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The Virginian (otherwise titled The Virginian A Horseman of the Plains) is a 1902 novel set in the Wild West by the American author Owen Wister. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming and was the first true western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others.The Virginian is a ranch hand at the Sunk Creek Ranch, located outside of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. His nickname is Jeff and he is always referred to as the Virginian. He is described as a tall, dark, slim young giant, with a deep personality. At first, he is only a cowboy, but halfway through the book, he is signed on as the full-time foreman. He is the Judge's most trusted worker. Several times throughout the book, he is offered the chance to run down his enemy, Trampas, behind his back, but each time he refuses the temptation. It is made clear that he will not use his official position as foreman to crush any of his employees. One of the main plots is the Virginian's ongoing romance with the newly appointed schoolmarm of Medicine Bow, Miss Molly Stark Wood. Being from the East, she is not used to the wild West, and the Virginian is a perfect gentleman to her, intending to make her "love him before we get through."
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This is such an enjoyable read! It is totally unhurried, kinda mozies along like a couple of cowpokes following the herd. The only thing which will turn off some readers, especially those who have little literary experience or knowledge of good literature, is the slightly heightened language the author uses. This was written over a hundred years ago and is about a time over 140 years ago. But it is a wonderful piece of writing.Owen Wister, the author, has complete command of the English language as evidenced by his use of a narrator's voice which comes through loud and clear and easily, but some sentence structures will be unfamiliar to the least educated readers.
Probably the most important and salient characteristic of the language is Wister's masterful use of dialogue. He captures the language, vocabulary, tempo, and idioms of the time and place precisely and masterfully. Then, too, he finds ways to capture the beauty, vastness, loneliness, and isolation of the Wyoming cow country and the area somewhere around the Tetons. I found myself wanting to go there then, not now but then. I think it is probably all gone now, but he brings it to us vividly and moodily with his descriptive skills woven into the narration. He makes the reader understand and re-experience what it was like to ride 100 miles over three days through the vastness of that area, and you will love it.
His characterizations are spot on. He develops his hero with precision and patience. His villains are never overdone, but truly deserve whatever they get. Even the women characters are spectacularly drawn, and as different as people really are. The narrator who begins as a neophyte and "city-fied" greenhorn, develops throughout the novel into a man both sophisticated in the ways of the world outside of the old west, and a finely and patiently trained outdoorsman and cowboy.
This is a book, the outcome of which is easy to predict, but the ride through the lives and times and territories of the west from Wyoming to Idaho is one which will not leave the reader with saddle sores...only a smile and an easy feeling about life and justice and love and courage and loyalty and trust. Finally, the life lessons in all these episodes will hold us all in good stead.
I am glad I missed this when I was growing up as I am not sure I would have had the patience to read it. But it is a whole lot easier to read and follow and excite the reader than Austen and Hardy and the Brontes, whom I also love, but just wish, as the hero says when he is discussing the books the heroine is trying to get him to read: I want to read something that is "about" something. He uses Shakespeares Henry plays as examples and quotes some of them to demonstrate what he means.
Well, this book is about something. It is well worth your time. You might find it a wonderful book to read to an eight or nine year old boy...or girl.
I am only a little ashamed to let eveyone know that this is a book I had not read over my 70 years of being able to read. My majors in English and American literature seem to have included a whole passle of western writers the professors thought were beneath examination. They were wrong.
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The Virginian A Horseman Of The Plains By Owen Wister Illustrated Owen Wister 9781534946668 Books Reviews
If you only ever read one American western novel consider making it this one. Sure, Owen Wister was a Harvard lawyer based in Philadelphia whose western experience consisted of a few summers spent on Wyoming ranches. Sure, Wister wrote the book in 1902 while sitting in the members' library of the Philadelphia Club.
But, this is the first, and arguably best, true western novel. Everything before was short stories, pulp, and dime novels. Everything after, (Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour), grows from "The Virginian".
This is where "smile when you say that", (actually, "When you call me that, [sonofab***h], smile"), comes from. We follow the strong, silent, noble Virginian as he struggles with the villainous gambler Trampas, as he romances the pretty school marm Molly, and as he struggles with the hanging of a convicted cattle thief who was also his friend. I'm sorry, but didn't I just sum up every western plot, ever?
But here's the best part. This is not just of some historical interest and is not just a curiosity. The book is well written. It's narrated from the point of view of a tenderfoot who finds himself more or less in the Virginian's care. As this tenderfoot learns the ways of the west, we do too. (Cowboys heading out on the trail for a few days always packed a couple of tin cans of stewed tomatoes. They were food, but also emergency water.) Simple scenes, like finding a place to eat and sleep in a crowded western town, feel authentic and sort of exciting. This is in many ways a hundred year old travel memoir of a place that will never exist again.
The writing is just slightly formal, but perfectly accessible. Wister had an eye for detail and when action comes up he easily handles pace and suspense. He can be a bit moony and romantic, but even that is in the now-honored style of the "rueful tenderfoot".
I read this as a freebie download on a Touch. It is well formatted, free of errors, and perfectly readable. I sort of downloaded it as a lark, mostly because it was free, and was just so pleasantly surprised to find that the book has not only aged well, but still towers above any other similar books. A great find.
This is such an enjoyable read! It is totally unhurried, kinda mozies along like a couple of cowpokes following the herd. The only thing which will turn off some readers, especially those who have little literary experience or knowledge of good literature, is the slightly heightened language the author uses. This was written over a hundred years ago and is about a time over 140 years ago. But it is a wonderful piece of writing.
Owen Wister, the author, has complete command of the English language as evidenced by his use of a narrator's voice which comes through loud and clear and easily, but some sentence structures will be unfamiliar to the least educated readers.
Probably the most important and salient characteristic of the language is Wister's masterful use of dialogue. He captures the language, vocabulary, tempo, and idioms of the time and place precisely and masterfully. Then, too, he finds ways to capture the beauty, vastness, loneliness, and isolation of the Wyoming cow country and the area somewhere around the Tetons. I found myself wanting to go there then, not now but then. I think it is probably all gone now, but he brings it to us vividly and moodily with his descriptive skills woven into the narration. He makes the reader understand and re-experience what it was like to ride 100 miles over three days through the vastness of that area, and you will love it.
His characterizations are spot on. He develops his hero with precision and patience. His villains are never overdone, but truly deserve whatever they get. Even the women characters are spectacularly drawn, and as different as people really are. The narrator who begins as a neophyte and "city-fied" greenhorn, develops throughout the novel into a man both sophisticated in the ways of the world outside of the old west, and a finely and patiently trained outdoorsman and cowboy.
This is a book, the outcome of which is easy to predict, but the ride through the lives and times and territories of the west from Wyoming to Idaho is one which will not leave the reader with saddle sores...only a smile and an easy feeling about life and justice and love and courage and loyalty and trust. Finally, the life lessons in all these episodes will hold us all in good stead.
I am glad I missed this when I was growing up as I am not sure I would have had the patience to read it. But it is a whole lot easier to read and follow and excite the reader than Austen and Hardy and the Brontes, whom I also love, but just wish, as the hero says when he is discussing the books the heroine is trying to get him to read I want to read something that is "about" something. He uses Shakespeares Henry plays as examples and quotes some of them to demonstrate what he means.
Well, this book is about something. It is well worth your time. You might find it a wonderful book to read to an eight or nine year old boy...or girl.
I am only a little ashamed to let eveyone know that this is a book I had not read over my 70 years of being able to read. My majors in English and American literature seem to have included a whole passle of western writers the professors thought were beneath examination. They were wrong.
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