Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the “father” of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. (Information from Wikipedia)
Articles in Western American Literature:
“My dear Judge”: Owen Wister’s Virginian, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Natural Law Conservatism, by Stephen J. Mexal
“The Man Was Forever Looking for That Which He Never Found”: The Western and Automotive Tourism in the Early Twentieth Century, by Clinton Mohs
“Truer ’n Hell”: Lies, Capitalism, and Cultural Imperialism in Owen Wister’s The Virginian, B. M. Bower’s The Happy Family, and Mourning Dove’s Cogewea, by Sara Humphreys
Wister’s “Life Among The Lowly” and Anglocentrism, by Kenneth Alan Hovey
The Bovine Object of Ideology: History, Gender, and the Origins of the “Classic” Western, by Victoria Lamont
The Western Hero as Logos, or, Unmaking Meaning, by Susan J. Rosowski
Bazarov, Prince Hal, and the Virginian, by Max Westbrook
Owen Wister’s Achievement in Literary Tradition, by John D. Nesbitt
How the Western Ends: Fenimore Cooper to Frederic Remington, by Christine Bold
The Roosevelt-Wister Connection: Some Notes on the West and the Uses of History, by Forrest G. Robinson
Romance or Realism?: Western Periodical Literature: 1893–1902, by Sanford E. Marovitz
“Very Much Like A Fire-Cracker”: Owen Wister on Mark Twain, by Ben M. Vorpahl
Owen Wister’s Virginian: The Genesis Of A Cultural Hero, by Neal Lambert
Owen Wister’s Lin McLean: The Failure of the Vernacular Hero, by Neal Lambert
Owen Wister’s “Hank’s Woman”: The Writer and His Comment, by Neal Lambert
Additional Resources:
Western Writers Series, Boise State University: Owen Wister
Western American Literature Research 