"Starr, of the Desert" by B.M. Bower is a story set in the American Southwest in 1917, about family, health, and the tough life on the frontier. Peter Stevenson, who works as a druggist, is struggling with the fact that his daughter, Helen May, is getting sick, and they don't have much money. The story begins by showing Peter's everyday life as he worries about his daughter's health and how to take care of her. Peter thinks about how they live and whether moving somewhere else could help Helen May get better, showing how much he cares for them. When he talks to the doctor, he finds out that they need to move to a different place to keep Helen May from getting as sick as her mother did, which leads them to travel to the desert for a new beginning that is both promising and scary.
Starr, of the Desert
By B. M. Bower
A struggling father must decide if moving his family to the harsh desert is the only way to save his ailing daughter.
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About the AuthorBertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy, best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. 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." She was married three times: to Clayton Bower in 1890, to Bertrand William Sinclair in 1905, and to Robert Elsworth Cowan in 1921. However, she chose to publish under the name Bower.
Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy, best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. 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." She was married three times: to Clayton Bower in 1890, to Bertrand William Sinclair in 1905, and to Robert Elsworth Cowan in 1921. However, she chose to publish under the name Bower.
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