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Owen Wister

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1) When West was west

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Wister, Owen

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Writings of Owen Wister volume 6

2) Owen Wister out west: his journals and letters

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Wister, Owen

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Presents a selection of the Western author's journals and letters from his travels through Wyoming, Washington, Arizona, Texas, and other areas of the American West and Southwest, from 1885-1895.

3) The West of Owen Wister: selected short stories

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Wister, Owen

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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 soldier, the seeker, the Indians, the hunter, even the priest. This volume presents six of Wister's finest...