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Television Westerns are a sub-genre of the Western a genre of film fiction drama television programming etc. in which stories are set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West Western Canada and Mexico during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called Indian Wars. (More recent entries in the Western genre have placed events in the modern day but still draw inspiration from the outlaw attitudes prevalent in traditional Western productions.)When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s TV westerns quickly became an audience favorite.