VALÉORINE London

Owen Wister

Owen Wister was an American writer, novelist and western author (1860–1938). He was born at Germantown and died at Kingston.

Owen Wister in brief

Born
1860
Died
1938
Known for
writer, novelist and western author
Place of birth
Germantown
Contents

Identity and origins

His recorded language was English.

He was the child of Owen Jones Wister and Sarah Butler Wister. He married Mary Channing Wister.

Catalogued works

41 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1844 to 1916.

Done in the Open. How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee. Mother. The Virginian. Ulysses S. Grant. Musk-ox, bison, sheep and goat. Musk-ox, bison, sheep, and goat. The ancient grudge. Safe in the arms of Croesus. Members of the family. Philosophy 4. Owen Wister and the American West. Christmas at the Tavern Club, 1919. Representative American short stories. My country. Dido and Aeneas. Horace Howard Furness. Hank's woman. The Pentecost of calamity. Life in Philadelphia. Roosevelt, the story of a friendship, 1880-1919. E.J.W. During the Great war we had a song. Lin McLean. The first catalogue of the Hasty Pudding - Institute of 1770. Red men and white. Padre Ignacio. A straight deal or the ancient grudge. Lady Baltimore. Ulysses S. Grant by Owen Wister. ابن فرجينيا. When west was west. U. S. Grant. Two appreciations of John Jay Chapman. The aftermath of battle, dated 1916. The Jimmyjohn boss, and other stories. The dragon of Wantley. Virginian. La Tinaja Bonita. Owen Wister's Medicine Bow. Memoir of Owen Jones Wister, M. D / [S. Weir Mitchell]., dated 1896, held by Wellcome Collection. The anatomy and surgical treatment of abdominal hernia / From the 2d London ed. by C. Aston Key., dated 1844, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

8 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Owen Wister: a chronology, Romney, 2001. Wister, Owen (1860-1938), author, American National Biography Online, 2000. Wister, Owen, (14 July 1860–21 July 1938), Who Was Who, 2007. OWEN WISTER:, Romney, 2001. My Dear Wister-The Frederic Remington-Owen Wister Letters. Ben Merchant Vorpahl The West of Owen Wister: Selected Short Stories., Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 1974. Note sulla violenza in Django Unchained, Iperstoria, 2013. Navigating Unsettled Waters: Old West Meets New West in Women's Colorado River Boating Narratives, Iperstoria, 2016. Democratic Shoot-Outs: Notes on the Duel in American Western Narratives, Iperstoria, 2012.

Digitised editions and texts

15 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

The Virginian Sd (1929) — Internet Archive. A STRAIGHT DEAL OR THE ANCIENT GRUDGE (1921) — Internet Archive. The Virginian (1902) — Internet Archive. Lin McLean (1898) — Internet Archive. The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale (1892) — Internet Archive. Red men and white (1928) — Internet Archive. Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University — Internet Archive. The Pentecost of Calamity (1915) — Internet Archive. How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee (1907) — Internet Archive. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains — Project Gutenberg. The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories — Project Gutenberg. Lady Baltimore — Project Gutenberg. A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge — Project Gutenberg. Padre Ignacio; Or, The Song of Temptation — Project Gutenberg. Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat — Project Gutenberg.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 16 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 11 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Owen Wister studied at Harvard Law School, St. Paul's School and Harvard University. the recorded working language is English.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are Western.

Membership is recorded of American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Chronology

  1. 1860Owen Wister born at Germantown.
  2. 1892The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1898Lin McLean digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1902The Virginian digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1921A STRAIGHT DEAL OR THE ANCIENT GRUDGE digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1928Red men and white digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1929The Virginian Sd digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 1938Owen Wister died at Kingston.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Owen Wister”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

    Consult the source
  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1281119: Owen Wister

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

    Consult the source

Elsewhere in Books

15,964 published records in this field, each with its sources named.

Best supported in this field

Read the complete books index

For owners

Own a work by Owen Wister?

A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.

Request a valuationHow selling works