Details

Subject(s)

• Cowboys—West (U.S.)—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Wister, Owen 1860-1938—Virginian [Browse]
• Johnson, Everett 1860-1946 [Browse]

Series

• West series (Calgary, Alta.) ; 7. [More in this series]
• The west ; 7

Summary note

Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel. This title details the evidence that Everett Johnson a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 24, 2017).

Rights and reproductions note

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Contents

• Prologue: A Synopsis of The Virginian
• Introduction
• 1: Beginnings (1860-74)
• 2: The Black Hills (1875-76)
• 3: Bill Cody (1876-78)
• 4: Wyoming (1878-88)
• 5: Owen Wister and Wyoming (1885)
• 6: Alberta (1888-1904)
• 7: The Book (1891-1904)
• 8: Afterword (1904-1946).

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ISBN

• 1-55238-752-6
• 1-55238-529-9

OCLC

• 939261995
• 939687547
• 979168302

Doi

• 10.1515/9781552385296

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