The cowboy legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American frontier (The west series ; #7)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Before Owen Wister's publication of "The Virginian" in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel. This book details the evidence that Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's… in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. 2015.
Title Details
ISBN
9781552385289
Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Copyright Date
2015
Book number
2423720
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
John Lane
Duration
23 hours 20 minutes 4 seconds
Audio producer
CNIB, 2017.