1. Your cuntry 2. How well known is the Wild West/Old West in

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1. America
2. It's well known but sadly isn't very popular these compared to how it was seen in the early and mid twentieth century.

>>65896170
*these days

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>>65896084
1. Canada
2. We sort of had a wild west too, so it's well known. but nobody cares about it anymore

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Cowboys and Indians and stuff

>>65896626
You guys have stories about rcmp like we do about Texas Rangers and other law enforcement?

Brazil
We have our own

I don't if it's us or the Italians who are the biggest cowboos outside North America. Our baby boomers grew up watching television that was almost exclusively yank frontier dramas.

>>65896626
I'm also interested in an answer to >>65898999

It's pretty big in the countryside, lots of older people are wannabe cowaboos

>>65899240
>>65899288
Not really wild west stuff but I always found this story to be pretty interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johnson_(criminal)

>>65899369
oops meant for
>>65898999 and >>65899240

>>65899369
>In desperation, the RCMP hired a leading post-war aviator named Wop May of Canadian Airways to help in the hunt by scouting the area from the air. He arrived in the new ski-equipped Bellanca monoplane on February 5. On February 14, he discovered the tactics Johnson had been using to elude his followers. He noticed a set of footprints leading off the centre of the frozen surface of the Eagle River to the bank. Johnson had been following the caribou tracks in the middle of the river, where they walked in order to give them better visibility of approaching predators. Walking in their tracks had hidden his footprints and allowed him to travel quickly on the compacted snow without having to use his snowshoes. He left the trail only at night to make camp on the river bank, which is the track May had spotted. May radioed back his findings and the RCMP gave chase up the river, eventually being directed to Johnson by February 17.
>After Johnson's death, RCMP officials realized that he had travelled over 137 km (85 mi) away from his cabin in less than 3 days, burning approximately 42 MJ (10,000 kcal) a day.
Pretty based

>>65899288
Do they ride horses and wear comfy hats?

>>65899288
This, the American West has god-tier nature IMO.

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>>65896084
>Not having a Wild West
>Not having a Wild North
>Not having a Wild South
Even the east is wild sometimes.

Are some countries even trying?

>>65896084
Fun fact, we call it the old west rather than the wild west for some reason.

>>65899601
>Denying the existence of the Eternal Wild West

But in all seriousness that is interesting.

Fun fact, as of the 2010 Census most Americans still lived east of Chicago, much less the Mississippi River. That might have changed this decade, though.

>>65899601
>>65899609
I never understood what was the difference between the two terms and why people use one over the other.

Russians have always kind of liked Old West stuff because it mirrors their own experience of settling Siberia.

>>65896626
The Canadian frontier was settled in a more orderly, planned fashion than the American frontier.

>>65899496
most countries don't consider being uncivilized a good thing

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>tfw Westerns are all filmed in NM instead of AZ nowadays

>>65899635
So their Old West would really be the Old East?

>>65899660
Well, technically it would be. Stalin was a big fan of Western movies.

>>65899677
>you will never watch nice kino with Stalin to decide which are fit for consumption in the Soviet Union
how's it feel?

Sweden
Very popular with people born in the 50s, comics and novels were abundant. It's still a thing in the music genre Dansband, where they often have a rhinestone cowboy aesthetic going on. Current generation doesn't care.

>>65899047
Which is apt given that the Australian Outback has much in common with the American West.

>>65899796

I can recall Little House on the Prarie getting reruns still in the 2000s.

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>>65899650
Civilization is a spook

>>65899832
Little House on the Prairie was comfy desu

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There is, or was, a wild west culture in rural southern Alberta and Saskatchewan

>>65899819
Rangers, bars and snakes so yeah.
Just less shooting (each other, not natives) and more brawling

>>65900279
What about that interesting fellow that welded together body armor for himself to protect himself in gunfights

>>65900378
Ned Kelly?

>>65900279
And especially geographically 2bh, although you all didn't have Buffalo.

>>65900739
Yes.

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wild west is basically a meme in turkey

>>65896084
>that bouncing on the saddle
I never understood how men can ride horses that are running. I've only ridden a horse once, but anything more than a slow trot was too painful.

>>65896084
Westworld (show from that Webm) looks pretty good tbqh

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>>65900993
I wasn't sure about it after the first episode but I just finished the second one and it was nice. I'm glad since there hasn't been a good, new show in a while (since The Knick started years ago, imo).

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