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Historical and critical works include Christine Bold, Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960 (1987); Harold P. Simonson, Beyond the Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism, and a Sense of Place (1989); Jane Tompkins, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns (1992); Arnold E. Davidson, Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West (1994); and Lee Clark Mitchell, Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film (1996).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Westerns. | Mar 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Narrative. | Nov 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Rzeszów - The Evolution of the Western Genre Resulting from Social Changes in the USA (PDF). | Jan 18, 2025 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Jun 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: MIT OpenCourseWare - The Western. | Apr 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Western Genre. | Dec 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Filmsite - Westerns Films. | Sep 23, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 08, 2011 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 01, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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