Editing Western (genre) (section)

===Locations===
Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an [[arid]], desolate landscape of [[desert]]s and [[mountain]]s. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a "mythic vision of the plains and deserts of the American West".<ref name="Cowie 2004">{{cite book |last=Cowie |first=Peter |title=John Ford and the American West |publisher=Harry Abrams Inc. |location=New York |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8109-4976-8}}</ref> Specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways, wilderness, and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Many Westerns use a stock plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution, which is often dispensed through a [[shootout]] or [[Fast draw|quick draw]] duel.<ref name="Agnew">Agnew, Jeremy. December 2, 2014. ''The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact'', p. 88, McFarland. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-7839-2}}</ref><ref name="Dope">{{cite web |last=Adams |first=Cecil |title=Did Western gunfighters really face off one-on-one? |url=http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2514/did-western-gunfighters-really-face-off-one-on-one |publisher=Straight Dope |date=June 25, 2004 |access-date=October 4, 2014 |archive-date=August 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818074443/http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2514/did-western-gunfighters-really-face-off-one-on-one/ |url-status=live }} June 25, 2004</ref><ref name="Willy">{{cite web |title=Wild Bill Hickok fights first western showdown |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wild-bill-hickok-fights-first-western-showdown |url-status=dead |publisher=History.com |date=July 21, 2014 |access-date=October 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006135032/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wild-bill-hickok-fights-first-western-showdown |archive-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref>