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Wild West America: 1865–1895
USA · 1865–1895 · exact time + place
Experience the rugged and lawless American frontier — cowboys, outlaws, gunslingers, and pioneers, where boomtowns sprang up overnight. The button below opens StoryTerra with both the US and 1865–1895 already set.
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Browse 195 books, 361 movies, 6 TV shows and 5 games set in United States of America.
The Hateful Eight
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Little Women
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio" one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories and his gang.
Back to the Future Part III
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down the travelers are…
Unforgiven
William Munny is a retired once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute.…
Tombstone
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp now a weary gunfighter joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help…
Rango
When Rango a lost family pet accidentally winds up in the gritty gun-slinging town of Dirt the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for new…
True Grit
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor…
3:10 to Yuma
In Arizona in the late 1800s infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured Civil War veteran Dan Evans struggling to survive on his…
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