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Westerns and Western Subgenres in Film, Literature, and TV

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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)

Westerns of the Week

Payback at Morning Creek by Gene Hackman

With only memories of his family left to him, Jubal Young rides west into New Mexico in order to bring justice, or vengeance, to the drunken renegades that took everything from him.

The Quick and the Dead

The story focuses on "The Lady", a gunfighter who rides into the frontier town of Redemption, controlled by John Herod. The Lady joins a deadly dueling competition in an attempt to exact revenge for her father's death.