The Virginian: A Horseman Of The Plains

American author Owen Wister wrote The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains in 1902; it takes place in Wyoming Territory in the 1880s. The story opens with an unknown narrator traveling to Medicine Bow, Wyoming, and meeting a very tall and attractive stranger. The unnamed visitor who escorted the narrator to Judge Henry's ranch in Sunk Creek, Wyoming, turns out to be the Virginian. The narrator and ...