The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
ISBN-10
1798206390
ISBN-13
9781798206393
Series
THE VIRGINIAN
Category
Fiction
Pages
764
Language
English
Published
2019-02-28
Publisher
Independently Published
Author
Owen Wister

Description

The Virginian is a 1902 novel set in the Wild West by the American author Owen Wister. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming and was the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels.

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