Peter Bowen

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Peter Bowen


Born
in The United States
May 22, 1945

Died
April 08, 2020

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Peter Bowen (b. 1945) is an author best known for mystery novels set in the modern American West. When he was ten, Bowen’s family moved to Bozeman, Montana, where a paper route introduced him to the grizzled old cowboys who frequented a bar called The Oaks. Listening to their stories, some of which stretched back to the 1870s, Bowen found inspiration for his later fiction.

Following time at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana, Bowen published his first novel, Yellowstone Kelly, in 1987. After two more novels featuring the real-life Western hero, Bowen published Coyote Wind (1994), which introduced Gabriel Du Pré, a mixed-race lawman living in fictional Toussaint, Montana. Bowen has written thirteen novels in the series,
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Coyote Wind (Gabriel Du Pre...

3.82 avg rating — 1,281 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions
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Specimen Song (Gabriel Du P...

4.25 avg rating — 608 ratings — published 1995 — 19 editions
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Thunder Horse (The Montana ...

4.10 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions
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Bitter Creek (The Montana M...

4.32 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions
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Notches (The Montana Myster...

4.29 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions
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Wolf, No Wolf (The Montana ...

4.06 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions
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Solus (Gabriel Du Pré #15)

4.30 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions
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Nails (The Montana Mysterie...

4.36 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions
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Long Son (The Montana Myste...

4.26 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions
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The Stick Game (The Montana...

4.24 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions
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“You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.”
Peter Bowen

“Montana, you go fifty-five you never get anywhere, Du Pré thought. When you do get someplace, it is North Dakota.”
Peter Bowen, The Tumbler

“Best way to survive in the wilderness is stay warm and dry and fed and don’t get lost, but you make those arrangements before you go there.”
Peter Bowen, Specimen Song