19 Films & TV Shows Set In Wyoming During The 19th Century
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Arizona Colorado New Mexico Wyoming The 19th CenturyStories live forever. People don't. — Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
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The Hateful Eight
Wyoming The 1870sNo one comes up here without a damn good reason. — Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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Unforgiven
Wyoming Kansas The 1880sSome legends will never be forgotten. Some wrongs can never be forgiven. — William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
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Heaven's Gate
Wyoming The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sThe only thing greater than their passion for America... was their passion for each other. — Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
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Man in the Wilderness
Montana North Dakota South Dakota Wyoming The 1820sHe was left for dead. He would not forget. — In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
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The Cheyenne Social Club
Wyoming The 1860sImagine these two cowboys inheriting the one place in the west everyone wants to get their hands on .... "The Cheyenne Social Club." — Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
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The Wild Country
Wyoming The 1880sA family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch. — Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Wyoming 🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1890s The 1900sNot that it matters, but most of it is true. — In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all.
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Cat Ballou
Wyoming The 1890sIt's That Way-Out Whopper Of A Funny Western...A She-Bang To End All She-Bangs! — A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
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The Outlaws Is Coming
Wyoming The 1870sThe Epic to Finish All Epics — Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the US Cavalry, Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot and his associates to Casper, Wyoming to investigate.
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Cattle King
Wyoming The 1880s'RIP DOWN HIS FENCES! GUN DOWN HIS WOMAN! but then they must answer to the man who walks like a giant and fights like a fury! — A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
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Westward Ho, The Wagons!
Wyoming The 1840sWalt Disney tells the real story of the fighting families who won the West ! — The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised land" keeps American families westward bound despite overwhelming odds. A calm, clear-thinking pioneer attempts to lead a wagon train through territory occupied by Pawnees and Sioux. Along the way, the hardy settlers face horse thieves, kidnappers, and unpredictable Indian attacks in their push to establish a new life in the rugged West.
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Man Without a Star
Wyoming The 1880sA love-bargain is like barbed-wire...fight it and you'll get hurt! — Man Without a Star is a 1955 western film starring Kirk Douglas as a wanderer who gets dragged into a range war. It was based on the novel of the same name by Dee Linford.
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White Feather
Wyoming The 1870sBeyond Any Indian Adventure Ever Filmed! — The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.
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The Gun That Won the West
Wyoming The 1880sWhen a new kind of weapon wrote history in the Old West! — In the late 1880s, Colonel Carrington and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sious Indian territory of Wyoming. Carrington recruits former cavalry scouts Jim Bridger and "Dakota Jack" Gaines to lead the project. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud, and they feel a peace treaty with the Indians can be made. If an Indian-war breaks out, the cavalry is depending on getting a new type of Springfield rifle. Bridger, Gaines and Gaines wife, Maxine, arrive at the fort for the conference. Gaines, in a drunken fit, tries to intimidate the Indians unto signing a treaty. Chied Red Fox threatens war if his territory is invaded by any troops building forts.
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Shane
Wyoming The 1860sThe Greatest Story Of The West Ever Filmed! — A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
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Devil's Doorway
Wyoming The 1860sA Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Wyoming The 1860sThe story of a gal who could dish it out...and take it! — Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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The Lawless Nineties
Wyoming The 1890sFederal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vote fails. When Plummer's men kill Bridger, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummer's men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day they descend on the town barricaded by Plummer's gang.
