Writer: Owen Wister

The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plains, by Owen Wister Etext prepared by Bill Brewer, billbrewer@ttu.edu THE VIRGINIAN A Horseman Of The Plains by OWEN WISTER To THEODORE ROOSEVELT Some of these pages you have seen, some you have praised, one stands new-written because you blamed it; and all, my dear critic, beg leave to

Etext prepared by Bill Brewer, billbrewer@ttu.edu The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories By Owen Wister To Messrs. Harper & Bothers and Henry Mills Alden whose friendliness and fair dealing I am glad of this chance to record Owen Wister Preface It’s very plain that if a thing’s the fashion– Too much the fashion–if the people

Scanned, edited and proofread by Daniel P. B. Smith dpbsmith@world.std.com PHILOSOPHY 4 A STORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY BY OWEN WISTER I Two frowning boys sat in their tennis flannels beneath the glare of lamp and gas. Their leather belts were loosened, their soft pink shirts unbuttoned at the collar. They were listening with gloomy voracity

PADRE IGNACIO Or The Song of Temptation BY OWEN WISTER I At Santa Ysabel del Mar the season was at one of those moments when the air rests quiet over land and sea. The old breezes were gone; the new ones were not yet risen. The flowers in the mission garden opened wide; no wind

LIN McLEAN By OWEN WISTER DEDICATION MY DEAR HARRY MERCER: When Lin McLean was only a hero in manuscript, he received his first welcome and chastening beneath your patient roof. By none so much as by you has he in private been helped and affectionately disciplined, an now you must stand godfather to him upon

LADY BALTIMORE BY OWEN WISTER To S. Weir Mitchell With the Affection and Memories of All My Life To the Reader You know the great text in Burns, I am sure, where he wishes he could see himself as others see him. Well, here lies the hitch in many a work of art: if its