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The '''American Old West''' comprised the myths, legends and stories, many of them true, that collected around the [[Western United States]] from 1865 to 1890.
As a setting for works of [[fiction]], the period quickly became so popular as to define its own [[genre]], the "[[Western (genre)|Western]]." These works often put forth a romanticized portrayal of the era characterized by isolated outbreaks of violence, but they have also promoted interest in its true [[history]]. [[Historical revisionism]] has noted that certain interests (notably cowboys, [[Native American|Indians]], businessmen, and the [[United States government]]) repeatedly clashed in these conflicts, and a few accounts refer to them as a "western civil war of incorporation" that established United States authority over the region. Though the Old West is often seen as being unusually violent, some argue that that was not the case. For instance, it has been argued that the Old West was "a far more civilized, more peaceful and safer place than American society today."<ref>Hollon, W. Eugene. Frontier Violence: Another Look. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974, p. x</ref>
==Wild West: 1865-1889==
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Some "Westerns" are not set in the West at all (such as most of those involving riverboats, which were rare west of the Missouri River), or even in North America. The 1990 film ''Quigley Down Under'' is the tale of a cowboy who goes to [[Australia]]. Though not set in the American West, [[MGM]] includes this in their "Western Legends" line of videos.
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