Editing Gadsden Purchase (section)

== In popular culture ==
The consequences of the Gadsden Purchase for Mexicans and Native Americans living in the region form the background of the story in the film ''[[Conquest of Cochise]]'' (Columbia, 1953).

The [[United States Post Office Department]] issued a postage stamp commemorating 100 years since the Gadsden Purchase, on December 30, 1953.<ref>{{cite web |work=U.S. Stamp Gallery |url=http://www.usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=d9935e84bd763cd4b8be14cb7861f1266f659f31 |title=Map & pioneer group: Gadsden Purchase |access-date=October 9, 2017}}</ref>

In 2012, the Gadsden Purchase was featured in a segment on ''[[Late Night with Jimmy Fallon]]''.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/gn2FzuPyFlY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121215055109/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2FzuPyFlY&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|last=The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon|title=The Gadsden Purchase (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)|date=2012-12-12|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2FzuPyFlY|access-date=2018-11-15}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

A supporting character in the 2021 novel ''[[Billy Summers]]'' by [[Stephen King]] is named "Gadsden Drake" after the Gadsden Purchase.<ref name="King2021">{{cite book|author-link1=Stephen King|first1=Stephen|last1=King|title=Billy Summers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jWwxzgEACAAJ|year=2021|publisher=[[Hodder & Stoughton]]|isbn=978-1-52-936572-6|pages=105–106|access-date=January 18, 2022}}</ref>