Lin McLean
Author Owen Wister American
Illustrator Frederic Remington American
Publisher Harper & Brothers American
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Remington provided eight illustrations for Owen Wister's first novel, Lin McLean, published by Harper & Brothers in 1898. This photogravure frontispiece depicts McLean, a young cow-puncher, with arms akimbo, wearing a hat, scarf, fringed chaps, and revolver. Remington first met Wister in 1893, a writer of western fiction who mythologized the rugged, individualist American cowboy as Remington did in his art, and is best remembered for The Virginian (1902), dedicated to President Theodore Roosevelt.
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