Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1990
Abstract
On 8 July 1885, while on his first visit to Wyoming, Owen Wister wrote in his journal, "This existence is heavenly in its monotony and sweetness. Wish I were going to do it every summer. I'm beginning to be able to feel I'm something of an animal and not a stinking brain alone. "1 Wister was being very candid and very appreciative in this statement of just how much Wyoming had done for him, but Wyoming was to be more fortunate and significant for him than he knew. Wyoming's affirmation of the animal in Owen Wister proved to have an incalculable impact on American culture down to our own time.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly [GPQ 10 (Fall 1990): 245-259].Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.