Move over, cowboy, the future of the Western is female

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Imagine a Western, and you’ll probably think of laconic macho cowboys, tumbleweed and casual murder on the high plains. But the Western hasn’t always been so rigidly conceived, and in the 21st century, the old stereotypes of life on the frontier are cracking open to reveal something fresh and new. To understand how the Western came to be – and to catch a possible glimpse of the genre’s future – you have to look at what came before. The rootstock out of which modern fictions about the American fr