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| Name: |
Owen Wister | | Birth Date: |
July 14, 1860 | | Death Date: |
July 21, 1938 | | Nationality: |
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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...
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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...
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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...



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Owen Wister Quotes
14 words, approx. 1 pages
 When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you...


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Wister, Owen (1860-1938) Summary
1,701 words, approx. 6 pages Owen 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...
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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,...



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A new poem by Owen Wister. (Notes).
01/01/2003: 1,487 words, approx. 5 pages G. Edward White has written that Owen Wister (1860-1938) belonged to two different worlds: that of the Eastern Establishment and that of the Western Experience. It is the Western Experience for which he is most noted. In 1885, after he went to a...
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 The Washington Post
The Western Bible; In the Beginning, There Was Owen Wister
01/09/2000: 739 words, approx. 3 pages Owen Wister, a 25-year-old, Harvard-educated and somewhat sickly lawyer from Philadelphia, went west for his health and came away amazed by the Wyoming he discovered in 1885. After several trips to the frontier over a 15-year period, Wister felt somewhat better -- he...



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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