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Montana Premier March 4th Collector Auction

Sat, Mar 4, 2023 11:00AM EST
Lot 728

"The Gringos" by B. M. Bower, 1913 First Edition

Estimate: $100 - $200

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$1,000 $100
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$100,000 $5,000
Offered in this lot is the Original First Edition of, "The Gringos" by B. M. Bower, 1913, Little, Brown & Company publishers, Boston. "The Gringos A Story Of The Old California Days In 1849" by B. M. Bower With Illustrations By Anton Otto Fisher is a novel about what early California was like while huge Mexican ranches still dominated the landscape, before the influx of white settlers. The novel provides insight into the lives of the Spaniards of California was interesting and illustrated the gulf between the cultures. Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy (November 15, 1871 - July 23, 1940), 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 factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting." This brown clothbound gold gilt hardcover book is in amazingly good condition for its age, gold gilt titling on front cover and spine is mostly intact. Scuffing to cover edges and spine seam cracking noted. Intact pages exhibit age tanning and very minimal foxing, no other obvious marring noted. Measures 5.25"W x 7.5"L x 1.25"D

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