American west Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ...…

— Walter Kirn

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

— Archibald MacLeish

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

— Tom Mix

“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

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is…

— Richard Gere

The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that's in our American interests. It's its good that the West is…

— Daniel Fried

“But I can’t help but long for a real return to the Western. Westerns are true Americana. They tell of the struggles of our…

— Clayton Moore

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the…

— Philip Anschutz

The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s…

— David Milch

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the…

— Rebecca Solnit

Its a strange thing because the West is rooted in a very harsh reality of hard living and scratching out a life for yourself,…

— Colter Wall

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