Valenteena is the name of the font above, and if you look carefully you will see lots of little hearts making up the letters. Despite that, it still has a nineteenth-century look, though there were no typefaces in the nineteenth century that looked quite like this.
Valenteena has a contour or inline version that looks really nice printed, but the screen version was too smudgy to include it in this story.
TuskcandyPlain, illustrated above has serifs that are split, and a split serif font is known as a Tuscan. Wait, there is more...
because Tuskcandy also comes in a bold version. The face has the air of the nineteenth century, though it is not a reproduction of any particular typeface from that period.
It also has an inline version, which comes out well enough at 36 point to include, though again this effect needs size and good quality printing to work well.
By now you may be wondering when I am going to run out of "Old-West" fonts. Actually, I have to stretch a bit, as the following example illustrates.
The font illustrated here is the swash version of the first typeface that I designed that one could use as text without complete embarrassment. It has a certain clumsiness and lack of refinement that I think makes it look "Old West." It is called RataczakSwash.
I am running out of story and out of "Old-West" fonts, so it is back to my mother lode of "Old-West" fonts, the Wyoming series. This is WyomingSpaghetti, the plain style.
This is the bold version of WyomingSpaghetti. You might notice that there is a close similarity between this face and WyomingStrudel, the typeface used in the very beginning. WyomingStrudel was derived from this one.
Finally to the end. I hope you enjoyed the story. If you know more about the Great Bovine Rebellion of 1896 than is told in the above story, I would like to hear from you. I think this may be a very important part of American history and no details of it should be lost.
The typefaces above are Bigtop and BigBottom. They are modifications of one of the Kyhota typefaces.
(Does it strike you that this mode of presentation has the same disjointedness that we have come to expect when viewing television? Everything is in short little bits and pieces, and there are two different stories being told at the same time. No past generation would have stood for this, but we think it is normal.)