Yes, but that's the way the book handled it too...they all sat down together at breakfast and talked and laughed about the chase...and then they went out and some of them hanged the others. That's what made it so poignant.
Maybe it plays better in the book. Nobody got a last meal/breakfast in the movie.
Did the movie have the part about the newspaper with the message on it from Steve later on?
There was a note, but it wasn't on a piece of newspaper. If that's where, in the book, we learn that the Virginian's given name is Jeff, that wasn't there, either. We never learn his name in the movie. Even the schoolmarm doesn't address him by his name on their wedding day.
Movie Spoiler Alert:The Virginian uses Steve's gun to kill Trampas.
I also can't resist mentioning a movie detail that would only be noticed by a train lover like me, or only annoy a train lover: The train on which the schoolmarm arrives in the town of Medicine Bow bears the markings of the Northern Pacific Railroad--yet Medicine Bow was and is on the Union Pacific; probably the Union Pacific was responsible for the creation of the town.
I had time to do only a little research on Medicine Bow earlier today. The town has its own web site, and so forth. According to the last U.S. census, only about 300 people live there. Our friend CDestry would love it there because the population is way, way lower than the elevation, which is higher even than Denver.