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

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

Jennings, John

Paperback

Series: West, Book 6

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1552385280
ISBN13: 9781552385289
Publisher: Univ Of Calgary Pr
Published: Nov 23 2015
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.77
Height: 1.22 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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 variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, this image of the cowboy. Soon after its publication, Wister sent a copy, inscribed To the hero from the author, to Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s. Johnson had migrated to Alberta by the 1890s, eventually settling in the Calgary area. Before his death in 1946, his daughter-in-law, Jean Johnson, transcribed Everett's stories of the old west and collected them into a manuscript, now on deposit in the Glenbow Archives.

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