Last of the Dogmen is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Tab Murphy (in his feature directorial debut).

Set in the mountains of northwest Montana, United States, the film is about a bounty hunter who tracks escaped convicts into a remote region and encounters an unknown band of Dog Soldiers from a tribe of Cheyenne Indians.

Distraught but skillful bounty hunter Lewis Gates is accompanied by his horse and faithful companion Zip, an Australian cattle dog.

Gates doesn't think it's a replica and, after some library research, develops a long list of people who have disappeared into the Oxbow.

He also finds a story of a "wild child" captured by railroad men in the woods in the early 20th century and who escaped and disappeared.

Now, he's convinced that the three fugitives were killed by Cheyenne people who escaped the 1864 Sand Creek massacre, avoided being forced onto the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, and who have survived for 128 years in the northwestern Montana Wilderness by killing any White people who threatened to find and expose their existence.

In town, Gates robs the pharmacy and is chased by local law enforcement, including Sheriff Deegan, his father-in-law.

Last of the Dogmen was Tab Murphy's directorial debut; he wrote the screenplay in the early-1980s and producer Joel B. Michaels bought the film rights.

[5] Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie 3 out of 4 stars, describing it as "an absorbing story, well told" and carried by Berenger's unpretentious performance, but he felt the final act descended into clichés and failed to live up to the intriguing premise.

[6] The American theatrical and home video releases of this film included third-person narration by Wilford Brimley, which is absent from the UK version.