In a few Western countries female toplessness at a beach is acceptable, although it may not be acceptable in the town center.

There is a town in the Western Australian wheatbelt approx 300 km east of Perth called Southern Cross.

There is a town called Suiderkruis ( Southern Cross ) in the Western Cape province of South Africa,

Saloon owner Kent ( Brian Donlevy ), the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's Sheriff, Keogh, killed when the Sheriff asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game.

It emerges from the confluence of the Kara Su or Western Euphrates () and the Murat Su or Eastern Euphrates () upstream from the town of Keban in southeastern Turkey.

The series is set in the late 19th Century Western town of Four Feather Falls, Kansas and features the adventures of its sheriff, Tex Tucker.

In 1824, they decided it was time to leave Indiana, sold their land and town in Indiana, and moved to their final settlement in Western Pennsylvania.

* 1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.

Margaret River is a town in the South West of Western Australia, located in the valley of the eponymous Margaret River, south of Perth, the state capital.

After World War I, an attempt by the Government of Western Australia to attract migrants to Western Australia ( known as the Group Settlement Scheme ) and establish farms in the region attracted new settlers to the town.

* 1968 – An earthquake rated at 6. 8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.

* Broome, Western Australia, a pearling town

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

* Southern Cross, Western Australia, town in Australia

His home town of Portland, Maine, erected a statue of him at the corner of Western Promenade and Pine St in a ceremony on August 31, 1910.

* Western, New York, a town in Oneida County, New York

* August 12, 1829 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the day of the founding of the town of Perth, Western Australia.

* August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the day of the founding of the town of Perth, Western Australia.

The plot follows a mysterious stranger ( Eastwood ) who arrives in a brooding Western town where the people hire him to protect them against three soon-to-be-released felons.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, under the Byzantines, the town became one of the first episcopal seats of Sicily.

The town straddles the A4 Bath Road ( it becomes the Great West Road closer to London ) and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London.

He spent most of his early childhood in the mining town of Tom Price in north Western Australia.

* Prince Albert, Western Cape, a small town in South Africa

* 1: Westliche Innenstadt ( Western town centre )

Paul L. Foster, billionaire philanthropist and President of Western Refining is also formerly from Lovington, as is former Duke University basketball star Taymon Domzalski. Randy Jones ( cowboy from Village People ) was raised on a ranch in nearby Maljamar and graduated LHS Class of ' 70.

A rich Western heritage includes the Las Escarbadas ranch house of the XIT Ranch located southwest of Hereford in Deaf Smith County.

Western music star and rodeo champion Chris LeDoux ( 1948 – 2005 ) resided on a ranch near Kaycee, although he was actually born in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Western Heritage Classic in early May features ranch rodeo, campfire cook-off, sheepdog trials, farrier competition, Cowboy Poets Society, a Western art show and many other activities.

Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy / Western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the man she hires is not what she expected.

The 25-year-old Roosevelt had a similar Western adventure to Remington, losing money on a ranch in North Dakota the previous year but gaining experience which made him an “ expert ” on the West.

, UFA operates 35 farm and ranch supply stores in Alberta, over 100 fuel stations in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan., and 25 outdoor adventure sporting goods stores in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest.

Western settlement is considered to have been started by Padre Jose Nicolas Balli, who set up a cattle ranch early in the 19th century.

Western swing began in the dance halls of small towns throughout the lower Great Plains in the late 1920s and early 30s, growing from house parties and ranch dances where fiddlers and guitarists played for dancers.

He also owned the Jones Western Store in Phoenix and a cattle ranch near Chandler.

Befitting his California background, Alterie was a Western enthusiast who wore a ten-gallon hat and two holstered Colt. 45 revolvers and owned a ranch near Sedalia, Colorado.

In the Western United States, ranch style homes often use a covered porch to provide shade for the entrance and southern wall of the residence.

* The Dude Ranchers ' Association Group of about 100 ranch owners mostly in the Western United States.

These houses borrowed their style cues from the 1950s Western styled ranch houses, with board and batten siding, dovecotes, large eaves, and extensive porches.

He also found an outlet for his articles ( mostly about cowboying and ranch life ) in such non-literary journals as Livestock Weekly, The Cattleman, Prorodeo Sports News, Texas Highways, Western Horseman, and The Dallas Morning News.

Vigilante continued to sporadically appear as a superhero in DC comics, having been established as running a dude ranch in Mesa City ( the former home of Western hero Johnny Thunder ).

The riding style is like that of Western riding and the event is somewhat related to the American events such as cutting, working cow horse, team penning, and ranch sorting.

In its last season, it was placed on the Tuesday schedule opposite CBS's The Red Skelton Show and a new NBC Western drama Empire set on a modern New Mexico ranch.

Reagan spent vacations during his presidency at the ranch, which became known as the Western White House.

The film serial The Phantom Empire has been cited as possibly the earliest science fiction Western primarily because it takes place on a dude ranch ( with many of the props associated with conventional 19th century westerns ) while showcasing technology not in existence during that period.