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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
Hollywood Westerns are totally sanitised. Zane Grey's westerns are fictional and far more accurate. Most US made Westerns were also quite racial. Maybe more obvious to people who are not White Americans.
Don't use fiction as a guide to anything, least of all Fiction on the Screen.
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Fiction actually has an interesting insight into the morals of the time. I used it as an example, because I assumed, apparently accurately, that most here are not well versed in history of the old West. The American old west was quite an interesting place. Was it racist? Yes, but blacks were actually much more common than many think. For example, the first black lawman was Bass Reeves, one of Judge Parker's deputies. He was suppose to have been the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's character in Hang'em High. There were a lot of Black cowboys, as there were Hispanic cowboys and Indian cowboys.