TY - BOOK AU - Wister,Owen TI - The Virginian: a horseman of the plains SN - 9780615854670 PY - 2013/// CY - Los Angeles, CA PB - Peruse Press KW - Cattle stealing KW - Fiction KW - Vigilantes KW - Cowboys KW - Wyoming KW - Western fiction KW - lcgft KW - Action and adventure fiction N2 - The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on the Western genre. This edition includes Wister's neglected essay, The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher (1895) and an introduction highlighting the social, gender, and political implications of Wister's mythic West in the context of its actual economic history and Wister's patrician career ER -