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Christine Bold in The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1800–1924, builds on the works of Richard Slotkin and G. Edward White to deconstruct the creation of the mythic West formula for literature (and later film/television) at the end of the nineteenth century. Bold argues that the mythic West formula was created by a group ...
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
The James–Younger Gang commits the first train robbery in the history of the West by derailing a locomotive of the Rock Island Line west of Adair, Iowa and stealing $3,000 from the express safe and passengers on board. [149] Dec "My Western Home", a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, is first published in an issue of the Smith County Pioneer.
The journey to the west was pleasant, but there were dangers and challenges along the route. There were diseases: cholera, measles, smallpox, and dysentery. Children were crushed under the covered wagon wheels, people drowned in rivers, were lost, starved, killed by Native Americans (very few settlers), froze to death, trampled by buffalo, or ...
Thus, artists depicted the West in increasing various ways. Maynard Dixon, American painter, changed to easel paintings of Indians and landscapes rendered in a nearly cubist/realist style from illustrations of the Old West. [19] Paintings focusing on nature and animal are another way in which artists demonstrate the wild West.
The Western film Hell on the Border (2019) features a character based on Bass Reeves, the first Black deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River. [14] The Harder They Fall (2021), also directed by Jeymes Samuel, is a Western with characters based on historical Black people in the West, including Nat Love, Bill Pickett, and Mary Fields. [17]
CHEYENNE — Western culture has made its way into many facets of social life, most notably pop culture and media. With stars like Chappell Roan, Post Malone and Beyoncé incorporating traditional ...
The origins of cowboy culture go back to the Spanish vaqueros who settled in New Mexico and later Texas bringing cattle. [2] By the late 1800s, one in three cowboys were Mexican and brought to the lifestyle its iconic symbols of hats, bandanas, spurs, stirrups, lariat, and lasso. [3]