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2) Owen Wister out west: his journals and letters

Author

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

Summary

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) When West was west

Author

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

Series

Writings of Owen Wister volume 6

4) The Virginian

Author

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

Series

Enriched classic
Educator classic library volume 6
Tantor unabridged classics
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His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with...

5) Lin McLean

Author

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

Series

libreka Classics

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Novel about a young cowboy for the Wind River country in Wyoming who tires of the dust and hard life and heads east to Boston to seek his fortune -- Abebooks.com.

6) The West of Owen Wister: selected short stories

Author

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

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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...