Best RPG system for Western Tropes and Setting?

[MGibster]

I wonder how easy it would be to strip the weird west stuff from something like Deadlands?

It would be crazy easy to strip the weird west stuff from Deadlands. Stripped of all the weird stuff, there are helpful suggestions for wild west character concepts and rules for duels, stampedes, hangin', and gambling. You really wouldn't need any of the setting information, but then who really needs setting information for an old west game? We've all seen westerns.

 

[Eltab]

+1 for Boot Hill.

Even though the only time I played (around 1981), some bandit shot me in the back while I was moving to cover.

 

[MGibster]

Boot Hill is one of those games I've heard of but I don't think I've ever encountered it in the wild. I don't know anyone who owned it and I was very surprised to learn that its third edition was released in 1990. Surly I must have seen it on the shelves of Lone Star Comics back in the day?