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The Virginian

by Owen Wister

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An 1902 novel following a charismatic, tight-lipped cowboy whose actions speak louder than his words. Wildly popular with readers, it is credited with establishing the defining parameters of the Western as a genre and celebrated rugged individualism and frontier spirit at the turn of the twentieth century.

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