Owen Wister

When Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902, the book had an immediate influence on the image of the American cowboy.

Retired history professor Jennings contends that the powerful and lasting myth of the cowboy was created by Owen Wister, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt, who, in turn, were inspired by the real-life cowboy Everett Johnson, who was the initial and most important inspiration for the creation of Owen WisterAEs cowboy in his novel Virginian.

Critique: An impressive work of exceptional scholarship, "The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian American Ranching Frontier" is a seminal study that is impressively enhanced with the inclusion of thirty-four pages of Notes; a thirty-two page Bibliography; and a nine page Index.

Both Owen Wister and Booth Tarkington, to cite just two writers besides Henry Bellamann who knew the value of creating and maintaining stable communities, are to be found on them.

The modern tale of the American West traces its roots back to the work of Post writer Owen Wister, who popularized the Western for a nationwide audience.

The book usually credited with 'inventing' the modern western is Owen Wister's 1902 novel, The Virginian, about a commitment-phobic cowboy falling in love with and marrying a schoolteacher from Vermont.

The first western novel was The Virginian - written by Owen Wister and published in 1902.

This is not to say that deep themes and serious issues are not addressed in films like those by John Ford or Anthony Mann, or in novels by Owen Wister or Louis L'Amour.

Solid Western remake based on Owen Wister's classic novel.

Owen Wister, the scion of a famous Philadelphia family, had a nervous breakdown in 1885 and was sent to Wyoming to recuperate.

I find Thirteen Moons a sort of Dances with Library Books, in which Kevin Cosmer's crossover dreams lead him to read Fenimore Cooper, Francois Chateaubriand, Thomas Berger, Tony Hillerman, and lots and lots of William Faulkner, after which he writes like Owen Wister.

462." Owen Wister's comment (1930, 50-51) appears in a paragraph that discusses the major political issue of 1896--William Jennings Bryan and "free silver." Over lunch four friends, Roosevelt, Wister, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Winthrop Chanler, were discussing whether "such a wind-bag" as Bryan could ever become president.

Later on in this same chapter (which focuses on the Jacksonian period), Sturgess deploys quotations from Owen Wister's 1902 novel, The Virginian, to support the conclusion that Shakespeare "was a storyteller of the campfire and the bunkroom, supplying images of people reacting to life with unrestrained passion" (91).

"The life I am living," he wrote to novelist Owen Wister in October 1904, "almost drives me mad." Despite lifelong poverty, Sinclair had been, in his words, a "perfect little snob and a tory" until he discovered socialism in 1902.

"He doesn't fit in," writes Packard, "he resists community; he eschews lasting ties with women but embraces rock-solid bonds with same-sex partners; he practices same-sex desire." The cowboys and other pioneers who populate the works of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Bret Hart, and Owen Wister emerged within a social milieu in which male bonds were unburdened by contemporary stigmas of homosexuality.