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The film's popularity opened the door for Anderson to become the screen's first Western star; he made several hundred Western film shorts. So popular was the genre that he soon faced competition from Tom Mix and William S. Hart. [21] Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era (1894–1927).
1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States. This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States.
The term "Western", used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World magazine. [13] Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th-century popular Western fiction, and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form.
Westerners were proud of their leadership in the movement for democracy and equality, a major theme for Frederick Jackson Turner. The new states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Ohio were more democratic than the parent states back East in terms of politics and society. [236] The Western states were the first to give women the right to vote.
List of Western lawmen; National Cowgirl Hall of Fame Honorees; References This page was last edited on 25 February 2025, at 16:25 (UTC). Text is available under ...
By 1959, four years after the boom in TV Westerns began, thirty such shows were on television during prime time; none had been canceled that season, while 14 new ones had appeared. In one week in March 1959, eight of the top ten shows were Westerns, and an estimated $125 million in toys based on TV Westerns would be sold that year.
Tumbleweeds The 1939 rerelease version, with an 8-minute intro by Hart and an added synchronized soundtrack. Tumbleweeds is a 1925 American silent Western film starring and produced by William S. Hart.
3-D Western (re-released in 1954 as Outlaw Territory) The Homesteaders: Lewis D. Collins: Wild Bill Elliott, Robert Lowery: B Western Hondo: John Farrow: