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A journey in search of Christmas

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1904
Author
Wister, Owen (author)
Remington, Fredric (illustrator)
Publisher
New York and London : Harper & Brothers Publishers
Call Number
05 W75a
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Author
Wister, Owen (author)
Remington, Fredric (illustrator)
Publisher
New York and London : Harper & Brothers Publishers
Published Date
1904
Physical Description
92 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Lin McLean series
Subjects
Literature
Cowboys
Christmas
Abstract
In the old days, the happy days, when Wyoming was a Territory with a future instead of a State with a past, and the unfenced cattle grazed upon her ranges by prosperous thousands, young Lin McLean awaked early one morning in cow camp, and lay staring out of his blankets upon the world. He would be twenty-two this week. He was the youngest cow-puncher in camp. But because he could break wild horses, he was earning more dollars a month than any man there, except one. The cook was a more indispensable person. None save the cook was up, so far, this morning. Lin's brother punchers slept about him on the ground, some motionless, some shifting their prone heads to burrow deeper from the increasing day. The busy work of spring was over, that of the fall, or beef round-up, not yet come. It was mid-July, a lull for these hard-riding bachelors of the saddle, and many unspent dollars stood to Mr. McLean's credit on the ranch books. So begins Lin McLean, the 1898 novel by Owen Wister (1860-1938), a writer best known as the author of The Virginian. The story of "A Journey in Search of Christmas" is a part of Lin McLean. It was published by Harper & Brothers as a separate book in 1904, illustrated by Frederic Remington. Below is the text of that story and the illustrations. The story of Lin McLean was made into a film in 1918, "A Woman's Fool," directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey. The film is "presumed lost." (from Western and Cowboy Poetry Music & more athe Bar-D Ranch website)
Contents
Lin's Money Talks Joy
Lin's Money is Dumb
A Transaction in Boot-Blacking
Turkey and Responsibility
Santa Claus Lin
Accession Number
2926
Call Number
05 W75a
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online at Western and Cowboy Poetry Music & more athe Bar-D Ranch website
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