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The Virginian (Signet Classics) (100th Edition) by Owen (. New Afterword By Max Evans ). Wister, Max Evans (Introduction) Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-451-52832-8 / 0451528328 ISBN-13: 978-0-451-52832-2 / 9780451528322 First published in 1902, Owen Wister’s “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains” is a genre-defining work, arguably the first western novel, in which the life of the cowboy of the Old West is romanticized. A highly fictionalized account of the Johnson County War, a dispute in 1890s Wyoming between l |