Introduction -- The author to the reader -- Enter the man -- "When you call me that, smile!" -- Steve treats -- Deep into cattle land -- Enter the woman -- Em'ly -- Through two snows -- The sincere spinster -- The spinster meets the unknown -- Where fancy was bred -- "You're going to love me before we get through" -- Quality and equality -- The game and the nation : Act first -- Between the acts -- The game and the nation : Act second -- The game and the nation : Last act -- Scipio moralizes -- "Would you be a parson?" -- Dr. Macbride begs pardon -- The judge ignores particulars -- In a state of sin -- "What is a rustler?" -- Various points -- A letter with a moral -- Progress of the lost dog -- Balaam and Pedro -- Grandmother Stark -- No dream to wake from -- Word to Bennington -- A stable on the flat -- The cottonwoods -- Superstition trail -- The spinster loses some sleep -- "To fit her finger" -- With malice aforethought -- At Dunbarton.
Summary:
Owen Wister was the first to put that most popular of all our folk-heroes, the American cowboy, into fiction. The first of its kind, Wister's The Virginian is a prototypical western novel that has inspired readers and authors for over a century. Detailing the exploits of a gunslinger known solely as the Virginian, Wister's novel introduced readers to a number of western motifs that are taken for granted in western fiction today. This is a must-read for any fan of the western genre. - Amazon.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)3491448
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
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