Owen Wister out west: His Journals and Letters
Owen Wister; edited by Fanny Kemble Wister
- Chicago University of Chicago Press 1958
- xix, 269 p.
Includes Bibliography and Index
July-August, 1885; Wyoming -- July-September, 1887; British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Wyoming -- July-September, 1888; Wyoming -- October-November, 1889; Wyoming -- June-September, 1891; Wyoming and Yellowstone Park -- October-November, 1892; Washington -- February-March, 1893; Texas -- June-December, 1893; World's Fair, Wyoming, Yellowstone, Arizona, San Francisco, Portland -- May-August, 1894; Bowie, Bayard, Grant, Bisbie [Bisbee], Tombstone, Tucson, San Francisco, Cheyenne -- May-August, 1895; New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Cheyenne, Fort Meade -- Epilogue -- A Wister bibliography.
In 1885 Owen Wister boarded a train in Philadelphia and set out for territorial Wyoming. Presents a selection of the Western author's journals and letters from his travels through Wyoming, Washington, Arizona, Texas, and other areas of the American West and Southwest, from 1885-95.