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Cowboys, Lawmen, and Outlaws: The Myth of The American PsychePrefaceIn the 1950s westerns were the most popular form of television drama. Saturday mornings were filled with black and white images of?Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger,?and?The Cisco Kid. In the evening you had the more adult westerns like?Have Gun, Will Travel, Rawhide,?and?Wanted Dead or Alive. Sprinkled amongst these shows were programs purporting to be about real historic characters, people like Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, and Wild Bill Hickok.Although?Gunsmoke?s?Marshal Matt Dillon wasn?t real, the Long Branch Saloon was. Of course writer John Meston?s Matt Dillon was much closer to a real cowboy lawman than what was represented by James Arness. William Conrad?s radio version was somehow more real, more colorful, and more dramatic than the whitewashed television version even though the stories were similar. Perhaps it?s just a malleable memory but somehow radio always felt more real, more vivid, and more present than television. Television turned everything into pabulum. even fascinating gritty historical c