Género literario, oral o de película cinematográfica que trata la vida de la frontera occidental de Norte América, particularmente en el siglo XIX. (es)
Literair en mondeling genre dat met name het leven in de 19e eeuw aan de Noord-Amerikaanse kolonisatiegrens behandelt. (nl)
Genre of novels, short stories, comic books, etc., characterized by a setting in the American West during the US western expansion, usually the 1850s through the early 1900s; the western genre reached its greatest popularity in the early and middle 20th century. The genre is primarily an American creation, although the western had its counterparts in the gaucho literature of Argentina and in tales of the settlement of the Australian outback. (en)