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Ho!

We attack wagon train now, Red Hawk?

No. Wagon train scout McCullough

say wagon master want to talk.

Maybe wagon master break promise, kill our game.

If so, then we attack,

kill all white men, burn their wagons,

but we talk first.

♪

Red Hawk, we have been in your land for many suns.

Because of rains, it has taken longer than I figured.

We still have a long way to go.

My people are hungry.

I ask you, release me from my agreement,

give me permission to hunt game...

Just enough game to feed my people, no more.

There's only one reason

why I do not send a thousand braves down on your wagons...

Because you keep promise not to kill game that means life to my people.

Keep your promise now, wagon master.

That I'll do, but Chief Red Hawk must know

it is not easy to keep eyes on many people when they are hungry.

Then punish those who break our agreement,

if you wish others to live.

Red Hawk will know.

MAN: You didn't put up much of an argument, Major.

Who said that?!

Me.

Me, Jonas Murdock.

Murdock, you don't argue with a chief like Red Hawk

when he's got his mind made up,

especially when he's right.

I did agree not to kill his game.

You oughta know that. You were an Indian scout.

You're right about that, Major.

I know plenty about them Injuns, all right,

including how to steal their game right out from under their noses

without their scouts even knowing it,

without firing a shot.

You just try that, Murdock.

Just try it. There'll be a shot.

It'll be from my gun, is that clear?

All right, folks, let's get back to our wagons.

The longer we stand here, the longer we'll be without fresh meat.

Let's get ready to roll!

Wagons, ho!

You know, Charlie, I'll bet when the last wagon runs out of hardtack,

you'll still have some of this coffee left.

Don't you worry, Bill,

as long as I have it, you'll still get your share.

Yeah, but, uh, right now I'd trade my share for one little venison steak.

I'll see you. Where you going?

Gonna go play some two-handed with Jonas.

What's the matter with me? I'm the best card player

this side of the Mississippi, ain't I?

That's why I'm gonna play with Jonas.

Say, Bill, uh...

you and Murdock have become pretty good friends, haven't you?

Yeah. We get along real good together. Why?

I wonder if you'd, uh...

give him a little friendly advice.

I got a feeling that Murdock doesn't take my agreement with Red Hawk too seriously.

Jonas isn't gonna do anything to get us into trouble.

I hope not.

I wish you'd talk to him anyway, will ya?

Well, sure, but, Major, I'll give you my personal guarantee

that if anybody on this train steps out of line and kills game,

it won't be Jonas Murdock.

Have fun. I'll see ya.

Yeah.

What's the matter, Major? Don't you trust Murdock?

I don't know, Charlie. I'm not quite sure.

He's not used to livin' with other people.

He spent his life out in the wilderness all by himself.

I'm not sure that he realizes the importance

of living by rules that are set up for a whole group of people.

Only laws he knows are the ones made by nature and the ones made by himself.

I bet he cheats at cards, too.

Huh?

I say, I bet he cheats at cards.

Yeah.

Oh, Bill, I've been waitin' for ya.

Ah, I told you I'd give you a chance to get some of your money back.

Ha. How much is it I owe you now?

About $23.75.

Oh, well, we'll see if I can't whittle that down a little bit tonight, huh?

Jonas, how come you're making those rabbit snares?

Catch me some rabbits.

Come on, Bill, come on, sit down.

Sit right there, huh?

You gotta admit, I'm getting better every time we play.

Don't you know that rabbits are part of Red Hawk's game?

Oh, sure, I know that.

Heh, you know, I never had much chance

to really get very good at this game

before I joined up with this outfit.

It sure does beat traveling alone.

Major asked me to give you a little friendly advice.

Well, he asked the right fella.

You know, Bill, you know, you're about the first real friend

I ever had, in all my life.

Never stayed in one place long enough before, I reckon.

He wants to know if you understand that Red Hawk would massacre us quick

for killing a rabbit as if you went out and shot a deer.

Oh, I know that.

Why, them Injuns would have killed me a thousand times,

if they'd have caught me.

I live most of my life by stealing their game.

Well, I told him that you were one man we wouldn't have any trouble with.

Was I right?

Oh, yeah, you was dead right.

Oh, I ain't even aimin' to use those little old rabbit snares

till we get out of Red Hawk's territory.

Can you open, Bill?

Well, let me take a look.

Yeah, I can open.

I'll just bet you that 23.75.

Twenty...

Don't you want no other cards?

No other cards.

What are you doing there?

Hold on here, hold on.

Let me go! Hold on, shh!

What did you want in my wagon anyway?

Nothing.

You hungry?

You after something to eat?

It's grandpa. He's awful old,

and he needs some good food to keep his strength up,

or he's gonna die sure!

It's that bad off, huh?

Oh, he doesn't complain, but I'm worried.

Well, you know there ain't nothin' left to eat in this whole outfit,

besides some hardtack.

What made you think I'd be any different?

Everybody knows that you were an Indian scout.

That means you know a lot about hunting and trapping.

I just thought... maybe...

Maybe I'd be doing a little of that trapping on the side, huh?

What's your name?

Alma. Alma Hardy.

Just you and the old man traveling all by yourselves?

Well, look, I'll tell you what to do.

You go on back to your wagon and maybe...

Now, mind you, I said maybe...

I'll be able to rustle up something for you to eat.

You mean you'd go out and get us something to eat?

I didn't say nothin' like that, did I?

Now, go on. You go on back. Yes, sir.

Charlie, how in the devil do you expect to make coffee without a fire?

You know that we got to have something hot to wash that hardtack down with.

Hey, Charlie!

You're gonna have to yell louder than that for him to hear you, Bill.

What?

He's out there in the brush someplace.

Well, what's he doing out there?

He's doing exactly what I told him to do.

He's keeping an eye on your friend Murdock.

You mean Murdock's out there?

Yep. Charlie saw him slipping away from his wagon a while ago, so...

I sent him out to see if he could find out what he was up to.

You got nothin' to worry about.

You don't think so, huh?

Well, there's isn't a man on this train

that doesn't know what would happen if they killed some game.

That's only if they get caught, Bill.

Murdock figures he's smart enough to get away with it,

and he might just be.

Then he'd probably talk about it.

That's all it would take some of the others to try it,

then we'd have real trouble.

I'm not taking any chances, Bill.

Lookin' for somethin', Charlie? Murdock!

Ha ha ha. Say, you didn't think I was dumb enough

to let you sneak up behind me, did ya?

Well, I've been a-funnin' with you for 10 minutes.

I'll bet you never did figure out how come them tracks of mine

led up to that tree but never led away, huh?

If you've had your bellyful of laughing,

just tell me what you're doing out here?

Oh, I'm just taking a little walk, Charlie.

There ain't no law against that, is there?

Not if you're just taking a walk.

That's all, Charlie.

You do your walking around your own campfire.

Some Indian might see you out here and think you was hunting or something.

Whatever you say, Charlie.

All right. That's better.

I'll bet he was just taking a walk, hmm.

♪ Little rabbit, come along ♪

♪ Come along with me ♪

♪ Nobody's gonna take you away ♪

♪ Gonna cook you done and skin your hide ♪

♪ Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day ♪

♪ Little rabbit, come along ♪

♪ Come along with me ♪

Howdy, Murdock.

Howdy, Mr. Jameson.

What you cookin'?

Oh, just some greens.

Ain't very good ones, though.

Ain't nothin' grows around here

that's worth even wastin' a campfire on.

If I didn't know better, I'd say it almost

smelled like chicken a-boilin'.

Or maybe squirrel or rabbit.

That's funny the tricks a fella's imagination will pull on him

when he ain't had a square meal in a long time.

Yeah, more like rabbit, I'd say.

Well, there's nothing that smells any better over a campfire,

less'n it's bacon and eggs in the mornin'.

I thought I smelled rabbit a-cookin' last night, too.

Oh? Uh-huh.

I stopped by to see how old man Hardy was farin'.

He's lookin' better.

That so? Uh-huh.

I figured it was because he was eatin' better lately.

Well, how do you figure that?

Well, like I was sayin', I thought I smelled rabbit a-cookin',

so I looked in the pot his grandmother Alma had on the fire.

Is that so? It was rabbit.

Now, how do you expect they caught any rabbits?

Same place you've been gettin' yours.

That so?

I reckon you been trappin' them, huh?

I reckon.

What about Red Hawk's scouts?

Well, they'd have killed me if they caught me, but they didn't.

All the same, you ain't got no right to put us in danger like this!

I got a right to eat, ain't I?

Not if you're gonna get all the rest of us scalped!

Well, there ain't been none of you scalped yet, and there won't be.

The reason your belly's achin' is because you haven't had a

square meal in a long time,

but you're not willin' to do nothin' about it.

Well, what can we do?

Well, look at it this way, Jameson,

this is a wild country we're in,

and unless you're a little smarter than the next fella,

you're liable to end up being feed for the buzzards.

Why, even the wild animals know that.

They know that the strong ones live off on the weak ones,

unless the weak ones is smarter.

Now, you don't never see no wild animals dyin' of starvation,

and dang few of them ever live long enough to die of old age.

Now, you ain't no better than them wild animals in the spot you're in.

Neither is the Injuns,

only they're strong than you are,

and they're smarter than you are,

but they ain't smarter than me. Ha ha.

What you gettin' at, Murdock?

Just this...

I've been living by stealing their game out from under their noses

ever since I've been in this part of the country,

and I aim to keep right on doing it whenever I get hungry,

'cause that's the only way I know how to live.

Good. That's just what I figured.

I reckon you can trap a lot more game

than you could possibly eat by yourself, couldn't you?

Oh, I don't hardly see how I could do that, no, no.

You think it over, and we'll keep your secret from Major Adams,

if you agree to help us.

Ah, I knew I'd catch you at it.

Just a little old rabbit, Charlie. Ain't no harm in that.

No harm? Just enough harm to get the whole train massacred, that's all!

Now, look, Charlie, don't go getting your feathers all ruffled up.

I tell you what, in about an hour, you come over to my camp,

and I'll treat you to the best bait you've had

since this outfit run out of fresh meat.

Bribin' me ain't gonna help you none.

Ain't bribin' ya, just plain old hospitality.

Call it whatever you like, but it ain't gonna stop me

from taking you back to the major.

Now, come on, let's get going

before one of Red Hawk's scouts see what we've done.

You know I'm smarter than them Injuns. Ain't nobody seen me.

Well, I saw ya, and I ain't particular

how I take you back... Dead or alive.

Come on.

I'm beginning to think maybe I made a mistake lettin' you in on this.

Ohh.

If you wasn't a friend of Bill Hawks,

I'd polish you off right now,

and if one word of this gets back to the major,

there ain't nobody gonna save ya.

Charlie, what in the devil happened to you?

Major!

What's the... What's the matter?

Get that whiskey in my rucksack.

Charlie, come on. Charlie, wake up, what happened to you?

Charlie, listen to me!

Hurry up, Bill!

Here, here.

Well, drink it, you durn fool!

It's my good whiskey.

Now, come on, Charlie, who did this to you?

Ohh. Murdock.

I caught him with a rabbit.

He clubbed me with his rifle barrel.

Bill...

Major, let me handle...

Take care of Charlie.

Try some more of this, Charlie.

Major must have thought I was dyin', Bill,

to break out his private stock.

I never thought you'd go this far to get a drink.

Murdock...

You've killed Major Adams!

WOMAN: He killed Major Adams! Stop him, somebody!

You know what to do... Keep that bandage wet

so it heals from the inside out.

Yeah. Where are you goin'?

Mr. Hawks! Mr. Hawks!

You've got to do something.

Do what, ma'am? It's Jameson.

He says now that Major Adams isn't able to stop him,

he's going to kill some game.

Get out of the way!

All right, come on, hurry up, let's go!

Get off those horses!

We're gonna get some fresh meat for our families!

You heard what Red Hawk said,

you kill any game, and we all die.

You got one set of rules for your friends

and another set for us?

What do you mean by that, Jameson?

Murdock's been trappin' rabbits all along.

I didn't see nobody get killed because of it.

Murdock's gonna pay for what he did,

just like the rest of you will if you break Major Adams' word.

Now, you get back to your wagons,

and I'll take care of Murdock!

Come on, get those horses unsaddled!

Bill, who's gonna run the wagon train with the major down?

You. Me? I'm just a cook.

You remember the trouble I had

the last time I tried to run this outfit.

Look, Charlie, I gotta bring Murdock back.

Don't think for a minute that Red Hawk doesn't know what he did.

He's just waitin' to see if we're gonna punish him.

How you gonna find him?

I'll find him.

Take care of the major, Charlie. Look out, boys.

Don't you worry about him!

I'll take care of him.

Whoa!

Ho!

Looks like we're gonna have

to do some more climbin', little fella.

Maybe we can shake him up in them rocks.

Whoa.

Ah, that's too bad, little fella.

Can't help you anymore.

Gonna have to make your own way.

Whoa.

What happened to Major Adams was none of our doin'.

Now, we gotta get out of this Indian country.

I'm not gonna move this wagon train until the major's better.

I don't think he can stand the joltin' around right now.

Well, if what you say is true about Red Hawk,

he already knows about Murdock stealin' his game,

and he didn't do anything about that.

Well, he will if Bill don't bring him back soon.

Then I say we gotta get movin' right away.

Don't make no difference if Major Adams is the one that's ailin'.

There ain't no one man that's more important than the whole train.

He said that himself, a hundred times.

Maybe if we just waited the rest of the day, till morning.

I'm sure he'd be able to stand it then.

But we ain't got enough food to last us

till we get out of Red Hawk's territory the way it stands.

Every day we're held up means that a few more of us here

won't be able to last it out.

Any way you look at it,

it's still one man against all the rest of us.

So you gotta make up your mind, right now.

All right, hook up your teams. We'll pull out in half an hour.

Come on.

I had to do it, Major.

I guess you know that,

but I promise you,

I'll take the smoothest trail I can find.

Wagons, ho!

Ride! Hyah!

Hey, I didn't know that was you following me, Bill.

Who'd you expect, the major?

Aw, that was an accident, you know.

We was fightin', and he fell on that spit.

Was Charlie an accident, too?

You ain't in no position to argue much now, Bill.

I'm takin' your horse.

You ain't gonna follow me far on foot with no grub nor water.

♪ Oh, give old Bill some Apache juice ♪

♪ Then he'll stay away ♪

♪ It'll put a bee inside his head ♪

♪ Singin' Polly Wolly Doodle all the day ♪

♪ Oh, he'll take this juice of Apache weed ♪

♪ And maybe he'll stay away ♪

♪ It'll put those bees inside his head ♪

♪ Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day ♪

♪ Oh, Billy boy will be real dry ♪

♪ When he hits this hole ♪

♪ He'll drink that juice of Apache weed ♪

♪ Doo diddy doo doo doo ♪

Murdock?

You're no good, Murdock.

I'm gonna rid the world of you, Murdock!

I told you I'd get him, Charlie!

I told you, Charlie! I got him, Charlie!

I told you I would!

Major.

Major!

Look out behind you!

Murdock!

Murdock!

I'll kill ya! Git ya!

Murdock, I'm gonna kill you!

Sorry, Bill.

Oh. Well, it beats sleepin' out, old man.

Well, I... I sure wasn't expecting you.

I'm taking you back, Murdock.

You're going the hard way or the easy way.

No, sir, I... I never had you figured for getting this far, Bill.

Well, you better pray that we're not too late.

Aw, Bill, you know I never should have joined up

with that wagon outfit in the first place.

I don't belong around a bunch of people.

I lived alone too long.

It's a little bit late to be thinking about that.

I didn't mean no harm, Bill.

Alma Hardy's old granddaddy was ailin',

and I was just trying to get him some food.

Well, giving your word as a friend didn't mean much to you, did it?

I figured 'cause you was my friend, maybe you'd understand.

Well, maybe you can understand why I gotta take you back.

I'm sure sorry it was you would come after me, Bill.

There ain't no way in this world

you're ever gonna get me back to that train alive,

and I sure hate to have to kill ya to keep you from tryin'.

Well, I'm takin' you back, mister,

so you better get used to the idea.

Whoa, bud.

Come on, let's go.

You're the gol-dangdest, stubbornest fool I ever did see, Bill.

I give you enough reason to quit and turn back a dozen times.

No, you just had to keep on a-comin'.

You're a fool, Bill!

But you're a dangerous fool.

I don't aim to have you on my trail for the rest of my day.

We're all through playing follow-the-leader, Jonas.

Why didn't you quit, Bill? Why didn't you quit?

Now you fixed it, so I gotta kill ya.

Did you hear me, Bill?

I said I gotta kill ya!

I told ya I was gonna take you back.

Don't try to stop us, Charlie.

There ain't no Indians around,

and we're gonna get some fresh meat tonight.

How many times you people have to be told?

Just because you don't see an Indian out there

is no reason they're not there.

They're probably watchin' every move we're makin' right now.

What about Murdock? He got away with it,

and I don't see anybody doing anything about that.

I'm not gonna let you do it, Jameson.

I don't see how you're gonna stop us.

Don't do it.

What's the matter with you people?

I'm not the only one they have a gun on.

You stand by and let them go out there and kill one little deer,

it'll be just like they shot down your own tracks right where you're standing.

None of you are starvin' yet, are you?

Commitin' suicide's not gonna help your cause any.

Y'all got guns, haven't you? Why don't you use them?

The least you could do is buy yourself a couple of more weeks of livin'.

Ah, don't pay no mind to Charlie.

He's just trying to talk you out of a square meal.

We'll share everything we get.

Come on.

BILL: Jameson!

Here's the first man that broke Major Adams' agreement with Red Hawk.

Now I want to see the second one.

Well, come on! Let's get to it!

I want to see that second man.

I want to see him try to get beyond that wagon there

so I can shoot him down,

'cause I'm in no mood to go chasin' anymore.

Bill, we got company!

Red Hawk know wagon master keep agreement.

Braves bring more fresh meat every day.

People no starve.

Come on!

Let's go.

Well, I'd have bet my life against Red Hawk doing anything like that.

Well, that you did, Murdock, and mine, too, almost.

Boy, are you a mess. Had some trouble, huh?

Yeah, a little. How's the major?

He's restin' pretty good. Let me fix that shoulder.

Nah, it's all right. You go help the people split up that deer meat,

and I'll watch Murdock till you get back.

You got to understand how it is with a fella like me, Bill.

Injuns killed my folks when I was just a little old kid.

I've been making my own way ever since.

The only reason I was able to do it is 'cause I learned two things...

How to steal their game and how to kill 'fore I got killed.

Ah.

I'd have killed you, too, Bill,

for the same reason.

Ah, we might as well admit it.

I just ain't cut out to live according to the rules

made for a lot of people.

Why'd you join the wagon train then?

No reason. I...

I guess just wanted to see what it was like to be amongst folks again.

Well, even animals run with others of their kind.

They get lonesome, too, I expect.

Bill...

if I was to get another chance,

I'll bet I could learn to live amongst these people.

Yeah, I'll bet you could.

Wouldn't break no more rules,

wouldn't 'cause you no trouble at all.

This I know.

Ah, you're a fine, understandin' friend, Bill.

Hey, let's cut these loose now.

Nope. Not yet.

Not yet?

When?

When we feed ya.

Feed me?

Yeah, when we feed you some of that meat

that Red Hawk wouldn't have given us

if I hadn't brought you back.

You're gonna keep me tied up?

Chained. Chained back in that supply wagon

for as long as Major Adams says so.

We gotta carry out your punishment

so Red Hawk doesn't change his mind again.

Chain him up!

Oh, Bill, now, wait a minute!

Wait a minute, Bill! That ain't no fair!

That's like making me pay for feeding this whole outfit.

Yeah, let's look at it this way, Murdock...

You just had your first lesson on how to live by the rules

set up for the good of the majority,

and when you broke those rules,

you're the same as volunteered for the job.

Oh, Bill!

Some of you men get up a lot of firewood.

We're gonna eat good tonight.

Charlie! Yes, Major?

I want a great big fire out in the center of the circle there.

Bill, let me look at that shoulder.

Charlie! What's going on out there?

Oh, nothin'. Some Indians just brought us a fresh...

Bill, he's talkin'!

Charlie!

Major, you're all right. You ain't unconscious anymore.

Of course I'm all right.

What's going on out there?

The conquering hero come home.

Hero? What are you talkin' about?

You mean you didn't even miss me?

Well, you've been somepl...

Well, what in tarnation happened to you?

I told him two or three times, Bill, but he's been unconscious.

Sit down I'll look at that shoulder.

I went out lookin' for Murdock. Ow.

Looks to me like he found you first.

He brought him back, too.

Red Hawk's scouts must have been watching every move we made,

because you should see the nice venison they sent us.

Venison? Yeah.

Well, I'll be.

Bill, I think you're gonna have to wear yours.

How do you like that? Venison, hmm.

Well, I like you b... being sick

because it's helped your disposition a lot, you know.

Well, Charlie, I'll tell ya about being laid up.

It's really made me realize

that I got two of the best friends a man could ever want,

the way you've looked after me, and, Bill, what you've done.

I just want the both of you to know that I appreciate it.

He still must be delirious talking like that.

Sounds serious.

Well, don't just sit there!

Go get me some of that venison

'fore it's all gone! I'm hungry!

Go on! The both of ya!

He's all right.

Yeah, but he had me worried for a minute.

Will you get the venison?!

You're not worried now, are ya? Come on!

Ha ha ha ha.

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