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This Week in the West: The Virginian, Owen Wister & Joel McCrea
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🎙️ Episode 24: The Virginian, Owen Wister & Joel McCrea
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On this week’s episode of This Week in the West, we tell the story of The Virginian, the groundbreaking Western novel that became a cultural touchstone, a movie classic, and a symbol of frontier justice. Seth Spillman takes us back to the turn of the 20th century, when Owen Wister—plagued by illness—traveled West for healing and inspiration. His resulting novel, The Virginian, published in 1902, not only launched the Western literary genre but introduced archetypes that still define cowboy tales…
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