page_title: The Virginian (novel)
section_title: Adaptations
hierarchical_section_title: The Virginian (novel) / Adaptations
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: The Virginian by Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle. Abstract/medium: 1 print&#160;: color lithograph&#160;; sheet 106 x 72 cm. (poster format)
context_page_description: The Virginian is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister, set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880's. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels, though modern scholars debate this. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour and several others.
  The novel was adapted from several short stories published in Harper's Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post between Nov 1893 and May 1902.
caption: Poster for the Broadway production of The Virginian, adapted by Wister and Kirke La Shelle (1904)
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