Owen Wister Books In Order

Red Men and White

Owen Wister 1860 1938 was an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical hero. Wister helped to create the basic Western myths and themes, which were later popularized by radio, television, and movies.

Lin McLean

Owen Wister 1860 1938 was an American writer of western novels. He studied at the Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and graduated in 1888. At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law. Wister had spent several summers out in the American West and was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of that region. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister’s most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains. This is widely regarded as being the first American western novel. Amongst his other works are: Lin McLean 1897, The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 1900, Philosophy 4 1903, Lady Baltimore 1906, Mother 1907, Padre Ignacio; or, The Song of Temptation 1911 and A Straight Deal 1920.

The Virginian

The Virginian, by Owen Wister, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. The western is one of America’s most important and influential contributions to world culture. And it was Owen Wister s The Virginian, first published in 1902, that created the familiar archetypes of character, setting, and action that still dominate western fiction and film. The Virginian‘s characters include: The hero, tall, taciturn, and unflappable, confident in his skills, careful of his honor, mysterious in his background; the hero*ine, the schoolmarm from the East, dedicated to civilizing the untamed town, but willing to adapt to its ways up to a point; and the villain, who is a liar, a thief, a killer, and worst of all, a coward beneath his bluster. Its setting the lonely small town in the midst of the vast, empty, dangerous but overwhelmingly beautiful landscape plays so crucial a role that it may be regarded as one of the primary characters. And its action the cattle roundup, the capture of the rustlers, the agonizing moral choices demanded by western justice, and the climactic shoot out between hero and villain shaped the plots of the thousands of books and movies that followed. John G. Cawelti has published ten books, including Apostles of the Self Made Man, Adventure, Mystery and Romance, The Spy Story, Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations, and The Six Gun Mystique Sequel. He has also published about seventy essays in the fields of American literature, cultural history, and popular culture, and has made oral presentations at more than one hundred universities and scholarly conferences.

Philosophy 4

Owen Wister 1860 1938 was an American writer of western novels. He studied at the Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and graduated in 1888. At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law. Wister had spent several summers out in the American West and was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of that region. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister’s most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains. This is widely regarded as being the first American western novel. Amongst his other works are: Lin McLean 1897, The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 1900, Philosophy 4 1903, Lady Baltimore 1906, Mother 1907, Padre Ignacio; or, The Song of Temptation 1911 and A Straight Deal 1920.

Lady Baltimore

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KINGS PORT TALKS OF course I had at once left the letters of introduction which Aunt Carola had given me; but in my ignorance of Kings Port hours I had found everybody at dinner when I made my first round of calls between half past three and five an experience particularly regrettable, since I had hurried my own dinner on purpose, not then aware that the hours at my boarding house were the custom of the whole town.1 Upon an afternoon some days later, having seen in the extra looking glass, which I had been obliged to provide for myself, that the part in my back hair was perfect, I set forth again, better informed. As I rang the first doorbell, another visitor came up the steps, a beautiful old lady in widow’s dress, a cardcase in her hand. ‘ Have you rung, sir ?’ said she, in a manner at once gentle and voluminous. ‘ Yes, madam.’ Nevertheless she pulled it again. ‘ It doesn’t always ring,’ she explained, ‘ unless one is accustomed to it, which you are not.’ She addressed me with authority, exactly like Aunt Carola, and with even greater precision inher good English and good enunciation. Unlike the girl at the Exchange, she had no accent; her language was simply the perfection of educated utterance; it also was racy with the free censori ousness which civilized people of consequence are apt to exercise the world over. ‘ I was sorry to miss your visit,’ she began she knew me, you see, perfectly; ‘ you will please to come again soon, and console me for my disappointment. I am Mrs. Gregory St. Michael, and my house is in Le Maire Street,1 as you have been so civil as to find out. And how does your Aunt Carola do in these contemptible times ? You can tell her from me that vulgarization is descending, even upon Kings Port.’ 1 These hours,, even since my vi…

How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chickle University, Arkansopolis, October 6, 1906. English spelling rotten to the core. Help us. Masticator B. Fellows. I responded, not without satire: Utterly prostrated by news. Helpless. Thomas Greenberry. And thinking that thus I was rid of him, I proceeded quietly with the index of my forthcoming volume. But Masticator B. Fellows, president and proprietor of Chickle University, had not done with me so easily. Since his street boyhood, sixty years ago, this ardent personality ’tis thus the daily press describes him had made his own way, and had his own way; he was his own capital, and there is no record of his ever having sunk a cent of it. Of habits strictly pure, he had never seen a card or a drop of liquor that he had touched, and he had never seen a dollar that he had not touched. He had organized every industry along his path, from paper selling, boot blacking, and so upward to his organized lobby at Washington, through which he had caused a heavy tariff to be put upon every commodity necessary to the American people. It was he who had advised his brother organizers to keep Religion on the free list, because, as he assured them, ‘if we tax it, they’ll do without it, while if we don’t, they’ll trust us for a while yet.’ And now, at the age of seventy five, with uncounted millions, and ten United States Senators, and a fourth young wife all in his pocket, he proposed to hand his name to Immortality by simplifying the spelling of English all over the earth. Well, let him do it if he would only do it right. But this he must do without my assistance; there were other professors, many of them. I did not permit the circulars that now began to pour in from Chickle University to distract me from my index. Striking as these circulars were and I will i…

A Journey in Search of Christmas

The Shelf2Life Western Fiction Collection is a fascinating set of pre-1923 materials that capture the beauty, mystery and adventure of the old west. From honorable cowboys and spirited pioneer women to questionable sheriffs, notorious gunslingers and unruly outlaws, these classic westerns introduce lively characters who embody the essence of the American frontier. Authentic dialog combined with vivid scenic descriptions help re-create a time and place where chasing cattle rustlers, tracking wild horses and fighting for land were a part of everyday life, highlighting the strength of character necessary to survive. The Shelf2Life Western Fiction Collection allows readers to escape the modern world and be transported into the rough and tumble escapades of the Wild West.

Members of the Family

1901. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. Members of the Family is a collection of more stories featuring the courageous, but mysterious, cowboy known only as the Virginian, who works as foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch. Contents: Happy Teeth; Spit Cat Creek; In the Back; Timberline; The Gift Horse; Extra Dry; Where It Was; and The Drake Who Had Means of His Own. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Padre Ignacio

Owen Wister 1860 1938 was an American writer of western novels. He studied at the Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and graduated in 1888. At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law. Wister had spent several summers out in the American West and was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of that region. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister’s most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains. This is widely regarded as being the first American western novel. Amongst his other works are: Lin McLean 1897, The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 1900, Philosophy 4 1903, Lady Baltimore 1906, Mother 1907, Padre Ignacio; or, The Song of Temptation 1911 and A Straight Deal 1920.

The Pentecost of Calamity

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A Straight Deal

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III IN FRONT OP A BULLETIN BOARD There, then, are ten letters of the fifty which came to me in consequence of what I wrote in May, 1918, which was published in the American Magazine for the following November. Ten will do. To read the other forty would change no impression conveyed already by the ten, but would merely repeat it. With varying phraseology their writers either think we have hitherto misjudged England and that my facts are to the point, or they express the stereotyped American antipathy to England and treat my facts as we mortals mostly do when facts are embarrassing side step them. What best pleased me was to find that soldiers and sailors agreed with me, and not ‘high brows’ only. May, 1918, as you will remember, was a very dark hour. We had come into the war, had been in for a year; but events had not yet taken usout of the well nigh total eclipse flung upon our character by those blighting words, ‘there is such a thing as being too proud to fight.’ The British had been told by their General that they were fighting with their backs to the wall. Since March 23d the tread of the Hun had been coming steadily nearer to Paris. Belleau Wood and Chateau Thierry had not yet struck the true ring from our metal and put into the hands of Foch the one further weapon that he needed. French moral was burning very low and blue. Yet even in such an hour, people apparently American and apparently grown up, were talking against England, our ally. Then and thereafter, even as to day, they talked against her as they had been talking since August, 1914, as I had heard them again and again, indoors and out, as I heard a man one forenoon in a crowd during the earlier years of the war, the miserable years before we waked from our trance of neutrality, while our chosen l…

When West Was West

1928. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. The book begins: Crested with eagle feathers, bronze and lean, festal in beaded buckskin, he leaned against a tree as he played his pipe: no common member of his tribe; a young chief among the Shoshones, by the haughty set of his head and the scorn of his nose. His face of war and hunting, antique as a Pharaoh’s on a tomb, followed the turns of the music he was making, bowed and nodded over it, joined in its ups and downs but always haughty, in spite of its animation. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Neighbors Henceforth

Originally published in 1922. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Safe in the arms of Croesus

Owen Wister 1860 1938 was an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical hero. Wister helped to create the basic Western myths and themes, which were later popularized by radio, television, and movies.

Romney

Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian 1902. Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister’s failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary ‘might have been.’ If only, sighed Wister’s contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence the surprise when James Butler uncovered a substantial fragment of a Philadelphia novel, which Wister intended to call Romney. Here, published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works. Even in its incomplete state nearly fifty thousand words Romney is Wister’s longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister set Romney in Philadelphia called Monopolis in the novel during the 1880s, when, as he saw it, the city was passing from the old to a new order. The hero of the story, Romney, is a man of ‘no social position’ who nonetheless rises to the top because he has superior ability. It is thus a novel about the possibilities for meaningful social change in a democracy. Although, alas, the story breaks off before the birth of Romney, Wister gives us much to savor in the existing thirteen chapters. We are treated to delightful scenes at the Bryn Mawr train station, the Bellevue Hotel, and Independence Square, which yield brilliant insights into life on the Main Line, the power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the insidious effects of political corruption. Wister’s acute analysis in Romney of what differentiates Philadelphia and Boston upper clas*ses is remarkably similar to, but anticipates by more than half a century, the classic study by E. Digby Baltzell in Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia 1979. Like Baltzell, Wister analyzes the urban aristocracy of Boston and Philadelphia, finding in Boston a Puritan drive for achievement and civic service but in Philadelphia a Quaker preference for toleration and moderation, all too often leading to acquiescence and stagnation. Romney is undoubtedly the best fictional portrayal of ‘Gilded Age’ Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister’s vision of old money, aristocratic society gasping its last before the onrushing vulgarity of the nouveaux riches. It is a novel of manners that does for Philadelphia what Edith Wharton and John Marquand have done for New York and Boston.

The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories

Owen Wister 1860 1938 was an American writer of western novels. He studied at the Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and graduated in 1888. At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law. Wister had spent several summers out in the American West and was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of that region. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister’s most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains. This is widely regarded as being the first American western novel. Amongst his other works are: Lin McLean 1897, The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories 1900, Philosophy 4 1903, Lady Baltimore 1906, Mother 1907, Padre Ignacio; or, The Song of Temptation 1911 and A Straight Deal 1920.

The West of Owen Wister

Owen Wister is remembered today almost solely as the author of The Virginian, yet his short stories, dating from the turn of the century, gave us our first real knowledge of the West’s ‘wide, wild farm and ranch community, spotted with remote towns, and veined with infrequent railroads.’ And this West was not merely that of the cowboy, but of the soldier, the seeker, the Indians, the hunter, even the priest. This volume presents six of Wister’s finest stories, chosen to exhibit the less well remembered facets of his talent. Their settings ranging from a mining camp in the Rockies to a northwestern territorial capital to a southwestern desert town, and from a California mission to army posts on the high plains are as varied as the characters and the situations.

The introduction by Robert L. Hough discusses the factors the impelled Wister to write about the West ad his ambivalent feelings about the region, as well as his story telling techniques and artistic goals.

Salvation Gap and Other Western Classics

Owen Wister invented the Western novel with The Virginian, and that work and this collection of stories prove that, although many have gone after him, no one has ever topped him in skill and enduring appeal. Wister saw the story of the West as a collision of centuries, with the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, and the modern world coming together to form a new place and a new people. Wister said of this collection, ‘These stories are about Indians and soldiers and events west of the Missouri. They belong to the past…
but you will find some of those ancient surviving centuries in them if you take my view.’ Here are unforgettable characters: Specimen Jones, the taciturn and capable rider from an unknown past, who has no use for fools and even less for bullies; General Crook and his men, who do the Government’s dirty work on the frontier and get no thanks for it; and unregenerate Rebels and Union veterans in an uneasy frontier political alliance.

The Seven Ages of Washington

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.