A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a
wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate
Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).
Michelle Williams and Paul Dano climb a
wagon train and set off on the Oregon
Trail in Kelly Reichardt's upcoming Western thriller.