A Harvard-educated Easterner, Owen Wister (1860-1938) made his name romanticizing the American West of the late 19th century. With Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Buffalo Bill Cody he helped implant a mythological view of Western purity and nobility in American consciousness.
Wister is best known for his 1930 biography of Theodore Roosevelt and for his novel The Virginian, an influential cowboy romance set in Wyoming. He wrote several other books and short stories, and the journals of his travels on the frontier have been published as Owen Wister Out West.
A chronology of Wister's life provided by the Town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, in which his novel The Virginian is set. Includes notes on his cabin, store, and local monument. www.medicinebow.org/origin06.htm
Hypertext and scanned images from the 1903 novel about college days in 1880s Cambridge, Massachusetts, with notes. Available in Parts or in a single ASCII text file. world.std.com/~dpbsmith/phil4contents.html
Companion site to a television series based on the Wister novel, including plot synopsis, character profiles, suggestions for classroom use, and information about other productions and related sites. www.turnerlearning.com/tntlearning/virginian
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