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{{trope}}
The
In stories set during the
While technological changes play a major role, the
Compare [[Riding Into the Sunset]].
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Sub-trope of [[The Western]] that overlaps with the latter stage of the [[Wild West]] and the beginning of the [[New Old West]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Originally, the adventures of Cinnamon in [[The DCU]] were set in this period (although later stories moved her back to the more typical [[Wild West]] period).
* [[Jonah Hex]]'s [[Deadly Distant Finale]].
* This trope is a theme in [[Don Rosa]]'s story ''The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff'', a part of the ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Film/The Ballad Of Cable Hogue|The Ballad Of Cable Hogue]]'' depicts a failed prospector during the closing of the frontier. Cable Hogue discovers a well in the desert and founds a town at the site. When an automobile appears on the road and drives past without stopping, Cable recognizes that as a sign that the frontier is closing, so he decides to pack up and move to civilization.
* ''[[Big Jake]]'' takes place in 1909. It featured a posse of Texas Rangers chasing outlaws in automobiles but ultimately the bad guys are defeated using old school gunfighting.
* ''[[Butch Cassidy and
* Though still set squarely in the Old West, ''[[The Last Samurai]]'' shows a time when - for some people, at least - that time was already starting to die out. The hero, no longer needed as an Indian fighter in his own land, is offered employment oversees fighting a different kind of "savage".
* ''[[McCabe and Mrs. Miller]]'' may, upon first glance, appear to take place early in the era of the [[Wild West]]. However, the appearance of a vacuum cleaner and [[William McKinley]] presidential posters indicate it's actually around 1900 and times are changing.
* ''[[The Professionals (
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Shootist]]'', [[John Wayne]] plays a dying gunfighter in the fast-changing West of 1901.
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Wild Bunch]]'' is set in 1913 when the film's characters, a gang of aging outlaws, have clearly lived past their time. Electricity and automobiles are present as are such "modern" weapons like .45 automatics, bolt action rifles, pump shotguns, and M1917 machine guns which underscore the mechanized brutality of the new era.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The story "The Long High Noon" in the anthology ''Law of the Gun'' is about two [[Gun Slinger|Gunslingers]] trying to have a decisive shootout over several decades as the Old West fades around them. By the end of the story, they're both playing aged extras in cowboy movies. {{spoiler|One of them finally decisively plugs the other, then walks in front of an automobile.}}
* [[O. Henry]] has several stories about the West set in this era.
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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* ''[[Nichols]]'', a 1970s [[Western Series|Western]] [[Dramedy]] starring [[James Garner]], took place in 1914 Arizona and had the title character, a pacifistic sheriff, using cars and motorcycles rather than a horse.
* The series ''Outlaws'' starts in 1899 where an outlaw has become a sheriff sent to bring in his old gang. The sheriff tells the gang that the old ways aren't going to work any more. Then a [[Lightning Can Do Anything|freak lightning storm]] sends them all through time to 1986, where they set up a detective agency and have to adapt to the modern world.
* ''[[Hec Ramsey]]'' was a gunfighter and lawman who became interested in [[Forensic Drama|forensics]]. A touch of humor came from the clash between his newly cerebral approach to crime solving and people who still expected him to be a gunfighter first, last, and always. According to The Other Wiki, this was the '''first''' TV series set at this period.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which toured from 1883 to 1913, was a result of the closing of the West. There were all of these people still alive who had lived through the wildest days of the West, which had finally been tamed and fenced in. So the only way left to experience the [[Wild West]] was [[The Theme Park Version]], and William F. Cody brought some of the best to his show like Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull. ▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' takes place in 1911, with this trope in full effect. Federal agents have shown up to tame the Wild West, and they've brought an automobile with them. They repeatedly refer to the hero, [[Retired Outlaw]] John Marston, as a remnant of a bygone age, even as they use him to track down his former gang mates.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which toured from 1883 to 1913, was a result of the closing of the West. There were all of these people still alive who had lived through the wildest days of the West, which had finally been tamed and fenced in. So the only way left to experience the [[Wild West]] was [[The Theme Park Version]], and William F. Cody brought some of the best to his show like Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull.
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