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The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and a significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a beautiful, baffling, and sometimes violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles Trampas for supremacy and demonstrates that the "customs of the country" must eventually prevail. In his courtship of the Vermont schoolteacher, Molly Wood, the Virginian encounters a battle of a different kind. Rich in vernacular wit and portraying a romanticized escape from the decorum of the patrician East, The Virginian conveys a sense of redemptive possibility drawing on Wister's ranching, hunting, and fishing trips in Wyoming and Montana between 1885 and 1900. This edition includes Wister's neglected essay, "The Evolution of the Cow-puncher" (1895), a revealing companion to a novel that has disturbing undercurrents. - Back cover.
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
2002, Signet Classic
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- 100th anniversary ed.
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The Virginian: a horseman of the Plains
1998, Oxford University Press
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1995, Gramercy Books, Distributed by Random House Value Pub.
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The Virginian: a horseman of the plains
1988, Reader's Digest Association
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The Virginian: a horseman of the Plains.
1956, Pocket Books, Pocket
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