12 Films & TV Shows Set In New Mexico During The 1880s
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Godless: Season 1
New Mexico The 1880sWelcome to no man’s land. — A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.
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Appaloosa
New Mexico The 1880sFeelings get you killed. — Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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The Missing
New Mexico The 1880sHow far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost? — When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
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Buffalo Soldiers
New Mexico The 1880s The 1860sFrom slaves to free men. From free men to soldiers. From soldiers to legends. — They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
New Mexico The 1880sBest of enemies. Deadliest of friends. — Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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Shalako
New Mexico The 1880sSean Connery is Shalako! Shalako means action! Action means Bardot! — Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
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Strange Lady in Town
New Mexico The 1880sShe was the one woman Rork didn't want in Santa Fe... but he'd kill anybody who'd try to make her leave... — There's a new doctor in old Santa Fe, and it's Greer Garson. Director Mervyn LeRoy's 1955 western also stars Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales, Earl Holliman, Adele Jergens, Robert Wilke, Frank DeKova, Nick Adams, Douglas Kennedy, Ralph Moody and Louise Lorimer.
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High Noon
New Mexico Kansas The 1880sThe story of a man who was too proud to run. — Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
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Raton Pass
New Mexico The 1880s"Hold Raton Pass And You Hold The Rest Of The West By The Throat!" — Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
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Pursued
New Mexico The 1880s The 1910sRobert Mitchum fights for the love of three people who want to see him dead...his family. — A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
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Billy the Kid
New Mexico The 1880sWANTED FOR MURDER WILLIAM BONNEY ALIAS "BILLY THE KID" — Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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Stagecoach
New Mexico Arizona The 1880sA powerful story of nine strange people — A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.