The Virginian : a horseman of the plains / Owen Wister ; paintings by Arthur I. Keller, drawings by Charles M. Russell ; afterword by John L. Cobbs.

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938.

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Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, 1988.

367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with us still.

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Keller, Arthur Ignatius, 1866-1924.

Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926.

"First published in 1902"--T.p. verso.

Appendix: "Hank's Women" ; note on the text ; textual notes ; explanatory notes ; suggestions for further reading.

The precursor of the modern American Western novel.

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