Witchflower Days: Historical Novels

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

Historical Novels

Birthday of the man who wrote the first big cowboy novel, Owen Wister, born in Germantown, PA (1860). Although he attended Harvard, studied music in Paris, and became a lawyer in Philadelphia, when he went to Wyoming for his health, he became fascinated by the Old West. He used that fascination to... Sign in to see full entry.

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