Books were the first source of entertainment that included the idealized version of the "all-American" cowboy. In 1820, one of the first authors to include cowboys in his stories, called Leather Stocking Tales, was Cooper. In Cooper's stories, the heroes never managed to capture the girl he saved because she was rough, which was similar to the real cowboy. Another huge contributor to the creation of the “All American” hero was the emergence of Wild West Shows in the 1870s. These shows glamorized the life of the cowboy by using re-enactments of cowboy-Indian fights, horseback riding, and weapons such as rifles (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 cowboys against Indians originally came from. 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 feel for what cowboys were really like, Wister traveled to the West. When he got there, Wister was disappointed to see that the cowboys actually led a rather boring life, so he used his imagination. In his stories, the cowboy always got the girl and was 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 dualism between the hero and the villain of the story, which soon became a tradition in all Western stories. Soon after the release of “The Virginian,” a 10-minute silent, black-and-white Western film, “The Great Train Robbery,” was released in 1903. This film helped further promote the romanticized version of the cowboy lifestyle and the entire West.