The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Owen Wister

Macmillan, 1902 - American fiction - 504 pages

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.

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Contents

• ENTER THE: 1
• STEVE TREATS: 31
• DEEP INTO CATTLE LAND: 43
• ENTER THE WOMAN: 60
• THROUGH Two SNOWS: 85
• THE SPINSTER MEETS THE UNKNOWN: 96
• QUALITY AND EQUALITY: 137
• THE GAME AND THE NATION ACT FIRST: 147
• BETWEEN THE ACTS: 157
• THE GAME AND THE NATION ACT SECOND: 165
• THE GAME AND THE NATION LAST Act: 174
• SCIPIO MORALIZES: 203
• WOULD YOU BE A PARSON: 210
• DR MACBRIDE BEGS PARDON: 222
• IN A STATE OF: 235
• Various Points: 264
• A LETTER WITH A MORAL: 275
• BALAAM AND PEDRO: 297
• GRANDMOTHER STARK: 318
• No Dream TO WAKE FROM: 355
• THE COTTONWOODS: 389
• SUPERSTITION TRAIL: 401
• THE SPINSTER LOSES SOME SLEEP: 422
• TO FIT HER FINGER: 437
• AT DUNBARTON: 483

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains; American fiction, 1876-1900; Issue 10 of Library of popular fiction; Issue 457 of Macmillan's colonial library; The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, Owen Wister
• Author: Owen Wister
• Illustrated by: Arthur Ignatius Keller, William Moyers
• Edition: 9, reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1902
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: May 16, 2008
• Length: 504 pages