Sinclair, William Brown "Bertrand"

SINCLAIR, William Brown "Bertrand," writer, fisher (b 9 Jan 1881, Edinburgh, Scotland; d 25 Oct 1972, Pender Harbour). After immigrating to Ontario with his mother in 1889, he ran away to Montana to become a COWBOY at age 14. He began writing western fiction in a new realistic vein in association with Bertha Bower, who based the hero of her celebrated novel Chip of the Flying U on Sinclair. He married Bower; then he himself became one of the most popular writers of westerns. In 1905 he moved...

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