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	<description>The American West was a wild place and is rich with many stories, some truly incredible. Lots of western fiction writers have read the history of the West and incorporated that history into their western stories.</description>
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		<title>Where are the Good Westerns?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are there Any Good Westerns Out there Anymore? That depends on what you believe a &#8220;good&#8221; western fiction story should be. Some believe a good western is an &#8220;authentic&#8221; western. They are convinced that the writer was obligated to &#8220;tell it like it was&#8221; and not add the glitter and glamour, nor romanticize.  They seem [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stetson Hats: The Boss of the Plains Hat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Stetson Hat was created by John B. Stetson. During the Civil War in 1862, Mr. Stetson, having no desire to die an untimely death, headed for Colorado to pan for gold long after John Sutter&#8217;s fabulous discovery of gold in California. He&#8217;d been working as an apprentice milliner but had grown weary of the work. After [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Western Books|The Old West in Science Fiction</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Western Sci-fi or science fiction westerns have been somewhat rare, and have not been totally accepted by true western fiction affectionados. There are some who have espoused ideas about aliens visiting the Old West. Whether or not aliens actually visited the west during the years of the gunfighters and the Indian wars is an intriguing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>America’s Love Affair with Western Fiction Began with James Fenimore Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Western Fiction Impacted America as early as 1813 Westerns have been with us (Americans) since at least 1813 with the release of Daniel Bryan’s The Mountain Muse, and in James Paulding’s The Backwoodsman in 1818. But, the man who would impact American culture more than any man for generations was James Fenimore Cooper, who began [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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