Somewhere in the Old West the wind kicks up dust from a lonely road through a lawless town, a road once dominated by men with belts attached to their hips, boots on their feet and spurs clanging as they crossed the dusty road. The gunslinging hero, a man with a violent past and present, a man who will ultimately succumb to the progress of the frontier, is the embodiment of the values ​​of freedom and the land he defends with his gun. The iconography of the West is inseparable in the imagination of Americans, the figure of the gunslinger is part of this iconography, his law was through the gun and his boots with spurs signaled his arrival, commanding order through violent intentions. The Western also had other iconic figures that populated the Old West, the man of the law, as opposed to the gunslinger, had a different weapon to give up, the law. On the frontier, his belief in law and order, as well as knowledge and education, brought civilization to the wild frontier. The Western was and still is the “essential American film genre, the cornerstone of American identity.” (Holtz p. 111) There is a strong connection between America's past and the Western film genre, which documents and reflects national changes through conflict in building an expanding nation. Taking the classic conventions of the genre, like the gunslinger, and interpreting them into the ideology of America. Thus the classic Western gunslinger, the personification of America's violent past to protect a nation's liberties, the Modernist takes the familiar convention and buries it to signify that society's attitude has changed toward the use of diplomacy, surpassing the gunslinger in favor of the lawman, who tames the frontier with civilization. American...... at the center of the card ......debating between ferocity and civilization, he and Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), are menacing men, as well as standing, on the path of progress and then of stability of the soon-to-be-established “recognized territory”. However, there are two very different characteristics of these men, Tom is fully aware of what is happening in the New West and ultimately succumbs. Meanwhile, Liberty also knows it's happening, but will do, as it must, to keep the border open, for purely selfish reasons. This is the swan song of the boots, the belt and the spurs, the inevitable end of the freedom that was once known since its birth with the founding of the United States of America, but the Western was and still is today, a vast frontier of compelling stories, classic American narratives, and themes that will continue to capture the imagination of all freedom-loving people.