Real-life Western with Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross

RELEASED TO TV IN 1991 and directed by Reynaldo Villalobos, "Conagher" stars Sam Elliott as taciturn noble cowboy, Conn Conagher, who contends with rustlers (Gavan O'Herlihy, et al.) while concerned about a struggling widow raising her two kids on a remote homestead (Katharine Ross).

Although this was a Turner production (TNT), it doesn’t seem like a TV movie and harkened the realistic Westerns that were to come, including TV Westerns like “Monte Walsh” (2003) and TV shows like Hell on Wheels. Of course realistic Westerns which illust... read the rest.