The Absolute Best Historically Accurate Westerns

A few Westerns we are celebrating were small at the box office, but played big, at least to those of us who like and appreciate portrayals of an authentic, nitty gritty Old West. Sometimes those portrayals appeal to our mythic understanding of the West, as in the case of Link Borland, one True West Facebook fan, who pointed out Dennis Quaid lost 40 pounds to play “Doc” Holliday in 1994’s Wyatt Earp: “He looked, acted and ta