Medicine Bow, Wyoming
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Medicine Bow is a town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. As of the 2020 census, Medicine Bow had a population of 245.
Aerial view of Medicine Bow and surrounding area
Virginian Hotel
The Virginian (novel)
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains is a 1902 Wild West and cowboy novel by American author Owen Wister, set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. Detailing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
…Bow itself. The Virginian Hotel is a historic hotel located in Medicine Bow. It was built in 1911 by August Grimm, and is believed to be named for the Owen Wister novel, which is set in and around Medicine Bow. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In the 1910s, part of the Lincoln…
First edition cover
"When you call me that, smile!"
Poster for the Broadway production of The Virginian, adapted by Wister and Kirke La Shelle (1904)