Publisher description for The Virginian : a horseman of the plains / Owen Wister.
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Set in the vast Wyoming territory, this masterpiece helped establish the code of the West and its stereotypical characters: the genteel but brave, white-hatted cowboy, the pretty spinster from back East, and villains beyond redemption. The novel is also on record for incorporating the first known "shootout" in American literature.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Cowboys -- Fiction.
Ranch life -- Wyoming -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Women teachers -- Fiction.
Cattle stealing -- Fiction.
Vigilantes -- Fiction.