Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- STAGECOACH
- John Ford's 1939 film Stagecoach is widely credited with turning the Western into a serious dramatic form and launching John Wayne to stardom.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SPURS
- The jingle of a rider's spurs became so synonymous with the genre that composers like Ennio Morricone wrote it directly into their scores.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- LASSO
- The word lasso came into American English from the Spanish lazo, carried north by the vaqueros, the skilled horsemen who shaped cowboy culture.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- HOLSTER
- The quick-draw holster was actually a Hollywood invention; working cowboys of the 1800s wore their guns buttoned safely away rather than at the ready.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Classic Westerns: a free large-print word search
Classic Westerns word search, free and large-print. Ride into the dust, the draw and the golden hour of Hollywood's most iconic frontier tales.
About Classic Westerns
The classic Hollywood Western conjured a world of wide-open skies, red canyon walls, and towns where a single dusty main street divided the law from everything else. Figures like Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and Jimmy Stewart made the genre an art form, every creak of a saddle and jingle of spurs loaded with quiet tension. From the lone rider silhouetted against a blazing sunset to the showdown at high noon, these films gave American storytelling some of its most enduring images.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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