Set in the cattle country of Wyoming in the 1870s, this work tells of the rivalry of the eponymous hero and the villain Trampas, and the wooing of the pretty Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood. It portrays the contrast between the pioneering standards of the West and encroaching civilization.
Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of the genre. On the heels of the classic western's centennial, this collection of essays both re-examines the text of The Virginian and uses Wister's ...
Lady Baltimore is the classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, in the process of healing the wounds of war through the reconciliation of Northerners and Southerners. Written at the turn of the century, it evokes the enduring charm of old Charleston in contrast to the values of "the breathless, competing North."
From the bestselling author of "The Virginian" comes "Lin McLean", his first novel, about a young cowboy from the Wind River country in Wyoming who tires of the dust and hard life and heads east to Boston to seek his fortune.
1898. Drawings by Remington, the renowned Western artist, with notes and verses by Owen Wister and others. Wister writes in the Introduction: No artist until Remington has undertaken to draw so clearly the history of the people...He has pictured the red man as no one else...He has told his tragedy completely...Remington has recorded the white man ...
Owen Wister is remembered today almost solely as the author of The Virginian, yet his short stories, dating from the turn of the century, gave us our first real knowledge of the West's "wide, wild farm and ranch community, spotted with remote towns, and veined with infrequent railroads." And this West was not merely that of the cowboy, but of the ...
1915. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. The book begins: By various influences and agents the Past is summoned before us, more vivid than a dream. The process seems as magical as those whereof we read in fairy legends, where circles are drawn, wands waved, mystic ...
The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles for supremacy with Trampas and other ne'er-do-wells. His ...
This classic tells the story of the Wyoming ranch foreman known only as the Virgianian, his courtship of school teacher Molly Starkwood, and his encounters with the murdering cattle rustler, Trampas.
1928. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. The book begins: Crested with eagle feathers, bronze and lean, festal in beaded buckskin, he leaned against a tree as he played his pipe: no common member of his tribe; a young chief among the Shoshones, by the haughty set of his ...
'"Salvation Gap and Other Western Classics",'Owen Wister invented the Western novel with "The Virginian", and that work and this collection of stories prove that, although many have gone after him, no one has ever topped him in skill and enduring appeal. Wister saw the story of the West as a collision of centuries, with the Stone Age, the Middle ...
Originally published in 1923, this book documents the world of the famous Philadelphia-based firm which designed many outstanding residences in Mid-Atlantic and New England states. Using English, French and Italian traditions they created beautiful country estates, suburban homes, townhouses and other structures as well as superb gardens. Through ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III IN FRONT OP A BULLETIN BOARD There, then, are ten letters of the fifty which came to me in consequence of what I wrote in May, 1918, which was published ...
1930. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero, recounts his friendship and excursions with our nation's Rough Rider President; starting at his Harvard Years and ending with his Presidency. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
1901. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. Members of the Family is a collection of more stories featuring the courageous, but mysterious, cowboy known only as the Virginian, who works as foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch. Contents: Happy-Teeth; Spit-Cat Creek; In the Back; ...
Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer of western novels. He studied at the Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and graduated in 1888. At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law. Wister ...
Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virgiman (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist. Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary "might-have-been." If only sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, ...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SHARON'S CHOICE UNDER Providence, a man may achieve the making of many things ? ships, books, fortunes, himself even, quite often enough to encourage others; but let ...
Originally published in 1923, the book documents the work of the famous Philadelphia-based firm which designed many outstanding residences in Mid-Atlantic and New England states. Using English, French and Italian traditions, they created beautiful country estates, suburban homes, townhouses as well as superb gardens. Includes 308 photos and ...
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