[Gunshot]
[Bell ringing]
[Bell continues ringing]
Buenos dias.
Capitan Call...
Is he here?
I have 9 daughters.
They all wear dresses.
What is it you want?
A cup of water.
Come.
Do I know you?
My name is Agostina Vega.
Vega.
A common name.
It's a great name.
I rode with Benito Vega for many years.
And now you work for a ranger Captain.
The wars are over.
Where is he?
Do you know Montana?
He went back?
He only stayed one night.
He's crazy-- Captain Call.
Whole damn rivers to cross.
He said I should go, too.
I've crossed too many rivers already.
People leave...
that's the way it is.
He can cross all them rivers he wants.
Well...
leave it to you, Augustus.
First man I know
Get himself in a shooting scrape
After he's dead.
[Whinnying]
Man: Residale water here!
Hold your horses.
Help you?
Thought you might help me find
Gideon Walker.
Gideon Walker?
I don't guess we know him.
Gideon Walker, Texas rangers.
Heard he was here-- San Antonio.
Oh.
That feller--
He claims he was a ranger.
Was a ranger.
Rode with Captain Augustus McCrae.
One of the finest to answer the call.
If you say so.
I do say so.
No offense, mister--
Just seems peculiar.
Why's that?
Man who fought all the battles
He claims he has
Being a dressmaker.
[Both men chuckling]
Dressmaker?
[Moaning softly]
Oh...oh...oh...
we really shouldn't be doing this.
I'd like to speak to Gideon Walker.
He is busy, senor.
He is in the fitting room.
[Muffled moaning and groaning]
[Bell ringing]
It's 3:00!
My husband--He's gonna pick me up at 3:00.
Is Mrs. Wentworth ready?
She is in the fitting room.
Mrs. Wentworth?
[Floorboards creaking]
Hello, dear.
Thank you so much, Mr. Walker.
I do appreciate your getting right to it.
Always a pleasure, ma'am.
Mr. Wentworth,
Sure do envy you your banker's hours.
Do you need a deposit on the dress?
No, no. No, sir.
I trust you.
[Door closes]
[Sighing]
Oh, my god.
Captain Call.
Ranger Walker.
What a sorry sight you are.
Captain?
Captain.
Don't judge me too harshly.
Good thing Gus ain't around to see what you come to.
It's all just my grief showing.
My wife died 4 months ago,
And I've been hurting for a woman's touch.
Well, I am sorry to hear that.
But like they say,
As you sow, so shall you reap.
I believe that's a true statement.
Let me buy you a drink.
We'll set and talk.
After all, it's been some time.
Captain...
may we just have a talk?
Walker: Me and Dolly wasn't married 6 months.
She got hit by a runaway freight wagon.
It happened right here-- Right out in front
On the way to the dress shop.
Ah...
she died instant.
Lost a wife and inherited a business
All in a blink.
It's a good business-- Dressmaker.
Gideon Walker...
you are in a different world.
Same world, Captain.
Different times.
Gus used to say, "a man's like a river.
"Got to keep on flowing
Where the force of nature takes you."
You must miss old Gus.
To Captain Augustus McCrae.
To the sunny slopes long ago.
Had an idea you might help me
Run some mustangs up to Montana
'Cause it was you first
Showed me the herd that time--
You and Augustus.
No point to that now,
Seeing you are as I find you,
But I am fixing to take that herd.
That's fine, Captain.
I appreciate you even considered
Telling me about it.
Besides, I'm through with ranching.
I do wish you'd, uh,
Reconsider your feelings about me, though.
I know I must look a little funny here
But after all, I'm just a human.
You, too, Woodrow.
No offense,
But you made your mistakes, too.
What about that whore Maggie
You throwed that child with?
What was his name? Newt, wasn't it?
We just had our last conversation
For quite some time.
Oh, now, wait, Captain.
Wentworth: Mr. Walker...
I owe you something for my wife's dress.
[Gunshot]
Drop it. Drop that pistol!
[Pistol dropping to floor]
[Moaning]
[Laughing]
He missed!
He missed it, Woodrow!
He missed my bean by two inches!
Yes, sir, I'm all right.
I'm going to be all right...oh!
[Muffled shouting]
[Shouting grows louder]
What's all that commotion out there?
Did you get my buggy?
Doctor's downstairs
Holding back quite a little crowd--
All concerned at the health
Of your private parts, I reckon.
Hand me those clothes.
Although just how private
Them parts are is a question, ain't it?
Untie this thing, will you?
Woodrow...
I gotta get out of here
Before someone else finishes the job,
For if the truth be known,
I--I've sold quite a few dresses lately.
Please, give me a hand with this thing.
Might be I ought to just let you sit
In the smell of your own cooking for a while.
I've learned my lesson, Woodrow.
I've learned it well and good.
Now please, help me with this.
[Screams]
Ow!
I'd forgotten
How truly perverse you can be.
Put your pants on.
Man: Jim, lift up your side a little.
Stop it there.
Lippy, bring your side up some.
Hold it there.
Well, the...
"Hat Creek Cattle Company."
That's us.
You can't read, Pete.
How the hell you know that's what she wrote?
Reads the same as it did
On Gus' sign,
And I read it just how
I remembered it was.
Jim, lift your side up tad bit.
Good! Hold it there.
Tie it off.
You comprende, Lippy?
Hell, Lippy can't read neither.
People know where they're going.
Don't need a sign to tell them where they got.
That don't make no sense!
This ain't the Hat Creek!
We are 200 rivers north
of the god-dang Hat Creek!
That's who we are.
It says so
right up there to prove it.
Hey, Ben, spike them posts good and hard
on the downhill slopes.
Snow comes, it'll catch drifts.
I ain't no sod buster.
I'm a top hand.
I didn't sign on and drive cattle
all the way to the Milk River
to wind up digging in the dirt
and hammering nails.
You're not doing nothing
The rest of us ain't doing, Jasper.
Well, I don't see Newt swinging no hammer.
Newt's range boss.
Captain said.
Man: Come and get it!
[Dinner bell ringing]
I wonder where the Captain is now.
I wonder when he's coming back.
How do we know he's coming back at all?
The Captain always comes back.
Gus didn't.
That was different.
Well, how is it any different?
It's the same trail,
Same Indians, same damn rivers,
And he's trying it twice as many times as we did.
Odds are twice as high he's got
Twice as many arrows in him as Gus had.
Jasper!
Don't be carrying on that way
About the Captain.
No more.
[Gunfire]
Indians?
Get your horses!
All right, it's coming from the south!
Get your guns too!
Come on!
Help us out, boys!
[Gunfire continues]
Hyah! Hyah!
[Gunfire, cattle mooing]
Who's shooting?
Rustlers, in that draw.
Someone up that hill, shooting at them.
Come on, boys.
Aah!
I got him!
Get the hell out of here!
Here, 2 more.
I see 'em.
Running iron.
They were changing brands, all right.
This one here is "circle K."
Must be that spread north of here--
Kenilworth.
Oh, there's one of ours.
Soofilly caught one right through the throat, Newt.
Petey, boys, keep an eye on that hill.
Look around.
Are you hit?
What are you staring at?
You never seen tit before?
How bad is it?
It's just a scratch.
Here.
Son of a bitch.
We got to get you to Mile City--A doc.
Just take me home.
Where's that?
Kenilworth.
I took that off a Sioux chief.
He tried to ram it through me.
So you're Dobbs?
Yes, sir.
Gregor Dunnegan.
Mr. Dunnegan.
People call me Newt.
What do you drink, Newt?
Well, I don't much, really.
I was born lucky, Newt.
But you doing what you did today
Was as big a piece of luck as I've known.
I love that girl more than life.
We just heard the shots.
Nonsense. You rode to them.
Too many thieving bastards
Forcing their way into Montana right now.
Single malt, scottish whiskey.
It smells like heaven, tastes like honey.
Bold deeds, good neighbors.
Cheers.
Ahh.
What's the matter?
I never tasted honey like that before.
Them bees must have left their stingers in it.
Hmm.
So...
you're a Texan.
Yes, sir.
[Groaning]
Awbonnie?
Is that cowboy who brought me back
Still here?
With Mr. Dunnegan.
All right, will you bring me
My brush and my mirror?
Oh, you need rest.
No, I've got thanks to say.
Will you just get them for me?
And let Mr. Dunnegan know
That I'm ready to see him, all right?
Yes, ma'am.
All right, thank you.
3,000 miles.
[Chuckling]
That's a hell of a drive.
Yes, sir.
This, uh, man you work for--
Call, is it?
Captain Call.
Army man?
Texas rangers.
Finest mounted fighters ever was, I'm told.
I wouldn't know, sir.
Are you a Texas ranger, Newt?
No, sir.
Did you bring any Texas rangers with you?
Well, Pea Eye and Needle rangered some.
Pea eye? Needle?
And Gus-- Captain McCrae.
But he died.
And so did Deets.
An Indian killed him
With a lance like that one.
And Jake Spoon--
The Captain hanged him.
Hung one of his own men, did he?
Jake went off on his own,
Fell in with some killers.
I ain't exactly sure what happened,
But I watched the Captain hang him.
Sounds like a hard man, this Captain.
Yes, sir.
But he's fair.
And you're loyal.
I like that.
[Footsteps]
Mr. Dunnegan.
[Whispering] miss tucker
Want to see that boy.
I think I should be
Getting back to the outfit now.
Oh, no, no--I can't have you doing that.
You leave without seeing her--
There'll be hell to pay. Here, come on.
[Knocking]
[Chuckling]
Ferris.
It's good to see you're better, sweetheart.
Thank you.
Oh, I knew you'd want to have
A few words with Mr. Dobbs.
I'll go and see about dinner, hmm?
All right.
Ma'am.
It's Ferris.
Yes, ma'am...
I mean--I mean, Ferris, ma'am.
Look, I'm happy you ain't hurt so bad,
But I should be getting back to my outfit now.
Oh, you can't.
Why not?
Because I said.
See, that's how it works around here.
Whatever I say, goes.
Did you ever feel a featherbed?
Feathers?
No, ma'am.
Well, come see how it feels.
I thought cowboys
Were supposed to be bold and daring.
Some, I guess.
So what happened to you?
I don't know, ma'am.
Listen...
you saved my life.
You got a job here as long as you want one.
Well, thank you, but I have a job.
Why, this is the biggest ranch in Montana.
We got furnishing from europe
And a private library as good as any in Boston.
That's not good enough for you?
It's fine. It's just...
ju-
Are you sure you don't want to see
How this feels?
Come on.
Golly, it's soft.
It's nice.
Does anyone feel like eating?
I got to ride.
That's nonsense, Newt.
If you think we'll let you go
On an empty stomach,
You certainly don't know me.
[Chuckling]
And you certainly don't know my wife.
Whoa.
Reminds me of the first time we found this valley.
We was pretty much running free as they was, back then,
Sowing our oats where we pleased.
You was, anyway, I'm sure.
That was on our way back from that trouble down south
With that gal old Gus was so stuck on.
What was her name?
The one with the bandit brother?
Serena Vega.
That's it. Serena.
There was nothing serene
About her, though.
She was as wild as any filly out there.
Oh, hell, Woodrow.
I'm sorry.
Long time ago.
So you really want to drive
These mustangs to Montana.
Free for the taking.
That taking ain't going to be easy.
Ain't nothing worth doing
That's easy.
What give you this idea, cap'n?
All them graves, I reckon.
A man should leave more behind
Than an old board hammered into a sorry piece of dirt.
What is it exactly you plan on leaving behind?
Real cow pony--
One that hits full run in a few strides,
Holds speed a good distance.
You see a horse like that down there?
What I see don't exist yet,
But you cross them
Sure-footed little fireballs
With some rugged Spanish stock,
Throw in some high-strung racers out of England
They're breeding down in kentucky,
You got it.
I see the mustangs.
Where you going to get blooded racing stock in Texas?
We're a long way from Kentucky.
Nebraska.
Clara Allen.
You mend fences with her?
As I recall, you were never the best of friends.
I got a plan for that.
Clara Allen's got a bunch of blooded mares
She's been breeding colts out of from Spanish studs.
You add a mustang to that,
You might have the perfect horse.
The kind of horses you're talking about
Ought to be worth something
In a new cow country like Montana.
That's what I've been thinking.
I'd surely like to go along on this.
Well, I ain't fixing
On joining up the drive till Nebraska.
Well, I will heal up shortly and be fit in every way.
But, uh...
how would we push these mustangs all the way to Montana?
I got just the man for that.
[Whynnying]
Mama!
Woman: Coming.
I got the last load before we eat.
Captain Call?!
Nathan!
[Laughs]
Howdy!
Sarah, ma'am.
This here's Nathan, the little one.
Remember the baby?
And Lizzy.
Can't believe how they growed.
Elizabeth, that bag on the pack horse
Is for you and your mama.
Yes, sir.
Isom's on a horse, as usual.
Young 'un, take these reins.
Mutual friend of ours
Had a dress shop going out of business.
Oh.
Look, mama.
Oh, look at that!
Ain't that pretty.
Boy...
I'm getting a little old for that.
Isom Pickett...
you ain't changed at all.
Captain Call.
Come on.
Let's get us some coffee.
[Laughing]
Who you making that telegram for, Captain?
Newt.
Oh, how's Newt?
Ahem.
Been some time.
I left him in Montana, in charge.
I'm certain all is well.
Isom: Oh, I'm sure.
I'm sure.
Want him to meet me at Clara Allen's in Ogalla...
how do you spell Ogallala?
Huh.
I don't, generally.
Uh...
o...
g...
l--a...
[chuckling]
I plan for Newt to get me a good price
From Clara Allen.
She favors the boy.
Least she has in the past.
How much they charge for these telegrams anyway?
They charge by the word, don't they?
By the word?
By the letter, maybe.
No, each word.
So...
Mustang Valley, huh?
Going to take that bunch all the way up to Montana.
Yeah, that's the idea.
What you think about that?
Well, could be done.
Heard mustangs are a little tricky, though.
Gideon Walker, right now, picking up a trail crew.
What about your brother Isaac?
He's the one.
I was hoping you would ramrod this operation for me.
But it is dangerous work
Driving through the nations.
I won't be with you till Nebraska, probably.
Cap'n, you want me to leave all of this here
For steady work and steady wages?
[Laughter]
What's Montana like, Captain?
Oh, it's...
it's purty as... your smile, ma'am.
Well, I guess we just have to
Go on up there and see.
Hmm?
Right.
I'd like to thank you boys
For turning out.
What about the jobs?
I'm sorry, son.
I need more experience.
Mister, we've been pushing cows since we could set a saddle.
Walker: Well, we're driving wild horses this time.
Man: Just how much experience you need?
I'm looking for some other qualities as well.
We shoot as good as we ride.
I don't doubt that.
Where do you come off
Looking down your nose at us?
This won't get you nowhere, son.
I ain't your son.
I ain't no damn farm boy
Who's going to tuck his tail 'tween his legs
And slink off neither.
I meant no offense...
and I'll take none if you let me buy you
And your friend here a drink.
You had 2 good legs, we'd find out who's better.
I think not.
You ain't nothing but a crippled coward.
[Gasping]
Here, I'll buy you that drink anyway.
Those men deserve what they got.
Well, I wished I'd have handled that different,
But I lost my temper.
You are going to Montana?
Yes, ma'am.
With horses.
That's right.
You and Captain McCrae
Had a great success in Montana.
Cap'n McCrae?
Si­.
I hear how you brought him back
After he was dead.
Everybody has.
And now you need men,
And I know where there are men who need work.
Where is that?
Just across the river.
Mexicans?
A good vaquero is worth
2 of your Texas cowboys.
Better with horses.
Everybody knows that, too.
Captain Call.
Well, I give you what you say
About good vaqueros when you see them,
But I must correct you on one point.
My name is Walker.
Gideon Walker.
They told me Captain Call was hiring men.
I work with Captain Call.
Where is he?
Why?
It doesn't matter.
Do you have a name, senorita?
Agostina.
You coming?
Hey, Agostina!
Agostina viene con un gringo en una carreta.
You live here?
I work here.
What kind of work?
Anything I can to help.
[Men shouting encouragement in Spanish]
[Gunshots]
Good enough?
You say you work.
What do you do?
I ride with them.
I can rope.
And I'm good with business, too.
So, do we have a deal?
I'm just thinking
How Captain Call's going to receive
A bunch of Mexicans and a woman, too.
Hellfire, I'll tell you that.
Carlos, ven aqui­.
Gideon Walker, Carlos Herrera.
These are his men.
Buenos di­as, senor.
Sus hombres son muy buenos, Carlos.
Gracias.
This is Carlos' mother Juana and his children,
Miguel, Sofia, and Eduardo.
Salude al senor Walker.
Hola, senor Walker.
Children: Hola, senor.
Oh, no.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Isom: Looky there.
Always a pretty sight, ain't it?
Different from cows.
Ain't nothing easy about this trail, Isom.
Weather, injuns, rustlers.
Likely get your fill of all.
Isom: Well, looky here.
My brother Isaac.
The only one he'd ever come out of the hills for is Sara.
How'd she ever find him, I'd like to know.
Now where is he going?
He don't burn much daylight.
He didn't even stop to say howdy.
No.
Not to us.
[Neighing and snorting]
Now will you look at that.
They ain't even moving.
[Whinnying]
I can't hardly believe my eyes what I'm seeing now.
Is that him?
It is.
Howdy, Woodrow.
I was looking for half a dozen good men.
Yes, sir. You got them.
Plus Agostina here.
Rides like the wind.
Throws a mean loop to boot.
I might have knowed it'd go to this.
Before you go getting all frothy,
It ain't what you think.
He was looking for better men
Than he could find in Texas.
Walker: It was a sorry lot in San Antone--
Boys, mostly, and a bunch of mean-eyed types
You wouldn't trust as far as you could spit.
These men know horses.
And you know yourself, Woodrow,
There would be no cowboys in Texas or anywhere else
If it weren't for their kind.
Who's numero uno here?
What's your name?
¿como se llama?
Carlos Herrera.
Carlos Herrera...
let me see that rifle.
Who belongs to grandma and them kids?
This is Carlos's mother. Her name is Juana.
The children belong to Carlos.
Carlos's wife is dead.
He won't go without the children.
Juana takes care of them.
Good piece.
It will do some work.
Nice and clean.
If Carlos don't go, neither do the vaqueros.
I've been over this with the girl.
These men are top-notch. I've seen them work.
And crack shots, too-- Every one of them.
Except grandma. Maybe.
Capitan.
Driving wild horses is not driving cows.
These men are not cowboys.
They're horsemen.
Where did you learn your English?
The sisters at Santa Clarissa's.
I was raised there.
Convent school.
I, too, can outride your cowboys.
Captain, their village is poor.
The wages these men send back
Will keep women and children alive.
They's Mexicans.
Where we going, nobody speaks Mexican.
How they gonna look after their selves?
They're gonna be with us.
We ain't got time to nursemaid people
Who don't even know what the hell
We're talking about anyway.
They can learn like any other people can.
I will teach them.
Captain, you are right.
It will be hard enough for them
In a strange place.
By the time we get to Montana,
They will know English.
We'll just see about that.
We'll see about all that.
Well, I seen your surprise.
Now you come see mine.
Y'all, stay here.
Call: Here he is. Big as life.
Damn it all, Woodrow.
You said you got us a good top hand,
Not some bald-headed horse thief.
Now, now. You better watch who you calling bald-headed.
I might have to put a hole in that other leg now.
Good to see you again, Isom.
You, too, Gideon.
That's some herd, ain't it?
You bet.
Call: I judge they're good horsemen...
good men, too.
They sit real straight in the saddle.
And them children, they, uh...
would be good for Nathan and Lizzie.
Well, it's all done then, I reckon.
Hope you brushed up on your sign language.
Newt?
Newt? Got that from the Captain.
That Mr. Kruger give it to me.
Said missus forgot it was in there.
Well, you forgot something, ain't you, Pea?
What?
We need somebody to read it for us.
Well, it ain't for me. Got your name on there--
Never mind.
Um, Gregor?
I think I'll go over
To the general store for a minute.
All right. I'll be here.
All right.
Howdy, ma'am.
Newt.
Howdy.
It's good to see you.
Yes, ma'am.
I thought we got past that.
Ferris.
This here's Pea Eye Parker.
Hi. Howdy.
So, did you get a telegram?
Just now.
It's good news, I hope.
Well, I don't know.
I was heading over to the sheriff
To see if he...
was going to the sheriff...
it's from Texas. Captain Woodrow Call.
I know that.
I know.
Would you like me to read it for you?
Well...
here.
"Newt, meet me, Clara Allen's, Ogallala.
"Take Jasper.
"Leave Pea in charge.
Captain Woodrow F. Call."
Were you expecting something else?
No.
Thank you.
You'll be leaving, then.
I suppose.
Well, travel safely.
Yes, ma'am. Ferris...
Ma'am. I--I will.
I hope to see you when you get back.
I do, too.
Get up! Get up!
Newt, why you reckon the Captain said
Take Jasper and not me?
'Cause he wants you in charge.
He knows Jasper'd give you nothing but trouble.
Lord, I wish it was one of the other boys.
As I recall, Captain done all the thinking for us.
And you doing good when you been doing it.
Lord, I don't believe I--
I trust you as much as the Captain, Pea.
More, even.
'Cause you ain't never held nothing back from me.
You're an honest man, Pea.
Remember how Gus used to say the worst an honest man can do
Is make an honest mistake?
A mistake's a mistake, the Captain said.
Like he ain't never made one.
But he has, Pea. He has.
When was that, Newt?
Day I was born.
[Laughing]
That brother of yours beats all.
Yep. He's pretty interesting, all right.
Getting that horse pretty good.
Keep a proper distance from that girl, now.
You getting ready to pull out?
Might as well ride hot as cold.
Meet you up at Clara Allen's.
Mm-hmm.
Stay west of the nations.
Keep a good eye out, daylight and night.
Might be Kiowa or Cheyenne roaming around.
You best take a piece of your own advice, Captain.
We gonna get all these mustangs to Ogallala--
All of them.
See you there, then.
[Clicks tongue]
Vaya con dios, capitan!
English!
[Whistle]
Don't spook this horse
If you want to chew with a full set of teeth.
What you all lathered up about?
Uh, telegram from Texas.
Whoa, whoa.
From Captain Call.
Woodrow Call.
I think he wants a pear.
No?
Boy, worth something to see, huh?
A herd of wild mustangs.
I have seen them. So many--
Look like the whole country was running.
Yeah.
I went through the stock
And picked out some good mares
And I thought maybe
That big chestnut from Kentucky
Might interest the Captain for stud.
No need to spend time on that.
Well, didn't Captain say
He was going to want to buy breeders
When he gets here?
Girls, he's had enough.
Why don't you get him cleaned up and tucked in
For me, will you? He's rather fragrant.
It's all right, mama. He's just--
Now.
Clara...
that chestnut's going to sire some good colts
And he'd do real well by the Captain.
Why he thinks I'd sell him my best stock's a mystery to me.
We have better things to do
Than to break our necks
Getting ready for him to show up.
He's not been invited, and he's not welcome.
I don't need to be attended to.
Going to be some lonesome nights
Till we get to Nebraska.
At least we ain't pushing cows.
We ain't poking nothing, neither.
'Less'n we decide to stop in Miles City on the way--
Have us a little night to remember.
We got country to cross, Jasper.
Them girls at Squirrel Tooth Betty's
Ain't too shiny,
But they can damn sure show a man a good time.
Not this trip.
The Captain's waiting on us.
Ain't you your own man, Newt?
Just one night.
You been there?
Hell, yeah, I've been there.
Man been in Montana for a year
Ain't been to Squirrel Tooth Betty's.
Hell, Newt, as fresh as you are,
They'll probably pay us.
Ok. Let's go.
One night.
[Bellowing]
Come on, git up!
Man: I had no idea there were so many people in Montana.
Aye, unfortunately.
You don't suppose it's the celestial violins
That attracts them, do you?
Free land attracts them.
Any man with a long rope and enough nerve
Has all the capital he needs to thrive here.
It can be carved up
By little men with little dreams
Within the blink of an eye
And your investment along with it, gentlemen.
Yes, but what do you propose to do about it?
This is rather a large territory.
You can't police it all.
When enough people come
They'll cry out for statehood.
They'll carve up your empire
Into little pieces eventually,
Wouldn't you say?
Not as long as I'm here, they won't.
If you two wish to protect your investment
Then I need all the support I can get.
I'll lead the way.
All you two have got to do is have the courage to follow.
Do you understand me?
Well, howdy, cowboys.
Whoo, whoo, whoo.
Bottle of whisky for me and my friend.
Water for our horses
And a little bitty missy for the dogs.
A whole bottle?
Hell, yeah.
Grab them glasses, Newt.
We ain't here for a long time.
We're here for a good time.
I don't think that whole bottle
Will make any of them
Look like bluebonnet flowers.
Oh, yeah? Well, they look a whole lot better
Through the bottom of a glass.
Woman: Hey, you've been here before.
Yes, ma'am.
Ooh!
Jasper Ferris.
This here is Newt-dog.
Newt is cute.
Be careful, girls.
Old Newt's a bad hombre from Hat Creek.
Oh, where's that?
You don't know where Hat Creek is?
Hell, girl, everybody knows where Hat Creek is.
It's in Texas!
Are you really a bad man, honey?
Ah...
the further up the creek they live
The badder they get, and old Newt--
He lives in a camp way past the last cabin.
Hell, he was raised by a she-wolf--
Teethed on mesquite.
Me and you was going upstairs.
You was too busy getting drunk.
Well, I'm drunk enough now. Come on.
No. We're talking to these boys
From...Texas!
Right!
Texas? Hell, I knew I smelled cow flop.
Now, let's go.
Come on. Come on.
Ow! All right! Ouch!
Turn her loose.
What?
Turn her loose 'fore I turn you loose
From your teeth.
Stomp him, Jasper.
Oh!
Man: He's going to be hurting tomorrow.
Turn around!
Nobody spits on me.
Jasper...
pull it!
Newt?!
Come on, Newt!
Jasper: Newt!
Newt: Don't do it!
Newt?!
Newt!
What are you doing?
We gotta cross this river. They're right behind us.
Probably.
You seen it, Newt.
I just did what I had to do.
I saw you gun a man in cold blood.
Better you took the thrashing
Than kill a man that spit on you.
Yeah, well, you shot, too.
I had to! Damn you, Jasper!
You feel that way maybe you shouldn't run with me.
Maybe I shouldn't 'a.
[Sighs] it's hard to think when you just shot a man.
He'd strung you up, Newt, and you know it.
You don't wanna die.
Just get on that horse and let's cross this river,
And keep goin' till dark.
[Breathing heavily]
No.
I ain't runnin' no more.
The only thing I did wrong was run.
I don't think they'll hang me for that.
Well, you're a fool.
They ain't gonna listen to us.
We don't know anybody back there.
Where you going?
I'm goin' back.
What?!
You'll leave me? Huh?
You'll run out on your old buddy?
After all we come through together,
All the way from Texas?
I guess we don't see it the same, Jasper.
It's about as wrong as running gets.
I ain't scared of you.
Yellow.
Newt. Newt!
Newt.
What's gonna happen to you?
Don't seem as ever nobody can say.
Howdy.
Where you headed?
Yonder.
Noticed.
You picnicking?
Join me.
Thanks all the same.
Going back to Montana now, Captain?
I know you someplace?
You a famous man.
Ranger.
Trailblazer.
Crazy damn thing you did,
Bringing a man back 3,000 miles to bury him.
Some say.
Good-looking animal.
Always heard--
Woodrow Call knows horses.
Nice-looking paint.
Fancy rig, too.
A man from the nations partial to silver--
Black like you.
Daddy was a buffalo soldier name of Jackson.
His mama took up
With the Cherokees after he died.
Raised up a real sick stone-cold killer.
Goes by the name Cherokee Jack.
I done something to offend you, Captain?
You're an offense
To the whole civilized world, Cherokee.
UnBuckle it.
Careful now.
You might say something I'll take personal.
Wouldn't that just break my heart in two.
Ain't too late to forget we ever met.
Like to, but I can't. Drop it there.
Too bad.
We'll be gone before whoever you're waiting for shows.
Mount up.
We going someplace special, Captain?
Nearest army post, Fort Dodge.
Reckon they'll be happier to see you than I am.
We're 40 miles east.
Hate to take you so far out your way.
Try not to concern yourself.
Move.
You know the way.
Well, it ain't right about Frank.
No, it ain't.
Who's this?
[Men talking]
You one of them Hat Creek boys?
Yes, sir, I am.
You tell them inside to say their prayers
'Cause we're going to send them both to hell.
Newt, I got here as quick as I could.
Hold it.
Let's have that gun. Easy.
There's a line on the floor.
Don't go no closer.
Howdy, Pea.
Good to see you, Newt.
You go blind, Pea? We're in jail.
They're probably gonna hang us.
I was talking to Newt.
Well, good, then.
You keep it that ways.
What do you want to do?
I don't know, Pea.
I'm thinking on it.
I wish the Captain was here.
Well, he ain't.
We got to think for ourselves.
Go on, now.
You get back from that wall.
That's why I was thinking
You got to get the boys together
And you gotta break us out of here-- Quick!
Shut up, Jasper.
Ain't you got us in enough trouble?
If I hadn't listened to you,
I wouldn't be in this iron hotel--
If I didn't listen to you,
We wouldn't be here! Now shut your--
Man, outside: Stretch your neck, strangers!
Pea, you got to send a telegram to Mrs. Allen.
Send a telegram.
How do I do that?
Go to the telegram office.
Just tell them what you want to say,
They do the rest.
What do I wanna say?
You want to send it to Mrs. Clara Allen
In Ogallala, Nebraska.
All right.
Say, "Dear Mrs. Allen,
"We had some shooting in Miles City.
"None of us is hurt
"But Newt and Jasper are in jail.
Please tell Captain Call."
Can you remember that?
All of it?
Pea...
what good's half of it gonna do?
Jasper!
You can do it, Pea.
Just listen.
Send it to Mrs. Clara Allen...
Mrs. Clara Allen, right.
In Ogallala, Nebraska.
Ogallala, Nebraska.
Yeah, that's it.
Man, outside: An eye for an eye!
[War cries]
Uh-Oh.
Now what?
[War cries]
Head for that gully!
Ride!
Kiowas. Renegades.
Going to want these horses.
[Grunts]
Hell of a shot, Captain.
Give me my guns.
[Grunts]
Keep shooting them. Comes another one.
[Chuckling]
Civilized world of yours, Captain.
We ain't part of it.
Now you take all the time you need
To think it over,
But that's my price.
Boy, it's an awful stiff price...
but they are good horses.
What'd you get, July?
Well, I think there's a letter here
For you and your mama.
Chola, take the Captain over to the north range.
Show him our 3-Year-olds.
Si, senora.
Mama, mama!
July says there's a letter from Lorena.
Let me carry it. Let me!
Come on, girls, don't argue, don't argue.
Sally, give that to me. Come on, give it to me.
What's it say, mama?
Yeah, what does it say?
"My dearest family..." heh.
"I have at last arrived in San Francisco.
"Much of what it took to get here
"Was probably at too great a cost,
"But I'm here nonetheless.
"I was surprised by dish in Salt Lake
"And finally convinced him that no event in nature
"Could make me content to be his woman.
"Though he is a true friend,
"I cannot force myself to love him
"So he has gone away.
"The money from Gus allows me to live
"In a comfortable fashion,
"And I am obliged to Mrs. McDonald, my landlady,
"For setting down these words for me.
"I've missed all of you every minute I've been away,
"So it should not surprise you
"That one day you'll look up
"And there I'll be, the gal from the big city,
Your faithful friend, Lorena Wood."
Mama, is Lorena coming back now?
No, honey.
She always dreamed of going there.
Probably some time before she gets her fill.
Read it again, mama.
Oh, mama, I wanna go visit her.
Listen to me, both of you, listen to me, shh!
Shh, shh, shh!
If you care for someone, you truly care for 'em,
You gotta set 'em free.
But you always keep 'em in your heart, you see?
That's where they live.
You understand what I'm saying?
Good, 'cause next time I'm missin' her
You remind me, all right?
Go on. Go get the supplies.
I'll get the flour sacks.
I'll put away the apples.
Ma'am, this come, too.
And I just thought better
Of giving it to you in front of the girls.
And a telegram never seem to bring good news.
Oh, lord.
Newt's got in some trouble. He's locked up in jail
With another one of the Captain's boys.
In jail?
For a dull man,
Woodrow manages to stir up a heap of trouble.
[Men yelling at once]
Jasper: Them boys out there want to hang us.
One damn sheriff ain't gonna stop 'em.
Newt?
You hear me, Newt?
At about dark-thirty you and me better think
Of some way to get out of here.
Man: You saw what happened, Mr. Dunnegan!
We'll back you up!
Ben...
you can let these two out.
Ben: Well, these boys
Don't work for you, Mr. Dunnegan.
Oh, well, but they're going to.
I saw what happened.
Those two men deserved what they got.
I still got my job to do, Mr. Dunnegan.
I can't let nobody go unless the judge says so.
Ben, I've got a wire here
May get you to change your mind.
The governor...?
Well-- Well, he still ain't a judge, sir.
And-- And those fellows outside are--
Tell me, Ben
How much is this shotgun worth?
Well, that old thing...
maybe $20 when I bought it.
Well, seeing as how you got a telegram and all
From the governor...
they're in my parole, Ben.
You can let them out.
There they are!
What the hell's going on here?
Now you bring those two out here,
Or we're coming in after them!
These men work for Mr. Dunnegan.
[Men yelling]
They're Hat Creek boys.
They don't work for Dunnegan!
The governor is paroling them into his care.
What's the governor have to do with it?!
You can't do this.
Now, you gentlemen saw what happened
Back there in the saloon, didn't you?
And you know those two boys
Got what they deserved.
Well, let me tell you something.
If you come here to get these men,
Then you've got to kill me first.
Do you hear me?
Your horses are at the livery.
You can saddle them.
Mr. Dunnigan, sir, I owe you my life.
I saw you back at the saloon.
You do that again and I'm gonna shoot you.
Yes, sir.
Saw you two.
I told you before,
I admire loyalty in a boy.
I admire it more when it's better placed.
What happened to the men we shot?
One died immediately,
Yours took a little longer.
Now, go get your horses.
Uh, breakfast is at sunrise.
Work finishes at dark.
Newt...
come here.
Is it your first killing, boy?
Aye.
You did what you had to do.
Put it behind you.
[Clicks tongue]
Jasper! Whoo hoo hoo!
You bet.
Let's go! Whoo!
[Men speaking and yelling in Kiowa]
You talk Kiowa, Captain?
It's just as good you don't.
I grew up with Indians.
One thing about them--
They always playing games.
Even when they become men
Always playing games.
Well, they got plans for you.
It's called "honey pot."
What they do is
They bury a man...
all but his head
Beside an anthill.
Smeared over with honey.
On your mouth...
your nose...
...and your ears.
Then slit your lids
So you don't miss nothing.
But you don't have to worry about that.
I says to them
It's too easy for a man like you--
Ranger...
famous Indian fighter.
I say to them
They should show you some respect.
Let you run...
arrows.
Run hard, ranger!
[Yelling]
[Speaking Kiowa]
[Kiowa yelling]
[Speaking Kiowa]
Go.
Run, ranger.
Come on!
[Gunshot]
[Speaking Kiowa]
Near as I figure,
We're pretty close to the nations.
A herd this size ain't gonna go unnoticed.
We best break out the extra hardware
When we bed down tonight.
We got a river up ahead.
Good. We'll camp there.
In the morning, we'll follow the riverbed
So we don't kick up no dust.
It forks left,
And it carries all the way to the Canadian.
Amigo, could be one of them times
When we find out what your vaqueros is made of.
[Speaking Spanish]
We'll see.
[Horses neighing]
Sara: Come on, Dolly. Move on, move on.
Come on, Dolly.
Get on up there, girl. Get on up there.
Hey, Sara.
Get on--Yeah?
Whoa! Whoa!
Where are the kids?
Oh, they're having fun.
Made some friends... learning Spanish.
Hey, that's good.
Here's Isaac's food.
What's in it?
Now, you just let it be.
Poor man, he can't wash, he can't talk.
Least he might as well say he eats good.
[Laughs]
Yah!
Where's Isom going?
He's got his brother's supper.
He's gonna stash it in the trees up ahead
So's that Isaac can pick it up
Without getting too near any of us
And taking the human smell back to the herd.
They trust him completely.
Well, he won their confidence slow and easy.
Takes them to fresh grass. he leads them to water.
I imagine right about now, they'd follow him anywhere.
Must be good to feel that safe with someone.
Have you never felt that way with a man before?
A man? No.
Not even your pa?
I never knew him.
My mother was killed when I was 6.
I'm sorry.
Bad memories.
[Birds squawking]
[Shouts]
[Speaks Cheyenne]
[Baby crying]
[Speaks Cheyenne]
White man.
Hurt. Ohh!
Hurt. Aah!
[Speaking Cheyenne]
I need...
horse.
[Speaking Cheyenne]
What happen...you?
I run...
arrows...Kiowa.
[Speaking Cheyenne]
I need a horse.
[Horse neighs]
Always nice and cool down in that cellar.
[Horse neighs]
There's lightning.
It's out to the north, but, uh...
still no sign of rain.
Now, there's some useful information.
Would you ever marry me?
Have a taste, July.
I think I've overdone the cinnamon.
You don't have to repeat yourself.
I heard you.
You going to give me an opinion
On this cinnamon or not?
Tastes fine.
[Laughs]
I don't think you're much of a judge of sweets.
If you're done cradlin' those potatoes,
You might lavish some of that attention
On your son.
He's been fretful lately.
Martin.
Martin?
Come on, baby.
Up.
Up, up, up. Ohh!
Yeah, there.
Papa...
[singing in Cheyenne]
[Speaks Cheyenne]
Pistol don't work.
Broke, see?
I need...good rifle.
[Speaking Cheyenne]
Sister. Lodge empty.
Husband die.
Greasy grass.
Sons die.
Running face sickness.
I don't need no woman.
You need horse. You want?
You take woman, too.
I can't care for her.
You come without fear.
She trust you.
I can't.
Must be.
I...not live long.
Protect my people.
You done right by me. I owe you.
Of course, it don't change who I am.
You fight my people.
All my life.
Comanche, Kiowa,
Mescalero Apache.
I ain't never been a friend to your people.
I take many scalps...
like yours.
But always with honor.
Do you not fight with honor?
I do.
Then our hearts have same scar.
I lead my people
From camps where trust die,
Where our spirits die.
I could not let my son
See me do nothing.
I honor my father's deeds.
My sons honor my deeds.
That is how honor...
is kept.
In our way,
It goes on...
in our children.
[Hammering]
Howdy.
Found you.
Mr. Dunnigan need me?
Guess he wouldn't have hauled you out of jail
If he didn't think so.
You hungry? I got food.
Not like what I brought.
You like peaches?
Well, sure.
How about cherry tarts?
I don't mind tarts.
Well, you better
'Cause I brought a whole mess of 'em.
The roof looks nice.
Thank you.
I saw it needed fixin'.
Gregor says you're the hardest worker
He's ever seen.
Haven't seen enough of you to say for myself.
I've been busy.
You've been hidin'. Now come over here
Before these peaches spoil.
You got nothin' to be ashamed of, Newt.
Those men were outlaws.
The same breed's been stealin' our stock
To start up their own outfits.
They'd still be in jail otherwise,
No matter how much influence Gregor has.
I guess.
Well, I know.
So what do you think?
Of what?
The operation-- Kenilworth.
Oh, it's--it's big.
Heh. I remember the first time I saw it.
Where I came from, it looked like heaven.
Pretty close.
Heh.
Awbonnie!
Where's Ferris?
Riding.
Do you think it's strange?
What's that?
Gregor and I.
No.
Liar.
Everybody thinks it's strange,
But they don't know him,
And they don't know me.
He's the first man I could ever trust.
Can I trust you, Newt?
I guess.
I think so, too.
You know, what you did for me took guts.
What you did for your friend Jasper, too,
Though I don't see
Why you put your life on the line for him.
He doesn't seem like the type
To do the same for you.
Well, we come a long way together.
That's worth something.
You good friends?
Like I said, we come a long way together.
Newt...
will you be my friend?
I need a friend. Sometimes I think
I'm gonna go crazy without one.
Sometimes I miss the girls
Back at Harvey's so bad.
That's the place I worked in Kansas city
When Gregor found me.
I love Gregor...
but he's so old.
And there's nothing wrong with that. It's just...
sometimes he makes me feel so old, too, you know?
Guess you wouldn't.
Pea eye, my best friend, he's old.
I don't like feeling old.
But I guess it's better than feeling used,
The way other men made me feel.
Does that make any sense at all?
I don't know.
Sometimes I think I've gone crazy
And I just don't know it yet.
You ain't crazy.
Bolivar--Our cook back in Lonesome Dove--
Now, he got crazy sometimes.
He talked to hisself...
to the wind.
[Laughs]
Whacked an old bell for no reason.
Now, he was crazy.
You ain't at all like that.
Lonesome Dove? Where's that?
Oh, Texas.
You miss it?
Well, it wasn't much of a place, really...
[clanging]
Here, try this one.
It's got more bang in it.
[Cows mooing]
Whoa.
There you go.
Thank you, Newt.
Thank you for lunch.
Gregor: Did you get it fixed?
Yes, sir.
I believe it'll shed water.
You're in good company, I see.
Yes, sir.
I want you to go into town for me.
Whilst you're there, you can get yourself
A new saddle, bridle, bit...
whatever else you might need.
How much is in here?
What you don't spend
You can bring back, can't you?
Mr. Dunnigan, sir...
I don't need nothing. I'll just do my job.
Nonsense, lad. You represent me now.
Your appearance must reflect your status,
Mustn't it? Hmm?
Away with you. Go on.
Yes, sir.
That was awful generous of you.
He'll pay me back.
He's honorable.
Come on.
[Crickets chirping]
[Owl hooting]
There anything you want me to do?
Well, I guess the doctor
Will be gettin' here soon.
The doctor might be goin'
In the other direction.
This'll be over before he gets here.
He'll have had the ride for nothin'.
You mean, the baby's dyin'?
I mean, he'll either die or get well
Before the doctor comes.
I done all I can.
The rest is up to Martin.
[Crying]
I hate it when a child's sick.
I loathe it.
I get too scared.
It's like there's somethin'
That don't want me to get a boy raised.
[Rooster crows]
He'll be fine.
Shall I, uh,
Fetch you some coffee, or...
I know my way to the kitchen well enough.
You'd have done better to talk to me
When I needed it.
I guess I'm--
I'm just no talker.
You're not much of anything.
But you could be.
I know you're smart 'cause Martin is,
And he didn't get it all from your poor wife.
But a fence post is more useful generally
Than you are.
Well, I've tried to help around the place.
I'm not talkin' about chores.
I'm talkin' about us.
I sit here alone all night in this room
With your baby.
Where were you?
Uh...
ohh.
I wish now that I'd been here with you.
I told you how sickness frightens me.
The only times I've ever wanted to die
Is when I've had to sit and watch a child suffer.
I don't want the girls to be here
'Cause I don't want 'em to get death
Too much in their minds.
I sat here and I thought,
"I'm alone."
And I can't help this child.
If it wants to die, I can't stop it.
I can love it till I bleed,
And it won't stop it.
I hope it won't die.
I hope it can grow up and have its time.
I know...
if I lose one more child, I'll never care again.
I won't. Nothin' will make any difference to me again
If I lose one more.
It'll ruin me,
And that will ruin my girls.
I'll never buy another horse,
Or cook another meal,
Or take another man, or...
or I'll starve,
Or I'll go crazy and welcome it,
Or I'll--
I'll kill the doctor for not comin',
Or you for not sittin' with me.
If you wanted to marry me...
why didn't you stay and sit?
Would you have ever married me then?
I mean...
you never said.
Oh, July.
If we were in love, we'd both know it.
I think you're mistaking affection
For love.
I was in love once.
That's it for me.
I'd like to go on bein' friends.
Yes, ma'am.
We'll be friends.
That's fine.
Mama...
look.
Indians.
No.
Only the woman.
I'll be damned.
Be obliged for water for the horses
And the woman.
Ma'am.
Captain.
Newt here?
No.
I told him to meet me.
You come down from your horse.
We'll get you out of those clothes
And into a soak. Then we'll talk.
You remember July Johnson?
Hello, Captain.
July, show him the bath house.
I'll get the beds ready
And see to the woman.
Cholo. Si.
Well, what happened to you?
Took a fall.
You still haven't exactly said
Why you've taken such a fancy
To Newt Dobbs.
Neither have you, lass.
But with the trouble that's coming,
We're going to need the loyalty
Of every young man
That's not afraid to use a gun.
What do you mean?
Nature.
Living out here where nature can't be tamed
Has taught me one thing.
To stand an even chance, one's got to plan ahead.
I don't understand.
You will.
This Newt Dobbs,
He's got some rough edges
Need polishing.
I want you to sit him down,
Teach him to read,
Do numbers.
See if he's got the knack.
Oh, and while you're at it,
You can pick him out some clothes.
The ones that he's wearing
Looks as if they're hand-me-downs.
Why are you asking me to do all this?
I've got a feeling about him.
I think he's got promise.
Gregor...
I love you.
I love you, too, lass.
More than the morning sun.
[Birds twittering]
Looks like you lost some weight out there.
Brought you some of Bob's clothes
When you're ready.
Finally put them to some use.
Your wife's sleeping.
First time she ever saw a bed.
I ain't married.
I know Cheyenne custom.
You traded for her; she's yours.
And proud of it too.
You don't know nothing of the kind.
She told me quite a lot.
Far as I can tell, her name is many tears.
Sounds about right.
Seems she's had enough hard times.
She says you came into her people's camp
Half-naked and unafraid.
Well, she got that first part right.
How did that come about?
She don't speak no English.
How'd she come to tell you all this?
I've traded with the Cheyenne too.
She says you been good to her.
I'm sure you'll be very happy together.
I see why you and gus were such a pair.
You both enjoy laughin' at others' expense.
I see whatever calamity you walked into
Hasn't changed your disposition any.
I pity many tears.
It's a sad woman needs anything from you.
I didn't want to tell you right off
'Cause of your condition
But something's happened with Newt.
This came.
[Horse neighing]
You ought to have told me.
Now if you'll step from this room...
I'll dress to leave.
I...
I was fixing to buy some of your better stock.
Isom Pickett and Gideon Walker
Will be along shortly.
I appreciate you have them take a look for me.
No sense looking. You won't be buying.
I can send money just as soon as I get to Montana.
I don't want your money.
Why's that?
I don't need it that bad.
There's no excuse for bad manners.
I...
I owe you an apology.
Just the way it's always been between us.
So you won't even let me say I'm sorry.
We say good-bye.
Neither one of us have a problem with that.
Fine, but I want your woman to stay.
Thank you.
Welcome.
I'll have Cholo saddle a horse.
And we'll take good care of your wife for you.
[Horse neighs]
I'll send payment for all this
When I get to Montana.
Do right by giving Newt your name at long last.
That'll be payment enough.
[Horses neighing]
[Men shouting]
Woman, how come you give my brother more food
Than you give me?
I work much harder than he does.
Now, just hush and go hang this on Isaac's tree.
Here.
[Laughs]
Bye.
They're almost letting us in with them tonight.
Well, we come a lot of miles together.
Maybe they're getting to like us.
Isom: There he is.
Nothing against your brother, Isom,
But I don't want to get caught downwind of him
Till he gets to a bathhouse.
[Laughs]
Woman: La chiva.
Como se dice en Aleman?
Aleman, no, no, no. Ingles.
La noche esta oscura, si?
Como se dice en Ingles?
Carlos.
La noche esta oscura.
The...night...
si.
is...
dark.
Si! Muy bien!
Si, the night is dark.
Gracias. Thank you, Carlos.
[Owl hooting]
[Rustling]
Ahora. Now...the moon.
[Horse snorts]
Man: Howdy.
[Cocks gun]
Over here.
Whoa. Don't mean to spook you.
That's close enough.
Don't mean no harm.
Food for your mustanger?
I've seen that done before.
Spare anything from your cook wagon
For a hungry traveler?
We'll go over nice and easy
So as no one gets nervous but me.
Sara: Good night, Nathan. Good night, Lizzie.
Lizzie: Good night, mama.
Got any food left over
For a hungry stray, Sara?
Biscuits still hot.
Mustangs, you say.
Unbroke.
Meaning they ain't worth nothing
To a horse thief.
Not unless he was willing to work at breaking them.
Most horse thieves ain't that interested in work,
I've noticed.
Maybe being a horse thief is work enough.
[Laughs] just trying to get a smile, Mr. Walker.
How is it you know my name?
Gideon Walker--
Ranger with Captain Woodrow Call
And Augustus McCrae.
Made Texas safe for plain folk.
Like her and me.
Ain't that right, sister?
True enough...
Mr. Jackson.
Gideon: Cherokee Jack Jackson.
Some people call me that.
My mama,
She called me Jackie boy.
Maybe she ain't heard you got a price on your head.
Not in the nations, sister.
White man's law don't mean a damn here.
It does in this camp.
Relax, walker.
If I'd known mustangs was here,
I'd have stayed in my squaw's bed.
Well, we won't keep you up any longer, Jackie boy.
Heh.
No, you won't.
Real good coffee, sister.
Real nice smile, too, I bet,
When it comes out.
Let's go.
[Drops cup]
Good luck, Walker.
Most men in the nations
Can't be as choosy as me about their work.
Anybody hits this herd will be hanged.
Heh heh heh heh.
The Mexicans fight, can they?
They've been fightin' Comanches for centuries.
They seem like real soft people.
Especially that sweet little teacher.
I may not be the law here, but by god,
You are within a hair of losin' your worthless life.
You pull it, you'll be a long time
Runnin' down those worthless broom tails.
Don't that break your code, ranger?
Ain't I supposed to be standin'
And facin' you?
Go on.
Get up.
You owe me for a good gun.
You go now.
[Owl hooting]
[Neighs]
What is it?
I just had a disturbing encounter
With an infamous bastard
By the name of Cherokee Jack.
In camp?
It was Sara who told me who he was.
Where is she?
She's all right. She's at the wagon.
We'd best go find Isaac.
He should be eating that food you hung up for him.
Let's go.
Come on, giddy-up.
Come on.
It ain't like him to be so finicky.
Isaac!
What did she put in there be so leaky?
[Flies buzzing]
[Sobbing]
Isom...
your brother and me...
we never even said hello.
I've never felt more guilty
About a man's dying.
Don't.
I can't hold you responsible.
I'm going to go get him.
No.
He's mine.
You can't take that away from me.
First, I got to finish what Isaac started.
Hyah.
[Whistling, men speaking Spanish]
He's doing it.
Looks like.
Now you're going to do something for me.
What?
You find yourself some loose-fitting clothes.
You cut that hair.
Why?
Every man sees you, including that dark Indian,
Takes notice.
We got enough trouble with nature out here.
I don't want to go courting any other kind.
I can take care of myself.
You whack off that hair,
Or I'll whack it off for you.
Senor walker!
I appreciate you cutting your hair,
But I'm afraid you wouldn't fool
A blind man.
Sara needs you.
What for?
The children are sick.
They all have fever.
She's over by the wagon.
Sara: It's bad, Gideon.
He's got fever, chills.
His stomach hurts him something awful,
And everything's running right through him.
Is it all the children?
Si. Everyone except for Lizzie.
But they were playing together.
I don't know what it is.
It could be they got some bad food or water.
It happened a lot in the army.
Doctors call it dysentery.
Is he going to die?
Not if we keep good water
Flushing through him and I can get
To Fort Wallace and back quick enough.
What's there?
They should have a supply
Of something called laudanum.
It comes from opium. It slows up the gut.
I will go.
I won't let you ride alone.
It will be faster. I don't care.
I've been riding alone all my life.
Those are my people.
They must be protected.
They need you here.
All right.
Look it there.
What's a greaser doing this far north?
Corporal, I'm glad you're here.
This young man's party
Is a half a day's ride to the west.
This is an authorization for medicine
To be taken to them.
I want you to give it to the O.D.
In the infirmary.
Pick a man to ride escort with you.
Ahem-- I'll go.
Fine. Set out on the double.
Sir.
How come you jumped at this duty?
You hate them damn mexicans worse than I do.
I never knowed a blue-eyed senorita before.
Take a look.
Take a good look.
That face ain't never seen a razor.
When was the last time you saw a backside like that
Walking around on a man?
You ready?
I'm ready.
You ready, Johnson?
Let's get moving.
Whoa! Ho!
Why are we stopping?
What's the matter?
Picked up a pebble, got to work it out.
Well, we might as well take this opportunity
To rest in the shade while we got it.
Give me the medicine. I will go alone.
I'm afraid we can't do that.
The medicine's U.S. property.
Yeah, the lieutenant said
We were supposed to dispense it ourselves
And bring back the rest.
No, my people need the medicine now.
You won't need that.
Come on down, chiquita.
Them clothes can't hide what you got under them.
Please don't do this.
My people are very sick.
Your people...
are dirt.
But you got the makings of a damn fine poke.
No, no...go away.
Leave.
You are right.
But why make it unpleasant, huh?
I like big, strong soldiers.
I've had many like you.
Damn.
Come on, chiquita.
Come on down.
Hey... hey!
Hey.
Come here.
No, no, no. Wait, wait.
Shh! Wait a minute.
I want to play a little game with you, ok?
Just watch me.
I want to show you something.
Huh?
Look at me.
First, I will show you.
[Laughing]
Then you show me.
You like this game, huh?
Norteamericanos...
You are so...big.
I'll show you something big, chiquita!
Gringos.
[Gunshots]
Did you get it?
How are the children?
They're pretty dried out.
This will ease their pain, though.
You did fine.
Woodrow Call, Hat Creek outfit.
You got one of my boys, Newt Dobbs, locked up?
Another named Jasper Fant?
They each shot a man.
I'll speak to them now.
Can't do it. They're gone now.
You saying...
they's hanged?
Like to come to that.
Before somebody could do it, they was paroled.
Mr. Gregor Dunnigan.
Who's that?
[Laughing]
You just fall from a tree?
The most powerful man in the territory--
Kenilworth spread.
Had instructions from the governor.
Out of my hands.
Paroled, you say?
Yes, sir.
Mr. Gregor Dunnigan.
Obliged to you.
Captain's back! Yee-Hoo!
C-Captain?
Well, Captain, I swear,
I ain't never been so tickled
To see nobody in all my days.
Where's Newt?
Newt? He's, uh....
well...he ain't with us no more.
Why? They hang him?
Did they hang him?
You said he's gone.
H-He is, but he ain't.
Gone from the ranch.
He ain't hanged.
Dang it, Pea.
How did you let the boy get into all this?
I left him in your care.
I made a telegraph.
Get your horse.
Yes, sir.
Poor folks really roughing it, ain't they, Pea?
Ain't seen nothing like it in all my life.
Howdy, Pea.
Captain.
Howdy, Newt.
Didn't know you were back, Captain.
I'd have been over.
Got yourself all cleaned up.
It's real good to see the both of you.
Where's your friend Jasper?
He's out riding the line.
He'll be back.
What was you two doing in a saloon
When I told you to meet me at Clara's?
Captain, I'm real sorry about that.
You can't know how sorry I am.
Sorry don't get it. You had a job to do.
Yes, sir.
Jasper and me figured
We'd spend a night in Miles City.
Jasper wasn't range boss. You was.
Yes, sir. It was all my fault,
But I never figured on...
I'm listening.
How was I supposed to know, Captain?
Can't you be happy
I didn't get my neck stretched by a rope?
Ferris: Newt
Is my horse ready?
Yes, Ferris.
Uh, Ferris, this is Captain Call.
Ferris Dunnigan.
Miss Dunnigan. Ma'am.
Actually, it's Mrs. Dunnigan,
Captain.
Newt's told me
How much he admires you.
And Pea Eye, Newt says
You're a real good friend.
Thank you, ma'am.
I trust you two will stay for a meal
And meet my husband later.
Thanks for the invite.
Kind of you.
Meanwhile, Newt, why don't you
Fill him in on all the excitement.
You ready to ride?
Mm-hmm.
It's good to meet you all.
She part of all this parole you're on?
Maybe Mr. Dunnigan
Might can explain it better.
No, you can explain it all you like
On the way back to Hat Creek.
We're going now.
Afraid I won't be.
I'll talk to Mr. Dunnigan first.
Got yourself in real deep, didn't you?
I owe him, Captain.
Newt, you still got your job,
You get on your horse right now.
Come on, Pea.
Boy's head's all turned around.
Lord, Newt.
I swear...
[men shouting]
Ho!
What was that all about?
He just wanted to make sure things was all right.
Creek up ahead to the right.
Got some good high ground for you on the other side.
What's for supper tonight?
I call it Sara's surprise.
I can't wait.
Hyah!
That lieutenant said that 2 men he sent with you
Were gunned down.
Said he found them in a stand of trees.
Funny thing is,
they were, uh, all stripped down
to their drawers for some reason.
He was curious if you knew how it happened.
I told him there was no way you could
since you were here with me
When his men left to go back to the fort.
Senor Walker--
I can't talk now.
I gotta show Isom that creek.
Lizzie, see if they need more coffee.
Gracias.
You never killed before?
No.
Well, it's not like you planned it.
May God forgive me.
There's no need to whip yourself.
I can imagine what happened.
But I have wanted...
I have planned to kill...
I have thought that killing
Would not be enough.
Gringos?
Rangers?
[Sighing]
I've known a few I thought about plugging myself.
There's an ugly breed
That gets drawn to that line of work sometimes.
Was Augustus McCrae one of them?
Why can't you leave old Gus be?
I keep telling you they don't come
No higher caliber than him.
I rode with Gus.
I trusted him in all ways.
[Sighing]
I wish...
I wish that it was that easy...
what?
To trust.
You know, we keep an eye on the sky awhile,
We just might see a shooting star.
It's the season.
If we do, you make that wish.
Might come true.
You never know.
Speaking of Gus,
One night, me and him were sitting in a spot
Just about like this
On a night just about like this,
And we both saw this old star go whizzing overhead
Streaked across the sky from east to west
Like some great rocket on the fourth of July
And we both made a wish at the same time.
Go on.
Well, we had one star, but we had 2 wishes.
Now you got to figure
That one of us made our wish quicker than the other.
Could have been me, could have been old Gus.
So whose do you think come true?
Yours?
Nope.
His.
What was that?
That someday, he'd have a child...
a child with his courage
And a burning curiosity about him
And everything he ever did or was.
[Sighing]
Don't touch me.
All I meant to do was give you
My shoulder to lean on.
Same as your daddy would if he was here.
I hope Augustus McCrae burns in hell.
Newt: "Come back, come back,
He cried in...grife"?
No, that's "grief."
Well, if it's "cried,"
Why ain't it "grife"?
Why isn't it?
Because "i" before "e"
Is usually an "ee" sound.
A long "i" sound like "cried"
Or "died" or "lied," that's an exception.
Are you paying attention?
I'm trying to.
Is the shirt I picked out for you?
I washed it for the lesson.
It's nice.
It suits you.
I never had nothing this nice before.
Neither had I until I met Gregor.
Gave me everything I thought I wanted.
What do you want, Newt?
[Sighs]
I just want things to be right.
Did you ever want something so bad
You'd do anything to get it?
I want to talk to Captain Call.
About what?
How much I owe Mr. Dunnigan,
Why I'm here.
He thinks it's because of you.
Is it?
I don't want him thinking that.
Well, you better tell Gregor first.
Newt, come in, lad.
What's on your mind?
Captain Call, sir.
Now, I owe him a powerful lot, too.
I'd like to get straight with him.
I thought I'd ride over.
Captain Call doesn't seem to be
A very reasonable man.
Well, he's got a narrow set of rules,
And I broke 'em awful bad.
Tell me, has he ever talked to you
About becoming a Peace officer again?
No, sir.
He's given over to ranching
For good, I believe.
That's a pity.
A man as hard as that
Could be useful to the future of Montana.
How do you figure, sir?
This has always been a wild country, Newt.
All these freebooters moving in,
Filling up all the-- All the land.
There needs to be some rules and regulations,
A new sense of order.
There's got to be somebody
To enforce that sense of order.
So you ride out to Captain Call,
You tell him that he's invited to join our roundup
With all the other big spreads in the area.
Hmm?
You tell him that he's more than welcome.
Oh, he ain't much for big groups, sir.
I think it's important
Meet the other people
In the area-- In the territory, hmm?
Find out who his friends are.
I know you'll make that very plain to him.
Yes, sir. I'll try, sir.
Good man.
Newt come back.
Man: Newt's here!
Newt.
Hey, Ben, Newt's come back!
Neil, Lippy, it's been a long time.
Newt.
How you doing?
Pea, it's good to see you.
Captain?
I need to talk to you some more,
Just try to set things straight a little.
Mrs. Dunnigan and I are friends,
But I ain't there because of her.
Explain quitting the job I give you.
I didn't quit.
Me and Jasper was in jail.
They was gonna hang us.
I sent you a telegram.
Then Mr. Dunnigan come in
And said we was paroled to him.
How'd you get in jail?
I tried to explain it to you--
You're gonna judge me as hard as you judged
Jake Spoon the day you hung him, aren't you?
There's lots of Jake Spoon in your behavior.
You might turn out just like him.
You saying Jake's my pa, Captain?
Well, I'd a hell of a lot rathered
It was Jake than you
'Cause Jake knew people could make mistakes.
Like my momma the day she made me--
With you or Jake
Or somebody I don't even know.
So if you're thinking I'm a bad seed,
You go right ahead because it's probably the truth.
And if I'm your seed, it's dead certain.
That's what you come to say?
You said it.
Mr. Dunnigan's having
A big roundup at Kenilworth.
All the big outfits throwing in together.
That's what I come to say.
You be on your way.
Newt: Pea...
boys...
I hold nothing against any of you.
You're all my friends.
But I ride for Mr. Dunnigan now.
And that might come to mean
We've seen things the same way
For the last time.
Adios.
Let's get to work.
Ain't no law against work.
Hyah! Yah! Yah!
[Thunder crashing]
[Horses neighing]
Senora!
July, come quick!
Sally! Betsy! Get out of the house!
Drive the horses to the north range.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
[Shouting]
Aah.
Sally!
Where are you?!
Betsy!
Aah!
Aah! Aah!
Come on! Whoa!
Aah! Unh!
Unh!
[Breathing hard]
[Coughing]
[Shouting]
[Coughing]
[Grunting] uh...uh...
[coughs]
[Coughs]
Betsy!
Sally!
Betsy!
[Child crying]
Child: Mommy!
Mama!
[Sobbing]
[Baby crying]
Mommy! Mommy!
Sally!
Mama?
Betsy!
Sally: We're here, mama!
Oh, God!
[Laughing and crying]
We just wanted to play in the cave.
We should have told you, mama.
[Speaking Cheyenne]
[Baby crying]
[Speaking Cheyenne]
Senora!
Senora, hurry.
It's July!
[Moaning]
Oh, God.
We going to need something to move him.
No, don't touch me.
Hold on.
Shh! Stay still.
[Sobbing softly]
Hold on.
[Moaning]
Can't we stop for a while?
If we stop without shade,
We'll just get more tired from the sun.
We'll rest when we get to town.
What if they burnt the town, too?
Just think about the town the way it always is.
Mr. Herbert's confectionery,
Everything all shiny and new.
Ice cold sarsaparilla.
It might not be there.
Can't worry about what might be.
You have to deal with what is.
When things are hard like this, it's all you can do...
just keep one good thought in your mind
And move toward that.
Any thoughts?
Mr. Herbert's.
Betsy?
Sarsaparilla.
Sounds good.
I want to sign for these, Karl.
You'll do no such thing.
You were among the lucky ones, Clara.
You all survived.
Old man Lawrence...
he lost his whole family.
And I hear the Fairchilds...
haven't accounted for 3 of their folks.
You...and the children...
and the Cheyenne woman
Can stay with me and Inga as long as you need.
We won't have it any other way.
Thank you.
I gotta go check on July.
I--I'll pick these up later.
How is he?
He'll live.
He won't be pretty.
I--I'm sorry you got burned out, Clara.
Yeah, others did, too.
We'll be all right. I know we will.
Yah!
Sara Pickett.
We were supposed to meet Captain Call
Up at your place.
There is no place anymore.
We saw the smoke.
You all right?
Clara?
Gideon Walker.
Gideon.
Pulse is steady.
His breathing's fine.
Opium's got him out of pain.
July.
It's Clara.
I'm here.
You saved the horses, July.
Didn't lose one of them.
[Ragged breathing]
[Softly] you hang on.
You've lived this long...
I expect there's nothing to fear.
What about his eyes?
Hard to say until the bandages come off.
[Cattle bellowing]
This look like your dream?
My dream has only one brand, Ferris.
Ok!
Hey, Jasper,
That ain't no red-grown calf.
I seen its mama. She's bar-m.
Buck said to get all the slict
When these boys ain't lookin'.
So when'd you turn a thief?
You've done a little thieving yourself.
Or wasn't that you in Mexico with Gus and Captain
stole that herd outta there?
They was Hat Creek cattle to start with.
Grab a bar and git your hand in it.
Buck...I think you should fetch your boss.
Yes, he should see this.
Captain.
Them fella's still watchin' us.
One of 'em's got him a spy glass.
Maybe it's pirates spyin' on us, Pea.
Pirates?
Might be old Captain kidd's ghost.
They say he's still walkin' around someplace.
Ain't that right, Ben?
That's right, Captain.
[Chuckling]
There ain't no such thing as ghosts, Pea.
Seen old Deet's ghost.
I'd have never made it back to y'all
If he ain't showed me the way.
[Overlapping chatter]
Miss Dunnigan?
Miss Dunnigan, ma'am?
That Texas outfit just south of us
is ridin' by theirselves. Mr. Winston wants you to come.
That's Captain Call's outfit.
Maybe Newt should go with you.
Newt's had his time talking to the Captain.
Maybe I can do better.
I'll see you for supper.
All right.
Yah! Get on!
Down there.
Captain...
I see.
Men: Whoa...whoa!
Gregor Dunnigan.
Woodrow Call.
Texas ranger?
Was.
You drove in a sizeable herd last year, mister.
The cattleman's alliance
Was hoping that you'd join the roundup.
I give the boy you sent answer enough.
Aye, he said.
He's a fine lad.
You must miss him a great deal.
Nigel Winston.
Member of the alliance.
I've been observing your roundup--
Your independent roundup--
From a distance.
I'd like to take a closer look
At these brands.
These are my cows.
Mistakes are easily made.
Careful you don't make one right now.
How do we know all these cattle are his?
The Captain here promised a dying man
That he'd cart him all the way back to Texas
To bury him.
Somebody who would do a thing like that
Wouldn't sit here and argue in front of a dozen armed men
About a few measly head of cattle,
Now would he?
In the future...Captain,
You might find it more profitable
To exhibit less antagonism
And more cooperation.
In the future,
my cows will be on my side of the fence.
Yours will be on yours.
You aim to string wire on my range, mister?
No excuse to claim your stock got in with mine.
I know how that works.
You're taking a very extreme position against people
who are willing to be your friends.
I don't recall making friends
With any son o' bitch called me a liar.
I settled this range, mister.
I don't aim to see it grazed out.
Do you understand that?
Good luck to you, then.
Not about luck.
It's about survival.
An Englishman said it best.
A poet, John Donne.
"No man is an island."
I don't much read poetry.
That's a failin', I'm sure...
but probably no worse than tellin' other men
How to run their own affairs.
Barbwire draws a nasty line, mister.
Now, you want to talk about it some more,
My door's always open.
Well, he don't seem all bad.
What he said about Newt was nice.
Soon as branding's done, we're stringing wire.
Anything you say, Captain.
No offense, Captain, but I never figured
We'd be the first outfit
To string barbed wire anywhere.
Life's unpredictable, Pea. That's the wonder of it!
It ain't Christmas. Come build it!
Yes, sir. Merry Christmas.
I'm sorry about your loss, Clara.
I nagged Bob to build this house.
I don't really give a fig about houses.
I just wanted to nag him into it
And...I did.
Main reason was
He wouldn't let me work with the horses.
He didn't think it fitting.
So I thought...
all right then, Bob.
Build me a house.
But I always wanted to be down with the horses.
Now there's nothing to stop me.
I hear Montana is good as the world gets--
Rolling hills, waving tall grass--
Mountains so high they hold the snow year-round
And the scent of pine on every breath.
Might be the right place for a fresh start.
You're asking me to go with you?
Me and a thousand head of wild horses.
400, maybe.
I guess you're the final proof
No one sane ever became a Texas ranger.
I sure wish you'd gather up your mares
and head north with us.
Woodrow's dead set on having breeding stock.
I guarantee you he'll pay a fair price.
Besides...
the scenery would brighten considerably
If you came along.
You still have that silver tongue.
I don't remember ever saying an untrue word to you, Clara.
'Course that was 'cause old Gus
Was all the time whispering his sweet lies into your ear,
And I never got the chance.
They were sweet, all right.
And as I recall
You were still wet behind the ears then.
You just couldn't see the man in me.
And I never dared look at you 'cause you were Gus's true love.
Was a bunch of us boys envied him that.
Whatever prompted Woodrow
To have this idea about crossbreeding horses?
Said it come to him at Gus's grave.
He say why?
He said a man should leave something more behind
Than some broken board stuck in a sorry piece of dirt.
Gus McCrae left a hell of a lot more legacy than that.
As a matter of fact, I believe he did.
I got something I need to tell you, Clara,
And I find it hard to say.
I believe he left a daughter.
Gus never said anything about a daughter.
He never knew.
Where is she?
She come with us on the drive.
Why?
I don't know.
Clara: Aren't they great birds?
I wonder which I'd miss most--
Them or the plains
If I was to move away.
Don't make no sense to me.
Back home, Captain always said
He had no use for barbwire.
Well...
things is different up here, Needle.
Captain says that we got to keep things separate.
I heard old Russell Willis got throwed into some
Working for that German fella outside of Dallas.
Sure, he did. Lost his hair, too.
'Cause the barbwire?
No. It just fell out.
Heeyah!
Hair falling out's no cause for complaint.
Be a whole lot worse if it ached
And you had to have it pulled.
Whoa! Throw down them guns!
Climb on down yourselves.
You heard him.
Hurry it up!
Go on, move!
Get them horses unhitched.
Move!
Now, you boys light out.
You deaf, old man?
Move!
What about the other ones?
Cut 'em loose.
Giddyup there.
Giddup!
Hyah!
Hyah, hyah!
Man: Put 'em up there!
Let 'em go.
Man: Give 'em a ride, boys!
[Hooting and hollering]
[Violin and piano playing in background]
[Overlapping conversations]
[Harmonica plays my bonnie lies over the ocean]
Well, looky here.
Old Newt got all gussied up
Just to play a little 5-Card draw.
Look like Newt's playing for higher stakes today, boys.
*
He's all tickets and tags, all right.
I'm going to step over here.
You let me know if you need anything.
It's nice to see you.
That's such a pretty dress on you.
I saw a pattern like that...
it's a pretty color.
Can you excuse me for one minute?
Newt!
I didn't think you'd come.
Mr. Dunnigan said I had to.
I don't see why, Ferris.
I ain't good at these things.
'Cause I insisted on it.
You'll be fine.
You're part of the family now.
Come on.
[Playing harmonica]
That Buckskin there.
Are you sure about that, Pea?
Yes, sir, Captain. I'd know it anywhere.
Captain.
What are you doing here?
Who rides that Buckskin?
Oh, I can't say for sure.
You can't?
What's this all about, Pea?
Wire.
Captain, there's all kinds of fancy people up there.
You got big ranchers, and there's judges, and...
we even got the governor of the whole territory
Up there. Uh...Captain, I can't let you do that.
Mr. Dunnigan, he wouldn't want you to do--
Pea, it's me!
[Cocks rifle]
Jasper,
I don't guess I know you no more.
[Ting ting ting]
Ahem.
Friends...
neighbors...
honored guests.
The Montana cattleman's alliance roundup
Has been completed.
You members seated around this table
Represent the majority of the money in Montana
Through the thousands
of square miles of land which we own.
I would like to propose a toast...
Dunnigan!
Man: Who's that?
I'd like to know how it is a man riding this horse
Drove wagons hauling my wire
off a cliff.
Or ain't this your brand?
What the hell...
Mr. Dunnigan, Captain Call.
Stay out of this, lad.
No, sir.
I know who rides this horse.
He'd do anything he thought Mr. Dunnigan might want done.
That don't mean orders were given to ride against you.
Let's ask the man rides this horse.
This isn't Texas, mister.
You got no authority here.
Any asking to be done here, I'll do it.
Dunnigan, only one man warned me
Not to string wire.
Now I'm warning you.
You try strong-arming me,
I'll send you straight to hell.
[Startled screams]
Dunnigan: Mister!
You're a lucky man there are people here today!
Do you hear me, mister?
Buck.
Buck!
What's on your mind, Newt?
Did Mr. Dunnigan tell you to wreck a wagon full of wire
Headed for the Hat Creek?
Mr. Dunnigan told me nothing.
You just did it on your own, didn't ya?
Why don't you go play up to Dunnigan's wife some more?
Get him, Buck!
Cover his face with dirt!
Come on, Buck! Get him!
Come on, Buck! You can do it!
Come on!
Come on, Buck!
Get him!
Get on him! Yeah! Yeah!
Take him out!
Come on, Buck!
Get him, Buck!
Come on, Buck!
Come on, get him!
Get him! Get him!
Get him, Buck!
Get him! Get him!
That's it!
Put him down!
Put him down, Buck!
Come on, get him, Buck!
[Men cheering Buck on]
Get him, come on!
Get him, Buck!
Come on, Buck!
Kick his ass, Newt.
[Cheering]
You crashed them wagons-- Now say it!
Say it!
You want me to stop them?
[Cocks trigger]
[Panting]
Mr. Dunnigan, sir!
My gun...
you had to use it.
He'd have brained old Newt.
Old Buck, he just got careless.
He should have never used our stock
To crash them wagons.
You're going to need a new foreman--
Somebody who will do what you can't.
I just killed a man I trusted.
Do you think I'm going to give his job
To a backstabbing bastard like you?
I'm your man.
I was just doing what I had...
[cocks gun]
One more syllable to me or about me
Whispered to this wind even
And what you've got left as a spine
Will be scraps for the coyotes.
You shouldn't be doing that.
I think I should.
Did you have to kill him?
He would have killed you.
He wouldn't have killed me.
I can take care of myself.
I couldn't be sure of that.
One that won't kill to protect his own
Is either a coward or a fool.
And I don't take myself as either.
I'm sorry that things have turned out
The way they have.
But I've begun to think of you as a son.
I would do it again.
Perhaps if anybody should be doing this...
it should be me.
[Rooster crowing]
Just once I'd like to hear that derned rooster crow
Before breakfast.
Not if you're working for the Captain.
[Horse whinnies]
Captain?
Pea.
Jasper Fant.
[Sighs]
Jasper Fant what?
Riding in.
I figured I wouldn't wake nobody
In this outfit.
Pea, you was right about that horse.
It belonged to a fellow named Buck.
Dunnigan kilt him.
His own man.
Yeah. Newt and him was fighting.
Dunnigan said he shot him to save Newt's life,
But I ain't so sure.
Old Buck never did nothing
That old man didn't tell him to do.
I can't ride for him no more.
Seems Newt can't stay away from killings of late.
I come to warn you, Captain.
I talked to a couple of Dunnigan's men
After he... after I walked off
And they said he's getting together
Another big powwow
With some of them outfits from the alliance
And they was gonna go after what they call rustlers.
What's that to me?
I figure it means independents.
You are independent.
You are stringing barbwire, and...
[chuckling]
...the way you showed him up
The other day...
where's your shooter?
Oh, uh...
well, Dunnigan took it to cap Buck
And he kept it.
I figured that you could borrow me one
Till I could work it off.
Don't guess I can.
Captain, what happened when you was gone--
That was all a mistake.
Yesterday you said you didn't know whose horse that was.
Well, you see, I was sorta straddling the fence--
I need to trust the men I ride with--
Trust them all the way.
I'm sorry, Captain.
I truly am.
You had the makings once.
Maybe you'll get it back.
I hope so.
Not on my time.
I'll work from hell to breakfast, Captain.
I...I know I've been a knothead.
That's all over now.
It is here.
Pea?
I don't know nobody else up here.
Go on, take it.
Go on.
Fires a bit high and to the right.
Pea...
them things I said to you--
I sure wish I hadn't.
Blade cuts two ways, Jasper.
I'll pay you later.
When you can.
Hah!
Huah!
Giddup.
[Whistles]
Quite a sight.
Hah! Hah, hah!
There's Isom Pickett.
He used to be.
Gideon: Thinks he's a horse now.
Is that her?
It is.
Do you know who her mother is?
You ever hear tell of Serena Vega?
No.
Well, her brother was a murderous old snake
Who wounded Augustus on one of his forays into Mexico.
Call went down there to get him
Got caught in a gun battle
And Serena stepped in front of a bullet
That Call had intended for her brother.
Gus had been sweet on her,
And her death come between Call and Gus
For some time.
You ran an independent roundup.
Nobody stopped you.
We all tried, and they run us off.
What we done has naught to do with no one else.
See, we come to realize we don't stick together,
They'll grind us down, one by one.
They'll run their herds on land we proved up.
What's all that dynamite for?
Planning on starting a war?
They're keeping all my cows away from water.
I got to blast a well.
Fellas need the law.
The laws are kept out of it--
Bought and paid for by their alliance.
Mr. Call, they'd hang us with barbwire
We try to build a fence.
They ain't hanging me.
I didn't come here to fight other people's fights.
We ain't afraid to fight,
But we don't have the men you have--
Nobody with experience
Like you got rangering.
Good day.
Get that feed.
Thompkins: You build your fence, Captain...
you see how long you can set on it.
Whoa!
Pea, you think we're gonna get
This barbwire strung
Without getting kilt by rustlers
Or scalped by injuns?
Don't want to die over no fence, Lippy.
[Brush rustling]
What was that?
Indians?
[Gobbling]
[Sighs]
[Gunshot]
Look there, Pea-- The rider.
Where? There.
Might could be more.
All the luck we have is bad.
[Cocks rifle]
You can't hit nothing from here.
Well, I don't aim to.
I just want to warn him off.
Damn, Pea Eye!
That was some shot.
I just sort of aimed high.
Over this way!
I'll be...
Captain, Pea Eye picked a wire buster
Clean out of the saddle
All the way on that rim over yonder from here!
You should have seen it.
Bang! Best shooting I ever seen.
Any others?
Well, I believe so.
They got quiet now.
They might have scooted over the rim there.
Damn right, you did!
Sharpshooter like Pea Eye throwin' down on 'em!
Lippy, you stay put here.
Pump up 3 shots, you see trouble.
Boys, run on up that hill.
Keep a good lookout! Pea.
[Moaning]
My lord, that's Jasper Fant, Captain.
He's still breathing.
I never figured
I'd hit nobody from way there.
Get the bullet out.
Hold him steady, Pea.
Yes, sir.
Howdy, Pea.
Well, Jasper, uh...
Jasper: I didn't have nowhere to go.
I was out here trying to shoot something for my supper.
Did I get it?
[Yells]
He ought never left our outfit--
Him or Newt.
They had a choice.
Pea: No, sir.
Not the way that Dunnigan put it to him.
It was like one of them debt of honors
That you got to pay.
They'd gone straight to Ogallala like I said
Instead of going to town for whores
They'd owed nothing...
to nobody.
Aah!
Easy, son.
It's all right. Aah!
Got it.
Give me your bandanna, Pea.
No sign of nobody.
Nothin' we can see, Captain.
Jasper.
Wound needs cleaning.
Let's get him back to Hat Creek.
Boys, keep some pressure on this while he's riding.
Pea: Get him up easy.
Captain...
what's going on here is all wrong side out.
That sense of honor that ties Newt to Dunnigan--
You give him that.
It was all us that taught him everything he knows.
It was you and Gus and old Deets...
Lord knows I tried.
Now I don't know what's right
No more myself, hardly.
Roll 'em out.
Yes, sir.
[Whistle] hyah!
Captain...
that boy ought'n be dying from no bullet I put in him
And Newt...
can't wind up digging no grave for him.
Can't.