American Quote by Frank Waters

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

— Ross Douthat

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

— Robert Taylor

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Westward, ever westward.

— Henry Wells

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

“Days of yore when America was no more than a strip of land stretching a couple hundred miles west of the Atlantic and the…

— Charles Frazier

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

— Kiefer Sutherland

I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

— Sam Jaeger

Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

— Massimiliano Gioni

I like the idea of watching the sun go down in the ocean. I've always felt comfortable about that, I like sunsets. There's something…

— Michael C. McMillen