The Virginian and Other Westerns by Owen Wister

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains eighteen western stories by Owen Wister. THE VIRGINIAN, Wister's best-known work, is a heavily fictionalized story of the Johnson County War in 1890s Wyoming. The story recounts the conflicts over cattle theft between large and small ranchers in the new, sparsely-settled state. The novel takes the side of the large ranchers, and depicts lynchings as frontier justice, meted out by the hero as a necessary part of maintaining law and order. This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Novels The Virginian Lin McLean Short Stories A Kinsman of Red Cloud A Pilgrim on the Gila Hank’s Woman La Tinaja Bonita Little Big Horn Medicine Napoleon Shave-Tail Padre Ignazio Salvation Gap Sharon’s Choice Specimen Jones The General’s Bluff The Jimmyjohn Boss The Promised Land The Second Missouri Compromise The Serenade at Siskiyou Twenty Minutes for Refreshments