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<p>A photo of actor John Wayne rests on a counter of a saloon, built for Wayne's 1960 movie "The Alamo," in Brackettville, Texas, on Dec. 4.</p>

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Done with The Duke?
December 27, 2014 8 p.m.

Done with The Duke?

Texas movie set used by John Wayne fading away

BRACKETTVILLE, Texas - Time and Mother Nature are threatening to dismantle the Alamo. Not the original, but the replica 18th-century Spanish mission and Old West movie set John Wayne built for his Oscar-nominated 1960 movie and that for decades was a tourist mecca and film production site.