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Jul 17, 2024 · Owen Wister (born July 14, 1860, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 21, 1938, North Kingstown, Rhode Island) was an American novelist whose novel The Virginian (1902) helped establish the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and the western as a legitimate genre of literature. The Virginian is the prototypical western novel and ...
6 days ago · The Virginian is a 1929 American pre-Code Western film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, and Richard Arlen. The film was based on the 1902 novel The Virginian by Owen Wister and adapted from the popular 1904 theatrical play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke La Shelle .
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Jul 23, 2024 · While he may not have written any of The Virginian, in Wyoming, Wister did spend time in the state. Portions of a diary published in the Jackson Hole Guide in 1965, chronicle a trip Wister and John K. Mitchell took to Jackson Hole in the 1880s. Mitchell describes Owen Wister as D., or Dan.
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5 days ago · The Virginian : a horseman of the plains / by Owen Wister with illustrations by Arthur I. Keller Collection/Other Creator Wister, Owen, 1860-1938 Collection Created New York : Macmillan Company, London, Macmillan & Co. c1902
3 days ago · The novelists of that sentimental period—Owen Wister in The Virginian and George Cable in The Cavalier—were capable of glorifying virility in a way that probably flushed with pride their ...
3 days ago · Two kinds of American fiction flourished during the decade preceding the publication of Owen Wister's The Virginian and Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy in 1902 and 1903 respectively, but the peak ...
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3 days ago · The state’s immense rangelands fostered the initiation of the cowboy era that was chronicled in Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902), based on his experience in turn-of-the-century Wyoming. This era was marked by violence on the range between cattlemen, homesteaders, and sheepherders that continued well after 1900; such conflicts over the ...
