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    Owen Wister

    In what remains the only full-length biography of Owen Wister (1860-1938), Darwin Payne details the life of the man who created the popular image of the cowboy that dominated American culture from...
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  • The West of Owen Wister The West of Owen Wister
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    The West of Owen Wister

    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...
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  • Study Guide to The Virginian by Owen Wister Study Guide to The Virginian by Owen Wister
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    Study Guide to The Virginian by Owen Wister

    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Owen Wister's The Virginian, considered by many to be the first fictional western written. As a fictionalized...
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  • Neighbors Henceforth Neighbors Henceforth
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    Neighbors Henceforth

    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...
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  • Safe in the Arms of Croesus Safe in the Arms of Croesus
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    Safe in the Arms of Croesus

    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...
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  • How Doth The Simple Spelling Bee How Doth The Simple Spelling Bee
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    How Doth The Simple Spelling Bee

    "How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee" is a humorous poem written by Owen Wister. Owen Wister was an American writer and "How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee" is a satirical piece that pokes fun at the...
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  • Lady Baltimore Lady Baltimore
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    Lady Baltimore

    Owen Wister was an American writer known for his western novels. He attended Harvard Law School and practiced law in Philadelphia. Wister was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of the...
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  • Women and Things Women and Things
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    Women and Things

    Includes contributions from Charles Follen Adams, George Ade, William Livingstone Alden, Edwina Stanton Babcock, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Kendrick Bangs, Bret Harte, Henry Edward Rood, Owen...
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  • The Jimmy john Boss And Other Stories The Jimmy john Boss And Other Stories
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    The Jimmy john Boss And Other Stories

    "The Jimmy John Boss and Other Stories" by Owen Wister is a captivating collection of short stories that delve into the essence of the American West during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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  • Masculine Style Masculine Style
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    Masculine Style

    In Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, Daniel Worden argues for the importance of "cowboy masculinity," as dramatized in late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of...
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  • Romney
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    Romney

    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...
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  • Romney
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    Romney

    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...
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  • Reading "The Virginian" in the New West Reading "The Virginian" in the New West
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    Reading "The Virginian" in the New West

    Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of...
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  • The Jimmyjohn Boss The Jimmyjohn Boss
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    The Jimmyjohn Boss

    Step back in time to the wild West with this collection of short stories from the legendary Owen Wister. From cowboys and outlaws to loveable eccentrics and hardworking pioneers, Wister's characters...
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  • Captain Cutlass Captain Cutlass
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    Captain Cutlass

    Spur Award and Owen Wister Award-winner Gordon D. Shirreffs weaves an exhilarating tale set in an era preceding modern naval warfare-when pirates still roamed the high seas.A swordsman with no equal....
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    The Pinto Horse and the Phantom Bull
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    The Pinto Horse and the Phantom Bull

    In 1927 Owen Wister called The Pinto Horse "the best western story about a horse that I have ever read." The pinto roamed the Montana range in the late 1880s, surviving wolves and blizzards and...
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    Becoming Western
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    Becoming Western

    In the Cowboy State (also known as Wyoming), the Wild West has never died. The West has long been the favored repository of the East's cultural fantasies, and in the late nineteenth and twentieth...
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  • The River's Edge The River's Edge
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    The River's Edge

    'Of the chapters I have been privileged to read, you have created a stunning, beautiful story, the best you've ever done, and I enjoyed every word. You wrote magic."-Richard S. Wheeler, author of...
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  • Voices at Twilight Voices at Twilight
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    Voices at Twilight

    The Definitive Wyoming Ghost Town BookWyoming State Historical Society Book Award WinnerIn the award-winning Voices at Twilight, a collection of historical stories and photographs, Lori Howe...
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  • Montana Montage Montana Montage
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    Montana Montage

    Owen Wister's The Virginian, considered to be the archetype western novel, left an imprint on American and European writers of that genre. Clarence Mitchell breaks from that mold in this, his final...
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  • Fort Suicide and The Brave Rifles Fort Suicide and The Brave Rifles
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    Fort Suicide and The Brave Rifles

    Western Writers of America Owen Wister Award winner Gordon D. Shirreffs was known for telling exciting and action-packed tales of the American West.During Fort Suicide, within the walls of Fort...
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  • Last Man Alive and Now He Is Legend Last Man Alive and Now He Is Legend
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    Last Man Alive and Now He Is Legend

    Owen Wister and Spur Award winning Gordon D. Shirreffs pens incredible, true-to-life tales of the American west that are sure to please even the most discerning consumer of Western fiction.In Last...
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  • Rio Desperado and Top Gun Rio Desperado and Top Gun
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    Rio Desperado and Top Gun

    Spur and Owen Wister Award winner Gordon D. Shirreffs spins tales of adventure in the old west that are heart-pounding and invigorating. Two of those tales are found in this volume, for your...
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  • Arizona Justice and The Lonely Gun Arizona Justice and The Lonely Gun
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    Arizona Justice and The Lonely Gun

    Owen Wister Award winner Gordon D. Shirreffs spins tales of the old west that are exhilarating and bigger than life. You'll find two such full-length tales in this double volume sure to please even...
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  • Barranca and Blood Justice Barranca and Blood Justice
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    Barranca and Blood Justice

    Gordon D. Shirreffs, Spur Award and Owen Wister Award winning author, tells the tales of the old west as they were meant to be told-with no holds barred action and adventure.In Barranca, a dying...
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  • Telling Western Stories Telling Western Stories
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    Telling Western Stories

    What has the western of literature and film contributed to American culture? Richard Etulain, the leading cultural historian of the West, answers that question by tracing four distinct storytelling...
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  • Once Upon a Time on a Bicycle Once Upon a Time on a Bicycle
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    Once Upon a Time on a Bicycle

    Take the hard road, if it's the right road.It was not the first time Michael Renati had peddled toward a horizon thousands of miles away, but never before had there been no horizon. With his life...
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  • Rural Fictions, Urban Realities
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    Rural Fictions, Urban Realities

    The diminishment of rural life at the hands of urbanization, for many, defines the years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the twentieth century in the U.S. Traditional literary...
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  • Image coming soon
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    The Eldritch Evola and Others

    Tradition never died. Despite the complacent triumph of Modernity, it lurks, like a never-rotting Gothic revenant, just beneath the surface of our materially bloated and spiritually empty world. In...
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  • Mariano's Choice Mariano's Choice
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    Mariano's Choice

    When young Mariano Medina witnesses a vicious attack on a girl he adores, he flees in inexplicable terror.  Fifteen years later, as a grown man training horses along the Oregon Trail, he has a...
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