OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Western Classics, Adventure & Historical Novels (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works). Owen Wister

is he who takes care of Jessamine!

      IN THE AFTER-DAYS

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      The black pines stand high up the hills,

       The white snow sifts their columns deep,

       While through the canyon's riven cleft

       From there, beyond, the rose clouds sweep.

       Serene above their paling shapes

       One star hath wakened in the sky.

       And here in the gray world below

       Over the sage the wind blows by;

       Rides through the cotton-woods' ghost-ranks,

       And hums aloft a sturdy tune

       Among the river's tawny bluffs,

       Untenanted as is the moon.

       Far 'neath the huge invading dusk

       Comes Silence awful through the plain;

       But yonder horseman's heart is gay,

       And he goes singing might and main.

      The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

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       TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT

       TO THE READER

       I. ENTER THE MAN

       II. "WHEN YOU CALL ME THAT, SMILE!"

       III. STEVE TREATS

       IV. DEEP INTO CATTLE LAND

       V. ENTER THE WOMAN

       VI. EM'LY

       VII. THROUGH TWO SNOWS

       VIII. THE SINCERE SPINSTER

       IX. THE SPINSTER MEETS THE UNKNOWN

       X. WHERE FANCY WAS BRED

       XI. "YOU RE GOING TO LOVE ME BEFORE WE GET THROUGH"

       XII. QUALITY AND EQUALITY

       XIII. THE GAME AND THE NATION—ACT FIRST

       XIV. BETWEEN THE ACTS

       XV. THE GAME AND THE NATION—ACT SECOND

       XVI. THE GAME AND THE NATION—LAST ACT

       XVII. SCIPIO MORALIZES

       XVIII. "WOULD YOU BE A PARSON?"

       XIX. DR. MACBRIDE BEGS PARDON

       XX. THE JUDGE IGNORES PARTICULARS

       XXI. IN A STATE OF SIN

       XXII. "WHAT IS A RUSTLER?"

       XXIII. VARIOUS POINTS

       XXIV. A LETTER WITH A MORAL

       XXV. PROGRESS OF THE LOST DOG

       XXVI. BALAAM AND PEDRO

       XXVII. GRANDMOTHER STARK

       XXVIII. NO DREAM TO WAKE FROM

       XXIX. WORD TO BENNINGTON

       XXX. A STABLE ON THE FLAT

       XXXI. THE COTTONWOODS

       XXXII. SUPERSTITION TRAIL

       XXXIII. THE SPINSTER LOSES SOME SLEEP

       XXXIV. TO FIT HER FINGER

       XXXV. WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT

       XXXVI. AT DUNBARTON

      TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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      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 remind you of their author's changeless admiration.

      TO THE READER

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      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,