THE ATHENAEUMThe VirginianOwen Wister
Adventure
The Virginian
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA cowboy known only as the Virginian, a schoolteacher from Vermont, and the railway bringing the East to Wyoming. Wister’s novel of 1902 more or less invented the western, including the line “When you call me that, smile!” It begins with the narrator stepping off a train at Medicine Bow.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 8 hr 45 min
- Where to find it
- The Signal House, on the night railway
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1298. In the public domain in the United States.