December 13, 2002
The Travelin' Western
The cowboy western has always wandered beyond American borders.
Before it could head overseas, however, it got its start by adapting influences
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from abroad. Owen Wister, author of the first formula western novel, The Virginian (1902), drew primarily from two
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