Old West

American  

noun

1. the western region of the U.S., especially in the frontier period of the 19th century.

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Example Sentences

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

But she was energized talking about the Los Angeles of her youth — a time when the city was still among the cheapest international places in the world, underdeveloped, with remnants of its Old West roots like horses and hitching posts visible alongside glamorous 1920s architecture.

From Los Angeles Times