Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction. Western movies often include cowboys. The culture shown in westerns came from Texas, because then people living in the cattle industry began to thrive on the plains of Texas. Westerns tell stories that are set mostly in the second half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. There are also stories about Western-type characters set in other times. These include Junior Bonner (set in the 1970s) and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (set in the 21st century).
The genre has been popular since the beginning of the movie industry. One of the very first commercial movies was the 1903 silent western, The Great Train Robbery.
Examples
There are Western movies, television programs, books, and other things. Here are some examples:
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a movie
- The Searchers, a movie
- Gunsmoke, a television series
- Red Dead Redemption, a video game
Western (genre) Media
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, as "Bronco Billy Anderson", from the silent film The Great Train Robbery (1903), the second Western film and the first one shot in the United States
The Great Train Robbery full film (1903); runtime 00:11:51.
James Garner and Jack Kelly in Maverick (1957)
John Wayne (1948) 
Tom Mix, full-length portrait, kneeling, facing left, holding two guns, hat on floor, in "Mr. Logan, U.S.A."
