Its the birthday of the man who wrote the first big cowboy novel, Owen Wister, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania (1860). He went to Harvard, studied music in Paris, and became a lawyer in Philadelphia. He became ill and needed to rest for the summer, and went to Wyoming and became fascinated by the Old West. He used that fascination to write The Virginian, which made the cowboy into an American literary hero and set the standard for all Western novels to come. It also made famous the line, When you call me that, smile.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:56:36 +0000
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