Steyn is an excellent writer and observer of lots in politics and the human condition.
But he ain’t American.
As others have commented, Westerns are our folk lore, our Grimms Tales, our teaching stories, our identity myths.
It shows what it is to be American.
Popular culture has “Progressed” to the Left. That’s why these stories seem to some a bit hokey these days.
This was not written by Steyn but a woman.