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The Virginian
The Virginian
Author: Owen Wister
In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and just, nonetheless he brooks nonsense from no man. O...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812580402
ISBN-10: 0812580400
Publication Date: 10/15/1998
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Forge Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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This one bought for a gift, but the recipient did enjoy the first book--this was our second one we bought.
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I didn't realize that this would be a morality play and a love story and an adventure story, all rolled up into one. It's almost a collection of short stories, connected by the "horseman of the Plains", the Virginian. To a modern reader, the book can be a little preachy, the language a bit old-fashioned, but the honesty and thoughtfulness behind the words is real and enduring. In the few years between Wister's visits to Wyoming, which were the inspiration for this book, and the book's publication, the West that Wister brings to life had all but disappeared. But The Virginian remains a tribute to the beauty, the virtues, and the shortcomings of the era and its people.


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