Hyah!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!
Don't try To understand 'em
Just rope, throw And brand 'em
Soon we'll be livin' High and wide
My heart's calculatin'
My true love Will be waitin'
Be waiting at the end Of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide
Let 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out Ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rawhide!
Hyah!
No train in sight yet.
Kind of glad. I don't think I could stand all that noise.
Must have been something wrong with that whiskey
they served back in town.
I never heard of a three-day hangover before.
Well, I got one.
Anyway, we might be better off
if Mr. Favor ain't in on that train.
I'm beginning to think maybe he got help up in Philadelphia
by something or another.
Always said Mr. Favor's one trail boss with brains.
That what you always said?
Maybe he decided to stay in Philadelphia.
No, he gotta...
He's gotta come out here.
He's gotta get the cattle money...
back to the ranchers in San Anton'.
About money, uh, Rowdy,
l... I know what I did with all my money.
And, uh, I know what happened to Joe's.
But what did you do with yours?
Uh...
I... had a few drinks,
and then I got into that card game
at the Bon Ton Saloon.
There's where my horse went.
Mine too. Oh, yeah, that's right.
You were there, weren't you? Hm.
That sure was a good horse you used to have.
Well, that was before I met the girl
from Glens Falls, New York.
Don't remember hearing about no girl
from Glens Falls, New York.
You know, that's funny. I've been thinking about her.
I have a feeling Glens Falls never heard of her either.
Glens Falls, New York, is a long ways
from Sedalia, Missouri.
I... guess the train fare
kind of cleaned you out, huh?
I hope Mr. Favor is on this train.
You know, it's a funny thing.
There ain't a drover born
that don't draw every other breath on the trail
and cussing the day he'd become one.
You take him off the trail, now...
I'm hungry.
Well, now, that's what I mean.
You're pushing cattle north.
There ain't no whiskey to drink.
There ain't no pretty girls to look at.
There's nothing but bees and dust.
We sure do get fed regular.
Wishbone?
Mm?
So we're kind of hungry and we thought,
being as you had the chuck wagon here...
Are you planning on eating it?
'Cause I'm planning on eating the saddles
and all that gear.
That's all we got in there.
I wonder what it's gonna taste like.
You m...
You mean, you don't have a-any f-food in the wagon at all?
I'm lucky I got the wagon.
Almost afraid to ask, but, uh...
Oh. I ain't ashamed to tell you.
It was a couple, three nights ago...
I wandered into one of those saloons in town.
Well, purely by accident.
I was looking for a glass of milk.
Anyway, I don't remember much,
but... there was this woman
who'd original come from Glens Falls, New York.
Oh.
Both horses, Wish?
Well, she was ailing pretty bad.
Boy, that sure is a beautiful-looking train.
You bet. If it has Mr. Favor aboard.
Well, if Mr. Favor is aboard,
we don't want to bother him
with our troubles.
Do we?
No. No, no. No, sir.
He'll be pretty tired
traveling all that way from Philadelphia.
It sure is a pleasure to see you, boss.
Got the rest of your stuff on the chuck wagon.
Sure good to see you, boy. Good to see you.
You're looking great.
Real great.
So are all of you.
As a matter of fact, I...
ain't seen you look like you look.
There, that's better.
Say, how come so many you down here?
I thought you'd still be busy in town.
Well, we kind of finished up our business in there.
Yeah, yeah. We sure did.
Real fine train.
Yeah, they're making 'em better every year.
Bet it was real comfortable riding on a train like that.
Comfortable enough to sleep in, I'll bet.
Oh, say, I hope one of you remembered to bring
an extra horse along for me.
Oh, I forgot.
Of course. I can ride into town on the chuck wagon.
Can't I?
You sure can, boss.
You can ride anywhere the chuck wagon's going.
Only thing is it ain't going anywhere.
I would have headily brought you along a horse, boss,
but... I don't seem to have one either.
Us neither.
Well, how are you ever expecting to get to San Anton'?
You're gonna hire us on again, ain't you?
Well, I was thinking about it, but...
Well, it's... You know,
we can pick up horses in this country.
That's easy.
No trouble getting rid of one, either.
Especially in this part of the country, huh?
I don't see how you can think...
You're right, boss. It is easy to get rid of 'em.
Every one of them?
Boss, don't ask any questions.
We wouldn't want to lie to you,
and you wouldn't want to hear the truth.
Fair enough.
That leaves five of us on foot in the middle of Missouri.
Yeah, well... Well...
you're gonna hire us on again.
Maybe you could advance us some money,
and we'd go back into town and buy 'em back.
The only money I got's from the sale of the herd,
and every penny of that's gotta get to the owners in San Anton'.
I don't even have enough money to buy a horse myself.
You too?
l... I mean, Glens Falls, New York,
isn't that far from Phila...
Forget I said anything.
Well, it's gonna be a long walk back to Texas.
And we ain't used to walking.
I don't mind the walk so much,
but who's gonna haul the chuck wagon?
That's easy. Chuck wagon stays here.
Oh, no.
I lost my money and I lost both my horses,
but one thing I ain't gonna lose
is that chuck wagon.
Well, if I was sleeping,
I'd be sure I was dreaming.
I see what you mean.
Them ain't gophers.
Those are horses.
Horses?
Oh, yeah. Horses.
Must be 40 or 50 of 'em.
Must be.
We only need six.
That's all we'd need.
M-maybe we could buy six or so.
Without any money?
Well, there's more than one way of getting a horse.
Scarlet, let me have your gun belt.
Sure, boss.
Oh, wait a minute, boss.
We need horses, but...
Talking won't get you any.
I ain't gonna let him do it.
At least he's doing it for us, Wish.
I know that.
Uh... you can't stop him once he's made up his mind.
Well... that being the case...
least we can do is help him.
Nice lot of horses you got there.
They ain't bad.
How many? Forty-eight.
Uh-huh.
They all in good shape? They sure are.
We'll, uh, take those horses now.
And don't give us any trouble.
We been drinking or have they?
Ain't you forgetting something?
Well, there was supposed to be 50 horses,
but only 48 were delivered.
Keep your hands right where they are.
Um, don't make a move, neither of you.
I'll take some money along with the horses.
Oh, uh...
boss, h-horse stealing's one thing...
Sure, we can use the money,
but taking it off the same jaspers
we take the horses off of don't seem right.
I'll decide what's right.
Let's have the money.
Sure.
If you don't mind, Mr. Favor,
we have rather a tight schedule.
We'll be moving along now.
All right, get moving, both of you.
Quince, Scarlet,
come on up here and help unload these horses.
Boss, you can't just let 'em leave like that.
They'll be back in no time with armed men.
Why?
'Cause you didn't have your face covered, that's why.
Well, that's what they always do, isn't it?
Come back with armed men?
What for?
Oh, boss, you been in Philadelphia too long.
You're out here now.
All you gotta do out here is whistle and you got a posse.
And this time with railroad bulls.
Just 'cause I bought some horses?
Bought?
What?
Oh, l... I knew you were kidding all the time.
Did you?
No.
Oh, well, heh...
I sure am relieved to know
that you're not a horse thief or a train robber.
For a while there, I thought I was.
Well, I'm glad to know
if I ever want to steal a horse or rob a train,
you're behind me.
Oh, I bought 50 horses, and they only came up with 48.
That's the reason the conductor had some money for me.
Now, let's get that chuck wagon into town and get some supplies.
Uh, if we need any.
Well, it isn't that I need 'em,
but my stomach sure does.
Here to buy a horse.
And your horses too, Wishbone.
My team?
Oh, where'd they come from?
Well, let's quit standing around. Get 'em watered.
Rowdy, your horse is here.
How did you know we were gonna need horses?
Oh, a lot cheaper in Sedalia than San Anton'.
More in demand down there.
And here's yours, Mr. Favor.
Why, yeah.
There's my horse.
Oh, so that's how you knew, huh?
That's how I knew.
Well, those horses, huh?
Lucinda, she was a busy girl.
Huh?
Lucinda. That's a girl I, you know...
Hyah! Hyah!
Hyah!
What do you think you're doing?
Those are dishtowels.
They don't grow on trees.
Say, I've been thinking.
You didn't offer to mention,
but where the heck's Pete?
I don't know.
He went to Philadelphia with you, didn't he?
Hm. Last time I saw Pete,
he said he'd never scout for me again.
Well, that's bad news.
Pete's a fairly good scout.
That he is.
What are you gonna use for a scout
when we start up north from San Anton' again?
Pete, of course.
One of these days you're gonna say something like that,
and it isn't gonna come true.
Say, you ain't casting no shadow.
I'm a full-grown American citizen.
I cast just as big a shadow as anybody else.
Except sometimes a little shorter.
I'm talking about Mushy.
Oh, him. Well, he's up at Orinsville.
We'll be passing by there tomorrow.
Why Orinsville?
Uh, he heard about a schoolteacher up there.
Thought it about time he learned to read.
Yeah, that's good.
Well, I don't know about that.
Well, I mean, I'm thinking about the teacher.
If he wasn't a drinking man before Mushy come along,
I'll bet he is now.
Hey, something's bothering those horses.
Quince, gotta go look after 'em.
This ain't hot enough for you.
Uh...
gonna stop in Orinsville tomorrow?
No, I don't think so.
Somebody ought to rescue that teacher from Mushy.
Why?
You miss Mushy?
You must be out of your mind.
Now, why would I miss that overgrown, brainless...?
Well, yeah. Kind of do.
Just some stray. We tied him up.
Yeah, he was just lost and lonesome.
Hey, why don't you go into town, take the stray,
give him to the sheriff, pick up Mushy at the same time?
All right.
Oh, yeah.
That's the horse.
Black, pretty white stockings.
Who's boss of this outfit?
That'd be me.
My name's Wilson.
Sheriff of Orinsville.
Howdy. My name's Favor.
Get your horse.
Why?
You're coming with us.
Get his gun, Chandler.
Hey, hold on a minute. What's this all about?
You're under arrest.
Charge is horse-stealing.
Look, I got a bill of sale for every one of those horses.
Including that black horse with the three white stockings?
Uh, well, no.
Uh, he's a stray.
That's the only one you're accused of stealing.
Mr. Favor didn't steal that horse.
Look, he just wandered into our camp.
The only reason we tied that horse up
is it was bothering ours.
You'll have your chance to testify.
There'll be a hearing.
Go ahead, Chandler.
Take his gun.
Gonna let him get away with this?
Well, I ain't gonna run with a man holding a gun on me.
Look, you might as well all stay here until l...
Now, when's the hearing gonna be?
Pretty quick.
We don't waste too much time on horse thieves.
Why don't you try taking off your badge and saying that, huh?
Let's move out.
You hold it until I get back.
I'll hold it.
Otis... ride on out to Cronin's ranch
and tell him we got his horse.
Right, sheriff.
Hello, Clara.
So... What are you doing here?
Well, I knew you were going to arrest someone.
I just wanted to make sure.
I arrested my man.
Will you empty your pockets, please?
You're wearing your blue dress.
Yes.
That all? That's it.
What do you want me to do with his horse, sheriff?
Stable him in the barn with Cronin's.
Look, I want that in a good, safe place.
It will be.
Is, uh, Cronin the man who reported his horse stolen?
That's right.
When? Last night.
Then how come you came to us first thing this morning?
Chandler's part Indian. He's a good tracker.
Look, I'm a trail boss.
My papers will show that.
I just bought a herd of 48 horses.
Now, why would I steal one?
No idea.
I pushed a herd of 3,000 head to Sedalia.
I'm taking the money from the sale back to the owners
in San Anton'.
Now, why would I take a chance on stealing one horse?
I don't know, Mr. Favor.
I don't know.
Look, I'm not a judge.
A horse was reported stolen.
I found that horse in your possession.
You'll have your chance to explain how it got there.
You coming home tonight, Tom?
Depends on Cronin.
If he don't show up, I'll stay here overnight.
Mm.
Well, I've got to get back to the house.
Chickens have to be fed.
Go on back then.
Tom.
Yes?
Please be careful. I will.
Well, that's the town.
Well, a good strong wind would blow it over.
There. That jail.
Yeah?
Any small-size boy could push it over
without no trouble at all.
Yeah, well, you're liable to have to.
Let's go see how the boss is.
He can take care of himself.
Yeah, he might want some company, though.
Well, the best place to find out anything
in a town of this sort
is the saloon.
Best man for it's the bartender.
Rowdy. Yeah?
Let's stay away from girls from Glens Falls.
Well, well.
Sure is a long time since I seen you fellas.
We ain't never been here before.
Well, that explains it.
Don't have much trade here in the afternoon.
Well, tell the truth, don't have
much trade at night either.
Of course, the morning, we're closed.
Well, you, uh, serve whiskey though, don't you?
I'm glad you mentioned that.
Are you the owner of this place?
Yup. The owner, the bartender, chief customer.
You name it, and I'm him.
Oh, darn it.
Same thing every day.
Wrong key. Hey, uh, whoa. Hold it.
Uh...
real nice town you got here.
What town?
This one. Orinsville.
Used to be just a wide place in the road.
T'ain't even that anymore.
But you got a jail, though.
Yeah.
Usually they don't have any more customers over there
than I have in here.
I guess it's, uh,
just a big day for both of us.
Somebody in jail?
Yeah, a horse thief.
How do you know that?
Oh, a town as small as this,
anybody sneezes, everybody wipes their nose.
Uh...
whose horse was stolen?
Fella named Cronin.
He's got a small spread out about four of five miles
out of town.
Uh, don't go away, fellas. I'll be right back.
Things sure are booming around here.
Well, what did we find out?
We found out things sure are booming.
Yeah, well,
that ain't helping Mr. Favor none.
We gotta wait for that fella, Cronin.
We ain't heard much about him, though.
He was too quick to call for the law.
Now, that horse came in there without saddle or bridle.
We knew it straight,
he should've known the same thing.
Well, it might be a pleasure waiting for Cronin.
When that owner, bartender
and chief customer gets back.
Cronin can't come in till the morning.
All right.
You want me to stay around here?
No. Go on home and get some rest.
Good night, Tom.
Good night.
Hey.
That mean I gotta spend the night here?
My wife'll bring you supper.
I'm staying in town myself tonight.
As soon as Cronin gets here in the morning,
we'll get your business over with.
Well, I'm sure glad Mr. Cronin
can spare the time in the morning.
Boy, this is a lousy deal, you know?
You can't do anything by hanging around here.
Might as well get back to the camp.
And leave you here?
Well it seems like a nice, safe place to be.
No, we'll stay here and keep you company.
You got eatin' money?
No.
Well, sheriff ain't gonna feed you.
I know what it is to miss a few meals.
Ain't no sense to it.
I'll see y'all in the morning.
All right.
Sheriff?
Yes?
Ain't any witnesses around now.
Nothing you say would be official.
You really think I'm guilty of this charge?
Jim Cronin made that charge.
That doesn't answer the question.
I didn't mean it to.
Hey, don't you ever look at a man
when you're talking to him?
Mm.
Tom?
Try again, Clara.
You look as though you'd never seen me before.
I wish I never had.
The name is James Cronin, ma'am.
You've seen me before, lot's of times.
You're gonna keep right on seeing me.
No, Jim...
Not anymore, Jim.
Not ever again.
The wind must be blowing from the wrong direction.
I've been trying to tell you for a long time...
Oh...
l... I don't want to see you anymore.
I know.
Been knowin' even before you did.
Trouble with you is you're a good woman.
You just lost your head for a while.
It's your husband's fault mostly.
Him being stubborn as well as stupid.
We don't have to talk about Tom.
I've heard he'd changed your mind.
Well, I ain't changed mine.
It's still you and me.
No.
Suit yourself.
But what we planned still happens.
Otherwise...
l... I can't.
I just can't, Jim.
You wouldn't want me
to have a heart-to-heart talk with your husband now,
would you?
I never understood
why anyone could kill before.
Now I do.
You're frightenin' me something terrible.
Get out of my house.
I'll do what you want.
I'm sure you will.
I'll drop by again.
I told you before...
a man with nothing in his pocket
winds up with nothing in his glass.
Real brave thinking, huh?
That's a lie. I'm a coward.
Trouble, Ben?
Well, a little bit, sheriff.
Dorn here...
Yeah, yeah. Dorn here wants a drink.
Give me that bottle.
What are you gonna do about it, Mr. Wilson?
Sheriff Wilson.
Sheriff who can't even...
Put that bottle on that hitch rail.
What are you wanna do with that gun now, Dorn?
Now, get your horse and get outta here.
Sorry to have bothered you, sheriff.
That's the job.
One of these days, Tom,
they're going to shoot back.
You bring the food for the prisoner?
Yes.
And you.
When are you going to give in?
Realize you shouldn't be a sheriff.
Take the food inside.
Oh. Tom, it's for your prisoner.
Tom?
Thank you.
Hey, what was all the shooting about?
Nothing important.
Here's your supper.
Ah, it looks good.
It is good.
My wife's a fine cook.
At least none of the prisoners ever complain.
Mm. I can see why.
Get ready for coffee, yell.
I could use some light.
Should've left the door open.
Tom?
Hm?
You're not coming home tonight?
No.
Oh.
Where you staying?
Ben has got a spare room over the saloon.
I'll stay there.
I see.
Well...
would you mind if I stayed with you tonight?
I mean...
when you're not home, I get frightened.
l... I just worry about you.
May I?
Cronin's coming, sheriff.
Bring the prisoner in, Otis.
Miller...
you know what you gotta do.
Sure, I know.
Dorn?
I know, Mr. Cronin.
Close the door, Chandler.
Leave it open.
This ain't gonna take long.
I run this office, Cronin.
Well, for right now,
you ain't got no office to run.
I ain't pressing charges.
What?
Wait a minute, that ain't enough.
I've been accused of horse stealing.
There ain't no horse been stolen.
You reported a stolen horse, Cronin.
Miller?
That's my fault, sheriff.
I kind of forgot about the busted log
in the corral fence.
I saw it, sheriff.
Told Miller he'd better own up to it.
That's what he did.
So this morning I told Mr. Cronin the horse strayed.
Wasn't stolen at all.
I guess, Mr. Favor,
a trail boss is used to delays of one kind or another.
Sorry.
Let's go, boys.
Otis?
Get Mr. Favor's gun.
Your things, Mr. Favor.
Too bad about what happened.
This envelope was sealed last night.
You just ripped it open.
There was $50,000 in this envelope.
If there was $50,000 in that envelope last night,
there's $50,000 in there now.
Well, look at it. Are you blind?!
Yes, Mr. Favor.
I am.
You...
You said your wife was wearing a blue dress.
Her blue dress is gingham.
And that smells a lot different than cotton or silk.
It's newspaper, Mr. Wilson.
Cut up into the shape of money.
Then that's what was in there last night.
Philadelphia newspaper.
And you were in Philadelphia.
And brought the newspaper back with me.
And the money.
And I'm the only man that knows the combination
to that safe.
Well, you know where that puts you.
Because I'm telling you,
there was money in that envelope.
Are you calling me a thief?
I'm saying that somebody is.
Look, maybe you lost the money
or gambled it away.
Maybe you think by accusing me,
you can get yourself out of trouble.
Did I know I was gonna be arrested?
To have my things taken away from me?
So I could plan this thing?
If there was money,
and it was stolen,
then I'm the only one could've stolen it.
Then you're the man that stole it.
Man could get himself shot saying that about Mr. Wilson.
I'm going back to our camp.
I'll give you time to get the money together.
But you'd better show up with it soon.
Or we'll all be coming back into town.
Oh. I didn't take the money, Jim.
You're a liar!
No!
We hung around long enough
to find out the money's gone.
I don't know anything about that.
I just know I couldn't do what you asked.
There was a time...
Yes, there was. But not anymore!
Can't you understand that I love my husband?
So much, you'd like to convince me
that he stole the trail boss's money...
He didn't!
It ain't in that room either, Mr. Cronin.
It's got to be.
Were you planning on keeping it all for yourself?
I was afraid you'd try taking it at the jail.
You're not as smart as I thought.
Would I have planned all this,
starting with accusing the trail boss
of stealing my horse, if I'd wanted to grab and run?
No.
This way it's either the sheriff or the trail boss.
It's nothing to do with Jim Cronin at all.
Miller, saddle up a horse for Mrs. Wilson.
She's coming with us.
You've got the money,
now, why don't you leave me alone?
The horses are real peaceful.
Thanks, Mush.
No one's riding in with the money.
Yeah, l-I know. You know that as well as I do.
But you ain't doing nothing about it.
What you wanna do, shoot it out with a blind man?
Yeah, but we could go in and take that town apart,
and get the money that way.
Town ain't got it.
The town's backing that sheriff.
Sheriff didn't think I took the horse,
I don't think he took the money.
Why, 'cause he's blind?
Because he couldn't have known
I'd ever be in his jail.
Hello, Mr. Favor.
Mr. Quince, Mr. Yates, Mr. Wishbone.
Mr. Scarlet.
You're not in school now.
You don't need to be calling the roll.
Well, it's just, uh...
Harkness. I was just...
Harkness.
Well, he must be right fond of you
to tell you his given name.
Well Harkness was my grandfather's name.
On the Mushgrove side.
Uh, this is Miss Winkle.
How do, ma'am?
How do you do?
Uh, she... She's my schoolteacher.
I'm very pleased to meet you.
You're Mr. Favor, aren't you?
Harkness told me a lot about you.
Pleased to meet you, ma'am.
And you're Mr. Wishbone, of course.
That's who I am.
Harkness told me a lot about you too.
I am not.
Oh, I'm sure it is.
Harkness told me you were
the finest trail cook in the world.
Oh, well...
he's kind of the finest cook's louse.
I don't think that's very nice.
Oh, well, there's a difference between
a plain, ordinary louse and a cook's louse.
Harkness told me how proud he is
to be your assistant.
Yeah, that's what he is:
my assistant.
Well, Miss Winkle and me was out picnicking.
Miss Winkle and "I," Harkness.
Uh...
Uh, Harkness and I was... I mean...
Well, anyway, Mr. Favor...
I just heard what happened in town.
And I told Miss Winkle right away
that you wouldn't be doing nothing but telling the truth.
Thanks, Mush... Uh, Mr. Mushgrove.
And, uh, Miss Winkle said right away
that Mr. Wilson wouldn't be lying neither.
Well, that doesn't help very much.
I said "Mr. Wilson."
I didn't mention any other name.
Who else might you have mentioned?
If I were a gossip, Mrs. Wilson.
I don't care much for gossip, Miss Winkle.
Oh, neither do I.
Of course, there are times...
And this is one of those times.
Mrs. Wilson almost left Mr. Wilson
two or three times after he was blinded.
But she didn't.
If I were a gossip...
Of course you're not, Miss Winkle.
Orinsville's such a small town,
anyone could tell you.
Tell me what?
The name of the reason why Mrs. Wilson didn't go.
Well, I'd appreciate your telling me.
James Cronin.
Yeah, Cronin would be the one who planned the whole thing.
You're sure about this?
Sure I'm sure.
And the only one in town who doesn't know about it
is Mr. Wilson himself.
Quince, saddle me a horse.
And I'm going with you.
No, uh...
don't need any help breaking up a man's life.
Thanks, Mr. Wishbone.
Thank you.
Mr. Favor.
Huh? Yeah.
Oh, it's no great mystery.
I know every man's footsteps in town.
Look, sheriff...
uh, I have to tell you something.
I don't know where to begin.
About my wife? Go ahead.
Yeah.
This is not that easy. Uh...
Maybe I can make it easier for you.
You're a stranger in town.
But you found out in one day
what it's taken me months to find out.
Except underneath...
I really knew it all the time.
After losing my sight...
I spent a year learning.
Learning how to see...
with my ears...
and my hands.
And my nose.
Then I thought l...
I really wasn't blind.
But I was wrong.
Even if I'd gotten my eyes back,
I'd a-still been blind.
But there's one thing I didn't know.
That she was a thief too.
You'd better come with me.
Clara?
She's not here.
I don't need you to tell me that.
She took the money and she ran.
Oh, stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Place has been searched, turned upside down.
She would've known where the money was.
Mr. Favor?
There's one thing I need from you.
I know the road between here and town.
But I don't know the road between here and Cronin's ranch.
Let's go.
Forcing me to come with you,
it's not going to do you any good.
I didn't wanna leave this part of the country.
I like it here.
Mr. Cronin? Out there.
Take her to the barn,
tie her up and keep her quiet.
Let go!
Let go of me!
'Evening, sheriff.
Mr. Favor.
Where's my wife?
You oughta know better than me.
I know as well as you.
Well then, neither one of us knows a thing.
We're searching your place.
I don't think so.
No light in the house.
There's one in the barn though.
Couple of Cronin's men are just coming out of the barn.
Then that's where we start.
You ain't starting nowhere, sheriff.
You're finished.
You got nothing to hide in that barn...
It's my barn.
To your right!
Tom. Tom?!
That's Clara.
She in that barn?
Yeah.
Tom!
Tom. It's dark now.
Did you hear that, Cronin?
Now, this'll make us even.
And so you can say as...
much about what happened as you like,
or as little.
We got our money back.
There's nothing more to be said.
I have no way to repay you.
The only thing I can do is...
tell you that I am... I'm resigning as sheriff.
Because it's better for the town,
I guess.
And because my wife wants it that way.
Horses are ready to go, boss.
Shh.
Everything's not quite ready.
Um... well, uh, goodbye until next year.
Aren't you going to kiss me goodbye?
In front...? In front of everybody?
Mushy!
Goodbye, Harkness.
You were a good student.
Uh, goodbye, uh...
Thanks for the books.
Uh, you're a real great teacher.
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin' Rollin'
Keep rollin', rollin' Rollin'
Though the streams Are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin'
Rawhide!
Through rain and wind And weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin' my gal Was by my side
All the things I'm missin'
Good vittles Love and kissin'
Are waiting at the end Of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide
Let 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out Ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rawhide!
Hyah!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!
Don't try To understand 'em
Just rope, throw And brand 'em
Soon we'll be livin' High and wide
My heart's calculatin'
My true love Will be waitin'
Be waiting at the end Of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide
Let 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out Ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rawhide!
Hyah!
Yeah, hey. Ho-ho.
Heh. Yeah, and the saloon's right over there.
Well, is it.
Right over there.
Why, you
big lug. What did you do that for?
Oh, we're fightin' now.
Any man who's still on his feet who wants a job,
my name's Favor. I need four hands
to fill out a crew for Sedalia.
Sedalia?
You got the wrong play, mister. I've been to Sedalia.
Seven dollars a week and all the grub you can eat.
Man says they're offerin' 10 over on the Chisolm.
The man's a liar.
But if you want promises, I'll throw in a bottle
of Kentucky liquor every Thursday
and three blonds to fan your brow
when you're ridin' drag.
That a fact? You want brunettes?
Couldn't make it a redhead.
He'll make it pink and white pintos
if he has to. Heh.
Now, who's your cook?
G.W. Wishbone.
Cranky little cuss about so high?
That is him.
Well, get out the pen and ink.
Uh, this dough wrangler know his business?
Friend, I understand he cooks biscuits even you could chew.
All right, you heel-squattin' counters,
didn't you hear what the man said?
He wants a crew for Sedalia.
How many do you need? Four.
Man wants four good men.
That's me and one extra.
Webb Church.
Now, you just relax. I'll work the whole thing out.
Come on, come on, come on. What do you wanna do?
Die in a feather bed?
He's a real takeover type, ain't he?
Well, leave him be. He's doin' fine.
Oh, say,
as soon as he picks up three more,
feed him a couple of drinks
and bring him over to Wade's ranch.
Where you goin'?
To see the man.
Mr. Parker.
Mr. Favor.
Looks like a stampede hit. What happened?
Oh, uh, boys get a little restless in town.
They'll settle down once they're back to work.
Uh, got your crew filled?
Close enough, except my scout ain't showed up yet.
But he'll probably come back soon.
I think it'll be ready in three, four days.
Yeah. Well, uh...
that's what I wanted to talk to you about.
Oh, I couldn't cut it much closer than that,
unless you wanted us to brand all night.
Mr. Favor, we...
Come over to the Cattlemen's Association with me.
We're havin' a meetin'.
All the owners.
We need you in on it.
Who appointed you?
Why, it's just because
you have half the herd...
Howdy, Mr. Favor. Gentlemen.
Hello, Mr. Favor.
Well, come on.
You're the one that wanted to see him.
How much did he tell you?
Not a thing.
I figured you had the big mouth,
you might as well do the talkin'.
Suits me.
You can draw pay for the three days
you've been linin' up a crew, Mr. Favor.
You're being replaced.
Replaced?
Why?
Has nothing to do with your work.
I know your reputation. It's a good one.
You can bet your last nickel it's a good one,
because he gets the job done.
Ask Kriegel.
Ask Blunt.
George, part of that last herd was yours.
Any complaints?
He got my beeves through,
he got my price.
I say stick with him again.
That's what you say, huh?
Well, I don't.
I want a tougher man.
I want a man who can get the job done faster than Mr. Favor.
Jubal, lis... Do you wanna split the herd?
Your 1,600 couldn't go it alone
any better than my 500.
Sit down, Jubal.
Mr. Favor...
I got 400 head of steers
I gotta get to market.
I can't afford to do it on my own.
Now, wait a minute...
It's all right, Mr. Parker.
Sixteen-hundred head is a pretty convincin' argument.
Good day to you, gentlemen.
Uh, Mr. Favor...
that drive's gonna need all the experience it can get.
I'm askin' you to go along anyway...
at the same salary,
if I have to pay it out of my own pocket.
Just go along.
As what?
Ramrod.
No, thanks.
Oh, by the way, who is the new trail boss?
You're lookin' at him.
Good luck.
Well, I got Church and these three men over here
all signed up.
Great.
You know, that Church has got more lip
than any muley cow I've ever seen.
Somebody told him we didn't have a scout,
so he says to me... He says,
"Yates, don't worry about the scout."
He says, "I'll take care of it."
Imagine it. He's never even been on the Sedalia Trail
in his life.
I said to him... I says, "Church, look,
"being as you've got all this talent,
why don't you just take over bein' trail boss?"
You know, he says to me, "Good idea."
So I said to him... Huh.
What? Do you ever slow down?
Well, I thought you'd be interested in what happened.
Well, you thought wrong.
Yeah, I guess I did.
To bad luck.
Ahem. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
I know how you feel,
and I think you deserve an explanation why it happened.
Look, you don't owe me an explanation.
It happened.
Yeah. Listen.
How old would you say I am, Mr. Favor?
Heh. Couldn't guess.
All right, make a guess.
Hmm. Your 40s. Uh...
Forties? Mm. Mr. Favor, I'll be 51 in March.
Well, congratulations.
Were you in the war?
Look, Mr. Wade...
They said I was too old.
I was 40 when that war started.
I was the best trail boss in the Southwest.
And I mean that.
I had just gotten married,
and my wife was 17.
She wanted me to stay,
but I signed on with a blockade runner, and...
they took us off Mobile,
September, '62.
And they sent us to Camp Douglas.
That's just outside of Chicago.
Ever hear of the place?
Yeah.
When I come outta there, I weighed 93 pounds.
Consumption.
They hurried my papers through,
so they wouldn't bury me there.
I'm sorry.
Well... my wife thought I was dead,
and I didn't let her know any different.
I scared up a couple of dollars,
and I went to Arizona...
and bought some cows.
And l... Well, I hit it lucky.
At the end of five years,
I got my lungs cleared up and had a herd to boot.
And that's when I come home...
...to this.
It's my wife, Charity.
See?
Oh.
She's 27 now,
and prettier than when I left.
And I got it all back,
wife, health, money,
the same as it was.
Is it?
You got a real good ear, Mr. Favor.
You hear it stickin' in my craw,
don't you, that I'm 50 instead of 40.
When I left, the herds were just going north.
I'm going with 'em this time.
It's like closing the circle, Mr. Favor.
I have to go.
You understand that?
I see you don't mind killing yourself
to make a point.
Well, the point is I won't kill myself.
Who you makin' this point to?
Me... Jubal Wade.
Who else?
Well, that's it. And I just wanted you to know that, uh,
there was nothing personal in what I did.
Nothing against you, no.
As a matter of fact, I want a second John Parker.
I'd be proud if you'd come with me on the drive.
Oh, thanks, but I'll find something else.
Where?
Season's done. What about your men?
Well, they'll be goin' with you.
They are if you're along to handle 'em.
Look, these are some of the best hands in the business.
Maybe, maybe not.
I'd just as soon pick a crew from my own ranch.
Wait a minute... And then I know.
I promised these men work. Yeah.
They've given up good jobs.
Some of 'em even have families.
I said I'd keep them if you're the ramrod.
Now, I hope you change your mind.
I'll hold the position open until noon tomorrow.
Think it over.
Hi, boss.
Why, Pete.
Hey.
Heh. I just noticed you were
registered here in the hotel.
I thought I'd... Yeah.
Yeah, well, how are you?
I'm fine.
Just passi" through. l...
Oh, passin' through, huh?
Oh, where?
I'm goin' out to California.
California, huh?
Well...
Oh, uh, how's old Wishbone?
Oh, fine. Fine.
Rowdy?
Just fine. Just fine.
Mushy?
Yeah, well. He's... He's fine too.
Sure, every... Everybody's fine.
Good.
Uh, I guess you've hired yourself
a new scout by now.
No, as... As a matter of fact, I haven't.
Uh, still shoppin' around.
Well, don't get the wrong idea.
I'm... I'm not lookin' for a job.
Oh, no, no. No, Pete, I know.
Well, did you bring my horse and saddle
back down the trail?
Sure. Got all your gear.
Pick it up any time you want.
Yes, I am too.
Am? What?
I'm lookin' for a job.
Pete... Now, let me finish.
I've been here in San Antone three days,
tryin' to make up my mind whether to come and tell you,
but I'm sorry about that fight.
Oh, now, that was just as much my fault as it was yours.
No, it wasn't, but...
Well, there's no scar. Let's start it again.
Now, that's a good idea.
Uh, anyhow, I'm flat broke
and ready to go back to work.
You're broke?
I'm worse than that.
I gotta have a hundred dollars by tomorrow night.
A hund...? A hundred dollars?
Oh. What happened?
Fella filled an inside straight.
You got nicked in a poker game?
I thought you were smarter than that.
Well, you gotta have something to do
to pass the time.
Look, I had two bullets and a king kicker.
And I picked up another ace. I figured I had him.
Hm.
Oh, well, you don't need the money right away, do you?
I mean, you could hold this guy off, couldn't you?
They've been followin' me all day.
Look, I wouldn't have asked you for this,
but I know I can pay you back before we get to Sedalia.
All you gotta do is dock me
until we're clear.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, sure. Sure. All right, Pete, I'll...
I'll get an advance from the owners
first thing in the mornin'.
Well, thanks, boss. Um...
Um, it's good to be back.
Hey. It's good to have you back.
Uh, a drink?
Yeah, a drink.
I'll be glad to get outta these things, I'll tell you.
Charity Wade.
Do you like it?
I still don't see
why you have to burn them all again, Jubal.
Well, I told you, it's the law.
You gotta have a road brand,
so as every steer in the drive is marked the same.
Oh, I thought you'd be pleased.
Well, think how it hurts.
Oh, now. It don't hurt.
Steer's hide ain't like your skin, Chary.
Lucky mine's softer.
You'd be wanting to brand me too.
Oh, might be a way to prove ownership.
Go ahead, Ern.
All right, let's start the brandin'.
Uh, what's goin' on out there?
Puttin' the road brand on, ain't they?
The road brand without the boss's say so?
What do you think you're doin'?
Well, I'm gonna put the trail brand on.
Who made up that brand? Mr. Wade.
I don't know whether you know it or not,
but the trail boss makes up
the trail brand, not the owner.
Now, put that back in there.
You deaf or something? Put it back.
Friend, maybe you'd like to wear this across your face.
You just try that.
All right, men. Come on, Rowdy.
Jubal.
Stay here.
Rowdy. Thattaboy, Rowdy.
Get up, Rowdy.
Yeah, Rowdy, get up.
All right, quit it.
All right, quit it, I said.
I said... quit it.
Uh... What's the matter here?
This flannel mouth tried to stop the brandin'.
No one brands until the trail boss says so.
The trail boss did say so.
You're a liar.
Rowdy!
Oh, am I glad to see you.
What's goin' on?
Tell these people who the trail boss is, will you?
That'd be Mr. Wade.
Are you...? Are you jokin'?
Is that job still open?
Still open.
You've got yourself a ramrod.
A ram...? Uh, wha...?
Come on. Ride over to the house...
No, it's nothin'.
Look, come on. Come on.
Mr. Favor. I wanna thank you on behalf of...
Of all the owners.
Mr. Parker, I'll need an advance
of a hundred dollars.
Of course.
Boss...
I see what's goin' on here.
I don't need the money that bad.
Next time a man draws one card
and stays for two rounds...
please fold.
I see what you mean. Thanks.
Church, you ride over and tell Rowdy I wanna see him.
Right, boss.
This'll take some of the sting out of it.
Open your shirt.
What's that?
Just butter. Open your shirt.
Oh, no. It really doesn't hurt, uh, ma'am.
I don't believe I've seen you
around here before, Mr...
Uh, Yates. Uh, Rowdy Yates.
No, I don't generally spend
much time around San Antone.
I imagine it gets lonely
driving the herd north.
Well, it's not really too bad.
I suppose when you boys
hit Sedalia,
you'll really cut loose.
Oh, well, a little.
I don't blame you.
It's just about the only chance
you get to relax, isn't it?
When the drive's ended and just before it starts?
We're having a fandango here tonight.
Yeah, uh, I heard about that.
My husband hates them.
Gets out of breath when he dances.
Do you dance, Mr. Yates?
Mm.
Well, I've been known to try a little.
Rowdy, you in...?
Oh, I didn't mean to...
What are you doin' here?
Mr. Favor wants to see you.
I'll get you a bandage.
Boy, what do you got I ain't got?
Except for a burnt hide?
Mm.
Probably pretty easy to get burnt around here.
You mean, you don't go for them lonely little gals?
Oh, I ain't so sure she's lonely.
You might, uh, be a little sick. Heh.
Well, then just call in old Doc Church.
You take over everything, don't you?
Haven't found a job yet I couldn't handle.
All right. Take this one over.
My pleasure.
Here he comes, Mr. Favor.
You wanted to see me?
Yeah.
That's everybody.
Now, Quince?
Yeah, boss?
That's just it.
I'm not your boss anymore.
This is a new drive, and it's got a new trail boss.
And the sooner you get it through your heads,
the easier it's gonna be on everybody.
Mr. Wade's a good man.
He was pushing beef
when most of us were playing with mud pies.
He's smart, and he knows the business.
And he's carryin' about ten years too many.
And how many years too many
are you carryin', Wish?
Oh, well, it's different with me.
I keep in shape.
I'm not gonna argue with any of you.
I told you how it stacks up.
That's it.
Mr. Wade is boss,
I'm ramrod.
Well, what's that make me?
A drover. A regular drover.
Oh. Suppose I don't like that, though.
You can quit.
Yeah.
Any more questions?
All right. Let's get out there and help with the brandin'.
All right, boss.
All right.
Uh, Nolan.
I don't figure we can make more than five miles a day at first.
At least until we cross Mud River.
There's no need for you to range
farther than... two days out,
20 miles at the outside, right?
Favor, I'm puttin' you...
Favor.
Yes, sir.
I'm putting you at point.
You can pick your own drag and flank men.
Yes, Mr. Wade.
Uh, incidentally, Favor...
your men know who's bossing this drive?
They know.
Good. Well, I guess that does it.
We'll head 'em up at sunrise.
Well, think I'll get some shuteye.
That's a good idea.
This wingding's gone on long enough.
Anybody seen my wife?
Oh, she was...
dancing with Church a minute ago.
Yeah.
She's crazy about dancin'.
What a night, what a night, what a night.
Favor...
did you ever play king of the hill
when you were a kid?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah?
That's the way I feel right now.
King of the hill.
Nope, better. King of the world.
Like I was 20 feet tall.
Well, I better see if I can find Mrs. Wade.
Here she comes now, Mr. Wade.
Oh.
Jubal. You gonna stay out here all night?
It's after 11, and half your guests have left.
Fine. Let's send the other half after them.
Hair's all loose.
Where's that pretty comb you were wearin'?
Well, is it gone?
Must've dropped it while I was dancing.
You can buy me another one in Sedalia.
Oh, I'll buy you a hundred.
Night, boys.
Mr. Wade. Ma'am.
Good night.
Good luck on the drive.
King of the hill.
King of nothin'.
All right!
Get 'em moving!
I kept wantin' to yell goodbye,
but she's so far away, she couldn't hear me.
No, I guess she couldn't.
You got nothing to do?
Rowdy, if you wanted advice, who would you go to?
What kind of advice?
Personal.
Uh, I suppose I'd try Mr. Favor.
Yeah. That's what I figured.
You don't think we can make it.
Well, a bog's a bog.
We might make it, and again, we might not.
All right, we'll bend 'em west.
Tell the flanks.
Well, shouldn't I tell the trail boss first?
There ain't time. Get movin'.
Bend 'em west!
Favor.
Mr. Wade. I was just comin' to see you.
Moving off the trail.
Oh, it's all right... It's not all right.
Hold 'em!
What'd he say? He said to hold them.
Mr. Favor told us to... Quince.
Just remember, Mr. Favor ain't givin' the orders anymore.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Now, what the devil's the matter with you?
What do you think I put up that plank for?
Mr. Wade, there's a bog up ahead.
Bog? What bog?
There's no bog in the trail map.
Well, there's an underground stream through here,
and sometimes it'll make it like walking on quicksand.
Favor, I don't intend to go around obstacles.
I intend to go straight through them.
Now, I don't mind losing a few head...
but I do mind losing time.
Now, we keep going, most of the herd will get across,
bog or no bog.
And we will have saved two or three days
that you would have taken going around.
Mr. Wade, I'm not talking about a couple of head.
I'm talking about half the herd.
Who are you givin' orders to?
Sorry, Mr. Wade. I didn't realize I was giving orders.
Nolan!
What's this about a bog?
Just over there.
And we're right in front of it.
We can bust through it, instead of going...
Why don't you shut your bust-through mouth, huh?
Look, any guy got a right to what I think.
You ain't paid for thinkin'.
Shut up, both of you.
What about it, Nolan?
There's a bog over there. I told Mr. Favor about it.
Well, why didn't you tell me?
I guess I should have.
You guess.
I know.
You don't know.
Well, let me tell you something.
I went over every foot of that trail
with three cowpokes who come down, and not two months ago.
And nobody said anything about a bog.
Well, maybe it was dry two months ago.
Well, is it dry now?
It looks pretty marshy.
Wait a minute, I'm asking you,
can you tell me if the herd can get through
or if the herd can't get through.
It might. And then it might not.
Mr. Wade... Look, when I want to
hear from you, I'll ask you.
Anybody else got a contribution?
All right, then get those beeves back on the trail.
And keep 'em there.
Mr. Favor.
I know this ain't much of a time to bother you.
Then don't. Just do what the man says.
Get' em movin'.
Move, you miserable sons of Satan. Pull!
Hyah! Giddyup!
Don't say it.
Mr. Wade...
it's really bad up ahead.
There must be 30 steers bogged down.
They're stuck in mud up to their neck.
It's gonna take a week to pull 'em out.
Shoot 'em.
All of 'em?
All of them.
Yes, sir.
Rowdy.
Mr. Wade says to shoot the ones that are bogged in bad.
What, with dynamite?
They're up to their necks.
Now what do you think of your trail boss?
He made a mistake.
You could have made it, so could I.
You mean, you could have made it.
I wouldn't have made it.
Neither would Mr. Favor.
Well... it's just this one rotten,
little strip of quicksand mud.
One rotten strip of bog, that's what it is.
We're working, ain't we?
Ain't this better than sittin' back in San Antone,
sitting' around waitin'.
You like workin' here in the mud, Teddy?
I don't like it, but as long as it's paying me...
Try some of it.
Why, you!
All right, that's enough!
Get out there, you got a job to do, Rowdy. Shoot 'em.
Quince.
Yes, sir.
You'd better go with Rowdy and help him.
Mm, take Church with you.
Church ain't here, boss.
Where is he?
Well, he moved out.
Said he's quittin', going back to San Antonio.
What for? I don't know.
All right, go ahead.
Kent, you go with him.
How about a sandwich?
Oh.
I'm not hungry.
A man has to eat, boss.
Mail! Mail from town, gentleman!
Big stack for you, Mr. Favor.
Hey. Plenty for everybody.
Favor, Favor...
Favor.
Ramrod. I'll pass 'em out.
Uh, these on top are for me.
All right if I take 'em, boss?
Take 'em.
Yates.
Yep.
Little.
Yeah.
Quince.
Scarlet.
You know, if I was the first man on the moon,
there'd be a bill waitin' there for me.
Nolan.
What's the matter? Bad news?
Mm, Parker. Oh, yeah?
Pete. Webb Church went back to town.
Teddy. And he and Mrs. Wade
are running off together back East.
Shoot, Mrs. Wade?
Quince.
Oh. Well, I should have guessed it.
Uh, Scarlet.
And Parker wants me to break the news to Wade.
Yeah, and down comes the king of the hill.
Scarlet. Yep.
Wishbone.
Is that the lot of them? Uh, yes, sir, Mr. Wade.
Charity's a funny one.
She always keeps adding to her letters.
I'll probably get one the size of bedroll
along about Red River Station.
Yeah. Probably you will.
Rowdy, go mend a shirt or something.
I want to talk to Mr. Favor.
Huh? You heard me.
Be sure and be real gentle with him, like he was with you.
Now, what was that all about?
You're not gonna give him that.
Look, if you're gonna start passing out advice,
I don't need it.
Well, whether you need it or not, I'm gonna give it to you.
Oh, we've been through a lot together.
When you've been right, I told you,
and when you've been wrong, I told you that too.
Well, you're wrong about that.
A man's got a right to know
if his wife runs off with another man.
Look, Parker is his friend.
Now, why would Parker have told me to tell him if...
If he didn't have a good reason for it.
If it breaks up the drive, it breaks it up.
This is the way the man wants it done.
You give that to Wade, and you cause nothing but trouble.
If that's true, well, it's done, finished.
But if that's nothing but gossip,
you set Wade off for no reason at all.
Or is that what you want?
I'll break it to him easy.
Oh, sure. Like you did about the bog.
Now, you heard what happened. Wouldn't listen.
Well, you can't have two trail bosses on a drive.
Half of 'em listening to him and half of 'em to you.
What Wade needs is help.
If he don't get it, this drive's finished.
The only thing the owners will remember
is that Gil Favor was along, and it's Gil Favor's fault.
And if we get there to Sedalia,
what'll the owners remember?
Well, just that Gil Favor isn't too bad a ramrod.
Hey, Favor.
I noticed that one of those letters you got
was from Parker.
Any, uh...
Any news from home?
Oh...
uh, nothing.
Nothing important.
All right, let's quiet down,
you scram-sided, kettle-bellied scrubs.
Yates.
Yeah.
How are they?
As jumpy as a trayful of loaded dice.
Yeah.
I don't like that hollerin'.
One pass from that critter,
and we'd have a stampede on our hands.
Mr. Favor would handle it.
Meanin' I couldn't?
Meanin' nothin'.
You got a big mouth for a young pup, you know that?
Yeah, that's a matter of opinion.
Mr. Favor teach you disrespect
along with everything else?
Look, don't crowd me, Mr. Wade.
I'll crowd you, you miserable young punk.
What do you think you're on, some kind of a picnic?
I'll crowd you. I'll crowd you clear back to San Antone,
you come out here and try to spook me.
Spook you?
Draw your pay, Yates. You're through.
Oh, you're a real big man, Mr. Wade.
Especially with your wife, huh?
What was that?
I saw the letter.
What letter?
You know, the letter Mr. Favor showed...
You.
He didn't show me any letter.
He got one from Parker.
What did the letter say?
Look, I'm out of line, Mr. Wade.
Now, what did he say?
He said a man named Church ran off with your wife.
That's what he said.
Mr. Favor.
Hm?
Hm? Oh, when did you get back?
About 10 minutes ago. Where's Mr. Wade?
He said he was gonna check the herd.
Well, I gotta talk to him.
Oh, what's wrong? Another bog?
Oh, this could be worse.
What is it? Comanches.
Comanches!
Where?
About two days north of here.
I think they're headin' for the mountains,
We just stay here and be quiet, they might miss us.
Can't stay without grass.
What about west of here?
Oh, there's some grazin'. Water holes?
Well, there's a couple, but I wouldn't guarantee 'em
to be wet this time of year.
I better get Wade.
Favor.
How come you ain't night guarding?
I had, uh, Scarlet take over for me.
You seen Mr. Wade?
Well, uh...
What "uh"? You either see him or you ain't.
Well, I slipped and I told him about his wife.
You what? Why?
'Cause I thought you'd told him already, that's why.
What is all this? Come on.
Mr. Wade, where are you going?
Where do you think I'm going?
Mr. Wade, that... That might all be a mistake.
Besides, there's something more important. Pete.
We got a problem, Mr. Wade.
I ran across a party of Comanches up north of here.
Now, if we stick to the west,
I figure we're gonna run short of water,
but we can't stay here without grass.
Keep north.
Comanches play rough.
You've got guns.
Keep north.
Pete, how many in that party?
Fifty, 60 braves.
How far off is the water?
It's too far to turn back
if we're wrong.
Well, why risk it. We all heard him give the order.
He wasn't in any shape to know what he was sayin'.
We might have a better chance at the water hole.
We don't know the Comanches are gonna attack.
If they do, we lose half the herd.
That's not our problem, that's Wade's. He gave the order.
Mr. Wade isn't here. Mr. Favor's in charge.
If we go against Mr. Wade's orders, and go out there
and get caught without water, you know who gets the blame.
And if we make it, he gets the credit, so either way,
we're taking the risk to save his reputation.
We can't take a chance on 60 Comanches.
We'll try for water. But, boss...
I said we'll try for water.
Rowdy, you'll head 'em out at dawn.
I'll head 'em out? Where you going?
Going after Wade.
What for?
Help him find his wife, if that's what he wants.
But that's his bed. Let him lie in it.
Church tried to talk to me. I cut him short.
I told you to quit trailing me.
I don't need you.
You might.
Sometimes I can't figure you out at all.
Me either, sometimes.
We'll pick up new mounts here
and see if we can trace 'em past San Antone.
Howdy, Mr. Wade.
Ern, take care of the horses and saddle up some fresh ones.
Well, uh...
Well, what?
She's back Mr. Wade.
When?
This mornin'.
Just her alone?
No, sir. Both of 'em.
They're inside.
Mr. Wade. Look, they're back. That's somethin'.
Why don't you hear 'em out first?
Wade. He ain't got a gun.
Give 'em yours. I won't take it.
You sneak.
I made him bring me back.
I couldn't leave you, Jubal.
Couldn't you, Chary.
You understand?
Yeah.
I expect you wonder what came over me when you heard that...
Let's go inside.
It's gettin' late.
I'll send your clothes onto the San Antone Hotel.
Ernie will drive you in.
You don't want to
stay out after dark.
Hotel?
The stage leaves around noon, I think.
Used to anyway.
Jubal.
I haven't got a penny.
Hitch up the rig, Ern.
Yes, sir.
I'm goin' back to the herd.
If you're still here by the time
I get my horse saddled...
I'll cut your throat.
Webb?
You'll take me with you?
I was the one who made you come back.
Remember?
It's gonna be a long, tough ride back to San Antone.
It shouldn't be half soaked up
as the ride back this mornin'.
Why'd the good Lord ever give
a man a conscience, anyway?
Beats me.
You know the old boy packs a pretty tough wallop.
You're smart.
You sure made him look good in front of his men.
And I'd say I was pretty brainless, Mr. Favor.
At times.
There's only one more water hole marked on this map.
Over that hill, and dead ahead.
What if it's as dry as the last two?
Let's find out.
Glory be.
Come on, guys.
Quiet, dyin'-to-live-long numskull!
What are you tryin' to do, "deefen" a man?!
Well, boss, it looks like
we're still in business.
Don't you ever get tired of always being right, Favor?
There's a big difference between being right and being lucky.
Um, we had a lot of both on this move.
We ran into an Army patrol.
They lost 10 men in a fight with the Comanches.
We'd have been right in the middle of it.
My thanks, Mr. Favor.
You'd have done the same thing
if you'd had a minute to think.
Once, maybe.
Now, I don't know.
Well... I think I'll go home.
The herd's all right.
That's what I wanted to make sure of.
You take over for me?
Sure.
You're a miserable ramrod.
But not a bad trail boss.
Adiós.
Well, what are you sittin' around for? Lets get a-movin'.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Head 'em up!
Move 'em out!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin' Rollin'
Keep rollin', rollin' Rollin'
Though the streams Are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin'
Rawhide!
Through rain and wind And weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin' my gal Was by my side
All the things I'm missin'
Good vittles Love and kissin'
Are waiting at the end Of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide
Let 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out Ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rawhide!
Hyah!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!
Don't try To understand 'em
Just rope, throw And brand 'em
Soon we'll be livin' High and wide
My heart's calculatin'
My true love Will be waitin'
Be waiting at the end Of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide
Let 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out Ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rawhide!
Hyah!
What're you tryi" to do, Mushy?
Get that horse to throw you?
I was trying to do what you just did, Mr. Nolan.
What'd I just do?
Well, come to a halt
and get out of your saddle before your horse stops.
Land on your feet.
Well, always remember one thing, Mushy.
When you're ridin' someplace,
don't get there ahead of your horse.
Try it on that hill.
What? That slope?
Yeah. That way you won't roll so far.
Well, I'll try, Mr. Nolan.
Thank you.
Will you watch me?
I think I'd better.
Hold it, mister.
You're making a mistake, son.
You talk to Mr. Favor.
You with Mr. Favor's herd, son?
Now, what counts is that steer's with Mr. Favor's herd.
What's going on here?
Why'd you fire the warning shot?
Well, he figures he's caught himself a rustler.
Red-handed.
Put that gun away, Mushy.
But Mr. Nolan. Put it away.
You wanna give him a chance to draw on it.
Mushy, can you tell me which way our herd is from here?
That's right.
Now, which way was this rustler hazing the steer?
Did you ever hear of a rustler
hazing a steer back into a herd?
For all I know he was hazing that steer,
and he ain't got no right to.
He's got every right, Mushy. This is Frank Miller.
He's a herd cutter.
You know what a herd cutter is.
Yeah, a herd cutter.
Hey, he's a man hired by the ranchers.
Uh, he stops the herd...
and he cuts out other people's strays that get mixed up in it.
I think.
That's right, Mushy.
Now about all that's left is for you to apologize
to Mr. Miller, and we'll get goin'.
I guess I'm sorry, Mr. Miller.
I think.
Well, if you want to show him how sorry you are,
how about hazing that steer back to the herd.
Ha-ha. Your cook's louse?
Yeah. How could you tell?
Yeah, the red one. The red one is from the Running A.
There's a special Circle G.
Uh, that black one there.
He's a Diamond Bar.
There's a Easy E.
There's a Easy E. Go.
There's a Diamond Bar.
There, that black fella.
Spot's got a J on 'em.
There's a Easy E.
There's an Easy E. Go.
Watch, got an R on him.
There's one.
Here's a Diamond B.
There's a Circle J.
Watch, got an R on him.
That white one's all right. It's yours.
Boy, he sure can spot them brands.
He's the best. He's been doing it a lot of years.
Cutting for all the ranchers in the valley,
he's calling maybe 28 brands at once.
He just missed one there.
Yeah. Get it, Joe.
That ain't the first one either.
I saw you cut out a couple he missed.
Well, when I first knew him, he ain't never missed a one.
Well, it's a big herd. He's probably getting tired.
Oh, he's getting a few years on him.
Maybe his eyes aren't what they were.
You never noticed anything though.
Oh, well, sure I do. Well... Oh.
That'd do it, Frank?
You're cleaner now. It's true.
You can take 'em on up the trail tomorrow mornin'.
Good. We'll bed 'em down then.
You got quite a haul, didn't you, Mr. Miller?
Yeah. Better than a hundred head, I guess.
Hey, you'd a cost us a pretty penny.
How many years has it been that you've been workin' cattle?
Well, now, there's a question. You know,
I never did keep track.
But this young whippersnapper here,
he oughta be able to tell you.
Who, Mr. Favor?
Yeah, I was cuttin' 'fore he could set a horse.
No, I ain't kept track neither.
And how long it's been since you come up north here, Frank?
Why, it's going on seven years now.
That long?
Say, Rowdy. You seen Jim Quince?
Yeah, I sent him out brush-beating for strays
about an hour ago.
Ain't he back yet? Don't see him nowheres.
He oughta be back by now.
You better take a look then.
Son, you better take a couple men with you.
Yeah, what for?
Well, uh, he might have run into somethin'.
We've been having a little trouble around here lately.
Trouble? What kind?
Been losing beef. Indians?
No, not around here. We don't know who it is,
but, uh, your man might just have run into something.
See to it, Rowdy.
Yeah.
Funny thing, you know?
Ain't never noticed these losses till just lately.
Oh, it couldn't have been too much then.
Not all at one time, but just sort of a steady drain.
You know, more than you could account for by natural causes,
like weather and disease.
But there's just no trace of 'em.
All the stockmen in the valley
are gettin' up in arms.
Oh, everybody losing?
Some more than others. But everybody.
Including me.
Coffee's ready.
Good. I can use some of that.
Hey, you!
Put up your hands.
You heard me. Put up your hands.
Uh, now, hold on, mister.
You got me wrong. This ain't my fire.
No, of course not. But it'll do.
How do you mean?
We'll show you.
Wait a minute, mister. You gotta listen to me.
I'm with a trail herd.
I'm just gathering strays.
Sure. But that ain't one of your strays.
He's got the brand of one of the ranchers in this valley.
It ain't my fire either. Nor my runnin' iron.
I came up and surprised him, whoever he was.
Thought he had one of our strays. I yelled.
He ran up that draw.
Well, you can find his tracks.
There's tracks all over the place.
What'd he look like?
Well... it was hard to see.
He was ridin' a bay horse with a blaze.
More than a hundred in this valley
answer that description.
Don't I at least get a trial?
You've had it.
We're tired of you drovers coming through this valley
and fattening your herds at our expense.
We're just gonna make an example of you.
Look, mister. At least give me a chance to prove what I say.
My boss'll vouch for me.
I gotta tell somebody.
I don't want to die out here alone.
You ain't gonna die, Jim.
Now, let him go.
You his boss?
One of 'em.
Now, did you hear what I said?
You, uh... You don't know who you're talkin' to, boy.
I'm deputy sheriff of this county.
You're sure acting like one, mister.
Well, it's your own fault.
You drovers, it's the only way to fight you.
Uh, not with vigilante law.
We'll abide by real law.
But you ain't gonna hang one of our men,
deputy sheriff or no.
And I tell you, he's under arrest.
Now, you say you abide by the law.
You try to take him, and you're going against it.
What kind of law is putti" a rope around a man's neck?
If he's under arrest, why didn't you take him to jail,
give him a trial?
All right, we'll take him in.
But he'll hang anyway, don't worry.
Rowdy... you gonna let him take me in?
Yeah, well, maybe that's best for now, Jim.
He has got some authority.
We'll find out about this and get you out in no time.
In the meanwhile, we'll, uh...
We'll ride along with you just to make sure you get there.
Safe.
Pretty valley, ain't it?
Kinda like it here, huh?
You know, I never thought I'd come to love a place,
but this valley sorta grows on you.
Havin' your own spread makes a difference too, Gil.
I recommend it.
Yeah. Maybe someday.
Now, don't wait too long. I almost did.
Might never have had it at all if it hadn't been for my boy.
Yeah, well, it's different for you. You've got a son.
Yeah, Andy. Nineteen already.
Ah, that's right.
Suppose it sounds kinda foolish, but, well...
he's what all this is for.
You know, couple more years, he'll be able to take over.
And we built it up pretty good for him.
Then I can cash my checks anytime, and it won't matter.
Say, where is that son of yours, anyway?
Why, he's taking care of the ranch while I'm gone.
He's a nice boy, Gil, uh... I'd like you to meet him.
Maybe we'll just ride down
before you get away in the mornin'.
Ah, I'd like that.
Looks like your boys comin' in.
Yeah, but too fast.
Something's wrong.
What is it? Quince, he's in jail.
They had him strung to a tree when we come across him.
For what?!
For rustling, I guess.
He evidently came across the fella who they were after,
and he got stuck with the evidence. Evidence?
Yeah. A downed calf, a fire and a running iron.
No wonder. The mood they're in,
just a running iron would be enough.
Uh, Quince tried to tell 'em they were making a mistake.
He'd have been dead if I hadn't gotten there when I did.
Uh, they had the law on their side.
That's why I couldn't talk him free or anything.
Think he's safe in this town, Frank?
Well, for a spell.
But they're probably have a pretty speedy trial.
I left Bailey in there.
Told him to send word if anything went wrong.
Gil, you figure this fella of yours is telling the truth?
Quince. He's one of the best men I got.
I'd trust him as far as I would Rowdy or you.
He's no rustler.
Mr. Favor, look.
Looks like a whole delegation.
More like a posse to me.
Frank. The whole kit and caboodle.
Town fathers. Major stockmen.
Who's the boss, Frank?
This is Mr. Gil Favor, gentlemen,
one of the best trail bosses in the business.
And I oughta know. I had a hand in his training.
Gil, this is Morgan Shaw, our sheriff.
This is John Rye, mayor of the town.
That's, uh, Marsh Cox.
Yeah, I understand you're holding one of my men.
That's right. But he won't be held long, I can assure you.
I'm glad to hear that.
'Cause I can assure you that he's innocent of the charge.
How can you be sure of that?
Well, I know the man, that's all.
Well, I don't.
And I don't know you.
For all I know, he could have been acting under your orders.
What do you mean by that?
I mean you trail herders always manage
to leave with more stock than you come with.
Now, wait a minute, Morgan.
Now, Frank... you stay outta this.
Why should I? I just told you this man's a friend of mine.
Maybe that don't make it any better, Frank.
Now, wait a minute. What are you trying to do?
Accuse me of being in some illegal deal
with Mr. Favor here?
No, Frank. You know better than that.
We're not trying to accuse you of anything.
Well, then what do you mean?
Well... you know as well as we do
that we're losing stock some way.
You yourself are.
Only thing we can figure is these trail herds
are picking it up as they go through.
Then you are accusing me.
You're accusing me of not doing my job.
Well, no. No, Frank. Not that exactly.
But it is possible that one time or another
you do miss a few sometimes.
Yes, I do. 'Cause my eyes aren't what they once were.
Maybe I should have admitted it and asked for help.
But I wanna tell you this:
I didn't let through all the stock that we've lost.
Take a look in that holding corral over there.
That's what I cut out of Mr. Favor's herd.
Over a hundred head.
Well, that's partly what we mean, Frank.
Seems like a lot of cattle for them to have picked up
just passing through.
We can't help picking up strays
going across a range. You know that.
And I cut 'em all out, that's my job.
Now you take a look at the main herd.
You won't find one, maybe two, without brands.
Maybe not. How many would we find
if we could turn 'em inside out?
Yeah, and after all, we find one of his men
with a hot fire and a running iron.
Now, how many other irons are there in this crew?
I know a row of blotched brand when I see one.
Yes, but maybe you weren't watching for 'em, Frank.
You were reading our herds.
Well, we're holding this herd until
we can check it thoroughly.
It's all right, Frank.
You go ahead, check the herd. Satisfy yourselves.
We will, first thing in the morning.
It's getting too dark tonight.
But we'll leave a guard here
to see that you don't move anything.
All right.
And if you've satisfied yourselves
there's nothing here,
then you'll let my men go.
No, I didn't say that.
You're not having stolen cattle wouldn't prove him innocent.
And anyway, that's for a jury to decide.
What jury? You and your friends?
I'll tell you something, mister.
You'd better let him go,
or you're gonna be in for trouble.
Well, now, you just try that, sonny.
We're not afraid of trouble.
We'll be ready for you, and...
maybe you'll join your friend.
Frank. You coming?
No. I'll stay here.
Suit yourself.
Sorry, Gil.
So am I.
What are we gonna do?
I don't know yet.
Is there any chance Jim will get a fair trial in town?
Fair, yes. But who's gonna prove him innocent?
Guess that's up to us somehow.
Yeah, but how?
Just gonna have to flush out
the man who really did it.
Well, what happens if we can't?
I don't know.
You ready for 'em, Gil?
Any time. How about Quince?
He's all right. I just checked at the jail.
Now, you don't have to worry about Morgan Shaw.
He's an honest sheriff.
And he'll keep him safe until the trial.
When's that?
They got it set for 3.
They're not waitin' for the circuit judge.
They're forming a county committee.
Vigilantes?
Well, it's better than no trial at all.
Oh, Gil, this is Andy. Andy, this is Gil Favor.
Howdy, Andy. Glad to meet you, Mr. Favor.
My father says you're a great man.
I'm just another cowhand.
There's a few things greater than that.
Not to my father.
Well, now, they don't come any greater than he is.
Yeah, I know.
Uh, sorry about all this.
Puttin' you to all this trouble, Mr. Favor.
We're not being very hospitable, are we?
Ah, I guess it can't be helped.
Are you ready, Favor?
We'll get 'em over there. My men'll squeeze 'em through,
your men will hold and ride after 'em.
That satisfactory?
Let's get it over with.
Hey, hey.
Well?
We didn't see anything.
What about blotched brands?
Nope. You wouldn't take my word.
Look, Frank...
all I know is we're losing stock somehow.
Maybe that drover hasn't got any.
And maybe he has. What do you mean?
Maybe he's got some way of gettin' 'em past us.
Maybe he sent 'em around and through the pass
down to the valley.
You think he could have done that without me findin' it out?
I don't know, Frank.
Now, wait a minute.
I don't care what you think about me,
but nobody in 40 years
has questioned Frank Miller's integrity.
And you've got no call to now.
You're doing an injustice to a friend and a neighbor.
Nobody's questionin' Frank's integrity.
Personally, I'm convinced you had nothing
to do with it, Favor.
Sorry we didn't take Frank's word for it.
I hope you'll forgive us for that.
Anyway, you're free to take your herd on.
Not without my man, Quince.
He has to stand trial.
Before a vigilante court?
I assure you he'll be treated fairly.
If you want to testify for him, you may do so.
If you have any evidence in his behalf, you can present it.
Well, you know I haven't got any evidence.
How could I?
But I know the man is innocent.
If you can prove it, he'll go free.
I promise you.
It's up to you.
I'm warning you.
I'm not gonna let any vigilante court
hang any men of mine.
Especially when I know he's innocent.
Like our sheriff told you, we don't want trouble.
But if it comes, we can take care of it.
If he's sentenced to hang...
he'll hang.
What are we gonna do?
First of all,
show me where that brandin' iron was.
It's not much to go on.
Not enough to prove anything.
And not enough to convince anybody
Quince was tellin' the truth.
I was convinced when you vouched for him.
Let's see where those tracks lead.
See anything over there?!
No.
Afraid it's no use, Mr. Favor.
Looks like we lost 'em.
That fella sure knew what he's doing.
Well, now where do we stand?
Well, if we can't track him out,
we're gonna have to think him out.
You people must have talked this over.
Aren't there some suspects?
Well, first we thought it might be Indians.
But they would have left signs.
So would any outside bunch of rustlers.
And we found no sign at all.
Well, then it must have occurred to you
that it might be somebody from here in the valley.
Yeah, we talked about that.
But that's just a blank wall.
You see, every stockman, he's a solid citizen.
And every one of 'em has been losing stock.
Now, there's nobody in the town
that could be doin' it.
Why not?
Well, it's too big an operation.
First off, where would they hold the stock?
Then where would they sell it?
Except a passin' herd.
Now that's why the suspicions finally got
to rest on you fellas.
Yeah, I see.
Isn't there any local market?
Oh, sure. Town butcher.
Ha-ha. He couldn't sell that much meat in 10 years.
Of course, the tannery buys hides,
but, uh...
well, what would they do with the carcasses?
Where do they get their hides?
They buy 'em from all around.
'Course most of 'em come from Fort Hawkes.
That's a Army post over in Warm Creek.
How far's that?
Oh, 20 miles.
Less, over the hill.
Are where do they get their beef?
Oh, they buy from all of us, all around.
It's a matter of policy they say to spread out their buyin',
so nobody will accuse them of playing favorites.
Why, some of their stock's driven in
from three, four counties away, I'm told.
Well, then nobody but them would know exactly how much beef
they're buying from this valley. No, I suppose not.
And it's the biggest local market?
Oh, by far.
Well, then that's where we'll check in first.
Who's in charge there?
A Colonel Cook.
Of course, you'd want to see the supply officer. Uh...
Andy, what's that fella's name?
Uh... Uh, Lieutenant Hill, I think. Oh, yeah.
Andy took over the last stock we sold 'em,
but it was quite a while ago.
Anyhow, he'll tell you who you wanna see.
All right. Now, wait a minute.
Don't you want us to go with you?
No, Rowdy and I can handle it.
Say, would you go back to town,
keep an eye on Quince?
Maybe you can delay the trial
until we get back with what we can find.
Uh, which way do we go?
Why, right over the hills,
follow this wash up to the side.
You'll see it down in the canyon down the valley there.
Right. We'll be back as soon as we can.
Well, I'll do what I can.
Good luck to you.
Ah, say... could you tell me
where I might find the supply officer?
Lieutenant Hill. Uh, I just saw him down there
in the Sutler Store.
Uh, thanks, corporal.
This is the third time you run out of tobacco.
I'm sorry, lieutenant.
What's the most important item
in the Sutler Store?
Tobacco.
Next time you run out,
you lose your franchise right then and there.
Lieutenant Hill?
Yes. What can I do for you, gentlemen?
Howdy. My name's Favor.
I'm boss of a trail herd that's going through.
Little short on men, little long on cattle.
I was just wondering if I could sell you some beef.
I'm afraid not.
We're pretty well stocked right now.
I see. You, uh, buy all your beef around here?
From the ranchers around here, yes.
Yeah, well, you get a better price that way.
But, um, I'd be willing to give a good price too.
No, thanks.
You're not even gonna ask me my price?
Say, you must be getting a good one.
I'm busy.
Uh, you, uh, buy all from the same source, huh?
Look, Mr. Favor. Let's drop the pretense.
I've heard about you and your trouble in town.
Military intelligence, huh?
Something like that.
Now, why did you come here? What do you want from me?
Just some information.
What information?
Somebody's rustling some cattle.
I think they're selling 'em to you.
That's absurd.
Is it?
Then you won't mind telling me
who you're buying your stock from.
I've already told you.
We buy it from many sources.
I just want to know who they are.
You don't believe me, huh?
I'd just like to see the records.
They're government property, Mr. Favor.
I couldn't show them to you if I wanted to.
I haven't the authority.
Well, who has? Colonel Cook?
No. Nobody this side of Washington.
Look, this means a man's life. An innocent man's.
His innocence or guilt doesn't concern me, Mr. Favor.
I simply haven't the authority to show you those records.
Now, you're gonna have to take my word
that the charge is absurd.
I have nothing to hide about the way I conduct my office.
Nobody's accusing you of anything.
You're suggesting I knowingly bought stolen cattle.
No, I'm suggesting somebody's selling you stolen cattle,
which is a much different thing.
You could be buying in good faith.
Now, all I need to know
is who you been buying the most stock from
over in the valley lately.
And I cannot tell you.
Or won't.
Let's put it this way, Mr. Favor,
I wouldn't if I could.
All right. That's all I need to know.
You know he's lying?
He's in it all right.
He's probably buying at cut prices and pocketing the rest.
Jasper like that will leave the Army rich.
Won't be the first.
Well, what are we gonna do?
How are we gonna prove anything?
Let's look over their beef.
Not that way, gentlemen.
You can leave the way you came.
Just looking around.
This is government property. I'll have to ask you to leave.
Did you see anything?
Kind of looked like several brands.
Only one I could make out was Circle A though.
I don't think there's any other way
we could get back to those pens without getting shot.
Not before dark.
I got another idea though.
Cattle make tracks.
They must have brought 'em in some way.
So let's see if we can cut a trail on 'em.
Well...
I don't know what to tell you.
This looks like a regular Santa Fe Trail for critters,
the way these tracks go every which way.
I don't know. l...
Looks like it's hopeless, you know?
Maybe.
Let's try a little bit further.
That jasper nearly got me.
Yeah. This is better.
Look.
We got 'em on the run.
Yeah!
Hold it.
Hold it?
Yeah, we'd never catch up to 'em now anyway.
Something tells me we don't have to chase him though.
All we gotta do is look around here.
Rowdy. Come on up here.
They're all brands. All of them.
Some are older than others, but they're all blotched.
Yeah, and they're all Circle A's.
Just holds 'em up here in this backcountry box canyon
'til their brands heal.
And then drives 'em up the wash, over the hill to the fort.
Pretty simple.
Now, all we gotta do is
find out whose brand is the Circle A.
And I guess they'll know that in town, huh?
Let's go.
Quince is gonna be a happy man.
James Quince, the jury finds you guilty.
The sentence is hanging.
Get up.
Well, we might as well get it over with.
Now, wait a minute. You can't do this.
Favor may show up at any time with some new evidence.
You don't want to hang an innocent man.
The verdict's been reached, Frank.
And I think they're right.
But you don't have to rush right out to the nearest tree.
You can wait a little, can't you?
We've waited long enough.
We might have done it yesterday, and save all this trouble.
Well, I'm not sorry about that.
But it's legal now. There's no sense putting it off.
No, Frank. This ain't the kind of a thing
you want to sit around and think about.
No, you might lose your nerve, huh, Jim?
Morgan, I'm pleading.
Get out of my way, Frank.
Go on.
I'm sorry, Quince.
Hm. You did everything you could, Mr. Miller. l...
Sure do thank you.
Go on, Quince.
Come on, let's go.
Find anything, Gil?
Yes, I did.
I know who's doing your rustling.
Who? I don't know his name,
but I know his brand.
I know where he holds the stock until the brands heal.
And I know where he's selling 'em.
All right, who? What's the brand?
The Circle A.
You know what you're saying?
Yours, Frank?
Show me.
Just show me.
And you better be right.
All right.
Put him back in jail.
We'll have to see about this.
All right. Where are they?
They're gone.
This is a man you called your friend, Frank.
It's no lie.
Look at all those tracks down there.
So? There's cattle all over this range.
They'll go anywhere there's grass and water.
Now, what we wanna see
are those blotched brands you were talking about.
Where are they?
Well, they couldn't have been taken far.
All we have to do is look up one of these washes here.
And waste more time?
Ah, we're sick of your lies.
That's right.
For the evidence, you're just stalling for time.
Could be a trick, and their men trying something back in town.
We'd better get back and finish it.
Great friends.
Using a man like Frank this way.
What are we gonna do?
Better get back to town.
Frank...
Get on back to the herd, bring every available man.
I'll stick with them.
We didn't find a thing.
What are you doing here, Favor?
You might as well move on.
Unless you want to stay for the hanging.
Now, wait a minute, Marsh.
That's all I'm asking you to do
is wait a minute and listen to me.
Now, I didn't know the Circle A
was Frank Miller's brand.
But even if I did,
why would I pick that particular brand
if I hadn't really seen it on those cattle.
Go on.
I don't believe Frank is involved in this
any more than you do.
Besides knowing what kind of a man he is...
saw how it hit him.
I'm sorry for that.
But it does point up the fact
that there is a logical suspect.
Who?
I should think that'd be pretty easy to figure out.
It'd have to be somebody who could sell the brand.
Somebody who had the power to sign Frank Miller's name
on a bill of sale over at Fort Hawkes.
Andy?
Now, I don't know anything about the boy,
and I only saw him yesterday.
And he seemed all right as far as I could see.
But he does own a bay horse with a blaze,
just like Quince said he saw.
Well isn't it possible?
He has free reign handling his father's stock.
He has taken cattle over to Fort Hawkes for sale,
alone.
Well, what about the boy?
Well, he's only been here a couple of years.
Not very much like his father, we know that.
Uh, I guess he grew up with
his mother in towns, you know,
while Frank was out working cattle somewhere.
But that don't convict him of rustling.
You're letting this man throw dust in your eyes.
Turn you away from the verdict
the court's already brought in.
We're not turning away from anything, Marsh.
I don't take Favor's word any more than you do, but...
he has got a point, and it is possible.
Yes, it is.
He may be stalling.
He may be making wild guesses, but...
he has got a point.
Only you'll have to prove it.
That's all I ask is a chance to do that.
And the promise that you won't try hanging Quince
while I'm away.
I'll give you an hour. No more.
Hour?
All right.
I'll be back, Jim.
Pa.
Uh... I thought you were in town.
l... I was just coming in myself.
I wanna talk to you, Andy.
Well, c-can't it wait?
No, it can't wait.
Andy, for two years, I tried to get close to you,
like I figured a father and a son ought to be, but...
some reason, I just can't do it.
I guess maybe it's my fault, but...
Well, uh, the time has come
when you and me gotta understand each other.
Whatever you say, Pa.
Andy, all my life I tried to live
the way my dad taught me.
Honest, straightforward.
Give full measure to every man.
Double deal no man.
Do a good day's work.
And lay your head on a pillow at night
with no sense of guilt.
Now, that's the way I've lived.
And that's what the name Frank Miller has stood for
all over the West for better than 40 years.
Yeah, I know, Pa.
Uh, wait.
Son, if there's anything you ought to tell me, uh...
why don't you tell me now.
What things, Pa?
Well, if you've made any mistakes,
it's a good time to get 'em off your chest.
No. No, there's nothing.
Well, take your medicine, wipe the slate clean.
There's nothing, I tell you.
Look, son, if you've got
a man's life on your conscience...
I don't know what you're talking about.
Andy, look.
Look, you know how I feel about your being here.
And how I feel about your future.
This is your place, Andy.
The Circle A. A is for Andy.
I don't want it. I never wanted it.
I hate it here. I'm going back to St. Louis.
What?
I'm not like you, Pa! Can't you understand that?
I wanna get out of here, and I'm going to.
Get out of my way, Pa.
I'm through.
We get here in time?
Wish, you and the boys
stick over by the sheriff's office.
Rowdy, you come on with me.
Right.
Find Andy Miller yet?
No, I doubt he's even in town.
He's probably still out at the ranch.
We haven't got time to go out there now.
I got another idea though.
Yeah, what's that?
The tannery.
The third link in the chain.
We should find the evidence we need there.
Hey.
Army saddle.
Our friend Lieutenant Hill may be here.
Could be.
That was him all right.
The other fellow was probably the tanner.
The third link in the chain.
Andy steals the cattle, Hill buys 'em,
and the tanner turns the hides
without examining the brands too close.
A very neat operation.
Hmm. Um, maybe it's too neat.
Maybe we can't prove nothing.
We can try. Come on.
Watch your step there. That's a lime pit.
Over here.
This must be them.
Circle A.
Now, let's see if it's the same on the other side.
Looks like a Rafter D.
Wasn't hard to blotch that one.
Phew.
I guess this is what we've been looking for.
Go on back, get the sheriff. Bring him here.
I'll see what else I can find.
All right.
Nope. Don't touch it.
Put your hands up slow.
Got quite a little business here, Andy.
Better than ranching, huh?
Guess you're just not a cowman like your father, huh?
No, and I don't wanna be either.
Well, you'd rather steal from him
and his friends, and shoot at 'em from ambush.
Mr. Favor, this is a gun I'm holding.
I can use it, and I will.
You clear out now.
Take your herd and go.
Tomorrow morning, I'll meet you on the other side of the pass
with 30 head of prime beef.
No questions, no problems.
You're forgetting one thing, aren't you?
Man named Quince.
Yeah, well, you can manage without him.
Yeah. But can he manage without me?
I don't think so.
I don't think I like your proposition either.
Take it or leave it.
I don't think I have to do that either.
Don't you?
They'd never find a trace of you in that lime pit.
They'd never know what happened to you.
I think they would.
See, Rowdy's already gone for the sheriff.
They'll know the whole thing by now.
And I don't think you could
get rid of all the evidence
quick enough.
Grant!
He knows!
We gotta get rid of these hides.
Help me throw 'em in the lime pit.
No, Andy!
Don't blame yourself, Frank.
Well, I had my dreams of the future.
I guess I forgot he might have had his own.
Circle A.
Still a good ranch, Frank.
And you still have plenty of good friends.
I'm sorry, Frank.
Well...
Gil, there's one thing you might remember,
if you ever have a boy, it's...
It is pretty hard for the son
when he figures his dad is such a great man.
I sure didn't help any.
What I said to him.
Aw, it wasn't your fault. None of it.
Mr. Favor. I guess you know what I'm gonna say.
Forget it. No.
No, I'll never do that.
But there's one thing I'd like to ask you.
Yeah?
Could you relieve me
of cutting and branding duty for a spell?
What for?
I've had my bellyful of rope.
Yeah.
Head 'em up!
Move 'em out!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin' Rollin'
Keep rollin', rollin' Rollin'
Though the streams Are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin'
Rawhide!
Through rain and wind And weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin' my gal Was by my side
All the things I'm missin'
Good vittles Love and kissin'
Are waiting at the end Of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide
Let 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out Ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rawhide!
Hyah!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!
Don't try To understand 'em
Just rope, throw And brand 'em
Soon we'll be livin' High and wide
My heart's calculatin'
My true love Will be waitin'
Be waiting at the end Of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide
Let 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out Ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rawhide!
Hyah!
Look, this water hole's goin' dry.
I thought you said this one never went dry.
That's right.
Somethin' funny.
Funny?
It wasn't dry when I scouted it yesterday.
Not enough water here for a dozen head.
No more water this side of Coalport.
I don't understand it.
Something's wrong, Mr. Favor.
What do you mean?
Well, this crick is fed by a good spring
up there in the hills.
It ain't never gone dry.
How do you know?
I been up there.
You mean there's water likely to be further up ahead?
Bound to be.
I guess somebody's blocked it off.
All right. Pete, you and Rowdy go on up.
Mind if I go along too?
What for?
Well, my family's ranch is up there.
At least it was a year ago when I left.
All right, you and Rowdy take a look, then.
Thanks.
Still dry.
Where's your folks' place?
Just up ahead.
You know, I don't get you, Dan.
Most of the men have been bustin',
comin' this close to home.
You weren't even gonna ride up and take a look?
Well, there ain't much to see.
Well, what about your folks?
It's just my ma and my brother.
Well, if you weren't gonna say hello,
how come you, uh, comin' along with me now?
There's somethin' wrong.
That was the main house.
Yeah, still smokin'.
Maybe whoever it was that took the shot...
Hold your fire out there!
That's Cal.
That's my brother.
It's Dan!
Dan!
Oh, Danny.
Oh, I'm so glad to see you.
It's good to see you.
You're safe.
Cal? Ain't you gonna say nothin' to your brother?
Hello, Dan.
Hello, Cal.
That's quite a reception you gave us.
Didn't know it was you.
When'd the house burn down?
It was last night. Caught us in our sleep.
Just had time to get out with a few things.
Well, that's a shame, ma'am.
Oh, this is Rowdy Yates,
ramrod for the outfit I ride for.
My mom and brother Cal.
Glad to know you, Mrs. Fletcher.
I apologize, Mr. Yates.
Wish you'd come sooner,
we could've offered you our hospitality.
How'd this happen anyway?
Didn't just happen, it was set.
Cal, you ain't sure of that.
How else do you explain it?
That's why I shot at you.
Thought it was Travis comin' in.
What do you mean, Travis?
Cal thinks Frank Travis, our neighbor, set the fire.
Why do you think he'd wanna do that?
Tryin' to run us off, he wants our land.
Oh, Cal.
The crick is dry, ain't it?
Yeah, that's why we came up here.
And that's not all he wants to do.
He... He's dammin' up above.
Pondin' it, he says.
But he's trying to run us off.
And ain't it mighty funny that... That the fire breaks out
just when we don't have any water to fight it.
Water wouldn't have done much good,
the way that fire went.
Who do you think did it?
But Frank Travis, he's been a friend
of Pa's and yours, Ma, for a long time.
Ever since we was little back in Illinois.
But he and Cal been quarrelling ever since you left.
What about?
Anything, everything.
He took the high ground up above,
now wants to spread out down here.
It's the only place left.
I don't believe Frank done that.
And who do you think did it?
I believe it was an accident.
Accident.
Well, somebody stopped up this creek here.
Yeah.
Danny, where you goin'?
I'm gonna have a talk with Frank Travis.
Won't do no good, I argued myself hoarse.
I don't plan to argue.
He's got two new men now,
with guns.
We got three,
now that makes it even odds.
Danny, no.
Don't you worry, Ma.
Don't you worry about anything.
We'll handle it.
You comin', Cal?
Cal, don't start nothin' up there.
Who you worryin' about, Ma, me or Dan?
Both. I don't want no more fightin'.
Travis started it.
Calvin, if Frank really wants us to get out we will.
You tell him that.
Are you crazy, Ma?
I'll tell him no such thing.
There it is.
He's pondin', just like he said.
Yeah, the water'll run over and fill the creek in a few days,
but that doesn't do the herd any good right now.
Well, it's even odds, you said.
Let's go tear it down.
I aim to talk to Travis first.
I'm through talkin'.
Let's tear it down and be done with it.
Now, you listen, Cal... Who's in charge here?
Looks like you still are.
All right, come on, then.
Now you know why I wasn't anxious to hang around home.
All right, let's get some of those middle bags down.
You touch one of them sandbags
and you'll never touch nothin' again.
Flora, go get your pa.
Hello, Flora.
Danny.
When'd you get back home?
I'm just passin' through.
Better run and get your pa.
We need to talk.
She's a real pretty girl.
Cal thinks so too.
I thought you'd be married by now, brother Cal.
What happened?
I don't see where that's any of your business.
You've got a real friendly brother there, Dan.
Oh, listen, Cal, I told you never...
Hello, Mr. Travis.
Flora never said a word about you.
It's good to see you, boy.
What you doin' here?
I'm passin' through with a trail herd.
The cow business is good for you, it looks like.
Well, that's why I'm here now, Mr. Travis.
Our cattle's gotta have water,
just like Cal and Ma do.
You know, they could've used that water last night.
Yeah, I know, l... I'm sorry about that.
Sorry? You set that fire or you had it set.
You know I wouldn't do a thing like that, Dan.
Wouldn't you? Why don't you tell him
how you're trying to run us out?
It ain't your ma, Dan, or you while you're here,
but I admit I'll be glad to see the last of him.
You take it easy, Cal.
You don't believe I set that fire, do you, Dan?
No, I don't, Mr. Travis.
We got there as quick as we could
but it was too late to do much.
Yeah, especially without any water.
Well, who are you?
Rowdy Yates, ramrod for the outfit I ride for.
Seems kinda strange that the fire breaks out
right after you shut the water off.
I got my own ideas as to how that fire started.
What do you mean?
I don't wanna say.
I want you to say, Mr. Travis.
Ask him.
He thinks I caused it. He... He thinks I was drunk.
You'd been drinkin'.
You were mad at me
and you started early last night.
I was asleep, I tell you, both Ma and me.
I woke up to the smoke and the flames.
I'm not on trial here. You are, you stopped the water.
Only for two or three days, I'm pondin'.
I need more water for my stock.
I warned you to fill some barrels
for a few days supply, but you wouldn't.
I didn't know you were coming through here with a herd.
And I didn't know there was gonna be any fire.
I guess there's no blame.
Well, maybe not but we got 3,000 head of cattle
and we can't bring 'em all the way up here.
We're gonna have to let your dam down.
You're gonna?
That's right, you can rebuild it.
We might even help you, but we need water, mister.
We'll fight for it if we have to.
We don't want one though.
Well, I don't want a fight either.
Let it down.
Thanks, Mr. Travis.
Dan, I was kinda hoping you'd stay home now.
I'm just passin' through.
I was afraid of that.
All right, let's get these middle bags down.
I'll take a look up here, see how far they're pondin'.
I'll take the horses and put 'em over here.
All right, good.
Come on, Cal, it's your job too.
Look out!
Watch what you're doin'!
I'm sorry, it was an accident.
Are you hurt?
I think it might be broken.
I said I'm sorry.
Will you come on down and help me lift him?
All right.
Easy, easy.
Mr. Travis!
What happened?
Accident.
Can we take him inside the house?
Sure, sure, bring him in. Flora, fix up the settee.
Right over there, boys.
Where's he hurt?
My ankle.
Dan, why don't you go get Mr. Favor,
have him bring Wishbone?
Wishbone'll know how to doctor this.
All right.
Make use of the back.
We'll let that water down, don't you worry about it.
Thanks.
Come on, Cal.
Feel better now?
Yeah.
You sure have the touch.
You know, on the trail ride
we don't see a girl as pretty as you are very often.
Doesn't seem to bother Dan much.
How long have you known Dan and his brother?
Oh, we grew up together.
Of course, I was a lot younger then.
He didn't notice me at first.
Yeah, I don't know what got into Dan,
goin' away and leavin' a girl like you.
Well,
he wanted to see somethin' of the world.
Well, I guess he saw it
if you... You wanna call it lookin' at the south end
of a bunch of northbound cattle.
Well, anyway, it ain't fair.
A girl just can't up and go anytime she pleases.
No, not unless she's got a husband
or someone to take her.
You married?
No, I'm not. I'm not fixin' to either.
I got a little of the world to see myself.
You men.
What about, uh, Cal?
What about him?
Well, he... He don't get along with your pa much.
Has that got anything to do with you?
I really don't know.
Are you scared of him?
Scared of Cal?
Mm-hm.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Come on in.
Hey, hello, boss, how are you?
Well, well, well.
I brought the horse liniment, that ought to cure you.
Take a look at that.
You sure you didn't do this on purpose?
Well, you wouldn't blame me if I would with a nurse like her.
This is, uh, Flora Travis.
Miss Travis.
Oh! Take it easy, will you, Wishbone?
He's been spoiled.
Been a long time since you come here.
I come to see Mr. Yates.
How is he? Oh, he ain't bad hurt.
Flora's tended him. Their man's there with him now.
I see the water's comin' down.
You agreed to that?
Margaret, I'm... I'm sorry about all that happened.
Especially the house burnin'.
It weren't no great house. We can build another.
Cal tells me you tryin' to run us out.
Now, that ain't so.
You and me been friends a long time.
That ain't changed, I hope.
No. That's good.
'Cause I'd hate to think that after you and Josh
and me and Effy had been such close friends
all those years that...
Well, I got to admit though, that older boy is a tribulation.
I just don't know how two brothers
can be so different as him and Dan.
Yeah, they are.
l-I don't know what it is about Cal,
but I swear that boy's got a devil in him.
So did you have when you was his age.
Maybe that's it.
Margaret, it ain't no matter for a joke.
I got to admit
that I'd be almost glad to see the last of Cal.
Because of Flora, you mean?
Well, if it was Dan, I'd feel different.
Well, maybe Dan'll stay. Maybe he'll see he's needed.
I hope so.
Well, it ain't broke, but it's a bad sprain.
He isn't gonna ride for two or three days.
All right, wrap it up.
We better get him back to camp.
Oh, do you...? You think I ought to be moved?
W-well, I think maybe he ought to get some rest
and keep off that ankle.
Ma Fletcher.
Oh, I'm so glad. It's been so long.
Yes, it has, Flora. Come sit down.
All right. How's Mr. Yates?
Uh, l-I'll live, ma'am.
Absolute rest, the best thing for it.
How long?
Oh, at least two days.
Well, he can stay right here, sir.
We'll be glad to look after him.
All right, then, you've got a boarder.
You catch up when you can ride.
Well, we've got grass now
and... And plenty of water, uh...
Well, we've been pushing the herd pretty hard lately.
I thought as long as I've gotta be here...
Now what are you pushin' for?
Well, Mrs. Fletcher's house burned down,
and I thought we could take some of the men, maybe,
and we could rebuild it?
God bless you, son. I wouldn't ask such a thing.
Oh, well, don't have to, ma'am.
We're all friends of Dan's, and they wouldn't mind.
Would they?
It'll be up to them.
Uh, well, you just give them the chance.
That I'll do.
Thanks, Mr. Favor.
I might know the kind of man you was.
Dan thinks a lot of you.
That's mighty good of you, Mr. Favor.
My men and I will be glad to help too.
You?
Cal.
I'll see you first thing in the morning, then.
I'll stay the night with Ma
if it's the same to you, Mr. Favor.
Sure. Um, see you in the morning.
Margaret,
won't you stay here till the house is finished?
Oh, please stay. There's plenty of room.
We can take care of our own.
I'd better not.
Thank you though.
At least stay for supper.
Come on, Ma.
Thank you, Frank, Flora.
Uh, Flora, I didn't get a chance to say it,
but you're lookin' fine.
Thanks. So are you.
Yes, sir, he sure is.
Went away a boy, come home a man.
You can see your ma needs you here, son.
Oh, I got a job, Mr. Travis.
I signed to stay on to Sedalia, Missouri.
You can quit when there's need.
There won't be much once the house gets built.
You're still not ready to settle down yet.
You wanna roam,
see the world.
Well, I don't blame you.
I'd like to roam myself,
only it ain't respectable for a girl.
She's been like that ever since you left.
She's been like that since she was so high:
I envy you, her cookin', Rowdy.
Well, I guess there's some good
in every misfortune.
Take it easy, Dan.
Good night, Mr. Travis.
Whoa.
We'll have something cooking in no time, Ma.
Not for me, Dan. I'm tired, I just wanna lie down.
I got a place fixed up in the feed room.
We can stay out here in the straw.
All right.
Do you mind if we talk?
Talk.
I'd like to have a little conversation about a rock,
just accidentally fallin'.
You don't think it was an accident?
Well, maybe I got no other way of thinkin'.
What else you wanna talk about, little brother?
Was it accidental?
I said it was.
Now, what are you carryin' on about?
All of a sudden you come back here for no reason.
And the fire?
You're gettin' me madder and madder, little brother.
And if I keep it up you'll whup me,
just like always, is that it?
Like I always do, you deserve it.
Would you mind sayin' why you and Mr. Travis are fightin'?
You think that's any of your business?
You think it's none of my business?
Y-you know, when you ran out of here,
you got no more rights.
You gave 'em up.
It's your own doin'.
You know, you ain't married yet.
And the way she keeps lookin' away from you,
it looks like maybe you ain't gonna be.
What about that?
She'll marry me, all right.
I don't believe you. Then don't.
l-I only wanna know one thing.
Are you figuring on staying here?
I hadn't, but I think I will.
You wanted to get out.
You wanted to see the world, be a big man.
Well, you done it.
Now, don't come crawlin' back here,
tryin' to spoil things.
What things?
She was always a... A good thing for you, wasn't she?
Ma?
Here I thought she was favorin' you.
You know I have to keep reminding myself
you're my brother.
Well, forget about reminding yourself.
You forget about everything
except you're just passin' through.
You said it yourself.
That's right, that's what I said.
I guess you've been to a lot of big cities, Mr. Yates.
Well, I've been to San Antone.
Couple others, New Orleans.
Well, tell me about them.
What do you want me to tell you?
Oh, the fun,
excitement of each.
All the people.
What you liked the most.
Hm.
I like... I like bits of all of them, I guess.
I've gotta go to someplace like that.
I wanna see it, just once.
Well... Well, maybe you will someday.
Someday?
Well, I don't intend to wait.
I may just go off and find a-a job.
There must be jobs for somebody like me.
Yeah, a-a pretty girl can always
get a job in the city.
But not the kind of a job for a girl like you.
How do you know what's right for me?
In the big city?
In a very large city.
Well... all right.
Don't think you'd make it.
Oh, of course I would.
I'd make a very good waitress.
Yeah, you sure would.
Or saleslady.
Mm-hm.
Or whatever girls do in big cities.
They do lots of things.
They do? Mm-hm.
Then what's the matter with Dan?
Who's Dan?
There. What was wrong with that?
Not a thing.
Dan wouldn't like.
Who's there?
I don't know. What was that?
Flora?
It's Cal.
When Pa finds out...
I'll be back.
Cal, you oughtn't to be here.
Pa warned you.
I don't pay any attention to what your pa says.
Don't touch me.
I told you, I don't like you to touch me.
Oh? Now, what do you want?
I want your answer.
I don't have an answer.
I been waiting for a year,
and... And it's gotta be now.
And it doesn't have to be now.
And even if I said I'd marry you,
Pa would never let it be.
He says that you'd never, ever see me again.
Heh! It doesn't matter what your pa says.
He doesn't have to know what we do.
That's what you think?
You can't stop us, Mr. Travis.
I warned you to stay away from her.
Now I'm gonna have to whip you to show you I mean what I say.
Now that kinda evens things out,
doesn't it?
Hey, Fletcher.
I don't like to butt in, but this thing's liable to go off.
You leave her alone, Cal! You hear?
Thanks, Mr. Yates.
He ain't a fit man for you.
Well, what's the matter with him?
You're not to have anything to do with him.
I'm not?
All right, we'll use the old foundation.
First of all, start clearing that mess away.
Then start hauling lumber.
Using the old foundations won't be long.
Soon as we get the debris cleared away.
You're a drover, Mr. Favor.
How come you know how to build a house?
Well, I had to help put together one of the ones I grew up in.
Know a few tricks about it.
We'll have a snug, warm house up in no time at all.
Almost as good as the old one.
Well, we sure thank you.
"As good as the old one," he says.
I don't know. The old one had memories.
I ain't got nothing left of your daddy's.
You have his sons.
I have you.
And Cal.
No, not Cal. Ma.
Danny.
I know I shouldn't ask you, but if you could see your way clear
to stay here... If I stayed here,
there'd still be trouble between Cal and me.
Yeah, well...
Maybe Cal feels like we can't get together
without troubles starting.
And that's my fault.
Ma, how did that fire start?
Cal was drunk.
I don't know, maybe he knocked over a lamp,
or maybe he busted on purpose in one of his rages.
When I found him, he was staggering around
the smoke and the flame, like he didn't wanna get away from it.
I took him out. He didn't give me no trouble.
Danny, please.
Don't say it, Ma.
God knows you don't want Cal around, you want me.
But you can't have both of us.
And this is Cal's home, ain't it?
It is, ain't it?
Danny?
They leaving?
Mm-hm.
Going down to help build the house.
Aren't you afraid?
No, I'm not a-scared of you.
Why not?
Flora, you wouldn't know how to be bad if you wanted to.
Oh, is that so?
That's so.
Now, the on... Only reason you're giving me the eye
is because you're an unhappy girl, isn't that right?
You know a lot of things, don't you?
I know one thing.
You think the man you want doesn't want you.
Well, you're wrong.
Then why'd he leave?
Why'd he run away?
Why don't you ask him that?
He said there was nothing left here for him.
You've hardly even talked to him since he's been back.
He said he was just passing through.
I should think a girl would be able to change his mind.
Especially one that kisses like you did.
I'm sorry about that, Mr. Yates.
I'm not.
You know, I bet those men down there
would fall all over themselves for a cup of coffee.
Well, maybe I'll take your advice.
Maybe I won't.
Flora, you didn't have to do that.
Oh, I thought maybe they'd be needing more than one...
One pot of coffee.
Let's put her over on the fire and then pour it when they want.
Well, l... I think maybe I better pass them around.
Hm, just as you like.
Hey.
What are you doing here?
You can see, can't you? I brought some coffee.
You came here to see Dan, didn't you?
Now listen, Flora.
I'm warning you.
You stay away from him, you hear?
You listen, Calvin Fletcher.
I'm not taking any orders from you.
You got no rights over me.
You just remember that.
Cal.
What'd you do to that girl? You leave her alone.
Leave her to Dan, you mean. If that's in her mind, yes.
She always did like him better than you.
And if she don't want you,
there's nothing you can do about it.
Why is everybody against me?
What's wrong with me?
I'm just as good as Dan, maybe better.
Cal, it ain't that.
It's you can't tell somebody who to love.
Love is... l-it happens in your heart.
It... It ain't a thing you can force.
Well, I tell you something.
He's not gonna get her.
I've missed you.
After you left, l... I was pretty lonesome.
Well, you had Cal.
Cal?
He says that, uh, you're gonna marry him.
Well, he's crazy.
I never said I'd marry him.
Oh, you oughta know that, Danny.
Well, I've been away a year.
Yeah, I know.
And after you left, there was nobody but Cal.
I didn't think there'd be anybody.
But I never said I'd marry him.
Danny?
Couldn't you stay?
You want me to, Flora?
Yes.
Pa would like it, and... And Ma, she needs you.
And what about Cal?
Oh, no, Cal wouldn't like it.
Danny...
you're not afraid of Cal, are you?
Well, I guess I am.
Well, I never thought you were a coward.
Afraid of what he might do.
Maybe I am a coward when it comes to Cal.
He used to beat you when you were younger.
But you always stood up to his bullying.
Well, it's more than that now.
Well, you know how much you mean to Cal?
Yeah, well, that's not my fault.
Even if it was?
Danny.
What are you thinking?
I wouldn't blame you, Flora.
Do you think that I gave Cal any cause to...?
Well, you were lonesome, weren't you?
Flora, wait a minute.
Cal.
Margaret, I...
I ain't as young as I thought I was. My back is killing me.
I'm gonna have to sit down here and rest a little.
Well, I thank you, Frank,
for coming here to help.
I hope we can patch things up.
You know it ain't right for close friends like us,
especially now that we're both alone.
There's a thing stands between us.
What's that?
It's something maybe I should have talked about
a long time ago, but now I got to.
Even if it means I break my promise.
Promise? Wh-what promise, Margaret?
To Carrie.
Carrie. My first wife.
It was on her deathbed.
You'd run away, deserted her all those months.
She figured you was dead.
Well, Margaret, l-I was wild in those days.
And you know, l... Well, I meant to come back.
Anyway, I was her best friend.
Only one she had to turn to.
You never did know, did you, what she died of?
Well, the letter said a fever.
Childbed fever.
Child?
You left before she knew.
You was gone all those months, you never did write.
So she didn't want you to know ever.
That's why I promised her
you'd never know who your son was.
The child lived?
He still lives...
with the only mother he ever knew.
Cal is your son.
Carrie was near dying. She didn't know where you was.
Josh and I figured we never could have any children,
so we agreed to raise him as our own.
Carrie wanted the boy should never know.
Didn't want him to know he was an orphan.
I tried, I...
I don't know.
Maybe I failed in that.
And you let me come here
and settle right here beside you.
Well, there was nothing to do short of telling.
Josh is your best friend.
He couldn't hold nothing against you.
And you kept quiet all those years
after what I did to Carrie.
Well, Frank,
ain't none of us free from error.
And you've lived a good life since then.
With Flora?
She and Cal are brother and sister?
Half, yes.
That's why I had to break my promise.
That's why you gotta do something.
But what, Margaret? What?
I've tried to stop it,
but the more I stand in the way, the meaner he gets.
He's wild, Margaret. Wild.
And now I know why.
What about Flora?
It's Dan she wants, but if he leaves again, l...
She's a grown woman.
She wants marrying. You gotta tell her, Frank.
Or the boy.
Just don't wait too long, it'll be too late.
Cal, what...? What are you doing here?
I've come for you, Flora.
What do you mean?
I told you I'm not waiting any longer.
Well, listen, Cal.
Uh, I'm sorry,
but I just don't love you.
It's Dan, ain't it?
No.
Well, l-I don't know. What...? What does it matter?
It matters to me, Flora.
You can learn to love me.
Oh, no, Cal. l...
I'll make you come along, Flora.
You just can't carry me off.
Well, I can if I have to.
Well, my pa'd get after you.
Oh, no.
Not your pa nor Dan.
I'll kill anybody who tries.
Well, you just don't do things like that.
Well, you can't make me marry you.
Well, maybe I can.
If you don't marry me, I'll... You'll what?
I'll have to kill Dan.
You're crazy. I am, Flora.
That's the way you made me.
Now, you better come along with me.
No!
Now, now, don't make me hurt you, Flora.
Just come along easy.
Get the horses ready, we'll ride into the county,
and we'll get married.
You won't regret it.
Ma! Flora! It's your pa.
Let her go, Fletcher.
Come on.
Well, at least he didn't get to the horses.
I'll get my rifle.
Rowdy.
Fletcher, he... He's got Flora out there on the rocks.
He's picked a good spot.
It's gonna be hard to outflank.
Flora.
They're all down there.
Dan, Pa, that cowboy.
Cal, you gotta give it up.
They'll kill you.
Not until I get Dan.
I promise you that.
And your pa.
Oh, don't, Cal, please.
Well, there... There is one way.
You can marry me.
Then there wouldn't be no more shooting.
Wanna promise that?
That's fine by me.
Mr. Travis?!
I wanna talk to you!
All right, Cal. I'm coming up.
Travis, you better not.
I have to, Mr. Favor.
That's far enough.
Cal?
You gotta come down.
Sure, I'll come down.
If you let us go through.
Let us get on those horses and ride out of here.
We're gonna get married.
No.
Oh, yes, Pa. Yes.
Please. Flora, I can't.
I can't let you. It's impossible.
No!
Cal.
You don't understand, boy.
She's your half-sister.
You're my son.
She?
Me?
You don't know what you're saying.
You... You wouldn't say something...
You wouldn't say something like that
if you knew what you were saying.
Now, come on. Now, come on, tell me...
Tell me that you don't know what you're saying.
It's true. I just found it out.
I'm your father.
You're crazy.
You're all crazy!
None of you know what you're saying!
I'm better off.
I'm better off with none of you.
I don't wanna have nothing to do with any of you.
Ma wanted to say goodbye, Mr. Favor.
And thank you again for the house.
It was our pleasure, ma'am. Really.
What about Cal, Mrs. Fletcher?
Well, he's gone.
For good, I guess. I should have stopped him.
Maybe I could've.
I doubt that, Mrs. Fletcher.
No, when he was younger, he needed more care.
And I'm to blame for that.
His pa and I got a lot to answer for.
How is Mr. Travis?
Oh, he'll pull through with Flora nursing him.
Say, Mr. Favor,
I guess I better stay here and take care of Ma now.
I've already got it figured up what you got coming, boy.
Oh, no, Mr. Favor.
I agreed to finish that cattle drive.
If you're going to a wedding, you're going to need this.
Thank you, Mr. Favor. Goodbye.
Bye, Rowdy. See you later, Dan.
See you on our way through.
You know, I kind of feel sorry for old Cal,
wandering through the world,
looking for something he's never gonna find.
Maybe he will.
I don't know. I don't think so. Not Cal.
It happens to a lot of people, I'm afraid.
Yeah, but some of them seem to need it more than others.
Yeah.
Say, uh, how's the ankle?
Oh, fine. I'd forgotten all about it, I think.
Well, you gotta admit, she's a real pretty girl.
Head 'em up!
Move 'em out!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin' Rollin'
Keep rollin', rollin' Rollin'
Though the streams Are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin'
Rawhide!
Through rain and wind And weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin' my gal Was by my side
All the things I'm missin'
Good vittles Love and kissin'
Are waiting at the end Of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide
Let 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out Ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hyah!
Rawhide!
Hyah!