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* ''[[Nichols]]'', a 1970s [[Western Series|Western]] [[Dramedy]] starring [[James Garner]], took place in 1914 Arizona and had the title character, a pacifistic sheriff, using cars and motorcycles rather than a horse.
* The series ''Outlaws'' starts in 1899 where an outlaw has become a sheriff sent to bring in his old gang. The sheriff tells the gang that the old ways aren't going to work any more. Then a [[Lightning Can Do Anything|freak lightning storm]] sends them all through time to 1986, where they set up a detective agency and have to adapt to the modern world.
* ''[[Hec Ramsey]]'' was a gunfighter and lawman who became interested in [[Forensic Drama|forensics]]. A touch of humor came from the clash between his newly cerebral approach to crime solving and people who still expected him to be a gunfighter first, last, and always. According to The Other Wiki, this was the '''first''' TV series set at this period.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which toured from 1883 to 1913, was a result of the closing of the West. There were all of these people still alive who had lived through the wildest days of the West, which had finally been tamed and fenced in. So the only way left to experience the [[Wild West]] was [[The Theme Park Version]], and William F. Cody brought some of the best to his show like Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull. ▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' takes place in 1911, with this trope in full effect. Federal agents have shown up to tame the Wild West, and they've brought an automobile with them. They repeatedly refer to the hero, [[Retired Outlaw]] John Marston, as a remnant of a bygone age, even as they use him to track down his former gang mates.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which toured from 1883 to 1913, was a result of the closing of the West. There were all of these people still alive who had lived through the wildest days of the West, which had finally been tamed and fenced in. So the only way left to experience the [[Wild West]] was [[The Theme Park Version]], and William F. Cody brought some of the best to his show like Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull.
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