In what state of America does this take place in?
Can't find info on it anywhere.
shareThat's never stated. It could have been New Mexico or west Texas.
Maybe even both! They do a lot of traveling. I'd venture a guess that it's Texas.
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Texas, New Mexico for most of the first part of the film, then probably Kansas/Missouri for the Betterville Prison Camp and train sequences, then South to the Arkansas/Indian Territory for the Langstone Bridge Battle and the Sad Hill cemetery.
shareNew Mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Campaign
A small Confederate force under General Henry Sibley tried to take New Mexico Territory and the Colorado gold mines with the plan to use it as a jump off the conquer California and beat the US blockade of CSA ports through the Pacific coast.
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Spain and Italy
shareItaly is where it was filmed, the Italian actors spoke their lines in Italian, and that's why parts of it look dubbed, cuz parts are dubbed.
sharePossibly more in the Wild West than in real geography.
The scenery looks rather arid, so they should be in the arid regions of the American Southwest, and thus in the dry arid parts of the Southwestern states and territories.
So every scene should happen in California (state) Nevada (territory, then state) Utah (territory), Colorado (territory), Kansas (state), Arizona (part of New Mexico Territory) New Mexico (territory), Texas (state in rebellion), or The Indian Territory (ruled by Indian Nations, now Oklahoma).
https://www.worldmapsonline.com/unitedstates1861.htm
In some scenes lists of Tuco's crimes are read. Whenever those crimes are described as crimes against territorial law, the setting must be in Nevada, if before it became a state, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, or New Mexico
And whenever Tuco's crimes are crimes against state law, they must be in a Southwestern state, California, Texas, or possibly Kansas.
The Indian Territory was ruled by the various Indian tribes and nations there, so it had neither territorial or state laws, and very few white inhabitants.
Rebel soldiers are seen as Angel Eyes seeks out the girlfriend of Bill Carson, and she tells him that Bill recently left with Sibley's expedition to New Mexico. So they should be in the arid parts of Texas, and the year should be 1862 if happening in real history.
The events with General Sibley's expedition to New Mexico naturally happen in New Mexico, and in 1862 if in real history.