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The Old West is the American frontier during the latter half of the 19th century—the era of cowboys, gunslingers, saloons, and westward expansion.
It evokes a romanticized landscape of lawlessness, rugged individualism, and conflict with Native peoples: an old west shootout, old west justice.
The term appears in discussions of American mythology and in genres that draw on this setting.
Usually capitalized.
- cowboyMounted cattle herder
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
- frontierEdge of settlement
- gunslingerExpert pistol fighter
- quick drawRapid weapon retrieval
high noon · sheriff · outlaw · dusty · spurs · cowboy boots · stagecoach · tumbleweed · cattle · cattle drive · rancher · holster · revolver · wagon · wagon train · prairie · desperado · horseback
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- dude ranchdude ranch, dude ranches, guest ranch, guest ranches, ranch stay
- Heartland StatesKansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana
old westcivilization
Advanced organized human society
law and order · suburban sprawl · industrial society · metropolis
old westthe east
Asiatic lands collectively
eastern seaboard · New England · back east · East Coast · the old country
old, west, older, oldest, olden, oldster, western, westerly, westward