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  Virginian Soccer Tournament
The Virginian Tournament Director, Gary Falconer, regretfully announces the departure of Tara Green and Noelle Grosso.
Gary Falconer, the Virginian Tournament Director, is pleased to announce the selection of Jeri Holland and Valerie DiBenedetto as the new Virginian Tournament Managers.
Gary has been Director of the Virginian Soccer Tournament for past 12 years and under his stewardship the Virginian has not only become a highly respected, well organized tournament, but has grown to be one of the largest nationally recognized soccer tournaments in the country.
www.soccertournament.com   (312 words)

  
  The Virginian (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Virginian was a Western-themed television series which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971.
Loosely based on the Owen Wister novel, the series revolved around a ranch hand, played by James Drury, who went by the name The Virginian; his real name was never revealed in the nine years the show was on the air.
The series took place in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, and revolved around The Virginian's quest to maintain an orderly lifestyle for the ranch he worked on, which was called Shiloh Ranch.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Virginian_(TV_series)   (226 words)

  
 The Virginian - Synopsis
The Virginian takes her to her destination, where the Judge and his nemesis Balaam, another local rancher, are meeting.
Despite the Virginian's attempts to settle the conflict peacefully, a gunfight ensues and the Virginian is wounded.
After the Virginian mends, the Judge's men enlist him on a "hard ride." Rustlers have stolen cattle, and the Virginian and his crew are hot on their trail.
learning.turner.com /tntlearning/virginian/synopsis.html   (718 words)

  
 The Virginian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Virginian was the first regular series to break the one hour convention and appear as a long-form 90 minute drama.
The Virginian was much closer in feel to an anthology of western films rather than a regular western TV series.
Only the Virginian himself refused to be broken or moved by this clash of two realities.
www.public.asu.edu /~kheenan/west/virginiantv.htm   (253 words)

  
 Railfan.net Forums - Roanoke Times Story about Virginian Railway Group
The history of the Virginian Railway and its eventual demise, in some ways, is also the story of their lives.
The Virginian was also known for transporting auto parts for a Ford plant in Norfolk and running passenger trains.
The Virginian track was desirable because it was fairly straight and went by rivers, meaning it followed a gentle slope.
forums.railfan.net /forums.cgi?board=Virginian;action=display;num=1098089350   (1593 words)

  
 The Virginian (1929)
The Virginian (1929) is a classic western - a film adaptation of Owen Wister's 1902 western play and original novel.
A Wyoming ranch hand foreman, the Virginian (Gary Cooper), confronts a band of outlaw cowboys, who are rustling cattle from his herd and changing brands.
The film comes to a final climactic showdown in a shoot-out on a dusty western street between Trampas and the Virginian.
www.filmsite.org /virg.html   (224 words)

  
 Peter Brown in The Virginian Small Taste of Justice
And the Virginian is the courageous outsider who stands up to the strong man but doesn't want to get involved when he's offered the sheriff's job.
Leaving the Virginian in the care of his wife and the doctor, John loads his rifle and announces his intention to go to the saloon to arrest Tom and Cal. Ellen, who previously derided John's lack of courage, now tries to stop him.
The Virginian shoots the gun out of his hand with a shot the trajectory of which should have taken it right through the horse.
www.peterbrown.tv /smalljustice.html   (1298 words)

  
 The Virginian - Themes and the Frontier Life
Distribute the Student Handout: The Virginian: Novel of the Frontier.
One of the themes of Owen Wister's novel The Virginian is equality and inequality; in fact, he titled one of his chapters, Quality and Equality.
For example, in one scene, Molly gives her students a lesson on the Declaration of Independence, in another, the Virginian tells Molly, "You believe all men are equal...
learning.turner.com /tntlearning/virginian/themes.html   (432 words)

  
 TV Western Shows - Virginian with James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb
Virginian was the first of the 90 minute Westerns.
The Virginian was a man coping with change and trying to live by a strict moral code.
Foreman of the Shiloh Ranch, the Virginian is assisted by Trampas (Doug McClure) and the two are the only characters to complete the run of the show.
www.fiftiesweb.com /tv/virginian.htm   (337 words)

  
 Washington DC Hotel Suites - Washington DC Suite Hotels - The Virginian Suites
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 The Cowboy in Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
His novel, The Virginian was the story of a young cowboy and his love for a eastern school teacher.
The success of The Virginian demonstrated that American's loved cowboys whether they were real or artificial and through his success Wister compelled many writers of the time to write literature based on the cowboy experience.
This transition was in part made possible by Wister's The Virginian, which set the stage for an insurgence of western literature and the creation of the American Cowboy not only as a hero, but as a icon as well.
xroads.virginia.edu /~UG00/3on1/cowboy/lit.html   (566 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Virginian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The characters were not strongly drawn and most were mere shadows in the background, but the Virginian, himself, came through quite clearly and we grow to appreciate this lonely paradigm of the American frontier type who became a staple in the Western mythos.
In "The Virginian," Wister states: "It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal equality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.
Mary accepts, and as it happens, the Virginian is the first to meet her upon her arrival.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812580400?v=glance   (2690 words)

  
 The Virginian
It's the fifth time ''The Virginian'' has been rendered to film (most famously in 1929 starring Gary Cooper and Walter Huston) and its second telling on TV (running as a weekly NBC western saga from 1962-71).
Opposite his Virginian, he casts the seemingly ageless Diane Lane as his Molly Stark (a luminous frontier schoolteacher with willfulness to spare).
The Virginian would find far more than he bargained for, including friends that betray him, evildoers who challenge his manhood and a woman whose love comes with strings of behavioral accountability attached.
www.billpullman.org /film/virginian/virginian.htm   (847 words)

  
 Virginian - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It gave Virginians a chance to control their own government for the first time.
Jefferson the Virginian - Volume I (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 1)
Best of Westerns: The Virginian, Desert Death Song and Trap of Gold, Pistolero, Frontier Stories, the Old West
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /virginian.htm   (1686 words)

  
 The Virginian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is a romance in the sense that the relationship between the Southerner and the Schoolmarm continues to unfold, and we get to share the full depth of their love, to experience their many heartbreaks and their personal triumphs.
Foremost, however, The Return of the Virginian is intended to be an entertaining Western from the first page to the last.
The Virginian’s adventures, however, are related in the only manner they can be told, through straightforward narrative.
www.chatlink.com /~drobbins/virginian.htm   (819 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Virginian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Winiarski succeeds in animating the Virginian's wit and mannerisms although his drawl is unconvincing.
One of the main conflicts in the story is between the Virginian and cattle-rustler/murderer Trampas.
This is the classic story by Wister (1860-1938) of the ranch foreman, known only as the Virginian, his courtship of Molly Starkwood, the "schoolmarm" from Vermont, and his conflicts with Trampas.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812580400   (1208 words)

  
 The Virginian / The Men From Shilo
(Molly Wood was the Virginian's girlfriend and subsequent wife in the novel).
McClure's portrayal of Trampas was one of the highlights of the series and served as a perfect counterpoint to Drury's rather stolid and taciturn characterization.
An episode in the final season, 'Holocaust' aka 'The Shiloh Years', saw the Shiloh Ranch house burned to the ground, only to be rebuilt by the story's conclusion with The Virginian, Trampas and the Grainger's raising their glasses to a new beginning.
www.tvparty.com /recvirginian.html   (816 words)

  
 The Virginian - Chapter XXIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In their rides, in their talks, love had been dumb, as to spoken words at least; for the Virginian had set himself a heavy task of silence and of patience.
The Virginian was on the point of saying, "Then get out!" But instead, he spoke kindness to the end.
Since that first moment, when in the Medicine Bow saloon the Virginian had shut the mouth of Trampas by a word, the man had been trying to get even without risk; and at each successive clash of his weapon with the Virginian's, he had merely met another public humiliation.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/western/TheVirginian/chap25.html   (2319 words)

  
 Introduction to the Virginian Railway
The creation of the Virginian is generally credited to one man, Henry Huttleston Rogers of New York and Fairhaven, Mass.
The Virginian was often in the forefront of steam locomotive development, particularly in the area of LARGE articulated locomotives.
In 1923, Virginian management instituted a project to electrify its main operational bottleneck, the limitng grade of Clarks Gap Hill.
www.nwhs.org /about_vgn.html   (1100 words)

  
 The Virginian TV Show - The Virginian Television Show - TV.com
This is a long-lived series which was almost unique for its time in that it was filmed in color and that each episode had a running time of one and one-half hours (ca.
As was the case with many other series of the time, it had a large, ensemble cast and in some episodes only a single star or some of the stars...
She begins a series of articles for the "Police Gazette" about a legendary but supposed dead outlaw called the Brazos Kid and her hints he is still alive bring a bounty hunter,...
www.tv.com /virginian/show/1042/summary.html   (178 words)

  
 The Virginian - Chapter XXV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But the Virginian gave him a pleasant greeting, "I was afraid I'd not catch you so quick," said Shorty.
As the Virginian glanced over it and saw that the enclosure it contained was for Balaam, his heart fell.
He gave a cigar to the Virginian as an afterthought, but to his disgust, the Southerner put it in his pocket and lighted a pipe.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/western/TheVirginian/chap27.html   (3731 words)

  
 Virginian Resort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
he Virginian Resort is located on Highway 20 in Winthrop, Washington.
Dining and beverages are available in the Virginian Restaurant.
Situated on the Methow River, The Virginian has direct access to the trail system and is within walking distance of downtown Winthrop.
www.methow.com /~virgnian   (51 words)

  
 The Virginian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Toni Collette has probably had plenty of opportunities to show off her shoe collection on the red carpet, but in her new movie In Her Shoes, she plays a Princeton educated attorney with no social life what-so-ever.
But when the Virginian is wounded, she nurses him and their mutual admiration to health, leaving only a duel with the villain Trampas in the way of their happiness.
THE VIRGINIAN was one of the first Hollywood sound films to succeed with location shooting; the natural style of the recordings became a model for subsequent films.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1022869-virginian/about.php   (412 words)

  
 The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plains by Owen Wister
The Virginian, A Horseman Of The Plains by Owen Wister
The boots of the Virginian were next heard to drop.
Virginian; for in the band of the Virginian's hat were two or
emotionalliteracyeducation.com /classic_books_online/vrgnn10.htm   (13177 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - The Virginian
Most of the Lasky Company productions were based on either a novel, a stage play, or in the case of The Virginian, a novel (by Owen Wister) that became a stage play.
The Virginian's compadre Steve (J.W. Johnston) has gotten himself mixed up with some rustlers.
Our hero's steely reply is "When you call me that -- smile." (This line was lampooned hilariously in, among other places, Buster Keaton's 1926 comedy, Go West.) It's a mistake for these cattle thieves to mess with the Virginian -- he vanquishes them and shoots Trampas in a showdown, thus winning Molly's hand.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/78537/plot.jhtml   (284 words)

  
 Full text and plot summary of The Virginian by Owen Wister
Philadelphia born Owen Wister published this novel in 1902 and in doing so established the conventions of the Western.
It is a story of natural justice and of the contrast between American East and West.
Even so, the Virginian himself and all the major players in the novel are Easterners.
www.bibliomania.com /0/0/58/105   (188 words)

  
 DVD.net : The Virginian - DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
When The Virginian (that’s his name!) is sent to bring the rustlers to justice, the previously lighthearted film suddenly becomes a brutal melodrama and lives are lost.
Trampas escapes and has a vendetta out for The Virginian and a final confrontation is inevitable (and predictable).
There is a humourous newspaper article in the film that calls The Virginian a cowpoke and cowpuncher, but it isn’t enough to save this dreary romance on horseback.
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3030   (860 words)

  
 The Flick Filosopher | The Virginian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But the tentative romance that develops between the Virginian and Molly works, especially as it turns rocky when their very different cultures clash: she, a citified Easterner, can't understand how an honest and honorable man like the Virginian can take the law into his own hands when necessary.
The Virginian's mettle is further tested when his friend and fellow ranch hand, Steve (John Savage: Message in a Bottle, The Deer Hunter), gets himself involved in dirty deeds.
The frustrating thing is, I could never quite figure out what was going on between the two ranchers: what the dispute was really about, why a dramatic exchange of some horses went sour, and what exactly Balaam, Trampas, and Steve had to do with the bad stuff that goes down.
www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/001q/virginian.shtml   (668 words)

  
 The Virginian - Activities
Channel 6 - The Virginian maintains an in-house television broadcast channel which offers an expanding program of movies, travel videos, The Virginian current events, and Vespers to note only a few.
A resident committee is being organized to contribute to the development and effective use of Channel 6.
Educational Seminars - The Virginian serves as an off-site campus for the Lifetime Learning Institute (LLI), the continuing education for seniors group associated with Northern Virginia Community College.
www.thevirginian.org /activities   (687 words)

  
 The Virginian on video
This is an edited version of THE VIRGINIAN episode "We've Lost a Train" shown in fl and white.
DARK DESTINY: 2.29 Drama featuring Virginian and Randy (Brenda Scott, Bill Smith--Virginian has custody of cattle rustler's tomboy daughter who nurses Randy back to health after an accident and then can't decide whether to be devoted to the cowhand or help her father escape from jail)
Virginian asks dance hall girl to help him get evidence from man who may be threatening to kill her)
www.buckskins.com /virginian4sale.htm   (8509 words)

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