The Phantom Herd

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Published in 1916, The Phantom Herd is a Western novel by B. M. Bower (1871–1940) that draws on her experience in the early motion picture industry. A filmmaker heads to Montana to shoot an authentic Western picture, hiring real cowboys as actors, but quickly discovers that making movies on the open range involves as much danger and chaos as the frontier stories he is trying to film. The novel is a lively, semi-satirical look at the collision between Hollywood ambition and ranch reality. The Phantom Herd is in the public domain.

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