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Owen Wister

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Noun1.Owen Wister - United States writer (1860-1938)Owen Wister - United States writer (1860-1938)    


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The first western novel was The Virginian - written by Owen Wister and published in 1902.
The cowboys and other pioneers who populate the works of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Bret Hart, and Owen Wister emerged within a social milieu in which male bonds were unburdened by contemporary stigmas of homosexuality.
BEFORE KIPLING BROUGHT JANE AUSTEN into the trenches of World War I, Owen Wister took her to the American West in his novel The Virginian (1902).
 
 
 
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