For more than a century, Albert Bierstadt's sweeping canvases of snow-capped mountain ranges, radiant sunsets, colorful Indian tribes, and buffalo roaming the plains have captured the public imagination with a Romantic vision of a vast and beautiful continent waiting to be seen, explored, and conqu...

Western films are the major defining genre of the American film industry - a nostalgic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier and the borderline between civilization and the wilderness. They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most ch...