This Pocket Books printing August 2002

Intro; Introduction; The Virginian; Dedication; To the Reader; Re-dedication and Preface; 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; Critical Excerpts; Suggestions for Further Reading Illustrations: Owen Wister -- Fanny Kemble (Wister's maternal grandmother) -- Wister with a group of friends in Wyoming -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Wister, [with quote about changes in Wyoming from 1882 to 1902] -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Mary Channing (Wister's wife), with daughters -- Rudyard Kipling -- Virginian Hotel (Medicine Bow, Wyoming) -- Sign in Medicine Bow, with the Virginian's famous quote -- Owen Wister Monument (1939) in Medicine Bow -- Two illustrations by Charles M. Russell -- Gary Cooper starred as the unnamed Virginian in the 1929 film directed by Victor Fleming. The villain [Trampas?] is played by Walter Huston -- Gary Cooper as the Virginian and Mary Brian as Molly -- Virginian was remade in 1946 and starred Joel McCrea -- Television series, starring James Drury as the Virginian, ran from 1962 until 1971 -- Virginian was remade in 2000 as a TNT original starring Bill Pullman (who also directed), Diane Lane, John Savage, and Dennis Weaver.

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