The potent Images of the cowboy and the six shooter have shaped the myth of the American West: pioneer freedom and frontier towns. In this first episode of a two-part series, IDEAS explores the myth of the West, and how the values of individual freedom and boundless conquest continue to feed America's political ideology.
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