The Virginian by Owen Wister

The VirginianOwen Wister · 1902A cowboy in Wyoming and the schoolteacher Molly Wood. Read The Virginian by Owen Wister page by page and explore its network of 734 people, places and things.Certain of the newspapers, when this book was first announced, made a mistake most natural upon seeing the sub-title as it then stood, A TALE OF SUNDRY ADVENTURES. “This sounds like a historical novel,” said one of them, meaning (I take it) a colonial romance. As it now stands, the title will scarce lead to such interpretation; yet none the less is this book historical--quite as much so as any colonial romance. Indeed, when you look at the root of the matter, it is a colonial romance. For Wyoming between 1874 and 1890 was a colony as wild as was Virginia one hundred years earlier. As wild…All books in the ECCE gallery