Members of the Family by Owen Wister (1860 - 1938)

Owen Wister’s narrator searches for the elusive Still Hunt Spring, a valley said to be two hundred feet deep, a mile long, and difficult to locate.

Owen Wister's "In the Back" follows Secretary of War rhetoric about protecting enlisted men from military authority at McPherson.

A reading of the preface and beginning of Owen Wister's collection of short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory.

A reading of a chapter from Owen Wister's collection of short stories set in the Wyoming Territory.

A man is distracted by ducks quacking on a pond while his companion tries to discuss Wyoming game laws.

A reading of Chapter 7 of Owen Wister's 'Members of the Family', a western short story about a storekeeper and his silent partner.

Members of the Family by Owen Wister, Chapter 5, follows a first-person ride from the E.A.M.A.

Members of the Family by Owen Wister, Chapter 2 "Spit Cat Creek," follows Scipio Lemoine in a lonely cabin above Spit Cat Creek.

["Owen Wister's 'Members of the Family' opens with Scipio Lemoyne bandaged in a reservation hospital after a three-year-old cayuse wrecks him at the forks of Stinking Water.", "The Virginian visits him while Scipio talks about Horace Pericles Byram, nicknamed 'Horacles,' the agency-store clerk whose uncle has used Senate influence to place him on the reservation.", "Scipio argues that even 'old High Bear' has to be handled like 'a child of five,' and the doctor, who has spent 20 years on the frontier, treats the claim as part of the job.", "The chapter turns on a hidden Washington scheme: Uncle wants a third reservation store, and the doctor reveals that a railroad-linked plan is driving it."]