The Cowboy Legend

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

John Jennings2015
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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