'Virginian' author's lost novel published

Sunday, January 27, 2002

PHILADELPHIA -- Friends and literary critics wondered why Owen Wister, the author of "The Virginian" who helped create the heroic cowboy of the American Western, didn't write a novel about his native city.

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