American writer whose Western stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical folk hero. Like James Fenimore Cooper, Wister was a myth-maker, whose themes were later simplified by such writers as Zane Grey and Max Brand. But that gives you no idea of it.
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It is not the lungs of every man that can produce these effects, not even from armies, eagles, or mules were such sounds ever heard on earth. The cow-puncher invented them. The family was interested in arts, Wister's mother played piano and the family frequently traveled abroad. Wister attended briefly schools in Switzerland and England, and studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University. After graduating in 1882, Wister studied two years music in Paris but he gave up a musical career.