About this Book

When a young lady from a land boom syndicate tries to enlist Andy Green’s help in a scheme to lure settlers to Montana, he isn’t interested – until he learns that the land selected was part of the Flying U Ranch. Andy quickly sets off to tell Chip Bennett and the rest of the Happy Family at the Flying U about this insidious plot that could be the death-knell for the Flying U. Trying for an end-run around the land-grabbers, Andy and his friends get themselves fired, and file homestead claims of their own for some of the Flying U land. But before it could win its fight for existence, the Flying U and its loyal hands would weather a stampede, a prairie fire and the disappearance of Chip Bennett’s six-year-old son. Bertha Muzzy Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing Western fiction, and remains one of the most widely known authors of the western novel. Her first novel, Chip of the Flying U, was an instant success, and led to fourteen novels about the Flying U Ranch in Montana. Her novels are characterized by a sharp wit, a strong sense of family and loyalty, and the authentic quality of her cowboys.