The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Frontier

ISBN-10: 1552385280
ISBN-13: 9781552385289
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Pages: 412
Language: English
Published: 2015
Author: John Jennings

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Building on Jean Johnson's work, The Cowboy Legend details the evidence that Everett Johnson was the prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. With an impressive range of scholarship and archival research, Jennings melds this realistic study of the cowboy frontier with an intriguing account of Wister's creation of the cowboy mystique.

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