The Virginian - Hardcover

Wister, Owen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1494138204 ISBN 13: 9781494138202

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. Wister began his literary work in 1891. He had spent several summers out in the American West, making his first trip to Wyoming in 1885. Like his friend Teddy Roosevelt, Wister was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of the region. On an 1893 visit to Yellowstone, Wister met the western artist Frederic Remington who remained a lifelong friend. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, the loosely constructed story of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. This is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel and was reprinted fourteen times in eight months. The book was written in the library of The Philadelphia Club, where Wister was a member, and is dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt.

About this edition

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1494138204
• ISBN 13: 9781494138202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 524