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The Future. The West is beckoning Americans once again… but, this time, in a way that feels more demographically inclusive and stylistically modern. That’s because the West, as historian and The Sagebrush Trail author Richard Aquila details, is a “Rorschach inkblot test” of culture’s fascinations and preoccupations. In that spirit, expect the Western to make a roaring return in entertainment and potentially usurp the superhero as this decade’s defining storytelling genre

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Culture is looking west again.

Historian of American cinema and culture at the University of Utah, Andrew Patrick Nelson,  notes our renewed fascination with the West “is the idea you can live a more authentic, exciting, and rugged life.” 

That feeling is especially seductive as we exit the pandemic. Atlantic writer and Lifehacker editor Jordan Calhoun said he became obsessed with Yellowstone because, stuck in his Harlem apartment, he “longed for rows of pines, big stretches of sky.” He has since made his way out to Montana because we all, in some way, want to dress and travel how we want to feel.

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