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Publication date 1902 publisher new york, london, the macmillan company. Its narrator, fresh from the east, encounters in wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the virginian battlesfor supremacy with trampas and other neerdowells. A horseman of the plains is a 1902 novel by the american author owen wister 18601938, set in wyoming. Set in the vast wyoming territory, this masterpiece helped establish the code of the west and its stereotypical characters. A horseman of the plains ebook written by owen wister.
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