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The first novel to portray seriously nineteenth-century cowboy life, The Wire-Cutters was Moll__ E. Moore Davis's tour de force inspired by the Fence Cutting Wars fought by competing cattlemen and ranchers in Central Texas. First published in 1899, the novel introduced readers to a new kind of storytelling that prefigured an entire American literary genre--the Western--and predated Owen Wister's The Virginian (1902) and Andy Adams's Log of a Cowboy (1903), two novels widely regarded as the first Westerns by many unfamiliar with Davis's groundbreaking work.

Considered among the best of the region's early fiction writers, Davis spent time as a writer and newspaperwoman in Texas and Louisiana, using both states as settings for her stories. Her body of work demonstrates the movement away from romantic conventions toward a storytelling that relied more heavily on realism. Davis' Texas based novels especially reveal a writer whose sharp ear for regional dialect, abundant sense of frontier humor, and keen grasp of historical detail drive a narrative that is grounded in observable and shared experience. Centered around the destructive fence-cutting war waged against ranchers by cattlemen whose herds were cut off from water, The Wire-Cutters recreates the colorful vernacular and often quirky personalities of the cowboys, the rich folk culture of the region, and the particulars of daily life on the Western frontier.

Now, with a foreword by Lou Halsell Rodenberger which delineates the historical and literary significance of this important but forgotten novel, The Wire-Cutters is available for the first time since its initial publication to literary and cultural scholars and historians, as well as to lovers of the Western novel and readers of Texana.


About the Author: Moved from Alabama to San Marcos, Texas, as a child, Mollie E. Moore Davis (1847?-1909) began her career as a newspaperwomen in Tyler, Houston, and Galveston and was initially recognized for her poetry. After marrying, she moved to New Orleans and began her work as a novelist, returning in the summers to Comanche, Texas, where she gathered the material for The Wire-Cutters.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780890967966
  • Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Texas A&M University Press
  • Edition: Texas A&M University Press ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 128 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0890967962
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 192 mm
  • No of Pages: 396
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 476 gr


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