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Women in Westerns

On twitter I asked for suggestions of Westerns featuring great Women characters, because as a genre it tends to lean towards the stories of men. Some of these films are in fact about men in one way or another, but they feature great Women. I haven't seen all of these movies, and that was in fact the goal of this entire question. I simply wanted to see more good films in the western genre that also had people of my gender being great characters.

These were the films suggested. I will take suggestions on letterboxd for included entries for this list.

also mentioned but not on letterboxd
DEADWOOD
LEGEND OF FRENCHIE QUEEN

  • The Ugly Ones
  • Johnny Guitar
  • Meek's Cutoff
  • Forty Guns
  • The Furies
  • The Homesman
  • The Quick and the Dead
  • Lola Colt
  • The Great Silence
  • True Grit
  • True Grit
  • High Noon
  • Sukiyaki Western Django
  • The Lusty Men
  • Giant
  • Stagecoach
  • Rio Bravo
  • Rancho Notorious
  • Cemetery Without Crosses
  • Destry Rides Again
  • Son of Paleface
  • Westward the Women
  • The Shootist
  • The Ballad of Little Jo
  • Matalo! (Kill Him)
  • Viva Maria!
  • Two Mules for Sister Sara
  • The Harvey Girls
  • Annie Get Your Gun
  • Hannie Caulder
  • Cattle Queen of Montana
  • Man of the West
  • Hombre
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • The Wind
  • Woman They Almost Lynched
  • Tennessee's Partner
  • Great Day in the Morning
  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  • Gunslinger
  • The Claim
  • Resident Evil: Extinction
  • Redland
  • Winter's Bone
  • Badlands
  • Cold Mountain
  • Ain't Them Bodies Saints
  • Bad Girls
  • Slow West
  • Sweetwater
  • The Keeping Room
  • Cat Ballou
  • Calamity Jane
  • Cattle Annie and Little Britches
  • The Sugarland Express
  • Yellow Sky
  • 100 Rifles