Wayne. Clint is good but can’t match Wayne.
McClintock, Katy Elder, North to Alaska, The Alamo are just a few of my favs.
And those are the fluff ones he used to pay the bills during the roughly twenty years he was the no. 1 box office star in Hollywood. Others, such as Stagecoach, Red River, and The Searchers are not only iconic Westerns they are among the best cinematic art ever made. Sorry, Clint, but only Unforgiven comes close to meeting that standard.
The Searchers