In the Wyoming town of Medicine Bow, a rivalry grows between the amoral Trampas and a cowboy known only as The Virginian. The rivalry grows with time until conflict betwen the two is inevitable. Owen Wister’s classic novel of the old West was one of the first western novels to rise above the status of penny dime novels, paving the way for authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour.
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"Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards. ... Owen Wister was born on July 14, 1860, in Germantown, a well-known neighborhood in the northwestern part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Owen Jones Wister, was a wealthy physician, one of a long line of Wisters raised at the storied Belfield estate in Germantown." - from Wikipedia
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