Accounts Quote by Gary Krist

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could…

— Buffalo Bill

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

“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

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,…

— Elizabeth Crook

Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To…

— Luther Standing Bear

When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of my childhood,…

— Tony Todd

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that…

— Brendan Fletcher

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

— Ross Douthat

When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is…

— Caroline Lawrence

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

— Howard Hawks

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of…

— Martin Van Buren

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies…

— Elizabeth Crook