To the Reader
You know the great text in Burns, I am sure, where
he wishes he could see himself as others see him.
Well, here lies the hitch in many a work of art:
if its maker—­...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Lady Baltimore
Owen Wister