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Owen Wister and the West . Oklahoma Western Biographies Series. By Gary Scharnhorst. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. xxxi + 244 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliographical essay, index. $24.95.) Owen Wister’s 1902 novel, The Virginian, carved an immense swath through American popular culture. His portrait of the strong but gentle cowboy (known only as “the Virginian”) served as a prototype for western heroes that dominated film, novels, stories, and radio and television series for more than a half-century. Wister (1860–1938) was an effete easterner, a Harvard graduate whose disappointments in a budding musical career and early literary efforts led to a nervous breakdown. Dr. Weir Mitchell, the famous specialist in such disorders, prescribed … dpayne{at}mail.smu.edu
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