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    Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for...
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  • based on The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains, a 1902 Western novel by Owen Wister that Hollywood had previously adapted for movies. Percy Faith composed...
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  • The Virginian(s) may refer to: The Virginian (novel), a 1902 novel by Owen Wister The Virginian (play), a 1903 stage play The Virginian (1914 film), a...
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    The Virginian (novel) (category Novels by Owen Wister)
    Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains) is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister (1860–1938), set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. It describes...
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  • Owen Wister Award is an annual award from the Western Writers of America given to lifelong contributions to the field of Western literature. Named for...
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  • biography by Owen Wister, depicting his long acquaintance with Theodore Roosevelt, a Harvard classmate. It was published in 1930. Wister, Owen (1930). Roosevelt:...
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  • the Open was a verse collection published by in 1902 American author Owen Wister. The book was a collaboration with the artist Frederic Remington, the...
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  • SS Owen Wister was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Owen Wister, an American writer and historian, considered...
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    novel The Virginian by Owen Wister. The film was adapted from the successful 1903–04 theatre play The Virginian, on which Wister had collaborated with...
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    oldest gentlemen's clubs. Notable members have included George Meade, Owen Wister, and many members of the Du Pont and Biddle families. The club's founders...
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  • The Owen Wister Review is the University of Wyoming's annual art and literature magazine produced through the Student Media department, which publishes...
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    based on the 1902 novel The Virginian by Owen Wister and adapted from the popular 1904 theatrical play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke...
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  • Russell Lowell, Richard Henry (Two Years Before the Mast) Dana, Novelist Owen Wister, John Jay Chapman." A 1940 Time article said: The Pork had as members...
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    Texas Press, 2014). Vorpahl, Ben Merchant, ed. My dear Wister: The Frederic Remington–Owen Wister Letters (Palo Alto, Calif.: American West, 1972). White...
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  • Britton. Based on the 1902 Owen Wister novel of the same name, the film was adapted from the popular 1904 theatrical play Wister had collaborated on with...
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  • by Owen Wister. It is a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. It was written for the Beacon Biographies Series published by Small, Maynard & Company. Wister took...
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  • general Owen Wister (1860–1938), American author Wister, Oklahoma Wister, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wister station, a SEPTA station Lake Wister, in Oklahoma...
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    role of Fritz, the eldest brother. The New Swiss Family Robinson by Owen Wister (1882). Novels portal The Admirable Crichton Cast Away The Coral Island...
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    a young boy whose daydreams put him in the American Old West of the Owen Wister novel The Virginian. It filmed June 26–30, 2014, near Austin, Texas,...
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    (1935–2019) Harry Whittington (1915–1989) G. Clifton Wisler (1950–2006) Owen Wister (1860–1938) Richard Wormser (1908–1977) S. Craig Zahler (born 1973) Alter...
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    own shows, starting in 1882 with a production of Dido and Aeneas by Owen Wister. The event was interrupted for 2 years during each of the World Wars...
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    Curse of Capistrano (1919). Popularity grew with the publication of Owen Wister's novel The Virginian (1902) and especially Zane Grey's Riders of the...
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    decorative tile. It is named for the civic leader Mary Channing Wister, the wife of Owen Wister. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in...
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  • stories, many of which appeared in The Des Moines Register. His uncle, Owen Wister, authored the 1902 novel The Virginian, which popularized the genre of...
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  • adaptation is first mentioned in the 1893 journal of Owen Wister, author of The Virginian. Through Wister's influence, the melody and lyrics were first published...
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  • don't consider myself as a western writer, in the sense that Zane Grey, Owen Wister, Jack Schaefer, or Louis L'Amour are western writers." From the book...
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    political advice. The exhausted president commented to his friend, author Owen Wister, after she interrupted their conversation for the third time and he threatened...
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  • (Litt.D.) from the University of New Mexico in 1990. He was awarded the Owen Wister Award in 2008 for "Outstanding Contributions to the American West." Hillerman...
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    The Virginian by the American author Owen Wister (1860–1938) and set in Wyoming. The play was composed by Wister and playwright Kirke La Shelle, who also...
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    Kent 1950: Never a Dull Moment – Jed 1950: The Magnificent Yankee – Owen Wister / Narrator 1951: The Unknown Man – Wayne Kellwin 1952: Washington Story...
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