Romney
Butler, James A. (Professor of English)![Romney](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/145/14568866/CHSBZCOP0314568866.jpg)
Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary "might-have-been." If only, sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence th...