Is the Stephen Crane Short Story The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky a Big Fat Parody?
I have to say no. Your question erred in a significant way. Hollywood didn’t create this false image of the West. The false image was created a long time before by people living in the age of the incidents. It didn’t take publishers long to notice that people living “back East” enjoyed these gritty depictions of the West. Dime novels were a big seller in the 18th and 19th centuries. Look at Stephen Crane. He died in 1900. Hollywood was non-existent as the facet of American life that it holds now. Crane would have been writing this story with the idea that he was depicting a real slice of the “wild West” that was becoming more civilized.
