In the 1870's, a subdued Nicholas Cage goes on one last buffalo hunt to find one of the last remaining herds of bison he saw years earlier. The buffalo are ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. The men engage in an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them and they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cold and hunger, they head back to Butcher's Crossing, Kansas with a wagon overloaded with hides.
Nicolas Cage's intensity raises an otherwise average film to a thoughtful and entertaining commentary about the old west. Beautifully filmed too.
Butcher's Crossing felt like what it would have been like to be among the rough men who killed 60,000,000 American Buffalo and almost drove them to extinction. Driven and focused, the men were only thinking about themselves.
Butcher's Crossing is a companion film to
Ken Burns' American Buffalo, a 2-part documentary that recently aired on PBS. The series is streaming for free for the next month or two before moving to PBS Passport.
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo/
Watch the trailer for Butcher's Crossing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJEOJbSuOvIThe 73% RT score is a little low, reviewer's probably expected more action
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/butchers_crossing 
