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The Virginian

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First published
1902
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  1. 01 - To Theodore Roosevelt; To the Reader; Ch 01 - Enter the Man

    19:07

  2. 02 - Ch 02 - "When You Call Me That, Smile!"

    37:18

  3. 03 - Ch 03 - Steve Treats

    20:03

  4. 04 - Ch 04 - Deep into Cattle Land; Ch 05 - Enter the Woman

    37:25

  5. 05 - Ch 06 - Em'ly

    33:55

  6. 06 - Ch 07 - Through Two Snows; Ch 08 - The Sincere Spinster; Ch 09 - The Spinster Meets the Unknown

    35:46

  7. 07 - Ch 10 - Where Fancy Was Bred

    25:43

  8. 08 - Ch 11 - "You're Going To Love Me Before We Get Through"

    22:10

  9. 09 - Ch 12 - Quality and Equality; Ch 13 - The Game and the Nation - Act First

    34:12

  10. 10 - Ch 14 - Between the Acts; Ch 15 - The Game and the Nation - Act Second

    27:36

  11. 11 - Ch 16 - The Game and the Nation - Last Act

    49:11

  12. 12 - Ch 17 - Scipio Moralizes; Ch 18 - "Would You Be a Parson?"

    32:34

  13. 13 - Ch 19 - Dr. MacBride Begs Pardon; Ch 20 - The Judge Ignores Particulars

    21:38

  14. 14 - Ch 21 - In a State of Sin

    29:58

  15. 15 - Ch 22 - "What is a Rustler?"

    19:28

  16. 16 - Ch 23 - Various Points; Ch 24 - A Letter With a Moral

    29:36

  17. 17 - Ch 25 - Progress of the Lost Dog

    28:35

  18. 18 - Ch 26 - Balaam and Pedro

    37:28

  19. 19 - Ch 27 - Grandmother Stark (Part 1)

    34:50

  20. 20 - Ch 27 - Grandmother Stark (Part 2)

    32:34

  21. 21 - Ch 28 - No Dream to Wake From; Ch 29 - Word to Bennington

    34:37

  22. 22 - Ch 30 - A Stable on the Flat; Ch 31 - The Cottonwoods

    47:10

  23. 23 - Ch 32 - Superstition Trail

    37:17

  24. 24 - Ch 33 - The Spinster Loses Some Sleep; Ch 34 - "To Fit Her Finger"

    37:40

  25. 25 - Ch 35 - With Malice Aforethought (Part 1)

    28:06

  26. 26 - Ch 35 - With Malice Aforethought (Part 2)

    38:18

  27. 27 - Ch 36 - At Dunbarton

    37:49

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Owen Wister set the pattern for nearly every cowboy story that followed. On a Wyoming cattle ranch in the 1880s, a soft-spoken ranch hand known only as the Virginian faces down the treacherous Trampas, courts a schoolteacher newly arrived from Vermont, and is forced into choices that test his private code, including the hanging of a man he once called a friend. Published in 1902, the novel gave American fiction its strong, silent hero and the line, when you call me that, smile. Wister drew on his own travels through the West to render a frontier already vanishing. It remains the founding work of the Western as a serious literary form. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Owen Wister

Owen Wister was an American writer. His novel The Virginian, published in 1902, helped create the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and built Wister's reputation as the "father of Western fiction."

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First published
1902
Reading time
About 9 hours
Pages
327
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
MichelleHarris