The Cowboy Legend : Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier

The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy...

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Superior document:The West
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:The West
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (448 p.)
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