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"Loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892, a bloody clash between big landowners and small ranchers in Wyoming, Owen Wister's The Virginian is the classic saga of a man who embodied the spirit of a growing nation--a novel that inspired five movie versions and the popular TV series."When you call me that, SMILE!" He wasn't looking for fame or glory. He wasn't looking for war. The man they called the Virginian was earning his way off the land,...
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Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard.
Two frowning boys sat in their tennis flannels beneath the glare of lamp and gas. Their leather belts were, loosened, their soft pink shirts unbuttoned at the collar. They were listening with gloomy voracity to the instruction of a third. They sat at a table bared of its customary sporting ornaments, and from time to time, they questioned, sucked their...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Indian wars, lynch mobs, desert crossings, mining camps, stagecoach robberies-all are brought vividly to life in Owen Wister's Red Men and White, the first book of western stories written by the author of the classic cowboy novel, The Virginian. Published in 1895, most of the stories in Red Men and White are based on actual events as told to Wister during his extensive...
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This edition includes: Lin McLean The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Red Man and White Red Man and White Little Big Horn Medicine Specimen Jones The Serenade At Siskiyuo The General's Bluff Salvation Gap The Second Missouri Compromise La Tinaja Bonita A Pilgrim on the Gila The Jimmyjohn Boss A Kinsman of Red Cloud Sharon's Choice Napoleon Shave-Tail Twenty Minutes for Refreshments The Promised Land Hank's Woman Padre Ignacio: or, the Song of...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pentecost of Calamity" by Owen Wister. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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The author reanimates "The Virginian" in these short tales lamenting the passing of the wild American west: "The smell of the sage-brush! After several years it was getting to me again. All day long it breathed a welcome and a sigh, as if the desert whispered: 'Yes, I look as if I were here, but I am a ghost, too, there's no coming back.'" —Owen Wister, "Members of the Family."
9) Lin McLean
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Lin McLean by Owen Wister.
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Set during the medieval Crusades and intended for adults as well as children, this humorous 1892 medieval fantasy/fairy-tale was variously described by the author as a "likely story" and "a romance." Subtitled "His Rise, His Voracity, and His Downfall" in other editions, it baffled some reviewers but amused many others.
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Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing a biography of Ulysses S. Grant and the novel The Virginian, in which Wister created the archetypal cowboy.
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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.