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* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' takes place in a post-apocalypse, reforested America, where races are referred to as 'tribes' and most people live by hunting animals and sentient machines. The Tenakth in particular have built their culture around what few recordings of our America remain.
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* While ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' mostly fits into the UrbanFantasy genre the short story ''A Fistful of Warlocks'' does fit this trope with Warden Anastasia Luccio teaming up with Wyatt Earp to fight necromancers in a small frontier town.

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* Implied in ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmarSoulbound'': One sidebar in ''Champions of Destruction'' is written by a Maneater mercenary who speaks in a stereotypically Texan way and mentions having a big hat

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* Implied in ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmarSoulbound'': One sidebar in ''Champions of Destruction'' is written by a Maneater mercenary who speaks in a stereotypically Texan way and mentions having a big hathat.
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* Implied in ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmarSoulbound'': One sidebar in ''Champions of Destruction'' is written by a Maneater mercenary who speaks in a stereotypically Texan way and mentions having a big hat
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The wilderness of North America (especially the United States) makes for an effective {{fantasy}} setting. Its huge swaths of uninhabited land might contain all manner of [[FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore strange and terrible creatures]], or [[TheHighwayman robbers and bandits]], ready to prey on unsuspecting travelers. [[{{Precursors}} Ancient ruins]] lie scattered about the landscape, built by a people long gone, and out beyond the bounds of civilization, the average {{Muggle}} works the land, having either no ability or no desire to confront the dangers that lurk in the wilderness just beyond the treeline.

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The wilderness of North America UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica (especially the United States) UsefulNotes/UnitedStates) makes for an effective {{fantasy}} setting. Its huge swaths of uninhabited land might contain all manner of [[FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore strange and terrible creatures]], or [[TheHighwayman robbers and bandits]], ready to prey on unsuspecting travelers. [[{{Precursors}} Ancient ruins]] lie scattered about the landscape, built by a people long gone, and out beyond the bounds of civilization, the average {{Muggle}} works the land, having either no ability or no desire to confront the dangers that lurk in the wilderness just beyond the treeline.
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* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': in a 1993 celebratory issue, Captain America tracks a man named Father Time, who leads him to a portal. After he enters, Cap appears in a place he calls "America's mythic past", where he meets Johnny Appleseed, Pecos Bill, John Henry, Paul Bunyan and even an incarnation of Uncle Sam. Bunyan tells Cap he is in the "Heart of America". The issue ends with Cap pondering if the trip was AllJustADream or not.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Anchorome}}'' is an unusual variant of this trope in that it combines the StandardFantasySetting with Pre-Columbian Central & Northern America, being set in the "America" region of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''. Literal {{Magical Native American}}s, {{Bigfoot Yeti And Sasquatch}}es, nomadic elves, desert-dwelling dwarves and various American [[BeastMan beastfolk]] are the order of the day here, with tomahawks and buckskins replacing longswords and chainmail.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Anchorome}}'' is an unusual variant of this trope in that it combines the StandardFantasySetting with Pre-Columbian Central & Northern America, being set in the "America" region of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''. Literal {{Magical Native American}}s, {{Bigfoot Yeti Sasquatch And Sasquatch}}es, Yeti}}, nomadic elves, desert-dwelling dwarves and various American [[BeastMan beastfolk]] are the order of the day here, with tomahawks and buckskins replacing longswords and chainmail.
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* ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath'' takes place in a North America whose primary colonizers were Norse, and has the presence of dragons.

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* ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath'' takes place in a North America version of 1840s New England whose primary colonizers were Norse, Norse and has the presence of dragons. dragons (as does the rest of the world).
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* ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath'' takes place in a North America whose primary colonizers were Norse, and has the presence of dragons.
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* For the most part, ''{{VideoGame/Arcanum}}'' is set in a MedievalEuropeFantasy undergoing an Industrial Revolution. However, at the beginning of the game you can help an {{expy}} of DocHolliday foil a bank robbery using swords, magic or even your own six-shooters.

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* For the most part, ''{{VideoGame/Arcanum}}'' is set in a MedievalEuropeFantasy MedievalEuropeanFantasy undergoing an Industrial Revolution. However, at the beginning of the game you can help an {{expy}} of DocHolliday foil a bank robbery using swords, magic or even your own six-shooters.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Root}}'' looks like MedievalEuropeanFantasy at first, but actually fits here. The Forest is very North American looking, and the members of the Eyrie Dynasties are all birds native to North America, while the Marquise is invading from a faraway France counterpart with the intent to colonize for resources. One of the factions is a trading company of Voyageur counterpart beavers that plies the rivers in canoes à la the Hudson Bay Company. Also, since the Woodland Alliance of oppressed commonfolk is fighting both a pseudo-European invader and a decadent monarchy, they can be read as either Native Americans or the United States, as one prefers, or both.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Root}}'' looks like MedievalEuropeanFantasy at first, but actually fits here. The Forest is very North American looking, and the members of the Eyrie Dynasties are all birds native to North America, while the Marquise is invading from a faraway France counterpart with the intent to colonize for resources. One of the factions is a trading company of Voyageur counterpart beavers that plies the rivers in canoes à la the Hudson Bay Company. Also, since the Woodland Alliance of oppressed commonfolk is fighting both a pseudo-European invader and a decadent monarchy, they can be read as either Native Americans or the United States, as one prefers, or both. Of course, it's mostly Low Fantasy except perhaps when dealing with the Lizard Cult.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Root}}'' looks like MedievalEuropeanFantasy at first, but actually fits here. The Forest is very North American looking, and the members of the Eyrie Dynasties are all birds native to North America, while the Marquise is invading from a faraway France counterpart with the intent to colonize for resources. One of the factions is a trading company of Voyageur counterpart beavers that plies the rivers in canoes à la the Hudson Bay Company. Also, since the Woodland Alliance of oppressed commonfolk is fighting both a pseudo-European invader and a decadent monarchy, they can be read as either Native Americans or the United States, as one prefers, or both.
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* ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos'' is set in a bizarre alternate version of the United States where many famous monuments like the Art/StatueOfLiberty, the Washington Monument, and Mount Rushmore either are or contain some kind of EldritchAbomination, and where the government is involved in many nefarious and supernaturals dealings.

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