ANQ, January 1st, 2003
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 ranch in Wyoming because of his bad health, he recorded that "the accidental sight of the cattle country settled [my] career" (Roosevelt 28). Wister decided that he wanted to do in fiction what Frederic Remington (1861-1909), the most popular illustrator of Western scenes, was doing in paint (Cobbs 17). Harper's even arranged for Remington to illustr...
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