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The Virginian: A Horseman Of The Plains

The Virginian: A Horseman Of The Plains

Wister, Owen

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1537751727
ISBN13: 9781537751726
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 20 2016
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Widely regarded as being the first American western novel, this loosely constructed story of a naturally aristocratic cowboy is set against the Johnson County War. Such an eye as this did the pony keep upon whatever man took the rope. The man might pretend to look at the weather, which was fine; or he might affect earnest conversation with a bystander: it was bootless. The pony saw through it. No feint hoodwinked him. This animal was thoroughly a man of the world. His undistracted eye stayed fixed upon the dissembling foe, and the gravity of his horse-expression made the matter one of high comedy. Then the rope would sail out at him, but he was already elsewhere; and if horses laugh, gayety must have abounded in that corral. Sometimes the pony took a turn alone; next he had slid in a flash among his brothers, and the whole of them like a school of playful fish whipped round the corral, kicking up the fine dust, and (I take it) roaring with laughter. Through the window-glass of our Pullman the thud of their mischievous hoofs reached us, and the strong, humorous curses of the cow-boys

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