Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister?s novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established mos

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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions roote

Westerns are rarely only about the West. From the works of James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for to

The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of