"When People Believe the Legend, Print the Legend"

(How American film maker's glorified the real truths of what the American West was really like. Based on the realistic "American frontier" essay by Fredrick Jackson Turner "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" in opposition with three films, "High Noon," "Stagecoach," and "the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.") The mystique of the frontier still exists, as does admiration for the individuals strong enough to leave behind them everything known, setting out for territory …

…the ideas shown in the films, even though they were not meant to be taken so literally. Unconsciously, we as Americans, mixed up what was meant to be real and what was meant to be entertainment, because even to this day, when we think of the West we imagine cowboys, indians, and guns. Turner would believe miniscule components of those films, but would admit that it was all taken from the truth to create entertainment.