The Cowboy Legend

Informationen zum Autor John Jennings is a retired associate professor in the Department of History at Trent University, former member of the Canadian Equestrian Team, and former member for Ontario on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He has written extensively on the North West Mounted Police, Aboriginal-European relations in the Canadian and American wests, and the role of the canoe in Canadian history and culture. Klappentext Building on Jean Johnson's work, The Cowboy Legend details the evidence that Everett Johnson was the prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. With an impressive range of scholarship and archival research, Jennings melds this realistic study of the cowboy frontier with an intriguing account of Wister's creation of the cowboy mystique. Zusammenfassung 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.

Autorentext

John Jennings is a retired associate professor in the Department of History at Trent University, former member of the Canadian Equestrian Team, and currently the member for Ontario on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He has written extensively on the North West Mounted Police, Aboriginal-European relations in the Canadian and American wests, and the role of the canoe in Canadian history and culture.

Klappentext

Building on Jean Johnson's work, The Cowboy Legend details the evidence that Everett Johnson was the prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. With an impressive range of scholarship and archival research, Jennings melds this realistic study of the cowboy frontier with an intriguing account of Wister's creation of the cowboy mystique.

Zusammenfassung
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.