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Why did / does popular culture portray cowboys the way they're shown?

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•the gun play can make for more entertaining stories.

• maybe the writers of stories are trying to match the potential audience (white americans ).

• portraying a lone person makes the characters seem more heroic- it fits into the American idea of rugged individualism

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