The cowboy legend : Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American frontier / John Jennings.

Author
Jennings, John [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2015.
  • ©2015
Description
1 online resource (450 p.)

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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).
ISBN
  • 1-55238-752-6
  • 1-55238-529-9
OCLC
  • 939261995
  • 939687547
  • 979168302
Doi
  • 10.1515/9781552385296
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