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Wild West
From American culture, depicting the western frontiers of that nation in the 19th century CE (1st century BT). The romanticized image of lawlessness and heroism on the frontier. Eventually displaced and superseded in the popular imagination by the by the equally romanticized concepts of the High Frontier or Wild Frontier.
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- Western, The - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Popular atomic through to early interplanetary age fabulist genre, featuring a romanticised interpretation of 19th century America. It remained an important archetypal narratives until being superseded by the space frontier epic. - Wild Frontier
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev; amended by Stephen Inniss
Initially published on 12 December 2001.
Initially published on 12 December 2001.
