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Download or read book The Virginian written by Owen Wister and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking novel is considered by many to be one of the most important early entries in the western genre. Recounting in rich detail the daily life of a foreman on a vast ranch in Wyoming, this gripping tale has sparked imaginations for more than a century, inspiring at least six film and television versions.
Download or read book Romney written by James A. Butler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001-08-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary "might-have-been." If only, sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence the surprise when James Butler uncovered a substantial fragment of a Philadelphia novel, which Wister intended to call Romney. Here, published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works. Even in its incomplete state—nearly fifty thousand words—Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister set Romney in Philadelphia (called Monopolis in the novel) during the 1880s, when, as he saw it, the city was passing from the old to a new order. The hero of the story, Romney, is a man of "no social position" who nonetheless rises to the top because he has superior ability. It is thus a novel about the possibilities for meaningful social change in a democracy. Although, alas, the story breaks off before the birth of Romney, Wister gives us much to savor in the existing thirteen chapters. We are treated to delightful scenes at the Bryn Mawr train station, the Bellevue Hotel, and Independence Square, which yield brilliant insights into life on the Main Line, the power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the insidious effects of political corruption. Wister's acute analysis in Romney of what differentiates Philadelphia and Boston upper classes is remarkably similar to, but anticipates by more than half a century, the classic study by E. Digby Baltzell in Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979). Like Baltzell, Wister analyzes the urban aristocracy of Boston and Philadelphia, finding in Boston a Puritan drive for achievement and civic service but in Philadelphia a Quaker preference for toleration and moderation, all too often leading to acquiescence and stagnation. Romney is undoubtedly the best fictional portrayal of "Gilded Age" Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister's vision of old-money, aristocratic society gasping its last before the onrushing vulgarity of the nouveaux riches. It is a novel of manners that does for Philadelphia what Edith Wharton and John Marquand have done for New York and Boston.
Download or read book Red Men and White written by Owen Wister and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Pentecost of Calamity written by Owen Wister and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer of western novels, most famous for "The Virginian."
Download or read book Classic Westerns written by Owen Wister and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover six classic novels as you follow the footsteps of the trailblazers who settled the American West. As the American West opened up to settlers after the Civil War, people were eager for tales of great adventures, endless possibilities, and the pioneering spirit. Classic Westerns is a collection of six novels that captured this sense of exploration and brought the rugged landscape into the homes of readers everywhere. These novels—The Virginian by Owen Wister, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, The Lone Star Ranger and The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey, and Gunman’s Reckoning and The Untamed by Max Brand—tell of life on the open plains, in dusty outposts, and alongside majestic mountain ranges that rose to greet travelers who ventured forth into the unexplored country to find their destinies.
Download or read book Roosevelt written by Owen Wister and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lin McLean written by Owen Wister and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian book contains a collection of short stories that together form a novel. It is a romance novel in a Western setting, with the story unravelling in the open range and within the frontier towns of Wyoming in the 1880s. Although the narrative is primarily a portrayal of an admirable young man, the story revolves around his attempts at winning the hands of two young women, both of whom eventually betray him. The chapters of this book include: 'Variety, You Bet!', 'How Lin Went East', 'Home to the Sage-Bush', 'The New Girl', 'The Winning of the Biscuit-Shooter', 'Honey-Moon Lin', 'You Sage-Bush Bigamist!', 'In Search of Christmas', 'Santa-Claus Lin', 'Young Responsibility', 'The True Girl', and more. We are republishing this antiquarian book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Download or read book Ulysses S. Grant written by Owen Wister and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lady Baltimore written by Owen Wister and published by J.S. Sanders Books. This book was released on 1992-09-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, a portrayal of the process of healing the wounds of war through reconciliation between Northerners and Southerners on a personal, not political, level. Southern Classics Series.
Book Synopsis The Cowboy Legend by : John Jennings
Download or read book The Cowboy Legend written by John Jennings and published by West. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation 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.
Book Synopsis Owen Wister, Best Novels by : Owen Wister
Download or read book Owen Wister, Best Novels written by Owen Wister and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Wister (1860 - 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards.Wister's most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian', a complex mixture of person(s), places and events dramatized from experience, word of mouth, and his own imagination ultimately creating the cowboy who is was natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large landowners.In this book:The VirginianLin McLeanRed Men and White
Download or read book Owen Wister written by Darwin Payne and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985.
Book Synopsis Owen Wister, Collection Novels by : Owen Wister
Download or read book Owen Wister, Collection Novels written by Owen Wister and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards. In this book: The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plains Lin McLean Lady Baltimore Mother The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Padre Ignacio, Or The Song of Temptation A Straight Deal, or The Ancient Grudge Reminiscence with Postscript
Book Synopsis Five Thousand Years of Slavery by : Marjorie Gann
Download or read book Five Thousand Years of Slavery written by Marjorie Gann and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they were too impoverished to raise their families, ancient Sumerians sold their children into bondage. Slave women in Rome faced never-ending household drudgery. The ninth-century Zanj were transported from East Africa to work the salt marshes of Iraq. Cotton pickers worked under terrible duress in the American South. Ancient history? Tragically, no. In our time, slavery wears many faces. James Kofi Annan's parents in Ghana sold him because they could not feed him. Beatrice Fernando had to work almost around the clock in Lebanon. Julia Gabriel was trafficked from Arizona to the cucumber fields of South Carolina. Five Thousand Years of Slavery provides the suspense and emotional engagement of a great novel. It is an excellent resource with its comprehensive historical narrative, firsthand accounts, maps, archival photos, paintings and posters, an index, and suggestions for further reading. Much more than a reference work, it is a brilliant exploration of the worst - and the best - in human society.
Book Synopsis The Most Land, the Best Cattle by : Judy Alter
Download or read book The Most Land, the Best Cattle written by Judy Alter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century, Daniel Waggoner and his son, W.T. (Tom), put together an empire in North Texas that became the largest ranch under one fence in the nation. The 520,000-plus acres or 800 square miles covers six counties and sits on a large oil field in the Red River Valley of North Texas. Over the years, the estate also owned five banks, three cottonseed oil mills, and a coal company. While the Waggoner men built the empire, their wives and daughters enjoyed the fruits of their labor. This dynasty’s love of the land was rivaled only by their love of money and celebrity, and the different family factions eventually clashed. Although Dan seems to have led a fairly low-profile life, W. T. moved to Fort Worth, became a bank director, built two office buildings, ran his cattle on the Big Pasture in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), hosted Teddy Roosevelt at a wolf hunt in the Big Pasture, and sent Quanah Parker to Washington, D.C., for Roosevelt’s inauguration. W. T. had two sons, Guy and E. Paul, and a daughter named Electra, the light of his life. W. T. built a mansion in Fort Worth for her—today the house, the last surviving cattle baron mansion on Fort Worth’s Silk Stocking Row, is open to the public for tours and events. Electra, an international celebrity and extravagant shopper (she once spent $10,000 in one day at Neiman Marcus), died at the age of forty-three. Guy had nine wives; his brother E. Paul, partier and horse breeder, was married to the same woman for fifty years and had one daughter, Electra II. Electra II was a both a celebrity and a talented sculptor, best known for a heroic-size statue of Will Rogers on his horse, Soapsuds, as well as busts of two presidents and various movie stars. After marriage to an executive she settled in a mansion at the ranch and raised two daughters. This colorful history of one of Texas’s most influential ranching families demonstrates that it took strength and determination to survive in the ranching world…and the society it spawned.
Book Synopsis Owen Wister and the West by : Gary Scharnhorst
Download or read book Owen Wister and the West written by Gary Scharnhorst and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights, and immigration. In Owen Wister and the West, a biographical-literary account of Wister’s life and writings, Gary Scharnhorst shows how the West shaped Wister’s career and ideas, even as he lived and worked in the East.
Download or read book Mother written by Owen Wister and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
