Salvation Gap and Other Western Classics FROM THE PUBLISHER
Owen Wister invented the Western novel with The Virginian, and that work and this collection of stories prove that, although many have gone after him, no one has ever topped him in skill and enduring appeal. Wister saw the story of the West as a collision of centuries, with the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, and the modern world coming together to form a new place and a new people. Wister said of this collection, "These stories are about Indians and soldiers and events west of the Missouri. They belong to the past ... but you will find some of those ancient surviving centuries in them if you take my view."
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Collection of short stories by Owen Wister who invented the Western.
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Wister, an Easterner who moved to the West, invented the Western novel with . This collection of stories deserves to be read for Wister's descriptions of interracial contact, his handling of military-Indian conflict, and his characterization of frontier picaro Specimen Jones. Includes a new introduction, but lacks a subject index. Reprinted from the original 1896 edition, titled , by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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