Title: The Creation of the Cowboy Hero
Description: "As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created a compelling image of the West, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced public perception of the cowboy as a hero figure. This book describes the evolution of the Western cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood"--
Subjects: Western films, Western stories, history and criticism, West (u.s.), in literature, Film criticism, History and criticism, Cowboys in popular culture, Western stories, In motion pictures, In literature, Literature, Motion pictures