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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Other Authors: | Jennings, John (Editor) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Calgary
University of Calgary Press
2015
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Series: | The West
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Online Access: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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