Owen Wister

• 1940
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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 i...

• Apr-1972
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Owen Wister is remembered today almost solely as the author of The Virginian, yet his short stories, dating from the turn of the century, gave us our first real knowledge of the West's "wide, wild farm and ranch community, spotted with remote town...

• Jun-1998
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Owen Wister was an American author best known for the classic western novel The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains.  This edition of Lin McLean includes a table of contents....

• Jun-1999
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Owen Wister invented the Western novel with The Virginian, and that work and this collection of stories prove that, although many have gone after him, no one has ever topped him in skill and enduring appeal. Wister saw the story of the West as a coll...

• Oct-2001
• / Literary
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Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss o...

• Oct-2007
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Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical hero. Wister helped to create the basic Western myths and themes, which were later popularized by radio, television, and movies....

• Oct-2007
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Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical hero. Wister helped to create the basic Western myths and themes, which were later popularized by radio, television, and movies....

• Oct-2007
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• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Owen Wister was an American author best known for the classic western novel The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains.  This edition of Lady Baltimore includes a table of contents....

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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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 H...

• Oct-2017
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Discover six classic novels as you follow the footsteps of the trailblazers who settled the American West. As the American West opened up to settlers after the Civil War, people were eager for tales of great adventures, endless possibilities, an...

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• / General Fiction
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

• / General Fiction
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• / General Fiction
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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 d...

• / General Fiction
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MOTHER...IS A REALLY GOOD WESTERN STORY! SHORT...ONLY 50 PAGES...BUT A REALLY GOOD READ! DON'T MISS IT!New York of 1901 is the background for a pretty love story, rudely interrupted by a disastrous speculation in Wall Street which the hero undertak...

• / Literary
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By various influences and agents the Past is summoned before us, more vivid than a dream. The process seems as magical as those whereof we read in fairy legends, where circles are drawn, wands waved, mystic syllables pronounced. Adjured by these rite...

• / General Fiction
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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 unbutt...

• / General Fiction
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

• / Western
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• / Historical
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Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical hero. Wister helped to create the basic Western myths and themes, which were later popularized by radio, television, and movies....

• / Literary
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...