Owen Wister
(1860 – 1938)
Author of “The Virginian” (1902), which became the prototype for the Western novel. This work defined the cowboy as folk hero & coined the phrase, “When you call me that, smile!” Born here, Wister was a lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area.
Marker is at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Ashmead Street, on the right when traveling north on Germantown Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
