Ever see Monte Walsh with Lee Marvin and

It is a poignantly sad movie about the end of the American Cowboy and the West that made them necessary.  After barbed wire and railroads, the cowboy was faced with not being needed anymore and almost no options to fall back on.  Hiring on as ranch hands was all they knew and the ranches could not support them all and didn't want to.  There was an elderly man who at the end of his career was relegated to mending fence alone in a buckboard - stripped of his youth and vitality, his horse, and the camaradarie and company of his former peers.  Jack Palance was a partner of Monte Walsh's who traded in his saddle and boots for an apron and a broom, got married, and opened a store.  Others died off in gun fights, robberies gone bad, etc.  Walsh sees his world crumbling, remembering how it used to be.  He keeps trudging forward and doing the only thing he knows; not adapting to the changes confronting him, and helpless in a world he doesn't recognize anymore.  He has a love interest.  But for the most part all of his lack of choices lead nowhere and when he finally decides to take any kind of decisive action, it was too late.  If I remember the ending right. 

It's from the 70s and there is a newer remake, I think.  I highly recommend this movie; I prefer Lee Marvin.  His pathos is tangible.  Cat Balou is as quirky and funny as Monte Walsh is bittersweet.