hagan Shinn, B.M. Bower, August Nemo

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  2. Western Viererband 4030

    Alfred Bekker, Lee J. Slater, Frank H. Spearman, B.M. Bower

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  3. Western Dreierband 3095

    Lee J. Slater, Jay Desmond, B.M. Bower

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  4. The 9th Ghost Story MEGAPACK®

    M. R. James, E Nesbit, Oliver Onions, C.M. Eddy Jr., B.M. Bower, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Otis Adelbert Kline, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Barry Pain

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  5. 10 Classics Western Stories : 10 Gunsmoke Legends: A Treasury of Classic Western Tales

    Andy Adams, Frederic Balch, B.M. Bower, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Samuel Merwin, Marah Ellis Ryan, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  6. Cabin Fever

    B.M. Bower

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  7. The Phantom Herd

    B.M. Bower

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  8. The Man Who Would Play the North Wind : Short Story

    B.M. Bower

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  9. Rowdy of the Cross L

    B.M. Bower

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  10. The Long Shadow

    B.M. Bower

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  11. Skyrider

    B.M. Bower

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