i have hear all the western classic comment but i would call it a seventy classic view of the old west . unlike some real western classic like the searcher and rio bravo and open range and others and this film leave me with a bad taste in my mouth both because of character and the so called realism . it seem like every character in this movie have either a major flaw that make them unbelievable in their role . a kid with a widow mom that regularly race the wagon and team . how long be that go to go on before he get a wreak wagon and a dead horse and and financial ruin . take off for colorodo without even a slicker or a bedroll . a trail bos that let his men get close to a shootout between themselves and let a green kid take the night watch alone after just lose four men to rustler . the settler the men die for do not even have the decency to bury them and then the final straw be the kid throw his gun away after the burial . good grief . he out between home and colorado and be thru several gun fight and he decide to throw his gun away and head home ( . ) . this be just go too far to make a peace statement for the end of a bloody movie . the wrangler have lose nearly all their gun and five men and horse and and $ 200 while he could at least round up the horse and gun and money and take them back to the driver . i could go on and on and but basically and everyone the driver run into need to be shoot and some of the the driver could use a good flesh wound themselves . just because the cowboy be dirty and dusty instead of clean and in fancy shirt and doesn not make it realistic . i really felt lead on after sit thru this movie .