Charles M Russell
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The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
The Virginian is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister, set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880'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.
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Bill Carlisle was the last of the Old West's real outlaws.
But, unlike many of the other famous characters of the early days, Bill was not the gunfighter type. Bill never shot or injured anyone in his hold-ups; further, he never robbed a woman passenger. He had, like most old-time cowboys, a wholesome respect for women-all women.
This story of his life reads like the dime-novel fiction of an earlier day, but every incident of his daring and gripping...