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The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known as the American Old West or Wild West), but also in Western Canada and Mexico. Some westerns are set as early as the  Battle of the Alamo in 1836 and the American Civil War, and some are set as late as the Mexican Revolution in 1920.