Books were the first source of entertainment that included the idealized version of the “All American” cowboy. In the 1820s, one of the first authors to include cowboys in his stories, called Tales of Leather Stockings, was Cooper. In Cooper's stories, the heroes were never able to get back the girl he saved because he was rough around the edges, which was like the real cowboy. Another major contribution to the creation of the "All American" hero was the emergence of Wild West shows in the 1870s. These shows glorified cowboy life using re-enactments of fights between cowboys and Indians, from the horse riding and weapons such as guns (Brinkley, 2009). The main attraction of the shows was the famous fight between Buffalo Bill Cody and the Indians; This is where the myth of the cowboys against the Indians was born. In 1902, a man named Owen Wister wrote a book called The Virginian, which set the tone for other stories written about the West. To get a good idea of ​​what cowboys were really like, Wister traveled West. Once there, Wister was disappointed to find that the cowboys really led a rather boring life, so he used his imagination. In his stories, the cowboy always got the girl and always engaged in a duel with the villain of the story, which was the first of its kind. Owen Wister's "The Virginian" invented the idea of ​​a duel between the hero and villain of the story, which quickly became a tradition in all Western stories. Shortly after the release of "The Virginian", a 10-minute black and white silent western, "The Great Train Robbery", was released in 1903. This film helped further promote the romanticized version of the Virginian lifestyle. cowboys and the west.