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Old 05-10-2015, 07:55 PM   #23
Hamlet53
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
Hamlet, I meant to provide the Wikipedia link, but I forgot. So here it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wister

If you disagree with the contentions that Wister was the father of the Western and that The Virginian was the first cowboy novel, please cite with links your examples!
Happy to attempt to oblige.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western...s.E2.80.931900

If you don't agree that's fine. You are much more familiar with the genre than I. What's maybe funny is that I first got my belief from the John Wayne film The Shootist.
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