The Ol' Wild West

 During the episode of Gunsmoke the director portrays many Wild West stereotypes. The episode opens with the good old cowboy riding in on his noble steed. With the cowboy hats, belts, mustaches describes the ideal cowboy within the old town. Also having a saloon with a woman at the bar counter. The whole act of being a cowboy in the wild west is shown as a tough rouged man who owns the town. Once the public have seen things like this they assume thats how a cowboy really is or was. Not truly knowing the facts we as Americans follow the fact of television or media. A typical reason for why the TV series was so popular for its time is that the show presented what the audience wanted to see. Rough tough men as cowboys who take care of business and women who would do as told. The amount of drama and action scenes tributes to their success as the gun fights or standoffs is another stereotypical cowboy way to settle things. So we see that the cowboy has been portrayed into a strong manly man mainly because of our media showing us shows like Gunsmoke.