This Halcyon Classics ebook contains eighteen western stories by Owen Wister, often regarded as the "father" of western fiction. A native of Pennsylvania, Wister (1860-1938) spent a number of long summers in the west, where he became friends with western artist Frederic Remington. He was also close friends with Teddy Roosevelt, another easterner who fell in love with the west. Wister's journeys and experiences contributed to his fascination with the culture, history, and lore of the closing frontier. THE VIRGINIAN, Wister's best-known work, is a heavily fictionalized story of the Johnson County War in 1890s Wyoming. The story recounts the conflicts over cattle theft between large and small ranchers in the new, sparsely-settled state. The novel takes the side of the large ranchers, and depicts lynchings as frontier justice, meted out by the hero as a necessary part of maintaining law and order. This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Novels The Virginian Lin McLean Short Stories A Kinsman of Red Cloud A Pilgrim on the Gila Hank’s Woman La Tinaja Bonita Little Big Horn Medicine Napoleon Shave-Tail Padre Ignazio Salvation Gap Sharon’s Choice Specimen Jones The General’s Bluff The Jimmyjohn Boss The Promised Land The Second Missouri Compromise The Serenade at Siskiyou Twenty Minutes for Refreshments