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While the Old West goes back a few centuries, I'd say the "gunslingers era" isn't until the first Colt revolver becomes available in the mid 1830s. It took a bit of digging to find pirates that would have definitely been around late enough into the 1800s that they'd be contemporary with gunslingers and samurai (class abolished in 1870), but old school river piracy lasted, even in just the US, into at least the late 1870s, so I guess that all checks out, as long as you weren't expecting Blackbeard or anything.
Piracy pretty much always exists. As long as valuables are being transported by ship there will be people who want to capture those ships.
Yeah, but modern pirates with small motorboats and automatic guns don't have the flair that hollywood pirates are known for.
Actual 17th-18th century pirates didn't really have that flair either.
They did live on sailboats, sail the caribbean and wear 17th/18th century clothes.