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* ''[[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 the Sundance Kid]]'' is set between the years 1898 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.
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