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The Cowboy Legend
John Jennings
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Description for The Cowboy Legend
Paperback. Before Owen Wister's publication of "The Virginian" in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel. This title details the evidence that Everett Johnson a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, this image of the cowboy. Soon after its publication, Wister sent a copy, inscribed To the hero from the author, to Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of ... Read more
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, this image of the cowboy. Soon after its publication, Wister sent a copy, inscribed To the hero from the author, to Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
673 g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Calgary, Canada
ISBN
9781552385289
SKU
V9781552385289
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About John Jennings
John Jennings is a retired associate professor in the Department of History at Trent University, former member of the Canadian Equestrian Team, and former member for Ontario on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He has written extensively on the North West Mounted Police, Aboriginal-European relations in the Canadian and American wests, and the role of the canoe ... Read more
Reviews for The Cowboy Legend
This book is unique... John Jennings brings a new dimension to what has become an ongoing debate about the nature of two parallel ranching traditions... Jennings research is impressive, involving several archival collections and a wide range of other primary and secondary sources... The narrative is enlivened by Jennings very readable prose, his propensity to debunk myths, and his interesting ... Read more