Reviews for The Virginian
Review - Virginian, The
A fun read, although it wanders some and the western lingo sometimes is hard sloggin'. I found myself rooting for the main characters.
Reviewed by Roger on 2019-03-15 06:17:52
The Virginianby Owen Wister | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Western" |
| Pages: | 506 |
| Year of Publication: | 1902 |
| Date Read: | 11/03/1996 |
| Notes: | Subtitle: A Horseman of the Plains. The writer meets a chivalrous and courageous cowboy known only as “the Virginian” who works as the foreman of a cattle ranch in the Wyoming territory during the 1880s. The Virginian meets and falls immediately in love with Molly, a schoolteacher from Vermont who travels west to avoid having to marry a suitable, but unloved, man back home. Molly loves the cowboy, but is afraid of what her family back home will think. One day she finds him shot and almost dead in the wild. She manages to bring him back to her cabin and nurse him back to health. She can no longer deny her love, even after she finds out that he was the leader of a posse who hung rustlers, and even after he had to defend himself in a gun fight on their wedding night. COMMENTS — A ground-breaking book. It contains the first “showdown” in fiction, it enshrined the cowboy as an icon of popular culture, and it gave us the expression, “When ya’ call me that, smile.” |
| My Rating: | 9 |