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Caroline Lockhart on the Dryhead: 'Happily-Ever-Aftering' on a Montana Cattle Ranch

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From: Montana; The Magazine of Western History
Date: 20060701
Author:Clayton, John

When authors of early Westerns portrayed characters living happily ever after, they typically showed them moving to a cattle ranch. In real life, the authors themselves seldom embarked on such quests. After publishing The Virginian in 1902, Owen Wister bought property in Wyoming, but he never lived there full time. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) and other novels, and Clarence Mulford, who wrote tlie Hopalong Cassidy novels, likewise vacationed in the West but continued to live on the coasts. Even Montana authors such as B. M. Bower and Charlie Russell lived in town, ...

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