The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier, commonly referred to as the “Old West” or “Wild West”. Stories in the genre are most commonly set during the period of westwar
The Lone Ranger, a famous heroic lawman, was with a cavalry of six Texas Rangers until they all, except for him, were killed. He preferred to remain anonymous, so he resigned and built a sixth grave that supposedly held his body. He fights on as a lawman, wearing a mask, for "Outlaws live in a world of fear. Fear of the mysterious".
Justus D. Barnes, in Western apparel, from the silent film The Great Train Robbery (1903), the second Western film and the first one shot in the United States
James Garner and Jack Kelly in Maverick (1957)
The American frontier encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settl
Western (genre)
…The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier, commonly referred to as the “Old West” or “Wild West”. Stories in the genre are most commonly set during the period of westward expansion in the 19th…
The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American frontier
Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap
Siege of Fort Detroit during Pontiac's War in 1763
Native leader Tecumseh killed in battle in 1813 by Richard M. Johnson, who later became vice president