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Westerns and Western Subgenres in Film, Literature, and TV

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Western Films

Western Fiction

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"The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind."

-Darryl Ponicsan

(ca. Tom Mix Died for Your Sins: A Novel Based on His Life (New York: Delacorte Press, 1975), p. 135)

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Under a Painted Sky

Call Number: YOUNG ADULT FICTION LEE

Racial Frontiers

Call Number: LATINO 305.80097 DELEON

Straw Dogs of the Universe

Call Number: WESTERN YE

Daughters of the Samurai

Call Number: 920.72 NIMURA 2015

On Gold Mountain

Call Number: 929.20899 SEE 1996

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

Call Number: FICTION LIN

The Chinese and the Iron Road

Call Number: 331.6251 CHINESE 2019

The Chinese Community of Stockton

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Sarah Canary

Call Number: FICTION FOWLER

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

Call Number: 331.6251 CHANG 2019

The Asian Texans

Call Number: 976.4004 BRADY

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

Call Number: FICTION ZHANG

Westerns of the Week

True Grit

Call Number: FICTION PORTIS

U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She accepts the help of the Texas Ranger, who is intent on the reward, and accompanies them on the quest.

News of the World

Call Number: DVD MOVIE NEWS

Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs.

Western Education, Preservation, Publications, etc.