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An ageing itinerant newsreader agrees to transport a young girl, rescued from the Kiowa, across the Texas frontier to her relatives.
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Shane
A boy narrates the story of an enigmatic stranger who rides into a Wyoming valley and becomes entangled in a ranchers' war.
The Searchers
A Civil War veteran spends years searching for his niece, kidnapped by Comanches, driven by a fixation that consumes him.
Fools Crow
In Montana in the 1870s, White Man's Dog, a young Blackfeet warrior, grows into Fools Crow, a healer, as white settlement closes in on his people.
Hondo
A cavalry dispatch rider finds a woman and her son alone on an Apache-threatened ranch and is drawn into their defence.
The Ox-Bow Incident
A posse rides out to lynch three men suspected of cattle rustling and murder, forcing a reckoning with frontier justice.
The Way West
In 1845 a wagon train sets out from Independence, Missouri, along the Oregon Trail, guided by the mountain man Dick Summers.
Monte Walsh
A lifelong cowboy watches the open range vanish as railroads, barbed wire, and corporations transform the American West.
True Grit
A fourteen-year-old girl hires a hard-drinking U.S. Marshal to track down her father's killer in Indian Territory.
Walk Two Moons
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle rides with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho, retracing her mother's journey, and passes the time telling them the strange story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother has disappeared.
The Lincoln Highway
Released from a juvenile work farm in 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett plans to drive west with his little brother, until two boys from the farm stow away and take his car towards New York.
Lonesome Dove
Two retired Texas Rangers drive a cattle herd from the Rio Grande to Montana, finding adventure, heartbreak, and the last breath of the frontier.
Butcher's Crossing
A Harvard dropout joins a buffalo-hunting expedition into the Colorado wilderness that becomes a descent into primal obsession.