The Wyoming Town In Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven

Clint Eastwood starred in and directed Unforgiven (1992), a Western film set in the fictional Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Don't bother trying to look up where that town might be. It was never real.

The movie follows a retired outlaw, William Munny (Eastwood), who takes on one last bounty offered by prostitutes in the remote Wyoming town after a cowboy disfigures one of them. 

The story takes place in Wyoming, the 1880s. William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a former murderer who, transformed by the love of a good woman, gave up a life of indiscriminate killing to raise a family and try his hand at pig farming. With his wife now dead and his farm a failure.

What does a man do when he gets desperate? He takes on work he does not want. He goes back to the life he tried to leave behind.

Munny is lured back into his old ways by the "Schofield Kid" (Jaimz Woolvett), an aspiring young gunfighter who brings the older man word of a bounty being offered in the frontier town of Big Whiskey.

A cowboy had slashed the face of a prostitute. The ladies of the evening want to hire a gunman to get revenge.

Munny refuses the young man's offer of partnership but later reconsiders, teaming up with his old sidekick Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and setting off to join Schofield. Again, he is desperate and needs the money.

The clip below shows the most brutal part of the movie and has some of the best lines.

The mission brings him to meet "Little Bill" Daggett (Gene Hackman), the autocratic sheriff of Big Whiskey, as well as forcing him to acknowledge that killing is, in fact, what he does best.

By the end of the movie, Munny loses his ever-loving mind and becomes the brutal killer her really is.