Television Westerns are a subgenre 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.