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The Cowboy Legend : Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranchin…
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Jennings, John

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 variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show. Wister’s novel was to transform, almost o…

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978-1-55238-529-6
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Series Title
The west ; 7
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978 JEN c