Owen Wister

Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship is a biography by Owen Wister, depicting his long acquaintance with Theodore Roosevelt, a Harvard classmate. It was published in 1930.

The Virginian is a 1902 novel set in the Wild West by the American author Owen Wister. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming and was the first true western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane …