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Owen Wister | | Birth Date: |
July 14, 1860 | | Death Date: |
July 21, 1938 | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Owen Wister
4,973 words, approx. 17 pages
 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... summary from source:
Biography of Owen Wister
4,541 words, approx. 15 pages
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... summary from source:
Biography of Owen Wister
3,556 words, approx. 12 pages
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... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Wister, Owen (1860-1938) Summary
1,701 words, approx. 6 pagesOwen Wister was one of a long line of lawyer-writers in American literary history. This Pennsylvania-born, Harvard-educated patrician became one of America's first and most prominent writers of the Western genre. Popular in his own time, Wister... summary from source:
 Owen Wister Information
435 words, approx. 2 pages
 Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer of western novels. Owen Wister was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Owen Jones Wister, was a wealthy physician. His mother,...
Literary Criticism
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 Mody C. Boatwright
3,850 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Boatwright critiques the image of the cowboy as hero, particularly in the works of Owen Wister.
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