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@GA Russell - Ummmm ..... are you saying that the US Western genre influenced contemporary authors of the day, nay the 20th Century?

Not being familiar with US (?) Western books (we don't have that genre endemic to Aus as far as I know) I'd find it curious if it influenced cultures that didn't have issues similar to those discussed. Are Western genre books typically about cowboys and Indians, and the land grab by the cowboys? (In Aus we call the land grabbers the 'squattocracy', because they just squatted on the land and claimed it for their own, irrespective of the fact that it was very likely never purchased either through the government or anyone else; and certainly was never negotiated for with the local Aboriginal tribes who were dispossessed as a result.)

That's how those old US 'western' cowboy movies come across. (The ones with John Wayne et al).