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Things go well for you back east, Mr. Calhoun?

Very well.

We've got the right -of -way and the loan.

Any luck riding with us up here in the BPN?

He's about to pull out of steam, look it.

Look it.

Okay.

I gotta go up and see Lucas.

Get him cleaned up.

All right.

Come on.

Hey!

Mr. Calhoun!

Now you've missed me.

When I tell you to take a bath, you take a bath.

You're gonna be treated as a guest on this train as long as you behave like a

guest. But if you're gonna behave like a spoiled little boy...

You're going to be treated like a spoiled little boy.

You understand that?

You turn it around in Riverton, I want you to check that patch on the boiler. I

will, sir.

How are you getting along with the boy?

Oh, part of it's back there trying to smooth out a few of the rough edges now.

As soon as we get in Riverton, I'm going to buy him some clothes and turn him

over to Johnny Hobart, the Indian agent.

He'll know what to do with it.

Good night.

Good night.

Well, yes, sir, but I've... Get out of there.

Are you getting, Tub?

Get in!

I told you to get in!

As far as I'm concerned, you can give him back to the Indians.

It's just what I'm going to do.

Ride out to Johnny Hobart's in the morning. Take the boy with me.

That kid's a tornado.

You can get something stuck in your tooth if you got something bothering

You know the bylaws of this town as well as I do.

No Indian is allowed within a city limits.

Well, he's not exactly a warrior, is he? The little boy.

And I must say the clothes have made a considerable change in the little

It'll take more than clothes to change what he is.

Hey, what...

Stop. Don't do it. Look what he's doing. Stop that voice.

Look what he's doing.

Everything is going to be ruined.

Out. Come on out.

Now, make one more outburst like that, and I'm going to paddle you until you

can't sit down.

Now, you get back over here.

Maybe, sir.

We're going to start all over again.

Get him another shirt.

Never mind.

You go get us a couple of sarsaparillas.

I'll get the shirt.

We only carry them in bottles, and they stock them in the bar.

What do you want me to do, take the boy into a saloon?

I wouldn't if I owned a saloon.

Two bottles of sarsaparilla.

Something on your mind?

You got something on your hands.

Trouble.

You broke the law. Folks around here don't like that.

Go ahead, drink it.

You did hear me, didn't you, Mr. Calhoun?

You're good.

Get that little red stick out of here.

Why? Because you broke the law. That's why.

Your boys come in here and rouse this town around every Saturday night.

That's against the law.

Drive your cattle down the main street of town. That's also against the law.

And if a man commits a crime and you think he's guilty, then you hang him

without a trial.

That's also against the law.

You want me to go on?

You weren't here when they raided us.

When he drove off our stock.

Burned our property.

Our dead aren't that long buried, Calhoun.

I had 30 square miles of prime range land.

The government took that from me so that... So that Indians could have a

reservation.

I don't hate the boy. I just want him out of my sight.

What did you pay for your 30 square miles?

Truth is, it belonged to these people 100, 200 years before you ever came

Maybe he should ask you to get out.

Slim.

I told you, Calhoun, you got yourself trouble.

Seems to me, Mr. Calhoun, you got enough trouble just building that railroad of

yours without looking for more.

Seems to me you've got a whole town full of people that are scared of a little

Indian boy, not any higher than a belt buckle.

Pretty good man to have in a fight.

You didn't get hurt anywhere, did you?

See if you're all right.

I believe you are.

A little empty in there?

Go on, we'll get something to eat.

We can get a little food.

For two, please.

And some milk for the boy.

Like this.

Thank you.

It's been good to see you again.

Johnny O?

No, I expect him any minute.

Come on in the house. Coffee's hot.

Thank you.

You know who my little friend here is?

Yes, Ben.

And I know what he is.

He's an Arapaho.

Hello, Ben. Hello, Johnny.

Found this boy back down the line about... I know exactly where you found

Ben, and who he is.

Amy, would you take the boy inside? I want to talk to Ben alone, please.

Who is he?

Boy's red feather, Ben.

Father was the satyr, one of the most powerful of all the Arapaho chiefs.

You buried him yesterday.

thing, Ben, was for me to take the boy to the Shoshone.

What are you talking about?

His people invaded their land.

Well, they paid for it. The whole war party's dead.

All but one. You mean the boy.

What's he, eight, ten years old?

He's an Arapaho chief, Ben. They mean to have him.

And you're thinking about giving him to them?

I've worked with the Shoshone for 15 years. I brought them peace. We

each other.

I'm not going to see this whole thing blow up in my face just for one boy.

Maybe you've worked with them a little too long. You're beginning to think like

them. I'm thinking of Amy.

But you, that town back there, if they don't get that boy back, there won't be

one of us left alive.

No.

I don't know who he is. I'll take him back to his people. The Shoshone don't

have to know. The Shoshone already know.

They don't want a war, Ben.

They want to make a deal with me.

They gave me 24 hours to deliver that boy, Ben. We better be sure that they

him. Or that town will be destroyed along with your railroad.

And you want to turn that kid over to a bunch of executioners?

They won't kill him, Ben.

They'll be cool, but they'll raise an Arapaho chief with a Shoshone.

You don't believe that?

You gave me that word.

Then don't be a fool.

You can't buy friendship.

Who knows that better than we do?

Exactly why Gatto wants him.

You can't blame the boy.

We've got 24 hours, Ben.

What else can we do?

One thing we're not going to do is argue about it.

We've been friends too long.

Johnny, Ben's right.

Like you say, we've still got 24 hours.

Talk to Gatto again, Johnny, please.

I'll try.

You wait for me in town, Ben.

We'll be there.

The boy has the spirit of a Shoshone.

The Bali of an Arapaho.

The Bali we will feed to the dogs.

What will you do, Calhoun?

You speak English.

You little scamp, you wouldn't tell me about it, would you?

Shushuni, they killed my father and my people.

I killed them all.

What will you do, Calhoun?

Well, you want to wrap a whole chief?

What would you do if you were in my place?

I would give you to the Shoshone.

Well, that doesn't surprise me any.

But I would give you a knife and a rifle so that you will kill many before you

die.

Where'd you learn to speak English, Redfeather?

Mission school.

Right Robin sent me.

That your mother?

She die of fever.

But my father die in battle.

He very strong.

A great war chief.

But as you say, he's dead.

He died for his people.

And I am his son, Redfeather.

You're also a little boy.

Think like a little boy.

You're going to be a chief, then you have to think what's good for your

Not just about fighting.

You fight.

When it's necessary to defend myself.

Then you fight with me against the Shoshone

Cabot

There's been Shoshone signal fires

in those hills all day

The sooner we call in the army and wipe them all out, the better off we're going

to be.

Well, you're not going to get the people around here to go along with that.

Oh, yes, I will.

I'm going to get back my land.

Thirty square miles of it.

They call it a reservation.

Well, who's a reserve for?

Me, Vincent and Cleta, or those red sticks?

The Shoshones are on their way. They're coming faster after that kid.

Well, if I know Ben Calhoun, he's not giving up that boy.

Not for anybody.

Let's have a drink, gentlemen, to Mr.

Calhoun. It'll take an Indian war, but I'm going to get back what's mine.

How much is that?

Forty cents.

No. Oh, not again.

Mr. Calhoun.

I want to get this boy another jacket and a shirt. Fix him up, will you?

Go with him.

Are you still wasting your time on him?

Why not?

I hear this town's going to take away our right -of -way if we don't get rid

him.

Where'd you hear that?

From the sheriff, speaking for the town council.

Oh, and Dave Wired.

What did he have to say?

Well, it appears if we don't have our right -of -way, we don't get the loan we

wanted either.

Boss, we're supposed to be building a railroad.

What would you do in my position?

Well, I...

You took him out to Johnny Hobart's place. Let him take care of it.

All right.

Johnny wants to turn him over to the Shoshones.

And the Shoshones want to kill him.

We haven't exactly been like brothers.

But I don't want to see him get hurt.

Anyway, I suppose we could always find another poker game.

Win another railroad.

I suppose.

If you get on back to the train, tell Lucas to get up and pull ahead of steam.

Take the chief here with you. Yes, sir.

Come on.

I've got her, Tim. She hasn't changed, Ben.

I've come for the boy.

It's either him or this town, my post, your railroad.

I'm sorry, Johnny.

I know you've got a job to do.

But I feel an obligation to the boy.

I can't let you have him.

Ben.

Like you say, we've still got 24 hours.

Johnny?

Johnny?

You stay at the post. Scato came by to warn me, Johnny.

He didn't threaten you?

I... I don't know.

I didn't know him, Johnny. He looked at me as though I was a stranger.

Mr. Shoney had been friends to us, Johnny, for 15 years.

Gatto's already kind of cool on that horse.

They aren't going to keep him, Johnny. They are going to kill him.

He was in a raiding party.

Not the boy.

In fact, if the Arapaho invaded Shoshone land, Gatto was sworn to kill any

Arapaho found in his territory.

Anyone. Even a boy. Even a boy, Amy. Now, what do you want me to do?

Shut down the post, warn the townspeople, and call in the army.

War?

Exterminate the Shoshone after forcing an attack on this town? Fell back off,

Johnny. They don't want a war. They are proud. It's their honor. No, Amy.

Johnny, we never did have any children.

But if we had a boy, a son, could you hand him over to be killed?

Could I live with you, Johnny, if you did?

The boy is not my son, Amy.

Mr. Shoney are my people.

I've hunted with them, eaten with them, starved with them. And that gives you

the right to say no to them.

Little problem of conscience.

Tommy Hobart, how would the friend of the Indians settle this problem?

Not your way.

The army isn't coming into this.

I don't know, they might.

If enough fuss was made over poor little Arapaho brat.

You want trouble, don't you, Mr. Cabot?

I want my land back.

Your land?

Yes, I traded for it and gave them what they asked.

It was raw prairie when I first saw it.

All buffalo grass and scrub.

Spent the first winter in a cave.

In a hole in the ground.

Because I saw what could be done with it.

The Shoshone traded the right to hunt that land, not fence it.

They don't think like we do.

They can't understand a man owning land and keeping other men off it.

Well, then you explain it to them, Hobart.

I'm a cattleman, not an Indian.

You're a butcher!

Johnny!

I wouldn't dream of making any trouble, Mrs. Hobart.

I'll leave that to the good Samaritan here.

Ma 'am?

Nothing is going to stop him from using the boy to trigger a war.

And I'm doing the same thing.

Using the boy to keep the Shoshone piece.

Amy, Ben is going to try to take the boy back to the Arapaho country on the

railroad.

It's an impossible gamble.

But I'm going with him.

Gato giving you 20 hours or 200 hours doesn't mean a thing, Ben.

I know this man.

This isn't the first time the Arapaho have invaded his territory.

Exterminated every trespasser.

That boy is a symbol of everything Gato hates.

Have a drink. Make you feel better.

Losing Gamble.

If we can get the boy out of Shoshone territory and back up into the Arapaho

country. Yes.

If I didn't have this job for 15 years, if the Shoshone didn't feel the way they

do, Ben, we're gambling with people's lives.

309 to be exact.

Well, whose life do you want to bet?

Down on the floor, quick.

Now stay there.

Barnabas, get up in the cab with Lucas.

Tell him to be ready to pull out of here in either direction. Yes, sir.

We've got some talking to do.

I am sorry that you have not kept your word.

Johnny Hobart, he didn't break his word.

It's along for the ride.

Give us the boy and go in peace then.

You gave us your word.

You cannot be trusted.

We've got to loon tomorrow.

We want the boy now.

You called it right.

He is a boy. He can't possibly do you any harm.

He is the son of a chief.

We will raise him as a Shoshone. You have no intentions of letting him live

you know it. Gato, you said 24 hours.

You... I have been tricked once, Johnny Hobart. How do I know it will not happen

again?

Lost.

We still got time.

The time ran out back there.

Not yet.

Pulling away from them won't solve a thing.

We haven't a chance in a thousand of saving that boy.

We've got till noon tomorrow.

I heated it up just right this time, I think.

Food worse than usual?

No.

No, I'm not very hungry.

Don't like to either I never said I didn't like you I Make trouble for

Finish your supper

I

Am sorry to give you trouble

I will go to my people.

Afraid we're a little late for that, partner.

Then you give me my knife and I will go to my enemy.

I'm afraid you're a little young for that.

Then what will we do?

They teach you how to pray at the mission school.

They try.

Then you try to remember what they taught you.

We're both gonna need a little help before this is all over.

You run on back inside and eat your supper.

Gotta take the boy, Ben.

They've got Amy.

Hold it.

Then let me go with you.

Maybe we can talk some sense into them.

Sorry, Ben.

Gal, hold it.

You are not my God.

I do not speak for myself.

I speak for my friend.

Because of me, he has trouble.

You are the God of peace.

Help him.

That is all I have to say.

I heard you pray for peace.

I pray for Calhoun.

There isn't a man in the world who wants peace more than I do.

There isn't a man in the world who can get you through to your people except

Will you come with me?

With Calhoun?

Me.

If someone had to lead the Shoshone away, he's done a great deal for you.

He want me to go with you?

He wants you to do what's right.

Are you all right? Yeah, what happened?

Johnny's got the boy.

Bruce Saddlemowers.

This is not Arapaho country.

I know that, boy.

There's nothing else I could do.

The Shoshone took my wife.

Do you understand, boy?

They took my wife.

Calhoun let you do this?

This is what he wants?

Come on, boy.

I'll take the boy, Johnny.

I know you don't like what you're doing.

What I like and what I've got to do are two different things, Ben.

You have kept your word, Johnny Hobart.

Good.

There will be peace.

Your wife will be returned to you.

Your terms for peace were a disgrace to the Shoshone Nation.

You make war on children.

I kept my word.

Now you keep yours.

No harm will come to the boy.

I prayed to your God, Calhoun.

Maybe now you pray to mine.

Looks like they're taking the kid.

There goes our war, Cabot.

Not if we give Calhoun some help.

I just dealt them Shoshone boys.

But Hobart's mine.

How many summers have you seen?

Eight. So few.

Stand before me.

If you beg for your freedom, Gato will give it to you.

You were wrong, Calhoun.

I do not make war on children.

This is a warrior chief.

Maybe the Shoshone and the Arapaho are born of the same spirit.

Hope my father sleeps well.

He will. Now.

No hard feelings, Ben?

No.

The Arapahoes have a saying that's quite fitting.

It says you can't judge another man until you've worn his mark for three

That caught Red Feather back to his people.

is going to blame you for doing what you felt was right.

All right.

You've got a long ride home.

The land of Arapaho is yours.

Goodbye, Captain.

Goodbye, Chief.

Goodbye, Johnny O 'Bart.

Goodbye.

Bye, Barnabas.

Bye, Chief.