The Stereotypical Old-West Lawman :: Media Stereotypes Stereotyping

The sterile Old-West Lawman Justice, duty, silence, wisdom, bravery, self-reliance, independence, respect these be all characteristics of the old-west lawman. Matt Dillon, marshal of scheme City, is just such a lawman. His sense of justice, duty, and wisdom epitomize the conventional old-west hero. In the episode entitled Fawn, Marshal Dillon is charged with a char that escaped an Indian camp. She is accompanied by a young Indian missy. They are in Dodge till the womans husband arrives fetch her. plot of land the woman is waiting for her husband a man comes to speak to her. He accepts her and the smallish girl. When the husband arrives he wants the girl to go to a reservation, exactly the woman refuses to let her go. The husband divorces the woman and goes back east. The woman mustiness run with the little girl because the government wants to put the little girl on a reservation. Marshal Dillon arranges for the man that spoke to the woman previous to take both the woman an d the little girl away with him. This saves the little girl. Throughout the episode Marshal Dillon defends the woman, because he thinks she and the little girl are treated unjustly. In the episode entitled How to Kill a Friend, a pair of gamblers come to town. They try to bribe Marshal Dillon, but he refuses to take their bribe. Later, someone shoots at the marshal as a scare off tactic. He figures out that the gamblers shot at him and he runs them out of town. commonly such men move on to another town and dont conk but these men returned. This time they brought a gunman to keep Dillon in check. The gunman turns out to be an old friend of the marshal. He tries to coax his friend to leave, but the man has turned bad and refuses. Eventually they institute into a confrontation. In the process, Dillon shoots and kills his friend. Though he is saddened that he killed his friend, he had to do his duty. He had done his best to dissuade his friend, but had to fulfill his duty. In the e pisode How to Die for Nothing, a bunch of cowboys from Texas come into town. One of them is rummy and when the marshal tries to take away his gun, he tries to shoot Dillon. Dillon had to shoot the cowboy and he ended up dying.