#Owen Wister

[boydswan]

The Virginian (1929) dir. Victor Fleming

#the virginian #the virginian 1929 #gary cooper #walter huston #classicfilmsource #mine #victor fleming #<3 #owen wister

[inlovewithquotes]

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader.

-The Virginian

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #life quotes #owen wister #the virginian #classics #western classics

[mlschmitt]

“I expect in many growed-up men you'd call sensible there's a little boy sleepin'—the little kid they onced was—that still keeps his fear of the dark. You mentioned the dark yourself yesterday. Well, this experience has woke up that kid in me, and blamed if I can coax the little cuss to go to sleep again! I keep a-telling him daylight will sure come, but he keeps a-crying and holding on to me.”

The Virginian - Owen Wister

#quotes #reading #the virginian #Owen wister #western #books #classic books #serial reader

[iphigeniarising]

Owen Wister, The Virginian

#bookblr #iphi.post #litblr #booklr #words words words #the virginian #owen wister

[johnnyappleseede]

“The Dragon of Wantley; His Rise His Voracity & His Downfall” by Owen Wister, pub. 1892 by J.B. Lippincott Company

The fifth oldest book I own

#old books #rare books #medieval literature #romance #dragon of wantley #Owen Wister

[thebeautifulbook]

THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY: HIS TALE by Owen Wister. (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1903) Illustrations by John Stewardson.

source

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #vintage books #illustrated book #children’s book #victorian era #book design #dragon

[lincolnlongwool]

TNT 📺 ’THE VIRGINIAN’ 2000

based on the classic western novel by Owen Wister

#bill pullman #billpullman #the virginian

[docholligay]

And that's the episode

I'm not going to spoil myself! If you enjoyed this, please make sure to thank @elleskinner-justart for letting me finish out the ep! For myself I have to say I thought this show has a lot of promise! I love revenge stories, I love the allusions to the western, and the way all that ties into the samurai movie, I love how she is such an idiot, and we still don't have her name! Which also goes back to the fucking western! Like, all the way back to Owen Wister's The Virginian! (Arguably the first actual Western Novel and the basis for many Western genre beats we are familiar with today. It literally is the first fictional 'shootout at high noon' One of my picks for "American Novels to Know")

Anyway also tell me if you liked this! Comment and reblog!

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#Doc watches Blue Eye Samurai #Blue Eye Samurai Episode 1

[hallowedlore]

I don’t know if you’re serious about the book thing but 🙈 The Virginian by Owen Wister. It’s considered the first true modern Western. But it was written by a rich Easterner who used it to romanticize rugged individualism and manhood. It’s not very well written (many of the chapters are short stories that were then compiled and expanded into a novel.

totally serious, I love that you took the time to drop by! <3

in fact you are uncannily on point, that IS the exact opposite of my tastes in literature 😅 I hereby swear I will stay clear, & my thanks for the warning!

to make this ask meme a tad more interactive, here's a positive rec for this genre: My Name Is Nobody, the movie with Henry Fonda and Terence Hill. it is a beautifully written narrative about the shift from american westerns to spaghetti westerns—superbly acted, with the best movie music of that decade—funnier than any comedy has ever been—ruthless in its commentary on rugged individualism and manhood—and, frankly, gay as hell in both symbolism and... visuals.

#writersine #anti rec me a book #this was SO fun tysm!!!!

[moniquill]

[gregarnott]

When this picture was taken, likely in early September of 1873, these three men were the most famous Westerners alive. Seated on the right is Buffalo Bill Cody, who earned his name as the greatest buffalo hunter alive before rising to fame as a scout for the United States Army. Across the table sits Wild Bill Hickok, the deadliest gunslinger of his day and perhaps the most fabled lawman in American history. And behind these two men, with his right hand resting familiarly on Wild Bill's shoulder, stands Texas Jack Omohundro.

Omohundro wasn't a buffalo hunter or a lawman in Kansas cow towns. Texas Jack was a cowboy. The Earl of Dunraven, who hunted with both Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill, wrote:

"Buffalo Bill had always been in Government employ as a scout, but Texas Jack had been a cowboy, one of the old-time breed of men who drove herds of cattle from way down South to Northern markets for weeks and months, through a country infested by Indians and white cattle thieves."

When these three men toured as The Scouts of the Plains, audiences who rushed to their local theaters to catch a glimpse of their heroes were gladly spending their hard-earned money to see the West's most famous scout, its most famous lawman, and its most famous cowboy together on stage. They were so famous that nearly 150 years after they posed for this picture, they still shape our stories of the American West. Buffalo Bill became the most famous American, and perhaps the most famous person full stop, during his own lifetime. His Wild West show performed before thousands on both sides of the Atlantic, shaping the public perception of the West in his own image forever. Wild Bill was struck down by an assassin's bullet, but his name lives on, inspiring countless books, movies, television shows, and trips to the small South Dakota town of Deadwood, where Hickok was killed and is buried.

Texas Jack didn't live long enough to ensure his name would be remembered forever and he didn't "die with his boots on" to go down in history. But his life and his legacy as America's first famous cowboy, the man who introduced the lasso act to the stage and rode with Pawnee warriors across the western prairie, has influenced every cowboy story that followed. From Owen Wister's The Virginian to Louis L'amour's Hondo, from Tom Mix to Cary Grant, from Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name to John Wayne's Ethan Edwards—every cowboy has been cast in the mold of Texas Jack.

[inlovewithquotes]

For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known.

-The Virginian

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #life quotes #classics #western classics #owen wister #the virginian

[ljjjackson]

“When you call me that, smile.” ― Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

[iphigeniarising]

The spirit will go one road, and the thought another, and the body its own way sometimes.

- Owen Wister, The Virginian

#the virginian #owen wister #booklr #words words words #iphi.post

[alredered]

Alredered Remembers Owen Wister, writer of Westerns, on his birthday.

"When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.” -Owen Wister

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.14

Beer Birthdays

Joseph Schmid (1838)

John Oland (1819)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dave Fleischer; animator (1893)

Gustav Klimt; Austrian artist (1862)

Harry Dean Stanton; actor (1926)

Irving Stone; writer (1903)

Terry-Thomas; actor (1911)

Famous Birthdays

Florence Bascom; geologist (1862)

Gertrude Bell; English archeologist, writer, spy (1868)

Polly Bergen; actor (1930)

Ingmar Bergman; Swedish film director (1918)

Rudolph Boysen; Boysenberry developer (1895)

Bebe Buell; model (1953)

Tom Carvel; ice cream businessman (1906)

John Chancellor; television commentator (1927)

Gerald Ford; 38th U.S. President (1913)

Matthew Fox; actor (1966)

Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier; New York Giants DT, actor (1932)

Woody Guthrie; folk singer (1912)

William Hanna; animator (1910)

Maulana Karenga; writer, political activist, creator of "Kwanzaa" (1941)

Jane Lynch; actor (1960)

Frederick Louis Maytag; appliance maker (1857)

Nancy Olson; actor (1928)

Emmeline Pankhurst; suffragist (1858)

Jerry Rubin; social activist (1938)

Nina Siemaszko; actor (1970)

Spongebob Squarepants; cartoon character (1986)

Geoffrey Wilkinson; English chemist (1921)

Owen Wister; writer (1860)

#Birthdays