- Fiction, Cowboys, Cattle stealing, Vigilantes
The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and a significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a beautiful, baffling, and sometimes violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles Trampas for supremacy and demonstrates that the "customs of the country" must eventually prevail.
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Classical in form, earnest, nostalgic and grave.
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- earnestironic
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- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Owen Wister
- First published
- 1902
- Pages
- 434
- Publisher
- Roberts Rhinehart, Morang, Signet Classics
- Editions
- 70
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781856953979
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