{"product_id":"owen-wister-chronicler-of-the-west-gentleman-of-the-east-9780803237698","title":"Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East","description":"In what remains the only full-length biography of Owen Wister (1860-1938), Darwin Payne details the life of the man who created the popular image of the cowboy that dominated American culture from the early 1900s to the 1960s. Payne follows Wister from his privileged childhood in Philadelphia, to his undergraduate days at Harvard, to his musical studies in Europe, to his \"discovery\" of the West, and through his maturation as an individual and a writer. Payne draws on Wister's own voluminous papers and writings in delineating, for the first time, the real-life incident that prompted Wister to invent the character of \"the Virginian,\" and in presenting the actual individual whom the famous character most closely resembles. Payne also provides intimate details about Wister's surprising friendships with such prominent American figures as Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean Howells, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Frederic Remington, and John Jay Chapman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darwin Payne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.34w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803237698\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDarwin Payne is professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University and the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eQuest for Justice: Louis A. Bedford Jr. and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIndomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40138427105395,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_78f1eb65-6ad3-4d90-8402-3918516fa8b9.jpg?v=1654349611","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/owen-wister-chronicler-of-the-west-gentleman-of-the-east-9780803237698","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}