With "Stagecoach," Ford's return to the genre after 13 years of more "prestigious" material, the western achieves self-consciousness, an awareness of itself as America's official foundation myth.
Many of these, admittedly, are quasi-state bodies, like an official youth foundation, or businesses in disguise, like private schools, but a growing number are the real deal.
This month, the program, renamed 10 and Under Tennis, became the official foundation for all U.S.T.A. youth tournaments.
Better still, the Greek Ph.D. association that is preparing its official foundation has already started to organise next year's Eurodoc conference.
But the official foundation of the NRA?
The number of buildings which pre-date the town's official foundation in 1790 are scarce.
For more of this work, check out Tichy Ocean, his official foundation, at www.tichyocean.ch.
Then ask what the official foundation for that type of cancer is, and send the money there.
The official foundation of Badajoz was laid by the Almohad Muslim nobleman Ibn Marwan, around 875, after he had been expelled from Mérida.
Europeans should not offer their credit or technology to a regime that says the fatwa remains operative, and that blood-money will be paid to the murderer by a semi-official foundation, even though it will not actually send its own hit-men to do the dirty job.
