The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plains, by Owen Wister
Etext prepared by Bill Brewer, billbrewer@ttu.edu





THE VIRGINIAN
A Horseman Of The Plains

by
OWEN WISTER



To
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Some of these pages you have seen, some you have praised, one stands
new-written because you blamed it; and all, my dear critic, beg leave to
remind you of their author's changeless admiration.



TO THE READER

Certain of the newspapers, when this book was first announced,
made a mistake most natural upon seeing the sub-title as it then
stood, A TALE OF SUNDRY ADVENTURES. "This sounds like a
historical novel," said one of them, meaning (I take it) a