Red Men and White (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Owen Wister was born into Philadelphia high society in 1860. After graduating from Harvard, he floundered in search of a profession, until a mysterious illness in 1885 that sent him on a journey west set him on the path to become a writer. In addition to Red Men and White, he wrote such novels as Lin McLean (1897), The Virginian (1902), and Lady Baltimore (1906), as well as biographies and political commentaries. Wister was a frequent guest at Theodore Roosevelt’s White House, and he encouraged and supported new writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis.

World-famous artist and illustrator Frederic Remington (1861-1909), was a life-long student of battles and the American west. He took many trips to former battle sights as well witnessing ongoing campaigns against Geronimo and the Sioux. After publishing eight books, including Sundown Leflare and The Way of an Indian, he stopped writing to focus on other ways of expressing his love of the West: art and sculpture.