History Main / TheWestern

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* ''ComicBook/TheGhostRider'' (1967) is a Western with a few fantastic elements. The titular Ghost Rider doesn't have supernatural powers, but he's a masked TerrorHero who uses trickery and illusion to convince his foes that they're fighting something more than human.

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* ''ComicBook/SargentoKirk'', from Argentina (but still set in the US) predates the "revisionist" western by a pair of decades.

* CanadianWestern = The Western set in CanadaEh, typically during the Klondike Gold Rush

In terms of time, the genre's heyday (as stated above) is [[BrieferThanTheyThink a 25-year span in the 19th century]], but there are [[DawnOfTheWildWest examples set earlier]] (''Film/DrumsAlongTheMohawk'' takes place during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution when upstate New York was frontier country) and [[TwilightOfTheOldWest later into the early 20th century]] (Creator/SamPeckinpah's ''Film/TheBalladOfCableHogue'' ends with the title character ''getting hit by a car'', and his ''Film/TheWildBunch'' ends with a gunfight dominated by a UsefulNotes/WorldWarI-era machine gun. Likewise, ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' features early automobiles, machine guns, oil rigs, and a World War I-era US Army). An increasingly common period for the genre is the 1850s or thereabouts, because it allows for stories dealing with the evils of slavery (''Film/DjangoUnchained''). Of course, any work dealing with the [[UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} Texas Revolution]] will be set in the 1830s. For series that use Western tropes but are set in the modern day, see NewOldWest.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop''

* ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'', a steampunk western published on the web and in print.

* ''Rolling Western'' is going to be this but with an armadillo and tower defense.

* ''Series/WalkerIndepence'' is a prequel of ''Series/{{Walker}}'' and follows Cordell Walker's ancestor, Abby Walker, in the 1800s.

!!HybridGenres based around Westerns

* ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' may be set in Scandinavian Europe, but it has heavy Western vibes, like people riding, Elsa breaking a bronco, canoes, vast nature, Scandinavian versions of Native Americans, a wandering troop of soldiers at the frontier. Justified when you consider that Northern Scandinavia was a frontier of its own until about World War I, with gold rushes, natives, bandits, even gunfighters

The Western is usually set on the American frontier, but sometimes go farther afield to places like Alaska (''Film/NorthToAlaska'', ''The Far Country''), Mexico (''Film/TheWildBunch'', ''Film/VeraCruz'', ''Film/TheProfessionals''), [[CanadianWestern Canada]] (''Film/NorthWestMountedPolice''), and Australia (''Film/TheProposition'', ''Film/QuigleyDownUnder'').

* ''Series/{{Branded}}'': The Western meets ''Series/TheFugitive''.

Enormously popular on TV and in the {{movies}} in the 1950s and 1960s. In fact, there were about ''fifty'' American western TV series running at about the same time over when there were at most 3–4 TV networks, not including FirstRunSyndication. The major series included: ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'', ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'', ''Series/WagonTrain'', ''Series/{{Rawhide}}'', ''Series/{{Branded}}'', ''Series/TheWildWildWest'', ''Series/HaveGunWillTravel'', ''Series/TheRifleman'', ''Series/TheBigValley''...