The Virginian

Owen Wister

⏱ 8 minAdventure classic

A soft-spoken, deadly cowboy rides through the great myth of 1880s Wyoming, warns a villain to smile when he calls him that, courts a New England schoolteacher, and faces down his enemy in a walk-down gunfight at sunset. Wister's founding novel of the American Western.

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