I’m curious. What *other *culture was there to compare it to? In the show, I mean. Other than low-down, under-handed, yellow-belly skunk? 
City slickers from back East.
Men of the land, who honestly till the soil. You know, morons.
Lone Ranger: “Tonto, let’s go check out the strip club.”
Tonto: “What we find there, Kemo Sabe?”
Lone Ranger: “Titty-rump, titty-rump, titty-rump-rump-rump!”
Not the kind to kiss and tell! 
Carpetbaggers! Lily-livered, cattle-rustlin’, bushwhackin’ varmints!
Your question sort of demonstrates the answer. 1950’s middle-class white America was pretty blind to any other lifestyle or culture. You don’t see any Catholicism in the Olde West. Or German or Jewish immigrants. Somehow, Mormons also get left out of the story of the settling of America. Or really, anyone who wasn’t a WASP. But what annoys me about Lucas McCain in particular is how smugly he preaches to the audience via his boy about how 1950’s WASP values are really the only correct ones.
Paladin encounterd the same Jewish family in two episodes of Have Gun Will Travel. Ward Bond led a wagon train of Mormons in *Wagon Master.
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A point of nomenclature here, no one in the Old West was a ‘dick’, they were known as being “an ornery cuss”
Very little in TV Westerns is historically accurate from what I understand.
The exception being the “western” Kung Fu wherein most of the whites were dicks, Cain being “chinee” and all.
On Deadwood they were all cocksuckers.
What an odd thing to obsess over.
Didn’t a lot of Westerns have stories with Catholic priests at like, you know, old missions in California and the Southwest?
Yes, you are right.
And, of course, the Hispanic populations that went with them.
… Again, figuratively speaking … of course? :dubious:
Excellent Rifleman star Chuck Conners’ pro basketball experience reference! 2-points!
Baseball too!
Thus quoth Wiki:
“He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball (Chicago Cubs, 1951) and in the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1947–48).”
He was the first pro basketball player to shatter a backboard. He took a set shot during practice and broke the glass. The backboard might have been improperly installed, too. Hence the set shot reference.
Obsessing and being irritated over an actin are two very different things. And I wouldn’t want a sermon when watching my westerns, either.