Very interesting; I wasn’t aware of this. Actually I don’t know much about Westerns. Claude tells me that “Formula Western” (which is apparently the only thing I had in mind when thinking about Westerns) is set in the (mythologized) 1880s. Is there any resource (ideally a not super long post) that you would recommend about the history of Westerns?
Well, Wikipedia has an entry for contemporary western but it’s not great since it treats those 1930s-1940s stories as the same thing as stories set in the west today, which they really weren’t.
Very interesting; I wasn’t aware of this. Actually I don’t know much about Westerns. Claude tells me that “Formula Western” (which is apparently the only thing I had in mind when thinking about Westerns) is set in the (mythologized) 1880s. Is there any resource (ideally a not super long post) that you would recommend about the history of Westerns?
Well, Wikipedia has an entry for contemporary western but it’s not great since it treats those 1930s-1940s stories as the same thing as stories set in the west today, which they really weren’t.