The love stories that are typically embedded within traditional Western genre films are that of seemingly impossible circumstance - some kind of conflict preventing the two from being together, the leading male displaying his heroic qualities at the end by "rescuing" the comparatively weak female lead and all odds are overcome as the two characters ride off into the sunset. As viewers, we have come to expect these types of romantic plot lines from the Western genre. ...

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