Although best known for The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902), a novel often credited--if inaccurately--with being "the first Western," Owen Wister was in talent and predilection perhaps more a short-story writer than a novelist. He produced ove...
The importance of Owen Wister to the literature of the American West--and, by extension, to the development of American literature in the twentieth century--cannot be overstated. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902) lifted the frontier story ou...
Owen Wister is most often thought of, not inappropriately, as a writer about the American West. Indeed, his stories and books were extremely important in establishing in the 1890s and early twentieth century the ideas held by the majority of people about...
LIN Television Corp Vice President of Engineering and Operations Bob Ogren says the firm is very prepared for high definition television and has two stations already broadcasting digitally. Ogren plans to do some research but little shopping at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters...
PAM LINS TEN IN ONE GALLERY At first glance, Pam Lins's plywood sculptures look like exercises in medium-scale art-school carpentry, but soon they click into familiarity, like fragments of a recurring dream, then slowly relax into intriguing, elusive, odd yet plain forms that...
