Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East

In what remains the only full-length biography of Owen Wister (1860-1938), Darwin Payne details the life of...
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Author: Darwin Payne
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Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East by Payne, Darwin

Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East

$56.50

Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East

$56.50
Author: Darwin Payne
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In what remains the only full-length biography of Owen Wister (1860-1938), Darwin Payne details the life of the man who created the popular image of the cowboy that dominated American culture from the early 1900s to the 1960s. Payne follows Wister from his privileged childhood in Philadelphia, to his undergraduate days at Harvard, to his musical studies in Europe, to his "discovery" of the West, and through his maturation as an individual and a writer. Payne draws on Wister's own voluminous papers and writings in delineating, for the first time, the real-life incident that prompted Wister to invent the character of "the Virginian," and in presenting the actual individual whom the famous character most closely resembles. Payne also provides intimate details about Wister's surprising friendships with such prominent American figures as Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean Howells, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Frederic Remington, and John Jay Chapman.

Author: Darwin Payne
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 10/01/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.34w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780803237698

About the Author
Darwin Payne is professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University and the author of several books, including Quest for Justice: Louis A. Bedford Jr. and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas and Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes.

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