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Every few years the Western is dragged out the cave and gives an excuse for an actor to ride a horse. The last run has been on television “Hatfields v McCoys”, and the TV series “Justified” and “Vegas”.

The western has always been a boom for Hollywood, expansionism, war, cowboys and Native Americans. I mean why else did Bruckheimer and company remake the Lone Ranger.

How does one create a great character Western?

A cool cowboy/sheriff protagonist (the late great Cleavon Little Blazing Saddles), a real bad guy (DiCaprio in Django), horses, and ripping, toting gun fight ending.

Below is an excerpt for an article I wrote on the western.

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I=ll be your Huckleberry- the Western

By Darrell Jerome Banks

Copyright 2005

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Face it you like horses, you like seeing them run, jump and there is nothing more exciting than a cowboy riding a horse backwards and shooting at anybody.  Before drive byes, or Arnold as the Terminator, westerns dominated the world.   Since celluloid film emerged from Hollywood the world has been fascinated with Cowboys and Native Americans.

Despite the absence of a good Western since Clint Eastwood in AUnforgiven,@ the genre is wide open. With remakes of the A The Love Bug@ and Assault on Precinct 13 shuffling through the Hollywood machine your opportunity to emerge as the next break out writer may be through the Arizona desert and a six-shooter.