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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains — Owen Wister

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Owen Wister

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 333 pages

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains is a novel by Owen Wister, set in Wyoming in the late 19th century. It follows a cowboy known as the Virginian, his life on a ranch, and his courtship of an Eastern schoolteacher. A foundational Western, it depicts the American frontier.

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Opening of the book

THE VIRGINIAN

A Horseman Of The Plains

By Owen Wister

To THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Some of these pages you have seen, some you have praised, one stands new-written because you blamed it; and all, my dear critic, beg leave to remind you of their author's changeless admiration.

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Contents

  1. THE VIRGINIAN A Horseman Of The Plains
  2. To THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  3. TO THE READER
  4. THE VIRGINIAN
  5. I. ENTER THE MAN
  6. II. “WHEN YOU CALL ME THAT, SMILE!”
  7. III. STEVE TREATS
  8. IV. DEEP INTO CATTLE LAND
  9. V. ENTER THE WOMAN
  10. VI. EM'LY
  11. VII. THROUGH TWO SNOWS
  12. VIII. THE SINCERE SPINSTER
  13. IX. THE SPINSTER MEETS THE UNKNOWN
  14. X. WHERE FANCY WAS BRED
  15. XI. “YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE ME BEFORE WE GET THROUGH”
  16. XII. QUALITY AND EQUALITY
  17. XIII. THE GAME AND THE NATION—ACT FIRST
  18. XIV. BETWEEN THE ACTS
  19. XV. THE GAME AND THE NATION—ACT SECOND
  20. XVI. THE GAME AND THE NATION—LAST ACT
  21. XVII. SCIPIO MORALIZES
  22. XVIII. “WOULD YOU BE A PARSON?”
  23. XIX. DR. MACBRIDE BEGS PARDON
  24. XX. THE JUDGE IGNORES PARTICULARS
  25. XXI. IN A STATE OF SIN
  26. XXII. “WHAT IS A RUSTLER?”
  27. XXIII. VARIOUS POINTS
  28. XXIV. A LETTER WITH A MORAL
  29. XXV. PROGRESS OF THE LOST DOG
  30. XXVI. BALAAM AND PEDRO

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