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Peter Bowen

Born

in The United States

May 22, 1945

Died

April 08, 2020

Website

http://peterbowenmt.com/

Genre

Mystery, Historical Fiction

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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, ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 7,563 ratings · 642 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors

	Coyote Wind (Gabriel Du Pre #1) 3.82 avg rating — 1,325 ratings — published 1994 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Specimen Song (Gabriel Du Pre #2) 4.24 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thunder Horse (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré #5) 4.11 avg rating — 604 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitter Creek (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Book 14) 4.33 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notches (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Book 4) 4.30 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf, No Wolf (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Book 3) 4.06 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1996 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solus (Gabriel Du Pré #15) 4.31 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nails (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Book 13) 4.36 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Son (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Book 6) 4.25 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ash Child (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Book 9) 4.29 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Gabriel Du Pre (15 books)
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Yellowstone Kelly (4 books)
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“You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.”
― Peter Bowen

tags: anything, to-be-a-great-writer, worth-saying, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-advice

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“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

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“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

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