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Western

Genre of popular fiction and film based on the landscape and settlement of the American West, with emphasis on the conquest of Indian territory. It developed in American dime novels and frontier literature. The Western became established in written form with such novels as Owen Wister'sThe Virginian (1902) and Zane Grey'sRiders of the Purple Sage (1912). From the earliest silent films, movies extended the Western mythology and, with Italian ‘spaghetti’ Westerns and Japanese Westerns, established it as an international form.

Westerns go back to US writer J F Cooper'sLeatherstocking Tales (1823–41), and the hunter stories of the German writer Karl May (1842–1912). In stylized form, they became frontier stories of cowboy rangers and Indian villains, set vaguely in the post‐Civil War era. Many Westerns are nostalgic, written after the frontier officially closed in 1890. The Virginian is the ‘serious’ version of the form, but prolific writers like Zane Grey and Frederick Faust (1892–1944) developed its pulp possibilities and its place in universal fantasy.


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17 February 1945

The Second World War: The U.S. launches Operation Catchpole, resulting in America taking control of the atoll in the north western part of the Marshall Islands.

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The First World War: On the Western front, German troops begin a planned withdrawal to the Hindenburg line.

28 February 1916

The First World War: Allied forces complete their conquest of the Cameroons, a German protectorate on the coast of western Africa.

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The Second World War: U.S. and Australian forces sink a convoy of Japanese ships in the Bismarck Sea in the western Pacific.
17 March 1948
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3 April 1918
The First World War: General Ferdinand Foch is appointed allied commander in chief on the Western Front.
12 April 467
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14 April 1918
The First World War: American planes fly their first sorties over the Western Front.
19 April 1902
A massive earthquake hits western Guatemala, killing more 2,000 people.
9 May 1915
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19 July 1843
In Britain, the launch of the Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western steamship at Bristol.
3 August 1492
From the Spanish port of Palos, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets sail on a journey to find a western sea route to China, India and the islands of Asia.
21 August 1961
Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Kenyan independence movement, is released by British colonial authorities after nearly nine years of imprisonment and detention. Two years later, Kenya achieved independence and Kenyatta became prime minister. Once portrayed as a menacing symbol of African nationalism, he brought stability to the country and defended Western interests during his 15 years as Kenyan leader.
23 August 1990
The Gulf War: Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi television with several Western hostages.
20 September 1519
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Spain in an effort to find a western sea route to the rich Spice Islands of Indonesia.
29 September 1957
A passenger train collides with an oil-tanker train in the Gambar province of western Pakistan, killing 300 people.
24 October 1861
In America, the Western Union Telegraph Company completes the first transcontinental telegraph line.
19 November 1941
The Second World War: During a battle in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Western Australia, the Australian HMAS Sydney and the German HSK Kormoran sink each other, killing hundreds of Australians and under a hundred Germans.
20 November 1820
An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the American whaling vessel the Essex, sinking the ship 2,000 miles off the western coast of South America.
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16 December 1920
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19 December 1915
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