| The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Contributor(s): Wister, Owen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1512174467 ISBN-13: 9781512174465 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.02 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 830 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.63 lbs) 210 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 723 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 21.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Certain of the newspapers, when this book was first announced, made a mistake most natural upon seeing the sub-title as it then stood, A TALE OF SUNDRY ADVENTURES. "This sounds like a historical novel," said one of them, meaning (I take it) a colonial romance. As it now stands, the title will scarce lead to such interpretation; yet none the less is this book historical-quite as much so as any colonial romance. Indeed, when you look at the root of the matter, it is a colonial romance. For Wyoming between 1874 and 1890 was a colony as wild as was Virginia one hundred years earlier. As wild, with a scantier population, and the same primitive joys and dangers. There were, to be sure, not so many Chippendale settees. |