Owen Wister

Definition: Owen Wister

Owen Wister

Noun

1. United States writer (1860-1938).

Synonym: Owen Wister

Synonym: Wister (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Owen Wister

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Owen Wister (1860 - July 21, 1938) was an American writer who wrote western novels. Owen Wister was born of old money in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a number of place names around Philadelphia trace to the Wister family. He attended schools in Switzerland and Great Britain, and studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University.

He worked as a bank clerk in New York, New York. He suffered poor health, spending much time in the western states of America. In 1885 he entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1888. Wister practiced law in his home town Pennsylvania before devoting himself to writing. In 1898 he married Mary Channing, his cousin, and had six children.

His Wild West writing is what made him famous. A friend of Theodore Roosevelt, he often hung out in Wyoming (then still fairly wild; the Johnson County War took place in 1892) to get away from Eastern life.

Books and stories: Hank's Woman, The Virginian, Lady Baltimore and Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship.

External links and references

Article in Philadelphia Post-Gazette on Wister

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Crosswords: Owen Wister

English words defined with "Owen Wister": unfocused, unfocussed. (references)

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Modern Usage: Owen Wister

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Usage

Clever

An aristocrat in morals as in mind. (references; author: Owen Wister)

When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. (references; author: Owen Wister)

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Commercial Usage: Owen Wister

Domain	Title
Books	Owen Wister Out West: His Journal and Letters (reference) That I may tell you : journals and letters of the Owen Wister family (reference) The diversions of a Westerner : with emphasis upon Owen Wister and Frederic Remington, books and libraries (reference) The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience: The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister (American Studies Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Owen Wister Review (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Owen Wister

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	Owen Wister, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right] / Pirie MacDonald, photographer of men, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.		The Virginian by Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Owen Wister

Author	Quotation
Owen Wister	An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
	When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Owen Wister

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
owen wister	23
mclean owen wister	4
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Anagrams: Owen Wister

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	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-w-w"
	+4 letters: newsworthiness, worthwhileness.
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