Did the ways that the American West was depicted in The Virginian continue to be reflected in ways of depicting the West throughout the rest of the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century? How, specifically?

I. Based on your reading of Owen Wister, The Virginian (1902), write an approximately five-page paper that addresses the following sets of questions, in essay format: 1) Where does the story take place? When? Who is the Virginian and how is he an idealized figure? Who is Molly and how is she an idealized figure? 2) According to the novel, […]