Whose West Is It Anyway? or, What's Myth Got to Do With It? The Role of "America" in the Creation of the Myth of the West.

The Dreamworks production called "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," is directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, with a screenplay by John Fusco, who has been credited with the retro Westerns, "Young Guns" and "Young Guns II." The trailer of the movie opens as a horse paws a cliff, before panning alongside an eagle frying over the plains, into steep canyons and mesas, finally tracking alongside a herd of wild horses running freely (with John Williams'-style music on the soundtrack). That's all the context given, with a voice-over reminding of the countless stories told of how the West was won, though never a story from the horse's point of view.