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4 unusual facts about The Shootist


Eureka Locomotive

The Eureka's last film appearance was in the 1976 film, The Shootist, and it was sold thereafter to Old Vegas, an amusement park in Henderson, Nevada, where it was placed on display.

Great Western Arms Company

Wilson presented John Wayne with an engraved blued pair with smooth ivory grips that Wayne used in The Shootist.

The Shootist

In a changing frontier, Books arrives at the saloon by trolley and Sweeney in an Oldsmobile Curved Dash (which debuted in 1901).

Arriving in Carson City, Nevada on January 22, 1901, reading reports of the death of Great Britain's Queen Victoria in the newspaper, Books seeks a medical opinion from someone he trusts, E. W. "Doc" Hostetler (Jimmy Stewart).


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