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“Set in Wyoming between 1874 and 1890 but published in 1902, Owen Wister’s The Virginian demonstrates the progress the nation had made toward reunion after the Civil War. Readers would have recognized the stereotype Wister deployed—the Virginian as a cool, haughty, natural aristocrat—hardly an all-American type. Yet when relocated to the wide-open West and transformed from cavalier to cowboy, the novel's proud and prickly Southern protagonist, old enough to have fought for the Confederacy, could not only be embraced as a hero but hailed as an avatar of the American character.” --National Humanities Center
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