Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cheyenne Indians Languages : en Pages : 422
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A boy's adventures start with a trapper and hunter in the Western wilderness and continue taking him into wild places and among unusual people.
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781295534722 Category : Languages : en Pages : 400
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Author: Owen Wister Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cattle stealing Languages : en Pages : 548
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Owen Wister was the first to put that most popular of all our folk-heroes, the American cowboy, into fiction. The first of its kind, Wister's The Virginian is a prototypical western novel that has inspired readers and authors for over a century. Detailing the exploits of a gunslinger known solely as the Virginian, Wister's novel introduced readers to a number of western motifs that are taken for granted in western fiction today. This is a must-read for any fan of the western genre. - Amazon.
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780259441410 Category : Languages : en Pages : 404
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Excerpt from The Horsemen of the Plains: A Story of the Great Cheyenne War A boy sat in a little room in the frontier town of Omaha. It was a poor and cheap place. A flimsy table stood in one corner, an equally flimsy bed in another, and one or two pictures from newspapers were tacked on the bare, pine walls. There was no carpet on the floor. Nothing showed quality, except a rifle that lay across the foot of the bed. The weapon was a fine breech-loader, advanced in type for the time, and a skilful hand had carved initials and several graceful little decorations on the stock. Any one would surmise that it was highly prized by its owner. The boy himself was a match for his rifle, a stalwart youth, seventeen years old, with the stat ure and strength of a man. His brown hair, cut short, curled just a little, and his blue eyes were set wide apart, as they usually are in those of large minds. His face was brown with tan, but, at the edge of the collar, his fair white skin showed. A comely boy, and a strong and brave one, as the most casual observer would have inferred. But he was dressed poorly, and the look upon his face, just now, was not cheerful, although his was a nature disposed to see the better side of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Owen Wister Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101661593 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 416
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Owen Wister's powerful story of the silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil embodies one of the most enduring themes in American mythology. Set in the vast Wyoming territory, The Virginian (1902) captures both the grandeur and the loneliness of the frontier experience, brilliantly evoking the tension between the romantic freedom of the great, untamed landscape and mankind's deep-seated desire for community and social order. Wister brings to life the honesty and rough justice that ruled the range and the civilizing influence of determined women in frontier settlements that imposed a sense of society on an unruly population. For Wister, the West tested a man's true worth. His hero-influenced by those of Sir Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper-is a man who lives by the classic code of chivalry, ruled by quiet courage and a deeply felt sense of honor.
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Author: Owen Wister
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Author: Owen Wister