arromdee
Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 10th 2021 at 7:49:52 PM
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I've watched a series of 1930's B-Westerns.
Most of them are set in contemporary times, and they are absolutely not about the Twilight of the Old West. Cars and paved roads took a while to spread from big cities to the West, and the Great Depression made it hard for people to afford cars, with the result that it still made sense to have stories with horses. Pretty much any Western story not featuring an Indian attack or a specific historical thing like the Pony Express could be contemporary, up to around 1939.
Edited by arromdee
Does a story have to be set in the late-nineteenth-century American West to qualify? Someone recently added Frozen II to the page due to it having some elements that are common in the genre, but its pseudo-European fantasy setting is giving me pause.
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