Owen Wister was an American writer of western novels. Owen Wister was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Owen Jones Wister, was a wealthy physician. His mother, Sarah Butler Wister, was the daughter of actress Fanny Kemble. He briefly attended schools in Switzerland and Britain, and later studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University, … Wikipedia
Wister and his predecessor James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) created the basic Western myths and themes, which were later popularized by such writers as Zane Grey and Max Brand. www.kirjasto.sci.fi/owister.htm
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Owen Wister Brief life of a Western mythmaker: 1860-1938 by Castle Freeman, Jr. One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains , a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070282.html
(Pieter Cornelis), 1870-1943 Bouton, John Bell Boutwell, George S., 1818-1905 Bouvier, Alexis, 1836-1892 Bouvier, Jean Baptiste, 1783-1854 Bowen, Sue Petigru, 1824-1875 Bower, B. M., 1871-1940 Sinclair, B. M. www.gutenberg.org/author/O
Inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1976. "The Virginian" is considered the first Western novel. Grandson of stage actress Fanny Kemble. www.imdb.com/name/nm0936644/
