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American Cowboy Magazine's 100 Greatest Westerns of All Time

This great list was brought to my attention when I saw it mentioned in a review by William Wood. I must admit that the name of the magazine didn't inspire much confidence, but as I'm always looking for good movies that I haven't heard of, I decided I'd give it a look. Not only do you get the sort of movies that show up on every list of the greatest westerns of all time, but also some real under-seen gems, including many I've heard good things about but haven't seen, and close to a dozen I hadn't even heard of. And for anyone wondering about the number 104, there were two trilogies of films taking up one spot each on the list, those two are mentioned in the notes.

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  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    1

  • The Searchers

    2

  • Red River

    3

  • High Noon

    4

  • Shane

    5

  • Unforgiven

    6

  • Johnny Guitar

    7

  • The Wild Bunch

    8

  • Bad Day at Black Rock

    9

  • Greed

    10

  • Stagecoach

    11

  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller

    12

  • No Country for Old Men

    13

  • They Died with Their Boots On

    14

  • Will Penny

    15

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    16

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    17

  • The Ox-Bow Incident

    18

  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    19

  • Monte Walsh

    20

  • Broken Arrow

    21

  • My Darling Clementine

    22

  • Lonely Are the Brave

    23

  • Rancho Notorious

    24

  • Fort Apache

    25

  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    26

  • Rio Grande

    27

  • The Gunfighter

    28

  • Rio Bravo

    29

  • Winchester '73

    30

  • Hondo

    31

  • The Man from Laramie

    32

  • Ulzana's Raid

    33

  • Blood on the Moon

    34

  • Major Dundee

    35

  • The Magnificent Seven

    36

  • The Naked Spur

    37

  • A Fistful of Dollars

    38

  • For a Few Dollars More

    39

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    40

  • Bend of the River

    41

  • Tumbleweeds

    42

  • Hombre

    43

  • Hud

    44

  • Don't Fence Me In

    45

  • Dodge City

    46

  • The Big Sky

    47

  • Ride the High Country

    48

  • Open Range

    49

  • The Westerner

    50

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    51

  • The Shootist

    52

  • Destry Rides Again

    53

  • The Professionals

    54

  • Tall in the Saddle

    55

  • Ride Lonesome

    56

  • The Plainsman

    57

  • Cat Ballou

    58

  • The Tall T

    59

  • Jesse James

    60

  • Little Big Man

    61

  • Riders of the Purple Sage

    62

  • The Alamo

    63

  • The Far Country

    64

  • 3 Godfathers

    65

  • Appaloosa

    66

  • Forty Guns

    67

  • 3:10 to Yuma

    68

  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

    69

  • Sergeant Rutledge

    70

  • Little Big Horn

    71

  • 7 Men from Now

    72

  • Santa Fe Trail

    73

  • The Paleface

    74

  • Angel and the Badman

    75

  • Duel in the Sun

    76

  • How the West Was Won

    77

  • The Big Trail

    78

  • Paint Your Wagon

    79

  • Tombstone

    80

  • Hearts of the West

    81

  • Hang 'em High

    82

  • Ten Wanted Men

    83

  • The Virginian

    84

  • Lone Star

    85

  • Run of the Arrow

    86

  • The Vanishing American

    87

  • The Outlaw Josey Wales

    88

  • Jeremiah Johnson

    89

  • Cowboy

    90

  • Barbarosa

    91

  • One-Eyed Jacks

    92

  • Bad Company

    93

  • Ramrod

    94

  • The Long Riders

    95

  • The Missing

    96

  • Four Faces West

    97

  • The Ballad of Little Jo

    98

  • The Covered Wagon

    99

  • No Name on the Bullet

    100