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Per the pundits, there are only 3 individual storylines that exist, and everything else is an offshoot of these.
1. Boy meets girl
2. Good versus evil
3. Man against nature
I think Westerns, like every other genre, can work for all three of these. I still maintain that all it will take is the right book at the right time, possibly supported by the right movies, TV movies and television shows, and the Western will be back.
The onus is really on all of us who write books set in the Old West -- we need to write the stories that remind people of why this was a great and fascinating time period.
1. Boy meets girl
2. Good versus evil
3. Man against nature
I think Westerns, like every other genre, can work for all three of these. I still maintain that all it will take is the right book at the right time, possibly supported by the right movies, TV movies and television shows, and the Western will be back.
The onus is really on all of us who write books set in the Old West -- we need to write the stories that remind people of why this was a great and fascinating time period.