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The Virginian eBooks
by Owen Wister
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The Virginian Summary
| Certain of the newspapers, when this book was first announced, made a mistake most natural upon seeing the sub-title as it then stood, A TALE OF SUNDRY ADVENTURES. “This sounds like a historical novel,” said one of them, meaning (I take it) a colonial romance. As it now stands, the title will scarce lead to such interpretation; yet none the less is this book historical—quite as much so as any colonial romance. Indeed, when you look at the root of the matter, it is a colonial romance. For Wyoming between 1874 and 1890 was a colony as wild as was Virginia one hundred years earlier. As wild, with a scantier population, and the same primitive joys and dangers. There were, to be sure, not so many Chippendale settees. |
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| The West pulls on the heartstrings of America, signifying freedom and rugged individualism like no other place on earth. Dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains is the story of a foreman on a Wyoming cattle ranch. In this exciting novel, the mysterious cowboy known simply as the ‘Virginian.’ falls in love with an attractive schoolteacher who introduces him to the works of Shakespeare. His honor is at stake when his friend is convicted of cattle rustling, leading to literature’s first showdown. |
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| 1902. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. The novel on which the TV series was based, The Virginian is set in the Wyoming territory during the late 1870s and 1880s. A courageous, but mysterious, cowboy known only as the Virginian works as foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch. He meets and falls in love with the pretty schoolteacher named Molly Wood. The Virginian is forced to preside over the hanging of his best friend Steve, who has been accused and convicted of cattle rustling. Then the peace is threatened by Trampas, who also works on the farm. There is a climatic gun duel between the two men. Trampas fires first, misses and is then killed by the Virginian. In the end the Virginian marries Molly and rides off with her into the mountains. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
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