As America was built by westward expansion during the 19th century, so too was American television built by the Western programming boom of the mid-20^th century. More than two dozen shows set in the Old West populated primetime at the format’s peak in 1959, and it looked like medium and the genre would be forever linked. Spoiler alert: they weren’t

getTV is known as the home to so many westerns - from rare TV westerns of the 1950s and 1960s like The Restless Gun to a more recent series like The Young Riders. The Young Riders tells the story of Pony Express riders in the Nebraska territory during the years leading up to the Civil War. Ty Miller starred on the 1990s show along with a cast that also included Josh Brolin and Stephen Baldwin. We recently spoke with Ty about his love of westerns and his days playing The Kid.

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If you were a fan of The Young Riders during its original run, you enjoyed something of a rarity: a traditional Western on primetime television in the 1990s. The popular action series about the Pony Express galloped through three seasons, despite the fact that the genre had virtually disappeared from network TV decades earlier. Sure, it had a revisionist hook – historical hotties of the Old West! – but otherwise it was a delightfully retro example of the art form.