Cities are rapidly growing and expanding. New technology is created and implemented almost as fast as the human mind can conceive something worth creating. The world is constantly evolving into something bigger and better. New ideas, customs, and ways of life are progressing. Every time a new idea is thought of, it's usually a way to better improve something that already exists. When that happens it demonstrates "returning to a primitive condition on a progressively advancing frontier".
The American public has "imagined" Western history as world of fantasy brought forth by literature, artwork, television, and perhaps most of all, Hollywood. The concept of the "Wild West" glorifies free, white, alpha-dominant males as the heroes in Hollywood Westerns. .
The greatest myth about the American West is concept that it was a land that had to be tamed. Hollywood likes to create an exaggerated, grandiose image of the West as a place where good and evil clashed, without room for anything in between. Heroes and villains always have superior shooting skills. Western characters have other significant characteristics as well. These characteristics include the following: independence, courage, integrity, confidence, ruggedness, bullheadedness, and overly-exaggerated masculinity. .
There is always bound to be some sort of conflict resulting in shootout or bloodshed. Other popular themes that Westerns share are revenge and the struggle to survive in wilderness. In the end, the hero saves the day or at least manages to survive the conflict.
Take, for example, the Movie, Rio Bravo. Sheriff John T Chance (John Wayne) was the designated defender of his community. He didn't care if the town supported him or not. Chance attempted to single-handedly keep Joe Burdette in jail, and simultaneously stop Burdette's older brother and his henchmen. Chance was prepared to stand alone against overwhelming adversaries for the sake law and order.
