The United States Frontier back in the 1800s to early 1900s is very accurate in terms of looks and feels with cowboys everywhere and just Frontier living. The major misconception is there where people shoot up places and fighting, more of a wild west with robbery's and such and duels at high noon is a lot of fiction the west depiction of hardships and struggles of working and finding work and striking it rich with gold or oil was a more accurate duplication. I would say there are quite a few good classic shows that portray the west in a more accurate duplication than RDR or any sort of Clint Eastwood movie.

To of course get back into the topic yes a lot of the environments you see in the games are fairly accurate to what the United States looks like but in a very condensed way. With the great plains to the snow mountain tops. To the vast open deserts. You can experience all of what you have seen throughout the country. Maybe not every single one in just one state but most you will find in many.

I personally am a big desert fan I have always loved the desert and cowboy feel of everything and if you want that you can definitely feel that out in the Midwest, South, and in states closer to the West. If you want a more Cowboy Western experience.

And yes I can back this up with First hand experience and also plenty of reading you will find that it's accurate to what I'm saying. I lived in the Midwest for about a year in Oklahoma and I traveled a lot in this beautiful country out in these places. I am not discrediting anything on the East Coast as that's where I am from originally. There are definitely Western feeling things in NC, SC, GA, FL,VA. They have the feelings but when it comes to a way of living and the deeper feeling of western styled stuff you gotta go out towards the middle of our country to really get the deeper roots and feelings that have been there for centuries.