Salvation Gap and other western classics
By: by Owen Wister ; illustrated by Frederic Remington ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Richard W. Etulain.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction; Western stories
Other titles: Salvation Gap & other western classics
Description: "Owen Wister invented the Western novel with The Virginian, and that work and this collection of stories prove that, although many have gone after him, no one has ever topped him in skill and enduring appeal. Wister saw the story of the West as a collision of centuries, with the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, and the modern world coming together to form a new place and a new people. Wister said of this collection, "These stories are about Indians and soldiers and events west of the Missouri.

They belong to the past ... but you will find some of those ancient surviving centuries in them if you take my view.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: Red men and white. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1896.