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A collection of classic tales of the Old West from Owen Wister, an American writer whose stories helped establish the cowboy as the archetypal, individualist hero. This collection includes eight stories: The Jimmyjohn Boss; A Kinsman of Red Cloud; Sharon's Choice; Napoleon Shave-Tail; Twenty Minutes for Refreshments; The Promised Land; Hank's Woman; Padre Ignazio.

A collection of classic tales of the Old West from Owen Wister, an American writer whose stories helped establish the cowboy as the archetypical individualist hero. Includes "The Jimmyjohn Boss," "A Kinsman of Red Cloud," "Sharon's Choice," "Napoleon Shave-Tail," "Twenty Minutes for Refreshments," "The Promised Land," "Hank's Woman," and "Padre Ignazio."

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A collection of classic tales of the Old West from Owen Wister, an American writer whose stories helped establish the cowboy as the archetypical individualist hero. Includes "The Jimmyjohn Boss," "A Kinsman of Red Cloud," "Sharon's Choice," "Napoleon Shave-Tail," "Twenty Minutes for Refreshments," "The Promised Land," "Hank's Woman," and "Padre Ignazio." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

One day at Nampa, which is in Idaho, a ruddy old massive jovial man stood by the Silver City stage, patting his beard with his left hand, and with his right the shoulder of a boy who stood beside him. He had come with the boy on the branch train from Boise, because he was a careful German and liked to say everything twice—twice at least when it was a matter of business. This was a matter of very particular business, and the German had repeated himself for nineteen miles. Presently the east-bound on the main line would arrive from Portland; then the Silver City stage would take the boy south on his new mission, and the man would journey by the branch train back to Boise. From Boise no one could say where he might not go, west or east. He was a great and pervasive cattle man in Oregon, California, and other places. Vogel and Lex—even to-day you may hear the two ranch partners spoken of. So the veteran Vogel was now once more going over his notions and commands to his youthful deputy during the last precious minutes until the east-bound should arrive. "Und if only you haf someding like dis," said the old man, as he tapped his beard and patted the boy, "it would be five hoondert more dollars salary in your liddle pants."

A collection of classic tales of the Old West from Owen Wister, an American writer whose stories helped establish the cowboy as the archetypal, individualist hero. This collection includes eight stories: The Jimmyjohn Boss; A Kinsman of Red Cloud; Sharon's Choice; Napoleon Shave-Tail; Twenty Minutes for Refreshments; The Promised Land; Hank's Woman; Padre Ignazio.

A collection of classic tales of the Old West from Owen Wister, an American writer whose stories helped establish the cowboy as the archetypical individualist hero. Includes "The Jimmyjohn Boss," "A Kinsman of Red Cloud," "Sharon's Choice," "Napoleon Shave-Tail," "Twenty Minutes for Refreshments," "The Promised Land," "Hank's Woman," and "Padre Ignazio." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

A collection of classic tales of the Old West from Owen Wister, an American writer whose stories helped establish the cowboy as the archetypical individualist hero. Includes "The Jimmyjohn Boss," "A Kinsman of Red Cloud," "Sharon's Choice," "Napoleon Shave-Tail," "Twenty Minutes for Refreshments," "The Promised Land," "Hank's Woman," and "Padre Ignazio." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

A full collection of classic tales of the Old West from Owen Wister, an American writer whose stories helped establish the cowboy as the archetypical individualist hero. Includes "The Jimmyjohn Boss," "A Kinsman of Red Cloud," "Sharon's Choice," "Napoleon Shave-Tail," "Twenty Minutes for Refreshments," "The Promised Land," "Hank's Woman," and "Padre Ignazio."

Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer of western novels. He studied at the Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and graduated in 1888. At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying law. Wister had spent several summers out in the American West and was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of that region. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains. This is widely regarded as being the first American western novel. Amongst his other works are: Lin McLean (1897), The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories (1900), Philosophy 4 (1903), Lady Baltimore (1906), Mother (1907), Padre Ignacio; or, The Song of Temptation (1911) and A Straight Deal (1920).