The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512174465)

Certain of the newspapers, when this book was first announced, made a mistake most natural upon seeing the sub-title as it then stood, A TALE OF SUNDRY ADVENTURES. "This sounds like a historical novel," said one of them, meaning (I take it) a colonial romance. As it now stands, the title will scarce lead to such interpretation; yet none the less is this book historical-quite as much so as any colonial romance. Indeed, when you look at the root of the matter, it is a colonial romance. For Wyoming between 1874 and 1890 was a colony as wild as was Virginia one hundred years earlier. As wild, with a scantier population, and the same primitive joys and dangers. There were, to be sure, not so many Chippendale settees.

Author: Owen Wister
ISBN-10: 1512174467
ISBN-13: 9781512174465
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2015
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 21
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 723 / Virginian