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Pale Rider was filmed in Idaho and Californiahttps://wimkin.com/hostileterritory/Following the release of "Heaven's Gate" in 1980 — Michael Cimino's bloated, much-maligned follow-up to "The Deer Hunter" — Hollywood understandably went cold on Westerns for a while. Thankfully, the genre's greatest champion, Clint Eastwood, was there to reinstate the Western's critical and commercial capabilities with his 1985 film "Pale Rider." The film marked over 25 years of Eastwood's association with the American West, having starred in the 1959 TV Western "Rawhide" even before his many '60s collaborations with Sergio Leone. Indeed, many years of Eastwood's career are marked by iconic Westerns, ranging from 1966's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," 1976's "The Outlaw Josey Wales," and 1992's "Unforgiven."1985's "Pale Rider" falls in between the latter two aforementioned westerns and is best remembered as one of the highest-grossing Westerns of the '80s (via Box Office Mojo). The film details the ruthless behavior of a wealthy mining baron's thuggish henchmen towards the small-town miners and their families. When an enigmatic man known as Preacher (Eastwood) arrives in town to protect the prospectors, he finds himself in the middle of an ugly feud.In its exploration of hydraulic mining and land ownership, "Pale Rider" is the Eastwood film that most closely looks at the ecological consequences of corporate greed. It was crucial, therefore, to shoot "Pale Rider" in a landscape that best exemplified the simultaneous expanse and fragility of the American West. Here's where Eastwood filmed his '80s Western classic. More at the link below:https://gab.com/AnonymousMe/posts/117366768219605078