History Main / NewOldWest

* ''BreakingBad'', set in New Mexico, is a story of power and corruption featuring gunfights, stalemates, showdowns, deserts, Indian reservations, and even a TrainRobbery. The criminals in the show are essentially Western outlaws who use modern technology and make money through the modern-day drug trade.

* ''BreakingBad'', set in New Mexico is a story of power and corruption featuring gunfights, stalemates, showdowns, deserts, a TrainRobbery, the list goes on.

* Also [=McCarthy's=] Literature/NoCountryForOldMen (the basis for the film, which is also a good example).

* ''AllThePrettyHorses'' by Cormac [=McCarthy=], as well as the film adaptation by Billy Bob Thornton.

* ''Series/{{Bearcats}}!'' -- 1971 TV series (13 episodes plus 2-hour pilot film ''Powderkeg''), a [[TheWestern Western]] set in the year 1914. The heroes were freelance adventurers who drove around in a [[http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/08/car-lust--stutz.html Stutz Bearcat]] sports car instead of riding horses. The 20th-century setting allowed the writers to add modern elements such as the aforementioned Bearcat, oil companies, [[{{Fatherland}} Imperial German]] spies and WorldWarOne, [[SouthOfTheBorder Mexican]] revolutionaries, and [[MoreDakka belt-fed machine guns]]. Ended up as something of an AnachronismStew anyway because they often skimped on research -- one episode featured a Renault FT-18 tank (the tank was not invented until 1915), another a Curtiss JN-4 biplane (first flight 1915) in Mexican Air Force colors (Curtiss "Jennies" were exported only to Britain). [[NegativeContinuity The show's continuity was a little soft from week to week]], particularly with regard to those [[SouthOfTheBorder Mexican revolutionaries]]--one week, our heroes were working with the Mexican government against the rebels, the next week they were siding with the rebels. Despite all that, was quite fun to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkqtbWnxcvg watch]].

Because of its proximity to Texas, the overwhelming power of TheCartel, and the numberous poor towns that any criminal can hide in, a good number of New Old West stories take place SouthOfTheBoarder.

* In what may be one of the earliest examples of the NewOldWest (with the actual Old West still being within living memory), the [[Literature/TheContinentalOp Continental Op]] short story "Corkscrew" by Creator/DashiellHammett (written in 1925) takes a big city private eye to a small western town.

* ''TheElectricHorseman'' takes place in the contrasting worlds of the modern West: the glitzy Las Vegas Strip and the unspoiled wild lands of Utah's Zion National Park.

* ''Film/{{Hud}}'' is set in Texas during the early 1960s and involves the undermining of the Old West's traditional values by the ruthlessness of the New West represented by the film's titular character.

* ''{{Preacher}}'' takes the whole thing so far it even features an undead cowboy and the "ghost" of JohnWayne.

* The old-time radio show Tales of The Texas Rangers started in 1950 and chronicled relatively recent exploits of the famous Texas law enforcers.

* ''Film/{{Hud}}'' is set in Texas during the early 1960s and involves the undermining of the Old West's traditional values by the new ruthlessness of the New West represented by the film's titular character.

* ''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]'' (1983) David Carradine and ChuckNorris kick martial arts butt in the New West. Was the inspiration for ''WalkerTexasRanger''.

* ''TheElectricHorseman'' takes place in the contrasting worlds of the modern West: the glitzy Las Vegas Strip and the unspoiled wild lands of Zion National Park in Utah.
* ''Film/{{Hud}}'' is set in Texas in the early 1960s and involves, among other things, the undermining of the Old West's traditional values by the new ruthlessness of the New West represented by the film's titular character.

* ''TheElectricHorseman''

* ''Film/{{Hud}}'' is set in Texas in the early 1960s and involves, among other things, the undermining of the Old West's traditional values by the modern age.

* ''Film/{{Hud}}'' is set in Texas in the early 1960s.

** Several other DCComics Annuals that year were modern westerns (the "theme" being pulp fiction genres). These included {{Superman}} as the Mysterious Stranger [[strike: riding]] flying into town; [[Comicbook/{{Flash}} Impulse]] teaming with the original Vigilante, now running a dude ranch; and [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Robin]] facing down the modern day Trigger Twins, alongside the modern day Pow-Wow Smith and Nighthawk.

* ''Series/{{Justified}}'' is set in the present day, the main character will never be seen without his cowboy hat, and the show features many quick-draw gunfights.

* ''CallOfJuarez: The Cartel'' advertised itself as this, proclaiming "Welcome to the new WildWest." In practice however it's simply a shooter set in modern-day LA with no real elements of this trope save for character Ben [=McCall=]'s appearance and a few of the settings (an abandoned frontier town and a Mexican graveyard).

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* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' straddles the line between this and a traditional Western, especially when the player reaches Blackwater and West Elizabeth. The railroads now reach throughout the West, electricity and telephones are becoming increasingly commonplace, automobiles are starting to appear, and the end of the frontier was declared 21 years ago. The growing presence of technology and government in the West is a major theme that runs through the game.

* The {{Toku}} show ''KaiketsuZubat'' is a MixAndMatch of NewOldWest and {{Superhero}}es. Though it takes place in Japan in TheSeventies, with modern technology plainly visible, the characters all dress and act as if they were in TheWildWest.

* ''NoCountryForOldMen''