An edition of The Virginian (1902)

The Virginian

a horseman of the Plains

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An edition of The Virginian (1902)

The Virginian

a horseman of the Plains

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  • 1 Currently reading
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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. In his courtship of the Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood, the Virginian encounters a battle of a different kind. Rich in vernacular wit and portraying a romanticized escape from the decorum of the patrician East, The Virginian conveys a sense of redemptive possibility drawing on Wister's ranching, hunting, and fishing trips in Wyoming and Montana between 1885 and 1900. This edition includes Wister's neglected essay, "The Evolution of the Cow-puncher" (1895), a revealing companion to a novel that has disturbing undercurrents. - Back cover.

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The Virginian: a horseman of the Plains
1998, Oxford University Press
Paperback in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1996, Morang
Microform in English
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Virginian: horseman of the plains
1995, Wordsworth
in English - New ed.
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1995, Gramercy Books, Distributed by Random House Value Pub.
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1988, Reader's Digest Association
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1984, Citadel Press
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the Plains.
1956, Pocket Books, Pocket
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1925, Grosset & Dunlap
in English
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1917, The Macmillan company
in English
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York, London

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3345 .V57 1902x

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 504, [6] p., [8] leaves of plates :

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7183075M
Internet Archive
virginianhorsema00wistuoft
LCCN
08004771

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September 10, 2018 Edited by Lisa Added new cover
April 14, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Linked existing covers to the edition.
October 17, 2009 Edited by WorkBot add edition to work page
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Internet Archive item record