Lin Mclean
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 3rd ed., - colonial ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Long before the American West became myth, Owen Wister was already busy forging its legend — and Lin McLean stands as one of his most vivid and enduring contributions to that canon. Published originally in 1897, this episodic novel chronicles the rollicking adventures of Lin McLean, a freewheeling Wyoming cowboy whose rough-hewn charm, reckless heart, and hard-won moral compass carry him through the untamed landscapes of the frontier. Wister presents a West that is at once brutal and beautiful, stitched together through a series of interconnected tales that trace Lin's evolution from carefree drifter to a man grappling with the responsibilities of love, loyalty, and manhood. Wister, best known for The Virginian, writes with an authority born of firsthand experience — his summers spent on Wyoming ranches lend the prose an authenticity that few contemporaries could match. Lin McLean illustrates the tensions inherent in frontier life: the collision of freedom and civilisation, the code of the cowboy set against the encroachments of a changing America. Wister's style is deceptively breezy, carrying the reader along on the wind of Lin's easy humour before landing quiet, devastating blows of pathos. For those who believe the West was won by men of simple virtue and uncomplicated hearts, Lin McLean has a few hard truths waiting in the dust.
Author: Owen Wister
Format: Hardback
Published: 1908, George Robertson & Co.
Genre: Adventure fiction
Edition: 3rd ed., - colonial ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Long before the American West became myth, Owen Wister was already busy forging its legend — and Lin McLean stands as one of his most vivid and enduring contributions to that canon. Published originally in 1897, this episodic novel chronicles the rollicking adventures of Lin McLean, a freewheeling Wyoming cowboy whose rough-hewn charm, reckless heart, and hard-won moral compass carry him through the untamed landscapes of the frontier. Wister presents a West that is at once brutal and beautiful, stitched together through a series of interconnected tales that trace Lin's evolution from carefree drifter to a man grappling with the responsibilities of love, loyalty, and manhood. Wister, best known for The Virginian, writes with an authority born of firsthand experience — his summers spent on Wyoming ranches lend the prose an authenticity that few contemporaries could match. Lin McLean illustrates the tensions inherent in frontier life: the collision of freedom and civilisation, the code of the cowboy set against the encroachments of a changing America. Wister's style is deceptively breezy, carrying the reader along on the wind of Lin's easy humour before landing quiet, devastating blows of pathos. For those who believe the West was won by men of simple virtue and uncomplicated hearts, Lin McLean has a few hard truths waiting in the dust.