Setting

• Open range, frontier
• Mountains
• Small towns, ghost town
• Railroads
• Saloon
• Ranch
• Old country, traditional and undeveloped landscape

Characters

• Hero
• Villain
• Marshal or lawman
• "Good girl" i.e. Wife, Homemaker
• "Bad girl" i.e. Prostitute
• Sidekick

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