Phantom Herd

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781775561347
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

Many of B. M. Bower's Western novels were adapted for the silver screen, an experience she puts to hilarious use in the entertaining novel The Phantom Herd. In it, Bower skewers the filmmaking process, depicting a bumbling crew of Hollywood moneygrubbers who come to the Wild West to shoot a movie, only to find that the truly untamed nature of the region is virtually impossible to capture on film.

Table of contents

• THE PHANTOM HERD
• Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter One - The Indians Must Go
• Chapter Two - "Where the Cattle Roamed in Thousands, a-Many a Herd and Brand "—Old Range Song
• Chapter Three - And They Sigh for the Days that Are Gone
• Chapter Four - The Little Doctor Protests
• Chapter Five - A Bunch of One-Reelers from Bently Brown
• Chapter Six - Villains All and Proud of It
• Chapter Seven - Bently Brown Does Not Appreciate Comedy
• Chapter Eight - "There's Got to Be a Line Drawed Somewheres"
• Chapter Nine - Leave it to the Bunch
• Chapter Ten - Unexpected Guests for Applehead
• Chapter Eleven - Just a Few Unforeseen Obstacles
• Chapter Twelve - "I Think You Need Indian Girl for Picture"
• Chapter Thirteen - "Pam Bleak Mesa—Cattle Drifting Before Wind—"
• Chapter Fourteen - "Plumb Spoiled, D' Yuh Mean?"
• Chapter Fifteen - A Letter from Chief Big Turkey
• Chapter Sixteen - "The Chances is Slim and Gittin' Slimmer"
• Chapter Seventeen - The Storm
• Chapter Eighteen - A Few of the Minor Difficulties
• Chapter Nineteen - Wherein Luck Makes a Speech
• Chapter Twenty - "She's Shaping Up Like a Bank Roll"