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

by John Jennings and John Jennings

The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, this image of the cowboy. Soon after its publication,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552385280
• ISBN13: 9781552385289
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"