The Virginian
(1905)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 1905
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781974999569 (electronic bk.) MWT12040424, 1974999564 (electronic bk.) 12040424
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The Virginian is a 1902 debut novel set in the Wild West by the American novelist Owen Wister. Describing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, it helped establish the western novel as a literary genre. The unnamed protagonist in The Virginian, who courts a local schoolteacher and defers personal revenge while meting out justice to a cattle thief, set the tone for the rough but civilized cowboy, a prototype for scores of ensuing books, films, and music that popularized the mythology of the American wild west. The Virginian has been adapted multiple times for film and television
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