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The cowboy legend : Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American frontier
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ISBN: 1552387526 1552385299 1552385280 Year: 2015 Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press,

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Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel. This title details the evidence that Everett Johnson a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy.


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Cowboy classics : the roots of the American western in the epic tradition
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ISBN: 1474422055 147440247X 1474402461 1474415164 Year: 2016 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Cowboy Classics looks at the surprisingly close connection between Western film and Greek and Roman epic, each of which focuses on a mythic-historical period from the past where our societal notions of what constitutes heroism, masculinity, and honor were first forged.


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Sozialistische Cowboys : der Wilde Westen Ostdeutschlands
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ISBN: 9783518125281 3518125281 Year: 2008 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp,

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