The Western

Manifest Destiny
Rugged Individualism
American Eden
Harmony of Man and Nature

Key Novels
1826 The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
1849 The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman
1872 Roughing It, Mark Twain
1902 The Virginian, Owen Wister

1882 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show
Sitting Bull
Annie Oakley

Silent Westerns
1894 Thomas Edison - first silent westerns
1905 The Great Train Robbery
Tom Mix (1st "B" western star)
1923 The Covered Wagon
1929 The Virginian

1930s Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy

1939 Stagecoach
John Ford
John Wayne
1952 High Noon
Gary Cooper
1953 Shane
1956 The Searchers
1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
1964 A Firstful of Dollars
Sergio Leone
Clint Eastwood
1969 The Wild Bunch
1990 Dances With Wolves
1992 Unforgiven