B.M. Bower > Quotes

“Use your head for something more than to give your hat a ride, can't you?”
― B.M. Bower, Shadow Mountain

“When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.”
― B.M. Bower, The Range Dwellers

“By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead men should have fallen and been trampled...

Nothing of this sort happened.”
― B.M. Bower, Five Furies of Leaning Ladder

“A fellow ought to make sure his canoe is going to stay right side up before he asks a girl to step into it.”
― B.M. Bower, The Lookout Man

“nothing does he hold the medalla oro." "Gracias, Don Andres. I shall remember," said Jack, and walked away to the stables. He felt that the heart of Don Andres Picardo was warring with his intelligence. That although his wide outlook and his tolerance”
― B.M. Bower, The Gringos

“mouthing threats and accusations and vague prophecies of future disaster to the Lorrigans. He rode slowly out through the gate and took the trail made by the Devil's Tooth team when they hauled down the materials for the schoolhouse. The chunky roan climbed briskly, contentedly”
― B.M. Bower, 21 Western Novels: Boxed Set

“stranger,—and above all, he builds his”
― B.M. Bower, 21 Western Novels: Boxed Set

“I ain't in the state of mind where I give a darn.”
― B.M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand