Old West
Americannoun
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 • Mar. 1, 2026
The technique of “Train Dreams”—the stylized juxtaposition of images and narration, the kaleidoscopic jumble of anxious memories and pastoral portraits—is not the stuff of an Old West parable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
He owned or leased about 18,000 acres and put them all to work: as full-sized sets representing Old West towns, a Dutch village with a windmill, Swiss and Puritan and native American and fishing settlements.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025
Wade starred as “Willy the Kid” in a promotional video in which he’s dressed like an outlaw from the Old West and rides a horse to a rendezvous with McNeese players wearing cowboy hats.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024
Of course, the Herdmans weren’t in the Old West, and they weren’t in the children’s encyclopedia either.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
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