MEXICAN WILD WEST

First off, the Spanish had been in the American Southwest for centuries by the time that it became the "Wild West". The Spanish communities were centered around the coast of southern California, and along the Rio Grande in New Mexico and Texas. To them, the whole place was a frontier, it was dangerous, potentially just as dangerous if not more so than the American "Wild West".
During the heyday of westerns, films showed cowboys riding through the Great Sonoran Desert from Arizona to what is now the State of Sonora in Mexico. The desert is still there and so are the cowboys. Sonora is Mexico's wild west. In some ways, it reflects the Old Mexico of the by-gone days of yesteryear.
For the Mexicans, it wasn't the “Wild West.” Their frontier was “el norte.” The USA's great westward expansion, our national success story, was for the Mexicans a story of loss, disappointment and humiliation, as the “anglosajones” wrested their northern territories of Texas and California from them, and proceeded to ...
Classic Westerns have cemented the image of cowboys as white Americans, but the first wave of horse-riding cow wranglers in North America were Indigenous Mexican men.