Article: Westerns

WESTERNS

WESTERNS, works of popular fiction, radio or television programs, or motion pictures that dramatize the American experience in the lands west of the Mississippi River, particularly during the years of heaviest settlement, 1860 1890. Westerns have been a staple of American popular culture for more than 150 years, providing a rich body of myth, legend, and iconography that has evolved over time to influence and reflect American ideals and struggles.

Frontier fiction had been popular since James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels (1823 1841), and as Americans explored and settled westward after 1850, tales of daring adventure and the triumph of rugged ...



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