Owen Wister WESTERN CLASSICS COLLECTION: The Promised Land, The Virginian, Lin

Lin McLean The Virginian A Horseman of the Plains Red Man and White Red Man and White Little Big Horn Medicine Specimen Jones The Serenade At Siskiyuo The Generals Bluff Salvation Gap The Second Missouri Compromise La Tinaja Bonita A Pilgrim on the Gila The Jimmyjohn Boss A Kinsman of Red Cloud Sharons Choice Napoleon ShaveTail Twenty Minutes for Refreshments The Promised Land Hanks Woman Padre Ignacio or, the Song of Temptation Owen Wister (18601938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wisters most famous work remains the novel The Virginian, set in the Wild West. It describes the life of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis LAmour, and several others. It is also widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. | Owen Wister WESTERN CLASSICS COLLECTION: The Promised Land, The Virginian, Lin