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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I just finished The Virginian by Owen Wister. For all intents and purposes, this book can be said to have spawned the Western (cowboy) genre. I really enjoyed it, but it required me to slow down considerably while reading it--language and phrasing have changed considerably since the late 1800's early 1900's.
But once I adjusted to the writing style, it became quite captivating... and it romantically (while still somewhat accurately) portrayed almost every aspect of the "cow-boy" of the American West: every hard-workin', card-playin', straight-shootin', tall-tale tellin', rustler-hatin', woman-lovin', code-of-the-west honorin' ounce of him.
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Wister's style does take adjustments, but it's a lovely story. It also spawned several movies, and nine seasons of a TV series by the same name starring James Drury.
And yes, it's arguably the progenitor for the whole Western genre.
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Dennis