sentences:  Also, when the gang inspects Gen. Mapache's new automobile, they perceive it marks the end of horse travel, a symbol also in Peckinpah's "Ride the High Country" (1962) and "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" (1970).The violence that was much criticized in 1969 remains controversial.Peckinpah noted it was allegoric of the American war in Vietnam, the violence of which was nightly televised to American homes at supper time.