Ebook {Epub PDF} The Virginian by Owen Wister

Owen Wister ( - ) graduated from Harvard University in and practiced law in Philadelphia. He is most well-known for The Virginian, the first western novel to use the cowboy as heroic figureThis text refers to the hardcover edition/5(83). The Virginian was the inspiration for The Shopkeeper. The inspiration didn't come from the main character of the novel, but from the life of Owen Wister, the author of this classic. Originally published in , Wister visited the Old West in the late nineteenth century and wrote from personal experience/5. In the genre of western novels, Owen Wister's "The Virginian" is certainly the grandaddy of them all. The story, the characters, the realism of the settings all make this the quintessential western. The Virginian himself is quietly heroic but without the manufactured stature /5().

The Virginian. Owen Wister ( - ). Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 's Wyoming. The Virginian (otherwise titled The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains) is a novel by the American author Owen Wister (), set in Wyoming Territory during the s. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels, though modern scholars debate this. In the genre of western novels, Owen Wister's "The Virginian" is certainly the grandaddy of them all. The story, the characters, the realism of the settings all make this the quintessential western. The Virginian himself is quietly heroic but without the manufactured stature of the typically represented "cowboy in the white hat".

The Virginian was grave in bearing and of infrequent speech; but he kept a song going—a matter of some seventy-nine verses. Seventy-eight were quite unprintable, and rejoiced his brother cow-punchers monstrously. Owen Wister ( - ) graduated from Harvard University in and practiced law in Philadelphia. He is most well-known for The Virginian, the first western novel to use the cowboy as heroic figureThis text refers to the hardcover edition. Widely considered the first true Western novel, The Virginian, published in by Owen Wister, is historical fiction. The saga of the Wyoming Territory of the s centers on a young cowboy known only as the Virginian, who uses intelligence, toughness, and integrity to help tame the land, vanquish its worst criminals, and win the heart of a headstrong woman.