Pirates of the Range Book By B.M. Bower 1941 Western Novel, Triangle Books 1st. About The Book Wylie Brooks and Steve Tilton are two friendly Texans who have staked their fortune in a Montana cattle ranch. But before long, a series of baffling losses threaten to wipe out their herd and the partners, who had previously thought that Cathedral Butte country was cow heaven, loosen up their guns and go on a hunt for justice that has a blazing outcome. About The Author Bertha Muzzy Sinclair 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 (even in romantic plots), 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 attention.