In my humble opinion, that is. Number one is always number one. The rest are in no particular order and on another day might fall off the list and be replaced.
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> 1. The Searchers 1956
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> 2. The Oxbow Incident 1943
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> 3. High Noon 1952
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> 4. Shane 1953
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> 5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence 1962
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> 6. The Good the Bad and the Ugly 1966
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> 7. Jeremiah Johnson 1972
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> 8. Lonesome Dove (TV) 1989
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> 9. True Grit 2010
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> 10. Here it gets hard. From here on are a bunch of others that might make the list on a better day, some that have a 20th Century setting, and/or those that bend the genre, and/or bridge to another genre. You might not consider them to be westerns at all. I am sure there are some that I am forgetting that might make the list another day and some deserving ones that > I am not familiar with.
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> So, in no particular order, but of note.
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> 10.1 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
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> 10.2 Lonely Are the Brave 1962
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> 10.3 Legends of the Fall 1994
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> 10.4 Lone Star 1996
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> 10.5 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005
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> 10.6 The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford 2007
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> 10.7 No Country For Old Men 2007
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> 10.8 There Will Be Blood 2007
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