How the West Was Written: Frontier Fiction, 1880-1906 by Ron Scheer

How the West Was Written: Frontier Fiction, 1880-1906

How the West Was Written

Ron Scheer

300 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction reference informative reflective medium-paced
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This book began as a question about the origins of the cowboy western ... how it grew from Owen Wister's bestseller, The Virginian (1902), to Zane Grey's first novels a decade later. A reading of frontier fiction from that period, however, soon re...

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