life in the American Wild West theme
It is shown what life might have been like in America during its post- revolutionary frontier expansion, roughly 1783-1912, the times popularly associated with Cowboys and Indians.
27 total · 4 choice · 18 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Cimmaron (1931) | choice | The story is largely set in the fictional Oklahoma frontier town of Osage. The story follows the town's development from lawless nothing to a to a flourishing urban center. |
| movie: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) | choice | we saw an idea of what it might have been like during the time of railroad expansion |
| movie: Stagecoach (1939) | choice | The story is set in Arizona and New Mexico, June 1880. A drunken physician, a whisky peddler, a crooked banker, an outlaw, a prostitute, a snobbish belle, among others traveled together in a stagecoach through hostile Apache territory. |
| movie: There Will Be Blood (2007) | choice | we saw a believable portrayal of the lives of various characters between 1898 and 1927 in the American west |
| ahp5x25 | major | The story is set in the saloon of an Old West mining town. |
| ahp6x07 | major | The story viewer is shown a caricature of what might happen when a mysterious passerby to an Old West era saloon is discovered to be an outlaw by its gullible patrons. |
| ent3x09 | major | The Enterprise crew visited a Wild West style world. |
| movie: Around the World in 80 Days (1956) | major | One lengthy leg of the travelers' journey went across the Wild West on train, where they were ambushed by Sioux Indians. Before that they had experienced life in the remote frontier city of San Fransisco. |
| movie: Oblivion (1994) | major | The viewer is shown a caricature of what it might have been like to live in a tumbleweed town that was being terrorized by a band of desperadoes. |
| movie: The Searchers (1956) | major | we saw some domestic life in 1860s America |