Nash's analysis ends with the last decade of the nineteenth century, but the mythical quality of the West has become an enduring feature of American twentieth century life. And nowhere is the myth so powerful as in the movies.
Silent film perpetuates old myths of the West, but it is in many ways a unique medium.
Also, the silent film was a vehicle well suited for the transmission of myths to American audiences, many of whom in the earliest days of silent film were recent immigrants. By privileging action over language, silent film particularly suits the code of the Western. The power of motion pictures to transmit American myths was not lost on contemporaries of silent film. He begins to feel himself a brother in a race that is led by many dreams. The last Silent Westerns and the end of the Old West Site developed by Mary Halnon.