"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 few even had seen. They left safe homes on the eastern coast, for whatever awaited them on the trail West.…