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American Old West
Extracted from the Wikipedia article American frontier.
American frontier in popular culture
The exploration, settlement, exploitation, and conflicts of the "American Old West" created a cultural milieu that has been celebrated by Americans and foreigners alike—in art, music, dance, novels, magazines, short stories, poetry, theater, video games, movies, radio, television, song, and oral tradition. Beth E. Levy argues that the actual and mythological west inspired composers Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell.