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

Founded more than seven years ago by art dealer Nicholas Fahey and artist manager Candice Lawler, the event has morphed from a few dozen people in Lawler’s living room to a few thousand roaming the dusty, sunny environs of the kitschy Old West town, with ancillary events in Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree.

From Los Angeles Times

That was something they did in the Old West or in Frankenstein movies.

From Literature

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