The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier by John Jennings

The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier

John Jennings

448 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
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The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violen...

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