Bowen, Peter

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 Wi...