Salt & Iron

Position in the list

About this entry

The last cattle drive of an empire that was already gone. The editors’ note placed it here on the basis of three criteria: durability across re-reads (or re-watches, or re-plays), influence on the entries that came after it, and the degree to which it could only have been made by the person — or team — who made it.

In the comparative table maintained by the Film desk, Salt & Iron sits within a band of 2 – 8 that contains some of the most contested swaps of the year. Editors vote with arguments; a swap requires three editors and one written defense.

Also in Western

Same decade — 1980s