**Bertrand W. Sinclair (1881–1972)** Bertrand William Sinclair was a Scottish-born novelist who became a leading writer of North American Western and frontier fiction in the early-to-mid 20th century. - **Birth and emigration**: Born September 6, 1881, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His family emigrated to Canada, and he later spent time in Montana, working as a cowboy on the northern range before turning to writing — experience that gave his early fiction its authentic cattle-country detail. - **Literary career**: He began publishing Western fiction in the 1900s–1910s, contributing to pulp magazines before moving into novels. Notable works include *Raw Gold* (1908), *North of Fifty-Three* (1914), *Big Timber* (1916), and later *Poor Man's Rock* (1920) and *The Inverted Pyramid* (1924), the latter two reflecting his move away from cowboy stories toward novels of the British Columbia salmon-fishing industry after he settled on the Pacific coast. - **Personal life**: In 1905 he married Bertha Muzzy, who wrote under the pen name **B.M. Bower** and became one of the most successful Western novelists of the era in her own right. The couple divorced in 1912. Sinclair later resettled in British Columbia, Canada, which shaped the maritime and industrial themes of his later fiction, moving him somewhat apart from the purely cowboy-Western genre he started in. - **Death**: He died on February 20, 1972, in Pender Harbour, British Columbia. He's generally classed alongside contemporaries like B.M. Bower and Zane Grey as a popularizer of the Western genre, though his later Pacific Northwest industrial novels gave him a somewhat broader range than a pure "cowboy novelist" label suggests. If you want, I can check whether Textopian already has an author record or texts for him (aseo lookup) — let me know.
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