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Owen Wister

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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 ... Read more

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 mo... Read more

Owen Wister

4,541 words, approx. 16 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 Hors... Read more

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