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Owen Wister
Sep 30, 2024 The VirginianGood, solid, manly. Wister is clearly the Tolkien of the Western genre, and that caught me a bit by surprise - the seeds and bones of the genre are so clear and well-put, it feels like The Virginian precisely predicts the existence of Clint Eastwood and Larry McMurtry. Also just kind of surprisingly unobjectionable.