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The Virginian
A Horseman of the Plains
Written by Owen Wister
Illustrator Arthur I. Keller
Publisher The Macmillan Company
Published 1902
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains ... describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels, though modern scholars debate this. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour and several others. The novel was adapted from several short stories published in Harper's Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post between Nov 1893 and May 1902. The novel was adapted into a play in 1904 -from Wikipedia
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