Old West

Example Sentences

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Like many Old West boomtowns, it went bust, until skiing became the new gold.

From The Wall Street Journal

By 1940, some two years after the restaurant first opened, the Knotts began work on the biggest addition to their entertainment complex yet: a re-creation of an abandoned pioneer town, inspired by the history of the Old West and Walter’s own grandparents, who moved to California from Texas in a covered wagon in the late 1860s.

From The Wall Street Journal

When we studied the Old West, everybody had to do a special report on A Cowboy’s Life or Famous Indian Chiefs or Notorious Outlaw Families like the James brothers.

From Literature

Of course, the Herdmans weren’t in the Old West, and they weren’t in the children’s encyclopedia either.

From Literature

Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey‘s Western action-drama series, “The Abandons,” may have missed you, getting lost in the streaming shuffle after its December 4 release on Netflix — despite reaching #4 on the platform’s Global Top 10 — but its story of two opposing matriarchs going claws-out in the 1850s Wild/Old West, is the perfect show to binge on a day spent shirking all those New Year’s resolutions.

From Salon