1 00:01:45,071 --> 00:01:47,471 LAFE: To us, as we first saw it... 2 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,837 ... this place was known only as The Rock. 3 00:01:51,244 --> 00:01:53,576 Two thousand miles behind us... 4 00:01:53,746 --> 00:01:57,443 ... Lee was fighting for the life of the Southern Confederacy. 5 00:01:57,684 --> 00:02:00,175 We were some of Lee's men. 6 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:04,215 He had sent us here, eight of us... 7 00:02:04,390 --> 00:02:07,791 ... in a last desperate effort to save the war. 8 00:02:08,194 --> 00:02:12,062 Our mission was all but impossible, but we had to succeed... 9 00:02:12,232 --> 00:02:16,965 ... for we knew now, that we were living the last days of our cause... 10 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:20,368 ... unless we ourselves could turn the tide. 11 00:02:58,878 --> 00:03:01,472 There, high above us... 12 00:03:01,648 --> 00:03:04,549 ... was the man we'd ridden 2000 miles to meet... 13 00:03:04,717 --> 00:03:06,446 ... Cole Smith. 14 00:03:26,005 --> 00:03:27,267 You Captain Barstow? 15 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,103 I'm California Beal. Cole Smith sent me. 16 00:03:39,819 --> 00:03:40,945 Where is he? 17 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,451 He'll be along. 18 00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:47,651 That all the men you got with you? 19 00:03:48,828 --> 00:03:52,457 I'm not here to supply men. How many have you got with you? 20 00:03:52,632 --> 00:03:54,395 Nobody. 21 00:03:55,068 --> 00:03:58,595 Cole Smith sent me to give you the word, that's all. 22 00:04:00,940 --> 00:04:05,309 Plank, Kip, Jonas. Up top and have a look around. 23 00:04:25,365 --> 00:04:28,300 They won't find nothing up there now. 24 00:04:28,468 --> 00:04:33,064 Cole Smith camped there a month ago with maybe 60 men. 25 00:04:33,239 --> 00:04:35,969 Sixty? What about the 500 he's supposed to have? 26 00:04:36,142 --> 00:04:39,270 You'll see them, when it's your time to. 27 00:04:39,779 --> 00:04:41,974 You a fair sample of Cole Smith's troops? 28 00:04:42,148 --> 00:04:46,585 I don't know as we call ourselves anybody's troops, old folks... 29 00:04:46,753 --> 00:04:50,712 ...but we're plenty able to keep half of California in a cold sweat. 30 00:04:50,890 --> 00:04:51,982 You'll get the chance. 31 00:04:52,158 --> 00:04:53,591 [PLANK WHISTLES] 32 00:04:56,629 --> 00:04:58,688 LAFE: We didn't like that very well. 33 00:04:58,865 --> 00:05:01,163 Cole Smith wasn't here. 34 00:05:01,334 --> 00:05:03,529 And we didn't like the envoy he'd sent either... 35 00:05:04,637 --> 00:05:07,003 ... California Beal. 36 00:05:08,841 --> 00:05:11,036 That crooked line there is the Humboldt River. 37 00:05:11,210 --> 00:05:13,405 The Overland Stage Route runs along it. 38 00:05:13,579 --> 00:05:17,015 Cole Smith picked this meeting place pretty close to the trail. 39 00:05:17,183 --> 00:05:19,447 You won't be kept awake by no stagecoaches on it. 40 00:05:19,619 --> 00:05:21,712 Not the way the Indians is right now. 41 00:05:21,888 --> 00:05:23,515 There's a coach on it today. 42 00:05:23,690 --> 00:05:26,659 You can see the dust from his wheels... 43 00:05:26,826 --> 00:05:29,260 ...where the trail comes out of the Battle Mountains. 44 00:05:29,429 --> 00:05:33,092 BEAL: Well, anyway, he sure don't belong there. 45 00:05:33,266 --> 00:05:36,429 There's some kind of passel of Indians a whole lot closer than that. 46 00:05:36,602 --> 00:05:39,070 Look at them sand hills by the Humboldt, Plank. 47 00:05:39,238 --> 00:05:42,401 I see it. That ain't wind doing that, Lafe. 48 00:05:42,575 --> 00:05:46,341 BEAL: There's been plenty Shoshones gouging around here this past week. 49 00:05:47,313 --> 00:05:50,180 I'm a lot more interested in where you left Cole Smith. 50 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:52,944 I'd never ask Cole Smith where he's going. 51 00:05:53,986 --> 00:05:56,181 Lafe, look at that dust there now. 52 00:05:56,656 --> 00:05:59,716 There's a war party underneath that, just as sure as you're born. 53 00:05:59,892 --> 00:06:01,757 What's wrong with that stagecoach driver? 54 00:06:01,928 --> 00:06:03,896 He must see that. He can't help seeing it. 55 00:06:04,063 --> 00:06:06,429 You figure they're there to jump the stage? 56 00:06:06,899 --> 00:06:09,800 Listen, Beal, we've come a long way. 57 00:06:09,969 --> 00:06:12,699 I don't want to be told that Cole Smith can't be found. 58 00:06:12,872 --> 00:06:15,432 - You just relax, soldier boy. - And I don't wanna hear... 59 00:06:15,608 --> 00:06:19,203 ...that all he's got with him is a bunch of 60 or 70 penny-ante misfits. 60 00:06:19,379 --> 00:06:21,779 - Like me? - That's the general idea. 61 00:06:21,948 --> 00:06:24,439 I'll tell you, maybe we don't drill good... 62 00:06:24,617 --> 00:06:27,108 ...but when we get started, we cover a lot of ground. 63 00:06:27,286 --> 00:06:28,913 By the time we get to Sacramento... 64 00:06:29,088 --> 00:06:33,115 ...counting rebel sympathizers we'll pick up on the way, we'll be close to a thousand. 65 00:06:33,292 --> 00:06:36,853 We'll make your General Lee a president of the town inside of 30 days. 66 00:06:37,029 --> 00:06:38,394 JONAS: Hey, you know something? 67 00:06:38,564 --> 00:06:40,429 That coach has been in a fight already. 68 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:41,794 Give me the glass. 69 00:06:46,739 --> 00:06:49,606 PLANK: No shotgun guard either. Must be dead. 70 00:06:49,776 --> 00:06:52,506 JONAS: They're closing in on all sides. 71 00:06:53,146 --> 00:06:55,876 PLANK: I'll give him about five more minutes. 72 00:06:56,048 --> 00:06:59,347 They'll kill his horses when he gets to that point of rocks there. 73 00:06:59,519 --> 00:07:02,181 JONAS: That man can sure drive, whoever he is. 74 00:07:02,355 --> 00:07:03,549 BEAL: Sure you can drive. 75 00:07:03,723 --> 00:07:07,181 You'd be surprised how you can drive with a war party closing in on you. 76 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,352 There they are, Lafe. The war ponies are busting out of the draw. 77 00:07:10,563 --> 00:07:12,554 [ALL YELLING] 78 00:07:18,037 --> 00:07:20,767 PLANK: This thing ain't going on much longer, Lafe. 79 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:24,171 In case you're getting any wild ideas... 80 00:07:24,343 --> 00:07:27,574 ...Cole Smith wouldn't like you getting mixed up in this. 81 00:07:27,747 --> 00:07:32,775 He'd sort of feel it might spoil what General Lee sent you out here for. 82 00:07:33,753 --> 00:07:34,777 Let's get down there. 83 00:07:42,528 --> 00:07:44,894 MAN: Yee-ha! 84 00:07:48,434 --> 00:07:50,425 [DOG BARKING] 85 00:07:55,641 --> 00:07:57,632 [YELLING CONTINUES] 86 00:08:29,141 --> 00:08:30,506 MAN: Hyah! 87 00:08:38,885 --> 00:08:43,015 Hyah! Hyah! Hyah! 88 00:08:45,291 --> 00:08:48,283 [YELLING CONTINUES] 89 00:09:02,241 --> 00:09:04,869 Forward, ho! 90 00:09:05,044 --> 00:09:07,035 [ALL YELLING] 91 00:09:17,590 --> 00:09:18,818 Hyah! 92 00:09:23,763 --> 00:09:25,162 Hyah! 93 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,058 Yah-hah! 94 00:09:34,874 --> 00:09:36,466 Hyah! 95 00:09:42,248 --> 00:09:44,113 [YELLING CONTINUES] 96 00:09:56,529 --> 00:09:59,521 [YELLING, CHATTERING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] 97 00:10:06,505 --> 00:10:09,565 LAFE: Often afterwards in our days on The Rock, it was easy to forget... 98 00:10:09,742 --> 00:10:13,542 ... why I'd ever chosen six rattle-headed kids and an old man for the job we had. 99 00:10:13,713 --> 00:10:16,546 Kip Waterson, the baby-faced heir to a plantation. 100 00:10:16,716 --> 00:10:18,980 Come back, you ninny. 101 00:10:23,022 --> 00:10:25,616 Pierre Duchesne, from French Louisiana. 102 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:29,060 Pap Dennison, an old man really... 103 00:10:29,228 --> 00:10:33,460 ... but a hard, reckless fighter who never gave ground while he lived. 104 00:10:33,866 --> 00:10:35,993 Kay Rawlins, from the Mississippi steamboats... 105 00:10:36,168 --> 00:10:39,695 ... a rough, unfriendly man, as the Indians now found out. 106 00:10:40,339 --> 00:10:43,433 Jimmy Wheat, the little rednecked cropper... 107 00:10:43,609 --> 00:10:46,942 ... who could fight like a wildcat with hydrophobia... 108 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:50,208 ... but carried a useless little dog 2000 miles. 109 00:10:50,383 --> 00:10:54,877 Jonas Weatherby, the Texan, a seasoned plainsman at 18. 110 00:10:55,054 --> 00:10:58,490 Plank, our other real plainsman, hard and bitter... 111 00:10:58,658 --> 00:11:01,388 ... with chain-gang scars on his legs at 22. 112 00:11:02,161 --> 00:11:05,426 One moment they were all around us, and we were drowning in Indians. 113 00:11:11,337 --> 00:11:14,670 Then suddenly it was over with and we had the desert to ourselves. 114 00:11:15,441 --> 00:11:18,808 But I knew we had to get back to The Rock, and quickly. 115 00:11:23,282 --> 00:11:24,579 Ho! 116 00:11:29,755 --> 00:11:31,746 [WARRIOR YELLING] 117 00:11:33,959 --> 00:11:35,551 [GUNSHOT] 118 00:11:44,670 --> 00:11:46,535 Nicked you, huh? 119 00:11:48,974 --> 00:11:50,965 [BARKING] 120 00:11:52,078 --> 00:11:53,238 [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 121 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,145 PLANK: What kept you fellers? 122 00:11:56,982 --> 00:11:59,473 Pierre, pick up those loose horses. 123 00:11:59,652 --> 00:12:02,587 Rawlins, see to the driver. 124 00:12:06,325 --> 00:12:07,622 Ho. 125 00:12:11,664 --> 00:12:13,598 Where you hit, mister? 126 00:12:14,333 --> 00:12:15,459 Get the woman out. 127 00:12:15,634 --> 00:12:17,033 Woman? 128 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:23,340 JONAS: Hey, he's right. 129 00:12:31,417 --> 00:12:34,511 Packed with dang female women. You might have known it. 130 00:12:34,854 --> 00:12:36,845 [SOBBING] 131 00:12:43,162 --> 00:12:46,154 I don't know what's wrong with her. This ain't her blood. 132 00:12:46,332 --> 00:12:48,994 Is anything busted anyplace, ma'am? 133 00:12:49,168 --> 00:12:50,692 They're dead. 134 00:12:50,870 --> 00:12:53,168 They're dead in there. 135 00:12:55,007 --> 00:12:59,706 LAFE: We never realized as we stared so curiously at our unexpected guest... 136 00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:03,246 ... how much history might have been differently lived... 137 00:13:03,415 --> 00:13:05,679 ... if she'd not been there. 138 00:13:21,834 --> 00:13:23,199 Are you all right, ma'am? 139 00:13:23,369 --> 00:13:25,667 Yes, thank you. 140 00:13:25,838 --> 00:13:27,772 I'm sorry I went to pieces so. 141 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:29,532 Oh, it was only natural, ma'am. 142 00:13:29,708 --> 00:13:30,732 How are the others? 143 00:13:30,910 --> 00:13:33,310 The driver's all right, but the other two are dead. 144 00:13:33,712 --> 00:13:35,873 Were they kin of yours? 145 00:13:36,048 --> 00:13:37,242 No, they were strangers. 146 00:13:37,416 --> 00:13:40,044 Somebody let you travel through this country alone? 147 00:13:40,219 --> 00:13:44,178 I was coming out to get married. My fiancé is stationed out here. 148 00:13:44,356 --> 00:13:46,881 - Stationed? - He's a lieutenant in the Army. 149 00:13:47,059 --> 00:13:48,287 Union? 150 00:13:48,460 --> 00:13:50,257 Of course. 151 00:13:51,397 --> 00:13:53,695 Uh... Was he expecting you? 152 00:13:53,866 --> 00:13:56,596 Yes. I wrote him at Fort Churchill. 153 00:13:56,769 --> 00:13:58,930 He'll be worried when the stage doesn't arrive. 154 00:13:59,104 --> 00:14:01,299 Is there some way you can let him know I'm safe? 155 00:14:01,473 --> 00:14:05,739 We won't have to. He'll probably come right out here looking for you. 156 00:14:07,112 --> 00:14:09,205 JOHANNA: I haven't thanked you yet for saving my life. 157 00:14:09,849 --> 00:14:13,114 I'm Johanna Carter. And I'm very grateful. 158 00:14:13,285 --> 00:14:14,718 Thank you, ma'am. 159 00:14:14,887 --> 00:14:18,186 I'm Lafe Barstow. We'll try to make you as comfortable as possible. 160 00:14:24,096 --> 00:14:27,691 If you'd minded me, captain, you wouldn't have no Yankee girl to worry about. 161 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:29,494 Would you leave her to the Indians? 162 00:14:29,668 --> 00:14:33,001 Depends on whether I wanted to be a hero or get a job done. 163 00:14:39,378 --> 00:14:41,346 - How's the arm? - Just a scratch. 164 00:14:41,513 --> 00:14:44,038 They must have been Yankee Indians, the way they shoot. 165 00:14:44,216 --> 00:14:45,774 Lafe. 166 00:14:47,019 --> 00:14:49,579 This man has a very interesting suggestion. 167 00:14:49,755 --> 00:14:51,586 I was telling these fellers here... 168 00:14:51,757 --> 00:14:54,851 ...that if somebody would helped me fix that busted wheel... 169 00:14:55,027 --> 00:14:57,962 ...that me and my passenger could be on our way tonight. 170 00:14:58,130 --> 00:15:01,827 That is, unless you fellers are going on into Fort Churchill too. 171 00:15:02,334 --> 00:15:06,464 It'll be sundown in about an hour. You don't want to be traveling at night. 172 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:10,166 The way these Indians are, nighttime's the only time I dares to travel. 173 00:15:10,342 --> 00:15:13,675 Best thing for us would be to bust out of here as soon as it got dark. 174 00:15:13,846 --> 00:15:16,576 Might be a couple of big fat drawbacks to that. 175 00:15:16,749 --> 00:15:18,649 CRAIGIE: I kind of thought so. 176 00:15:19,351 --> 00:15:22,514 When you fellers came over that ridge down there... 177 00:15:22,688 --> 00:15:26,249 ...seems to me like I sort of heard that yell before. 178 00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:27,756 Johnny Rebs, ain't you? 179 00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:30,623 How you know we ain't Yankees? 180 00:15:30,796 --> 00:15:33,094 Oh, shut up. 181 00:15:33,666 --> 00:15:36,100 I don't know what you're doing in Yankee territory... 182 00:15:36,268 --> 00:15:39,795 ...but naturally I know you be in a fix if you get caught. 183 00:15:40,406 --> 00:15:41,964 Speaks plain, don't he? 184 00:15:42,141 --> 00:15:45,133 CRAIGIE: Personally, I ain't got no stake in this war. 185 00:15:45,311 --> 00:15:49,577 I'd be glad to disremember I ever seen you boys. 186 00:15:49,748 --> 00:15:53,514 Guess I must have beat off them Indians single-handed. 187 00:15:53,686 --> 00:15:54,710 Nice work. 188 00:15:54,887 --> 00:15:57,014 What about that Yankee girl you got with you? 189 00:15:57,189 --> 00:15:59,316 CRAIGIE: I think she'd be glad to forget that she was... 190 00:15:59,491 --> 00:16:02,654 That doesn't make any difference. I can't let you go. 191 00:16:02,828 --> 00:16:05,524 Wouldn't be considered prying into your personal affairs... 192 00:16:05,698 --> 00:16:08,724 ...if I was to ask you how long you figure on holding us here? 193 00:16:08,901 --> 00:16:11,631 Oh, not long. 194 00:16:12,037 --> 00:16:13,504 I hope. 195 00:16:14,206 --> 00:16:15,730 JIMMY: Captain Barstow. 196 00:16:22,815 --> 00:16:24,646 [FOOTSTEPS] 197 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,314 There's seven riders up here in the northwest... 198 00:16:30,489 --> 00:16:32,320 ...about 15 miles. 199 00:16:32,491 --> 00:16:34,584 Can't see them, they dropped behind a ridge. 200 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,694 But they was headed this way. 201 00:16:36,862 --> 00:16:40,025 Fifteen miles, eh? Well, they won't be here tonight. 202 00:16:40,199 --> 00:16:42,463 If they wanna, they can. 203 00:16:42,801 --> 00:16:45,031 You think it's Cole Smith? 204 00:16:46,638 --> 00:16:47,900 It had better be. 205 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:53,501 [YELLING IN DISTANCE] 206 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:55,670 [DRUM BANGING IN DISTANCE] 207 00:17:09,228 --> 00:17:11,594 So that's how they act when they're peaceable, huh? 208 00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:15,967 PLANK: They wouldn't be a-stomping and a-yelling if they aimed to fool with us. 209 00:17:16,769 --> 00:17:18,828 They'd be a-crawling up this rock. 210 00:17:19,004 --> 00:17:21,302 They ought to be long gone by morning. 211 00:17:21,473 --> 00:17:24,135 Guess this will keep Cole Smith scared away till daylight. 212 00:17:24,309 --> 00:17:25,867 If it is Cole Smith out there. 213 00:17:26,045 --> 00:17:28,536 PLANK: If it ain't, our time's awful short. 214 00:17:28,714 --> 00:17:32,650 Them Yanks will come looking for their woman and we'll be up a stump. 215 00:17:42,494 --> 00:17:44,758 I'm sorry to be such bad luck to you. 216 00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:47,558 But I'm awfully glad I'm not down there tonight. 217 00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:50,793 Explain why your parents didn't have the sense to keep you home... 218 00:17:50,969 --> 00:17:52,266 ...fiancé or no fiancé. 219 00:17:52,438 --> 00:17:54,998 We've been separated for two years. 220 00:17:55,174 --> 00:17:57,074 And I didn't want to wait another two. 221 00:18:16,295 --> 00:18:18,229 What's the matter? 222 00:18:18,564 --> 00:18:23,092 I was just thinking how pleasant it was to hear a woman's voice again. 223 00:18:23,268 --> 00:18:26,362 Even a Yankee voice, Captain Barstow? 224 00:18:26,538 --> 00:18:30,030 - We're not fighting the women. - Do you really believe that? 225 00:18:30,209 --> 00:18:33,508 Do you think you can keep them out of it just by words? 226 00:18:36,215 --> 00:18:38,945 I understand how you feel. 227 00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:40,983 With your fiancé in the Army. 228 00:18:41,153 --> 00:18:43,644 I had a brother in it too. 229 00:18:44,223 --> 00:18:45,884 He was killed at the Antietam. 230 00:18:50,696 --> 00:18:52,493 I was there. 231 00:18:53,732 --> 00:18:56,929 We call that the Battle of Sharpsburg. 232 00:18:57,102 --> 00:18:59,570 You were at the Sunken Road? 233 00:19:00,405 --> 00:19:02,771 We called it the Bloody Lane. 234 00:19:03,375 --> 00:19:05,468 It could've been you who killed him. 235 00:19:07,012 --> 00:19:08,741 It could have. 236 00:19:10,682 --> 00:19:13,173 Was that only three years ago? 237 00:19:13,752 --> 00:19:15,151 Seems a lot longer. 238 00:19:16,355 --> 00:19:17,686 Not to me. 239 00:19:19,324 --> 00:19:21,053 Of course not. I'm very sorry, ma'am. 240 00:19:21,226 --> 00:19:23,353 Captain, I didn't mean that. 241 00:19:23,529 --> 00:19:24,826 Please stay a moment. 242 00:19:25,497 --> 00:19:30,093 It just seems so... So incredible that we can be here... 243 00:19:30,269 --> 00:19:32,999 ...2000 miles from the war... 244 00:19:33,472 --> 00:19:35,406 ...and I find that you and my brother... 245 00:19:35,574 --> 00:19:37,667 There were a lot of other brothers there too. 246 00:19:37,843 --> 00:19:41,438 Husbands. And sons. 247 00:19:41,613 --> 00:19:44,377 You sound as if you hate the war as much as I do. 248 00:19:44,750 --> 00:19:47,651 You don't have to like a war to fight in it. 249 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:52,250 You just have to believe in what you're fighting for, or against. 250 00:19:52,424 --> 00:19:54,790 Do you really believe in it that much? 251 00:19:56,295 --> 00:19:59,287 Back home, I had a plantation. 252 00:20:00,132 --> 00:20:04,933 From the second floor, you could see... You could see the river. 253 00:20:05,637 --> 00:20:09,129 White cotton fields going right down to the bank. 254 00:20:09,474 --> 00:20:11,271 It was beautiful. 255 00:20:11,944 --> 00:20:15,607 I didn't think there was anything on Earth could ever make me leave that. 256 00:20:16,248 --> 00:20:17,272 Here I am. 257 00:20:18,850 --> 00:20:20,545 Here we both are. 258 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,114 That's one of the few compensations, ma'am. 259 00:20:25,624 --> 00:20:28,092 - Good night, ma'am. - Good night. 260 00:20:29,628 --> 00:20:31,619 [HARMONICA PLAYING UPBEAT TUNE] 261 00:20:33,165 --> 00:20:37,124 One more washing and I can use this shirt for a handkerchief. 262 00:20:39,671 --> 00:20:42,902 You better get some sleep. You relieve the lookout at midnight. 263 00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:46,374 Plank, horses all watered? 264 00:20:47,879 --> 00:20:49,210 How's the head, Jim? 265 00:20:49,381 --> 00:20:50,541 It's all right, sir. 266 00:20:50,716 --> 00:20:52,911 I've been trying to teach Spotty how to sit up. 267 00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:55,519 You've been trying that every night for three months. 268 00:20:55,687 --> 00:20:58,417 He does seem a little slow to catch on. 269 00:21:06,565 --> 00:21:08,692 Just where do you think you're gonna mail that? 270 00:21:08,867 --> 00:21:11,335 This isn't a letter, it's a diary. 271 00:21:11,503 --> 00:21:13,596 For my son to read. 272 00:21:13,905 --> 00:21:15,566 I didn't know you had one. 273 00:21:15,741 --> 00:21:16,765 I haven't. 274 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,536 But someday after the war and I'm back in Virginia... 275 00:21:19,711 --> 00:21:21,611 ...I'll get married and have a son. 276 00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:23,407 And one day when he's growing up... 277 00:21:23,582 --> 00:21:26,312 ...he'll ask me what I did in the war between the states... 278 00:21:26,485 --> 00:21:28,214 ...and I'll let him read this. 279 00:21:28,387 --> 00:21:30,378 Hope it has a happy ending. 280 00:21:32,357 --> 00:21:34,587 If it doesn't, it won't matter. 281 00:21:35,227 --> 00:21:36,956 Be no son to read it anyway. 282 00:21:37,362 --> 00:21:39,353 [LOUD SNORING] 283 00:21:48,073 --> 00:21:50,166 Sure must be a restful feeling to be neutral. 284 00:21:50,342 --> 00:21:53,675 Heh. Next war let's try it, huh? 285 00:22:01,386 --> 00:22:02,978 Rawlins. 286 00:22:07,392 --> 00:22:11,351 - Where do you think you're going? - Just stretching my legs. 287 00:22:11,530 --> 00:22:13,498 Try stretching them the other way. 288 00:22:13,665 --> 00:22:15,997 Thought I'd see how the little Yankee's making out. 289 00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:17,692 I told you to stay away from her. 290 00:22:17,869 --> 00:22:20,429 Now, look, captain, I'll take orders about fighting... 291 00:22:20,605 --> 00:22:23,073 You'll take any orders I give you. 292 00:22:23,942 --> 00:22:25,500 Won't you? 293 00:22:25,677 --> 00:22:27,338 Yes, sir. 294 00:22:30,248 --> 00:22:31,738 PAP: Lafe. 295 00:22:39,858 --> 00:22:41,416 The Indians pulled away. 296 00:22:41,593 --> 00:22:44,756 But them riders we was watching, they camped about four miles out. 297 00:22:44,930 --> 00:22:47,626 I seen their campfire before they drenched it. 298 00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:52,429 - Hmm. They won't be here till morning. - That ain't what I called you for. 299 00:22:53,572 --> 00:22:54,596 LAFE: Beal? 300 00:22:54,773 --> 00:22:56,638 PAP: He keeps moseying around our horse line. 301 00:22:56,808 --> 00:22:59,436 What do you want me to do in case he tries to vamoose? 302 00:22:59,611 --> 00:23:01,670 - You know two things to do? - Sure. 303 00:23:01,847 --> 00:23:04,407 I can finish him or I can just bring him down. 304 00:23:04,583 --> 00:23:06,881 Don't just bring him down. 305 00:23:08,887 --> 00:23:10,878 [HORSE WHINNYING] 306 00:23:13,992 --> 00:23:18,122 It's the same seven riders, all right. But it sure ain't Cole Smith. 307 00:23:18,296 --> 00:23:20,059 Know for a chance it could be? 308 00:23:20,232 --> 00:23:21,995 Not unless he's joined the Union Army. 309 00:23:22,167 --> 00:23:23,794 Four Yankee horsemen. 310 00:23:23,969 --> 00:23:25,960 Three troopers and an officer. 311 00:23:26,138 --> 00:23:29,437 - Other three is rag-head Indians. - They're probably scouting for them. 312 00:23:29,608 --> 00:23:31,838 Sure didn't take them long to miss that stage. 313 00:23:32,010 --> 00:23:35,241 BEAL: I told you. The best Yankee bait in the world's a Yankee girl. 314 00:23:35,414 --> 00:23:37,974 Maybe they'll just take a look at the coach and ride on. 315 00:23:38,150 --> 00:23:39,947 Indian ponies made tracks all over. 316 00:23:40,118 --> 00:23:42,382 PLANK: They won't fool them rag-head scouts none. 317 00:23:42,554 --> 00:23:44,419 You better see to it they don't ride on. 318 00:23:44,589 --> 00:23:46,819 PAP: One or two of them is bound to get away from us. 319 00:23:46,992 --> 00:23:49,085 You're a long way from home, soldier. 320 00:23:49,261 --> 00:23:50,922 You can't afford to make mistakes. 321 00:23:51,396 --> 00:23:54,024 - Lf you ask me... - I didn't. 322 00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:56,928 - Jimmy. - Yes, sir? 323 00:23:57,102 --> 00:24:00,333 Get down to the water hole. Start a fire like you're making breakfast. 324 00:24:00,505 --> 00:24:02,473 Put on coffee and be sure that fire smokes. 325 00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:03,869 - Yes, sir. - Come on. 326 00:24:06,611 --> 00:24:09,079 Lafe, you'll draw that patrol right on in. 327 00:24:09,247 --> 00:24:10,612 We hope. 328 00:24:10,782 --> 00:24:14,377 Kay, let me know if they do anything different. 329 00:24:16,688 --> 00:24:19,156 - Keep your eye on Beal. - Yes, sir. 330 00:24:30,202 --> 00:24:31,567 [CHUCKLES] 331 00:24:34,706 --> 00:24:38,198 Be careful with that gun, sonny. It might go off. 332 00:24:38,376 --> 00:24:40,401 That's right. It might. 333 00:24:42,214 --> 00:24:44,910 I wonder what they're up to now. 334 00:24:45,083 --> 00:24:46,744 Look. 335 00:24:49,087 --> 00:24:52,113 Whoever it is, they're heading this way. 336 00:25:00,999 --> 00:25:03,263 What is it? Can you make them out? 337 00:25:03,435 --> 00:25:07,235 Sure I can, Yankee uniforms and all. 338 00:25:07,405 --> 00:25:10,397 I saw Captain Barstow and the others going down the hill. 339 00:25:10,575 --> 00:25:11,974 What are they going to do? 340 00:25:12,143 --> 00:25:15,408 Now, what would you think they gonna do, invite them for supper? 341 00:25:15,580 --> 00:25:17,878 May I see a moment? Please. 342 00:25:18,049 --> 00:25:19,482 It's very important. 343 00:25:19,651 --> 00:25:23,246 Sure. Take a good look. 344 00:25:23,421 --> 00:25:24,820 RAWLINS: Pretty, ain't they? 345 00:25:24,990 --> 00:25:27,390 All dressed up in those nice blue suits. 346 00:25:28,026 --> 00:25:30,153 They'll never know what hit them. 347 00:25:30,328 --> 00:25:33,991 They're not after you. It's me they're looking for. 348 00:25:34,165 --> 00:25:37,623 Now that's too bad, because they ain't gonna find you. 349 00:25:37,802 --> 00:25:38,791 Let me go. 350 00:25:38,970 --> 00:25:40,961 [GRUNTS] 351 00:25:55,487 --> 00:25:57,114 PIERRE: Lafe. 352 00:25:59,324 --> 00:26:01,417 They're almost there. 353 00:26:09,935 --> 00:26:11,425 Pull back a little, Pap. 354 00:26:12,704 --> 00:26:15,764 JONAS: Let's get this over with as quick as we can. 355 00:26:18,510 --> 00:26:20,842 We ain't gonna fool them Indian scouts very long. 356 00:26:26,618 --> 00:26:27,983 [GRO ANS] 357 00:26:28,186 --> 00:26:29,653 Ow. 358 00:26:34,059 --> 00:26:35,720 Hey, now. 359 00:26:38,863 --> 00:26:41,491 Don't be nervous, Jim. You're well covered. 360 00:26:41,666 --> 00:26:44,658 I never was much good at this play-acting. 361 00:26:45,770 --> 00:26:47,635 You know, Jim... 362 00:26:47,806 --> 00:26:50,206 ...there's something I've often wondered about you. 363 00:26:50,375 --> 00:26:52,639 - What's that? - Well, on your service record... 364 00:26:52,811 --> 00:26:55,939 ...your first initial is down as B. B. Wheat. 365 00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:58,279 Now, how do you make James out of that? 366 00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:03,217 Well, I'll tell you if you wanna know, but you won't believe me. 367 00:27:03,388 --> 00:27:04,946 My right first name is Buck. 368 00:27:05,123 --> 00:27:09,719 Buck. Buck Wheat, huh? Heh. So they named you after a pancake. 369 00:27:09,894 --> 00:27:13,159 Well, no. My uncle had this team of mules. 370 00:27:13,331 --> 00:27:17,529 When I was born, he told my old man he'd give him any one that he named me after. 371 00:27:17,702 --> 00:27:19,192 So he picked the one named Buck. 372 00:27:19,504 --> 00:27:20,835 Oh. 373 00:27:21,006 --> 00:27:23,873 - Guess he should've picked the other one. - Well, no. 374 00:27:24,042 --> 00:27:25,669 The other one was named Sally. 375 00:27:25,844 --> 00:27:27,209 PIERRE: Lafe. 376 00:27:27,712 --> 00:27:29,179 They're out at the stagecoach. 377 00:27:38,890 --> 00:27:42,018 Maybe she wasn't on it, lieutenant. She might have missed the stage. 378 00:27:44,229 --> 00:27:47,221 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] 379 00:27:49,734 --> 00:27:51,429 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] 380 00:27:52,937 --> 00:27:55,565 Scouts, out. 381 00:28:00,045 --> 00:28:02,570 Forward. 382 00:28:12,624 --> 00:28:15,024 [WHISPERS] Lafe, here they come. 383 00:28:19,130 --> 00:28:22,361 They'll see the smoke in a minute. Just go on cooking. 384 00:28:24,669 --> 00:28:25,727 JOHANNA: Captain! 385 00:28:25,904 --> 00:28:28,065 Captain Barstow! 386 00:28:29,607 --> 00:28:31,734 They said you were going to... 387 00:28:32,110 --> 00:28:35,273 Why are your men hiding? Why are you two here like this? 388 00:28:35,447 --> 00:28:36,778 You better go back up there. 389 00:28:36,948 --> 00:28:40,440 If this ambush don't work, ma'am, there's gonna be an awful lot of shooting. 390 00:28:40,618 --> 00:28:42,882 Captain, they're not after you. 391 00:28:43,054 --> 00:28:46,217 That's Lieutenant Rickey, my fiancé. 392 00:28:46,991 --> 00:28:51,121 - Let me go! Let me go... - lf you make a noise, they'll all be killed. 393 00:28:51,296 --> 00:28:55,756 There's a gun covering every one of them. One sound out of you, and we'll shoot. 394 00:28:57,368 --> 00:28:59,131 You wouldn't kill them in cold blood. 395 00:28:59,304 --> 00:29:00,862 That's up to you. 396 00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:04,440 They'll be here in a minute. I'm gonna try to take them alive. 397 00:29:04,609 --> 00:29:08,238 But if that doesn't work, I promise you not one of them will have a chance. 398 00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:09,607 What do you want me to do? 399 00:29:10,548 --> 00:29:12,345 Sit down there quietly, by Jimmy. 400 00:29:13,318 --> 00:29:15,343 You expect me to help you set an ambush? 401 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,546 The best thing you can hope for is that it works. 402 00:29:23,862 --> 00:29:27,320 Jimmy, a cup of coffee for Miss Carter. 403 00:29:31,035 --> 00:29:33,060 Coffee, Miss Carter? 404 00:29:51,656 --> 00:29:53,021 Here they are, Lafe. 405 00:29:53,191 --> 00:29:56,627 Remember, we'll have them covered every second. 406 00:30:36,267 --> 00:30:38,132 [GUN COCKS] 407 00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:44,005 [GUN COCKS] 408 00:30:58,923 --> 00:31:00,083 [HORSES APPRO ACHING] 409 00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:03,550 Rick! 410 00:31:03,728 --> 00:31:04,752 Johanna! 411 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,059 Johanna, darling. 412 00:31:12,971 --> 00:31:15,633 You got here pretty quick, lieutenant. 413 00:31:16,641 --> 00:31:20,543 - Were you on the stagecoach too? - We came along just after it was over. 414 00:31:22,046 --> 00:31:23,707 I don't understand. 415 00:31:24,115 --> 00:31:26,640 - How did you...? - She was unconscious when we found her. 416 00:31:26,818 --> 00:31:29,548 Indians must have left her for dead along with the others. 417 00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:32,884 They came back after dark and burned up the stagecoach. 418 00:31:37,495 --> 00:31:41,397 There's been a whole lot more men here with their horses than just you two. 419 00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:43,557 I guess the Indians use this water hole too. 420 00:31:43,735 --> 00:31:45,862 They saved my life, Rick. 421 00:31:46,037 --> 00:31:48,062 You might thank them. 422 00:31:48,239 --> 00:31:49,604 [CHUCKLES] 423 00:31:51,676 --> 00:31:53,439 RICKEY: I'm sorry. 424 00:31:54,045 --> 00:31:55,945 I'm very grateful. 425 00:31:56,514 --> 00:31:59,108 We got word just before we left to keep our eyes open... 426 00:31:59,284 --> 00:32:02,117 ...for a rebel patrol that's been reported heading this way. 427 00:32:02,287 --> 00:32:04,653 - For a moment there, I thought... - That's all right. 428 00:32:04,822 --> 00:32:06,346 - How about a cup of coffee? - Fine. 429 00:32:10,828 --> 00:32:13,956 Rustle up another cup, Jimmy. We've got company. 430 00:32:26,177 --> 00:32:28,042 Steady, Jimmy. 431 00:32:30,515 --> 00:32:33,382 Remember, Rick, I owe my life to them. 432 00:32:33,551 --> 00:32:36,452 Darling, I couldn't forget that. 433 00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:40,219 - There you are. Hope it's not too strong. - Thank you. 434 00:32:51,769 --> 00:32:53,760 [SPEAKS QUIETLY IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] 435 00:32:55,206 --> 00:32:57,231 [SPEAKS LOUDER] 436 00:32:57,408 --> 00:32:59,535 [CONVERSING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] 437 00:32:59,711 --> 00:33:00,905 [WHISTLES] 438 00:33:08,052 --> 00:33:10,816 Plank, Jonas, come down and get their side arms. 439 00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:22,023 Hang their gun belts on their saddles. 440 00:33:23,501 --> 00:33:26,334 I'm sorry, Rick. I had to do that. 441 00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:28,631 Or they would have killed you. 442 00:33:34,145 --> 00:33:37,581 - Come on, let's have it. - You and your men are prisoners of war. 443 00:33:37,749 --> 00:33:40,946 As commanding officer, you'll be held responsible for their behavior. 444 00:33:41,119 --> 00:33:45,078 - All right, take them to the top of The Rock. PLANK: Let's move, blue-belly. 445 00:34:09,914 --> 00:34:12,576 We know all about him. His name's Lafe Barstow. 446 00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:15,446 And he's a captain from the Mississippi Mountain Rifles. 447 00:34:15,620 --> 00:34:17,781 Whatever a mountain's doing in Mississippi. 448 00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:19,923 We got a mountain. 449 00:34:20,591 --> 00:34:23,924 Well, kind of, anyway. 450 00:34:24,695 --> 00:34:26,322 Yes, but what's he doing out here? 451 00:34:26,497 --> 00:34:29,762 His mission is to contact the Confederate underground in California. 452 00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:32,801 He has authority to commission officers for an armed uprising. 453 00:34:32,970 --> 00:34:34,733 And make it an act of the Confederacy. 454 00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:37,773 How can he get anywhere with that, with just these few? 455 00:34:37,942 --> 00:34:42,572 Of course he can. California's crawling with bandits, outlaws and rebel sympathizers. 456 00:34:42,747 --> 00:34:46,478 All Barstow has to do is gather up a few thousand of them and call them soldiers. 457 00:34:46,651 --> 00:34:48,881 They can burn and sack everything in the state. 458 00:34:49,053 --> 00:34:52,420 Then, if captured, call themselves prisoners of war. They'll jump at it. 459 00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:55,855 What good would that do? The war's 2000 miles away. 460 00:34:56,027 --> 00:34:57,892 How do we know how much damage he can do? 461 00:34:58,062 --> 00:35:00,587 What if an army has to be brought out here to stop him? 462 00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:04,201 - That could change the course of the war. CRAIGIE: You're just overwrought, son... 463 00:35:04,368 --> 00:35:08,065 ...because you been took. - Yeah. And you know how it was done. 464 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:09,706 By using Miss Carter as a blind. 465 00:35:09,874 --> 00:35:11,466 All I know is... 466 00:35:11,642 --> 00:35:15,544 ...I wouldn't be up here now, all in one piece, if it wasn't for him. 467 00:35:15,713 --> 00:35:17,112 Same goes for her too. 468 00:35:17,281 --> 00:35:19,010 He knew what he was doing. 469 00:35:19,183 --> 00:35:22,243 - It gave him a hostage in case of trouble. - That isn't true, Rick. 470 00:35:22,420 --> 00:35:24,684 Then why didn't he leave you up here? 471 00:35:24,856 --> 00:35:26,187 He tried to. 472 00:35:26,357 --> 00:35:29,554 I forced my way into it. I didn't know what to do. 473 00:35:32,497 --> 00:35:36,228 I'm sorry, darling. I didn't mean that. 474 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,733 I'm just sore at myself for being stupid. 475 00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:43,440 I wouldn't say you was exactly stupid. 476 00:35:43,608 --> 00:35:45,872 The captain's just a little bit smarter. 477 00:35:50,281 --> 00:35:51,873 Lieutenant. 478 00:35:52,183 --> 00:35:54,174 As you know, we can't stay here much longer. 479 00:35:54,352 --> 00:35:58,049 There will be a search for your patrol. From what you say, a search for me too. 480 00:35:58,222 --> 00:36:00,713 You're right. But you can't ambush the whole regiment. 481 00:36:00,892 --> 00:36:02,689 I've made a fair start. 482 00:36:02,860 --> 00:36:05,488 While you're my prisoner, it will make it a lot easier... 483 00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:08,063 ...if you'll give me your word not to try to escape. 484 00:36:08,232 --> 00:36:09,756 You can have freedom of the camp. 485 00:36:09,934 --> 00:36:13,529 I ain't going nowhere. Not at the cost of getting shot at, I ain't. 486 00:36:13,704 --> 00:36:16,901 - Well? - I give you my word that I'll escape if I can. 487 00:36:17,074 --> 00:36:19,975 And do my best to see you caught and shot. 488 00:36:20,244 --> 00:36:21,905 - Suit yourself. - I will. 489 00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:24,172 Miss Carter, I must ask you the same question. 490 00:36:24,348 --> 00:36:27,340 - See here now... - Miss Carter can speak for herself. 491 00:36:27,518 --> 00:36:29,315 Miss Carter is my fiancée. 492 00:36:29,487 --> 00:36:32,615 I know. That's the only reason you're alive. 493 00:36:32,790 --> 00:36:34,724 Don't force your luck. 494 00:36:35,326 --> 00:36:38,420 I regret this, but you must see the necessity for it. 495 00:36:40,531 --> 00:36:42,829 I promise you I'll make no effort to escape. 496 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,558 Thank you. 497 00:36:44,969 --> 00:36:47,961 Guess I'll be pulling out for a while, soldier. 498 00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:52,972 Hi there, lieutenant. 499 00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:56,944 I always said the only way you could find me would be to get yourselves captured. 500 00:36:57,114 --> 00:37:00,277 - You know this man? - Every garrison knows Cole Smith. 501 00:37:00,952 --> 00:37:02,977 And the band of outlaws that follow him. 502 00:37:03,487 --> 00:37:05,887 Why don't I just stroke you one across the snout? 503 00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:07,217 LAFE: Never mind that. 504 00:37:17,368 --> 00:37:18,960 LAFE: Jimmy. - Yes, sir? 505 00:37:19,136 --> 00:37:21,798 Miss Carter and Craigie will have the freedom of the camp. 506 00:37:21,973 --> 00:37:25,033 If the lieutenant or his men make any suspicious move, shoot them. 507 00:37:25,209 --> 00:37:26,836 Yes, sir. 508 00:37:37,888 --> 00:37:39,651 Just a minute. 509 00:37:44,495 --> 00:37:48,124 - I suppose you had a good reason for this. - I always do. 510 00:37:48,566 --> 00:37:52,024 Would it be asking too much, why the "California Beal"? 511 00:37:52,203 --> 00:37:54,763 I never go into deals blindfolded. 512 00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:58,966 Before I go joining any army, I wanna look the soldier boys over first. 513 00:37:59,143 --> 00:38:01,441 - And now you've had your look. - You're lucky. 514 00:38:01,612 --> 00:38:06,140 You got yourself in a mess of trouble, and I ought to let you stew in it. 515 00:38:06,317 --> 00:38:08,877 But I got enough stake in this to pull you out. 516 00:38:09,053 --> 00:38:11,283 I'll be back in two days with my men. 517 00:38:11,455 --> 00:38:13,389 Before it gets any more crowded up here. 518 00:38:13,891 --> 00:38:15,449 Any objections? 519 00:38:15,626 --> 00:38:17,787 How do we know you'll ever get back? 520 00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:19,554 I don't think you got much choice. 521 00:38:20,665 --> 00:38:22,565 Unless you fellows wanna go along with me. 522 00:38:22,967 --> 00:38:25,492 You couldn't travel with all them prisoners, though. 523 00:38:25,670 --> 00:38:28,730 You'd either have to let them go or kill them off. 524 00:38:28,906 --> 00:38:30,464 PAP: We got this far without you. 525 00:38:30,641 --> 00:38:32,541 We'll finish the job the same way. 526 00:38:32,710 --> 00:38:35,235 You try to raise an army out here by yourselves... 527 00:38:35,413 --> 00:38:38,871 ...and the war will be over before you can even get up a platoon. 528 00:38:39,050 --> 00:38:43,077 After all, it ain't like you boys was winning. 529 00:38:44,722 --> 00:38:46,917 Give him a hand with his gear. 530 00:38:47,491 --> 00:38:50,460 - Lookit here, Lafe... - Don't worry, scissorbill. 531 00:38:50,628 --> 00:38:54,155 Like I said, I get something out of this too. 532 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,300 I'll be back. 533 00:39:05,676 --> 00:39:09,510 It will be a sorry day when me and that feller's in the same army. 534 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,807 That's what we came here for, Pap. 535 00:39:11,982 --> 00:39:14,507 Well, you'll sure never get me to salute him. 536 00:39:14,685 --> 00:39:16,482 Salute? You? 537 00:39:16,654 --> 00:39:18,212 Who did you ever salute? 538 00:39:18,389 --> 00:39:20,584 Jeb Stuart, once. 539 00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:23,653 He must be quite an officer. 540 00:39:30,935 --> 00:39:33,403 Sure, we can get us through them mountains. 541 00:39:33,571 --> 00:39:35,903 We can get us through any mountains. 542 00:39:36,073 --> 00:39:39,531 The only hard part's to come out someplace. 543 00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:43,942 There's 50,000 square miles of nothing but mountain range out there. 544 00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:49,178 The only chance in the world of ever seeing Cole Smith again is to wait for him here. 545 00:39:49,353 --> 00:39:52,754 What happens when more blue-bellies come looking for the ones we got? 546 00:39:52,923 --> 00:39:55,619 If we can hold on here till Cole Smith gets back... 547 00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:57,192 ...we'll get our job done. 548 00:39:57,361 --> 00:39:59,625 If we can't, we're through. 549 00:40:00,498 --> 00:40:02,466 It's as simple as that. 550 00:40:02,733 --> 00:40:03,791 Where you going, Jimmy? 551 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:06,564 Thought the lady might like her supper now. 552 00:40:06,737 --> 00:40:08,728 Heh. What do you know about girls? 553 00:40:09,707 --> 00:40:13,404 Nothing. Excepting they must get hungry too. 554 00:40:15,012 --> 00:40:17,139 Any more questions? 555 00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:26,189 - Captain, can I see you for a minute? - Sure. 556 00:40:26,357 --> 00:40:28,655 I've been talking to these Shoshone scouts. 557 00:40:28,826 --> 00:40:30,293 - You speak their language? - Some. 558 00:40:30,461 --> 00:40:33,589 I had a Shoshone squaw one time for a while. 559 00:40:33,764 --> 00:40:35,095 - How was she? - She didn't say. 560 00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:38,463 But the thing is, these ain't just common, ordinary Indians. 561 00:40:39,236 --> 00:40:41,602 That old one's named Man Dog. 562 00:40:41,772 --> 00:40:45,765 He just happens to be the biggest chief of the Shoshones, west of the Escalante. 563 00:40:46,377 --> 00:40:48,436 What's a chief doing working for the Yanks? 564 00:40:48,612 --> 00:40:51,012 Spying on them, probably. 565 00:40:51,182 --> 00:40:53,343 Them other two is his sons. 566 00:40:53,517 --> 00:40:55,451 I got an idea they figure on pulling out. 567 00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:59,749 If they did, they'd turn you in for a bale of blankets. 568 00:40:59,924 --> 00:41:01,789 Well, why are you telling me this? 569 00:41:01,959 --> 00:41:03,950 Well, like I told you... 570 00:41:04,128 --> 00:41:06,995 ...I ain't got no stake in this war one way or the other. 571 00:41:07,164 --> 00:41:11,931 Whatever happens to you fellows up here is liable to happen to me too. 572 00:41:12,236 --> 00:41:13,635 I only got one suggestion. 573 00:41:14,238 --> 00:41:17,002 If you have to kill one of them, kill them all. 574 00:41:17,174 --> 00:41:21,543 Or we ain't gonna get much further. No, sir. Not without open dispute. 575 00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:24,304 Thanks. 576 00:41:32,857 --> 00:41:34,586 It surely makes me feel bad, ma'am... 577 00:41:34,758 --> 00:41:37,727 ...to bring you just sowbelly and black-eyed peas. 578 00:41:37,895 --> 00:41:41,456 - Lf only we just had some greens. - It doesn't make any difference. 579 00:41:41,632 --> 00:41:45,591 This here's the second time I got humiliated by sowbelly and black-eyed peas. 580 00:41:46,370 --> 00:41:48,167 Just ain't lucky for me I guess. 581 00:41:48,339 --> 00:41:52,036 - When was the other time? - Well, it was when l... 582 00:41:52,676 --> 00:41:55,270 - Oh, you wouldn't believe me. - Yes, I will. 583 00:41:55,446 --> 00:41:58,108 Well, it was the time I put my dinner on a skillet lid... 584 00:41:58,282 --> 00:42:00,546 ...and taken it to General Lee with my own hands. 585 00:42:00,985 --> 00:42:04,944 - Where was this? - Just before the battle of Gettysburg. 586 00:42:05,122 --> 00:42:08,148 This bunch of officers comes along and stops... 587 00:42:08,325 --> 00:42:10,384 ...and looks out across the valley. 588 00:42:10,561 --> 00:42:12,153 And as the horses parted... 589 00:42:12,329 --> 00:42:17,562 ...there was General Robert E. Lee, setting his gray horse, name of Traveller. 590 00:42:18,469 --> 00:42:22,235 I don't remember how come that skillet lid in my hand... 591 00:42:22,406 --> 00:42:26,069 ...but there was me at Lee's stirrup, offering it up. 592 00:42:26,410 --> 00:42:29,504 I says, "You gotta keep your strength up, sir," I says. 593 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,172 Heh. Me saying that to General Lee. 594 00:42:33,617 --> 00:42:37,075 And he taken that skillet lid and he sat there looking at it. 595 00:42:37,254 --> 00:42:39,779 Like he didn't know what it was. 596 00:42:40,057 --> 00:42:43,823 I says, "I'm surely sorry we ain't got no greens." 597 00:42:43,994 --> 00:42:47,657 And Lee, he looked me square in the eye and he says: 598 00:42:47,831 --> 00:42:50,391 "It's elegant," he says. 599 00:42:50,935 --> 00:42:54,530 Then he looks out across the valley again. 600 00:42:54,805 --> 00:42:58,832 He looked so tired and so sad. 601 00:42:59,143 --> 00:43:03,273 His hair was just as white as cotton busting out of the boll. 602 00:43:04,548 --> 00:43:06,982 I begun to bawl. 603 00:43:07,785 --> 00:43:11,812 Then he moves on, old Traveller walking slow. 604 00:43:11,989 --> 00:43:16,892 And Lee looking out across the valley, carrying a skillet lid in his hand. 605 00:43:17,328 --> 00:43:19,319 And I'd never seen him again. 606 00:43:19,496 --> 00:43:21,657 Nor the skillet lid. 607 00:43:21,899 --> 00:43:24,390 There's just one thing that keeps coming back to me... 608 00:43:24,568 --> 00:43:26,627 ...and it frets me often. 609 00:43:26,804 --> 00:43:30,501 You know, I never give him no knife to eat them black-eyed peas. 610 00:43:33,544 --> 00:43:36,877 Well, anyway, I hope you like your dinner, ma'am. 611 00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:43,317 JIMMY: Come on, Spot. 612 00:43:45,155 --> 00:43:48,522 He likes you. He don't generally take with Yankees. 613 00:43:53,864 --> 00:43:57,698 - Jimmy taking care of you all right? - He certainly is. 614 00:43:58,068 --> 00:43:59,831 He's a nice boy. 615 00:44:00,004 --> 00:44:02,632 - How old is he? - You mean in years? 616 00:44:02,806 --> 00:44:04,068 Oh, all of 16. 617 00:44:04,241 --> 00:44:06,732 He's a veteran. Joined up when he was 14. 618 00:44:07,578 --> 00:44:10,638 He makes me feel very young, and very old at the same time. 619 00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:14,011 He just makes me feel old. They grow up fast in a war. 620 00:44:14,184 --> 00:44:16,880 Overnight, the kids are young men. 621 00:44:17,521 --> 00:44:20,354 - And the young men? - Heh. You got a point there. 622 00:44:22,192 --> 00:44:26,185 Captain Barstow, what are you going to do about Lieutenant Rickey? 623 00:44:26,363 --> 00:44:28,593 That depends on a lot of things, including him. 624 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,161 I'm afraid I don't understand the fine points of war. 625 00:44:33,570 --> 00:44:36,130 One minute you're ready to shoot him down in cold blood. 626 00:44:36,306 --> 00:44:39,173 The next minute you're willing to take his word for something. 627 00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:42,540 As if you were all back in your own homes playing some pleasant game. 628 00:44:42,713 --> 00:44:45,739 - It doesn't make much sense, does it? - It doesn't make any sense. 629 00:44:45,916 --> 00:44:48,043 I guess it's all we have to hang on to. 630 00:44:48,218 --> 00:44:50,709 A few little customs from the past. 631 00:44:50,888 --> 00:44:53,413 Just to remind us there was a past. 632 00:44:54,291 --> 00:44:56,225 Well, I hope you enjoy your dinner, ma'am. 633 00:45:11,775 --> 00:45:14,835 RAWLINS: How are the blue-bellies? PIERRE: Asleep. 634 00:45:26,156 --> 00:45:28,147 [FOOTSTEPS] 635 00:45:38,836 --> 00:45:42,101 - Any trouble? - Dead to the world. 636 00:46:17,641 --> 00:46:22,442 Then for dinner, first I have two dozen oysters fresh from the shell. 637 00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:25,514 - As big as my hand. - Oysters. 638 00:46:25,682 --> 00:46:29,049 You mean you'd put one of them slimy things right in your mouth? 639 00:46:29,219 --> 00:46:31,517 Oyster is a beautiful thing. 640 00:46:31,688 --> 00:46:35,317 All that cool salt water washes over him all his life. 641 00:46:35,492 --> 00:46:39,087 And the sunlight, it comes down to him all green and blue. 642 00:46:39,263 --> 00:46:42,426 Not white, hot and dusty like it is here. 643 00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:46,091 And all around him it is coral, and sea flowers. 644 00:46:46,270 --> 00:46:48,830 And different colored fish. 645 00:46:49,106 --> 00:46:52,166 Such beautifulness goes into making an oyster. 646 00:46:52,342 --> 00:46:53,639 So you'd go right to work... 647 00:46:53,811 --> 00:46:57,542 ...and put one of the slimy things right in your mouth, huh? 648 00:46:57,981 --> 00:47:02,042 I think nobody has been so far from home as me. 649 00:47:02,219 --> 00:47:04,210 [GUNSHOTS] 650 00:47:06,957 --> 00:47:08,549 RAWLINS: Stay where you are, blue-bellies. 651 00:47:10,794 --> 00:47:12,853 The Indians are gone. They went over the rim. 652 00:47:13,030 --> 00:47:16,022 LAFE: Jonas, Plank, after them. KIP: There's one. 653 00:47:23,006 --> 00:47:25,031 One down here. 654 00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:31,504 CRAIGIE: That new 45-70 sure put a hole in the man. 655 00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:34,082 LAFE: How did they come to break? - Well, l... 656 00:47:34,251 --> 00:47:35,718 The moon went under a minute. 657 00:47:35,886 --> 00:47:38,684 I should have built a fire but I thought they was all asleep. 658 00:47:38,856 --> 00:47:43,088 Then I heard a noise and they was gone. I only had a chance for one good shot. 659 00:47:43,260 --> 00:47:45,387 KIP: I got one below, Plank just yelled up. 660 00:47:45,562 --> 00:47:48,190 - That makes two. - What about the other, any sign of him? 661 00:47:48,365 --> 00:47:51,334 They took after him, but it's pretty dark. 662 00:47:51,501 --> 00:47:56,268 If he ain't dead by this time, they ain't never gonna get him. 663 00:47:56,740 --> 00:48:00,506 - I'm awfully sorry, captain. - You couldn't help it, Jim. 664 00:48:19,830 --> 00:48:21,161 LAFE: Plank. PLANK: Yes, sir. 665 00:48:21,598 --> 00:48:24,465 LAFE: Tell Lieutenant Rickey I'd like to see him. 666 00:48:27,471 --> 00:48:30,668 - Which was the first smoke? - Over there. 667 00:48:30,841 --> 00:48:33,401 Well, at least we know where Man Dog is now. 668 00:48:33,577 --> 00:48:36,171 If I know these Indians, and I ought to... 669 00:48:36,346 --> 00:48:39,873 ...we're gonna see a lot of them before too long, captain. 670 00:48:40,284 --> 00:48:42,980 That old devil must have traveled 10 miles. 671 00:48:43,153 --> 00:48:44,677 More like 15. 672 00:48:50,661 --> 00:48:52,492 You wanted to see me? 673 00:48:52,663 --> 00:48:55,860 Yes. There's something I think you have the right to know. 674 00:48:56,033 --> 00:48:57,796 - Yeah? - Those Indian scouts of yours... 675 00:48:57,968 --> 00:49:00,402 ...turned out to be just a little bit more than that. 676 00:49:00,570 --> 00:49:03,869 The old one's called Man Dog, a very powerful Shoshone chief. 677 00:49:04,041 --> 00:49:07,602 - The two we shot were his sons. - Look, there's more smoke over there. 678 00:49:07,778 --> 00:49:10,178 PLANK: This ain't gonna be no picayune affair. 679 00:49:10,347 --> 00:49:12,508 Looks like he's rounded up the whole tribe. 680 00:49:12,683 --> 00:49:15,447 - And what are you gonna do about it? - Nothing. 681 00:49:15,619 --> 00:49:18,179 You're not gonna hold a woman here, in an Indian attack? 682 00:49:18,355 --> 00:49:21,415 - Miss Carter's safety is my responsibility. - It's mine too. 683 00:49:21,591 --> 00:49:25,618 - I got the idea you were our prisoners. - This has nothing to do with the war. 684 00:49:25,796 --> 00:49:28,560 - What do you suggest? RICKEY: A garrison, a day's ride from here. 685 00:49:28,732 --> 00:49:32,190 A man who knows the country could slip her through and be there by morning. 686 00:49:32,369 --> 00:49:34,701 - Even if I could spare such a man- - Let me do it. 687 00:49:34,871 --> 00:49:36,338 I'll give you my word to return. 688 00:49:36,506 --> 00:49:38,440 - With your regiment? - Alone. 689 00:49:38,608 --> 00:49:40,803 I offered you parole once, you turned it down. 690 00:49:40,978 --> 00:49:44,004 It was you against me then. Things are different now. 691 00:49:44,181 --> 00:49:46,649 She's safer here. Smith's men will be here tomorrow. 692 00:49:46,817 --> 00:49:49,217 You're willing to let her life depend on that outlaw? 693 00:49:49,386 --> 00:49:50,751 You'd better hope so. 694 00:49:50,921 --> 00:49:54,448 - Why, I wouldn't trust him... - I can't travel with prisoners. 695 00:49:54,624 --> 00:49:56,785 If I have to move before I'm ready... 696 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,155 ...I'll be forced to stand you up and shoot you. 697 00:49:59,329 --> 00:50:02,355 You mean to say, you'd shoot down unarmed prisoners? 698 00:50:02,532 --> 00:50:05,000 - You saw me. - What, at the water hole? 699 00:50:05,168 --> 00:50:08,569 Barnes was going for his gun. But you wouldn't stand up helpless men? 700 00:50:09,072 --> 00:50:11,597 Isn't that what you planned for me? 701 00:50:11,942 --> 00:50:14,069 Plank, take him back. 702 00:50:32,696 --> 00:50:35,164 I wish they'd come in where we get a look at them. 703 00:50:35,332 --> 00:50:38,267 What for? They ain't pretty. 704 00:50:38,435 --> 00:50:40,027 You know this country... 705 00:50:40,203 --> 00:50:44,731 ...tell me, supposing Lafe decides to pull out, could we make it? 706 00:50:44,908 --> 00:50:47,001 Today you could. 707 00:50:47,310 --> 00:50:49,005 What about tomorrow? 708 00:50:49,179 --> 00:50:53,912 Well, if we're still here then and Cole Smith's men ain't... 709 00:50:54,251 --> 00:50:56,685 ...I'd say we're liable to stay. 710 00:51:03,427 --> 00:51:06,658 Cole Smith had better be on time or we'll have to light out anyway. 711 00:51:06,830 --> 00:51:09,890 - That water hole's almost dry. - How long do you think it will last? 712 00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:13,002 Hard to tell. When they start to dry up, they go fast. 713 00:51:13,637 --> 00:51:16,162 Not enough snow up there this past winter, I reckon. 714 00:51:17,541 --> 00:51:20,442 This time last year, I was thinking of a lot of things. 715 00:51:20,610 --> 00:51:23,773 But snow on a Nevada mountain wasn't one of them. 716 00:51:24,481 --> 00:51:28,417 One canteen a day for the men, cut the horses down as much as you can. 717 00:51:28,585 --> 00:51:32,681 Hadn't we better post a guard down there case somebody gets extra thirsty? 718 00:51:32,856 --> 00:51:36,383 Oh, I don't think you need to. Smith will be here tomorrow. 719 00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,587 - You still figuring him to come back? - I'm betting an awful lot on that, Plank. 720 00:51:40,764 --> 00:51:44,097 I sure hope you don't get called. 721 00:51:44,668 --> 00:51:46,863 General Lee dealt the hand. 722 00:51:47,037 --> 00:51:49,198 All I can do is play the cards he gave me. 723 00:51:49,372 --> 00:51:50,669 Come on. 724 00:52:00,317 --> 00:52:03,514 JONAS: Don't strain your eyes. They'll be there tomorrow. 725 00:52:04,921 --> 00:52:07,515 Lafe's a fool to trust Smith. 726 00:52:07,691 --> 00:52:09,659 We ought to light out of here while we can. 727 00:52:09,826 --> 00:52:14,092 - This is what you volunteered for. - I didn't volunteer to be no Indian fighter. 728 00:52:14,264 --> 00:52:18,098 - No? - Well, no. 729 00:52:21,671 --> 00:52:24,231 PAP: Reckon them buzzards have lost something around here? 730 00:52:24,407 --> 00:52:27,103 Looks a little like they don't believe we're leaving. 731 00:52:27,277 --> 00:52:30,075 I never did like them things studding on me. 732 00:52:30,247 --> 00:52:32,807 It ain't because the buzzards know what they're doing... 733 00:52:32,983 --> 00:52:36,384 ...but it brings a question to mind, "Do I know what I'm doing?" 734 00:52:37,420 --> 00:52:40,184 How can you expect to understand him? The man's a fanatic. 735 00:52:40,357 --> 00:52:42,951 They all are, or this war would have been over long ago. 736 00:52:43,126 --> 00:52:46,527 - Maybe they feel the same way about us? - He doesn't feel anything. 737 00:52:46,696 --> 00:52:48,891 If he did, you'd be on your way to the garrison. 738 00:52:49,065 --> 00:52:51,124 He said Cole Smith was coming with an army. 739 00:52:51,301 --> 00:52:53,667 Army? A bunch of desert rats. 740 00:52:53,837 --> 00:52:57,398 Well, whatever they are, they'll be more welcome than what's out there. 741 00:52:57,574 --> 00:52:59,542 If they get here. 742 00:53:00,443 --> 00:53:02,570 - You think they won't? - I don't know. 743 00:53:02,746 --> 00:53:05,374 But if I wait to find out, it will be too late. 744 00:53:05,549 --> 00:53:10,009 Oh, Rick, I'm sorry. If I hadn't insisted on coming out here... 745 00:53:10,187 --> 00:53:12,587 ...none of this would've happened. - Don't say that. 746 00:53:13,023 --> 00:53:14,888 - You know how much I wanted you to. - No... 747 00:53:15,058 --> 00:53:16,992 Two years is a long time. 748 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,526 You begin to forget how much you love someone... 749 00:53:19,696 --> 00:53:21,630 ...till you see them again. 750 00:53:21,798 --> 00:53:24,631 I've been waiting for you to say that. 751 00:53:35,378 --> 00:53:36,572 [DRUMS BANGING IN DISTANCE] 752 00:53:36,746 --> 00:53:38,737 [GUNSHOTS] 753 00:53:53,830 --> 00:53:56,697 Why don't we go down there and pick off a few of them Indians? 754 00:53:56,866 --> 00:53:58,925 That's why they got their patrols out there. 755 00:53:59,102 --> 00:54:00,933 They're just waiting for us to try it. 756 00:54:01,104 --> 00:54:03,004 Well, let's oblige them. 757 00:54:03,173 --> 00:54:06,301 They can afford to lose a few men, we can't. 758 00:54:06,476 --> 00:54:08,467 [GUNSHOTS CONTINUE] 759 00:54:08,945 --> 00:54:12,745 I don't mind the sniping, they can't hit nothing from down there. 760 00:54:12,916 --> 00:54:16,044 But I could sure use a lot less of them drums. 761 00:54:16,219 --> 00:54:18,710 The louder they bang them, the better I like it. 762 00:54:18,888 --> 00:54:22,255 It's when they stop that I'm gonna start to sweat. 763 00:54:22,826 --> 00:54:25,920 I never did care for sunrise much before. 764 00:54:26,096 --> 00:54:29,259 But tomorrow morning ought to be right pretty. 765 00:54:31,501 --> 00:54:33,128 I hope I see you. 766 00:54:33,303 --> 00:54:37,171 Half the beauty in the sunrise is who sees it with you. 767 00:54:37,340 --> 00:54:41,470 - I could argue that. - At your age, you could. 768 00:54:42,212 --> 00:54:45,204 I'm scared, Rick. I've tried not to be, but I am. 769 00:54:45,382 --> 00:54:47,680 We'll get out of this, both of us. I promise you. 770 00:54:47,851 --> 00:54:48,875 How? What can we do? 771 00:54:49,052 --> 00:54:51,987 Listen, tonight, no matter what happens, you stay in your tent. 772 00:54:52,155 --> 00:54:54,715 - Don't come out for anything. - What are you going to do? 773 00:54:54,891 --> 00:54:57,416 - I've got it all figured out. - Be careful, Rick. 774 00:54:57,594 --> 00:55:00,119 Don't worry, I can take care of myself. 775 00:55:00,297 --> 00:55:05,098 You better go now. Remember, stay out of it. 776 00:55:21,084 --> 00:55:23,985 Go to sleep, Spotty. They can't jump us and drum too. 777 00:55:24,154 --> 00:55:26,145 [DOG WHIMPERING] 778 00:55:41,838 --> 00:55:43,601 Plank's guarding the horses. 779 00:55:43,773 --> 00:55:45,968 - You take care of him. - Right. 780 00:55:46,142 --> 00:55:49,873 We'll make no move till Ryan jumps the high lookout. 781 00:55:50,980 --> 00:55:54,381 I'll handle Rawlins here, as soon as you make your move. 782 00:55:54,551 --> 00:55:57,076 You picked yourself the toughest one. 783 00:55:57,253 --> 00:55:59,346 They're all tough. 784 00:56:13,069 --> 00:56:14,058 [SIGHS] 785 00:56:16,306 --> 00:56:17,933 Let's go. 786 00:56:29,352 --> 00:56:31,013 ASH [WHISPERS]: Good luck. 787 00:56:49,272 --> 00:56:50,705 [SIGHS] 788 00:57:02,118 --> 00:57:03,983 All right, Ryan. 789 00:57:50,967 --> 00:57:52,332 [HORSE WHINNIES] 790 00:57:52,836 --> 00:57:54,827 [HORSE NEIGHING] 791 00:58:10,453 --> 00:58:12,045 [HORSE WHINNIES] 792 00:58:12,622 --> 00:58:14,613 [RUSTLING] 793 00:58:21,698 --> 00:58:22,722 [HORSE WHINNIES] 794 00:58:24,367 --> 00:58:27,530 Ah. Can't sleep with all that noise out there. 795 00:58:27,704 --> 00:58:30,468 Those ponies sure are restless tonight. 796 00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:34,235 I guess they don't like Indian drums either. Here, have a chew? 797 00:58:36,546 --> 00:58:37,774 Yeah. 798 00:58:37,947 --> 00:58:40,814 What part of Mississippi are you from? 799 00:58:41,217 --> 00:58:45,017 Steamboat man, born and raised on the river. Only, now l... 800 00:58:45,188 --> 00:58:47,782 [HORSE NEIGHING] 801 00:58:47,957 --> 00:58:50,983 Will you go back to it later? 802 00:58:57,133 --> 00:58:58,395 [GRUNTS] 803 00:59:30,266 --> 00:59:32,496 - Where's the lieutenant? - I don't know. 804 00:59:32,669 --> 00:59:34,864 I heard a shot, first thing I know he jumped me. 805 00:59:35,038 --> 00:59:36,403 KIP: Lafe. 806 00:59:49,218 --> 00:59:51,982 Much obliged, captain. You sure made a good Yank out of him. 807 00:59:52,155 --> 00:59:53,588 Just as dead as they come. 808 00:59:53,756 --> 00:59:55,155 Aren't we going after him? 809 00:59:55,325 --> 00:59:57,316 [GUNSHOTS] 810 01:00:00,029 --> 01:00:02,088 He won't get far. 811 01:00:24,487 --> 01:00:25,511 Lafe. 812 01:00:25,688 --> 01:00:28,623 We got something down there but I can't quite make it out. 813 01:00:48,811 --> 01:00:50,608 What is it? 814 01:00:50,780 --> 01:00:53,749 - What did you spot, Pap? - A loose horse out there. 815 01:00:53,916 --> 01:00:57,352 - The lieutenant's? - Can't tell, it's too far away. 816 01:00:58,588 --> 01:01:02,149 LAFE: Plank, Jonas, pick him up. We'll cover you. 817 01:01:21,010 --> 01:01:22,136 What is it? 818 01:01:22,311 --> 01:01:25,439 Something's up, ma'am, but I can't make it out. 819 01:01:33,256 --> 01:01:36,589 - What's happened? - There's a horse out there. 820 01:01:39,595 --> 01:01:41,688 We'll know in a few minutes. 821 01:01:43,099 --> 01:01:44,930 Jimmy, come on. 822 01:02:35,251 --> 01:02:36,616 Cole Smith's. 823 01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,385 Maybe he got through first. 824 01:02:39,555 --> 01:02:41,147 He never got through nowhere. 825 01:03:01,511 --> 01:03:02,876 PAP: That's Cole Smith's horse. 826 01:03:04,881 --> 01:03:08,317 - Then Rick got through. - Could be, ma'am. 827 01:03:18,394 --> 01:03:20,294 You know what this means. 828 01:03:20,463 --> 01:03:22,522 Smith's men won't be coming. 829 01:03:22,698 --> 01:03:25,394 - What do we do now? - Only one thing we can do. 830 01:03:26,035 --> 01:03:28,094 Get out there and try to find them ourselves. 831 01:03:28,271 --> 01:03:31,832 - A fat chance we got of doing that. - I didn't say it was a good chance. 832 01:03:32,008 --> 01:03:35,375 Well, ain't we got a little problem of getting out of here first? 833 01:03:35,545 --> 01:03:37,342 How about it, Plank? 834 01:03:38,147 --> 01:03:41,514 We might be able to bust through if we can get by their patrols... 835 01:03:41,684 --> 01:03:43,015 ...after dark, of course. 836 01:03:43,753 --> 01:03:47,189 - Lf they hold off till then. - How much time do you think we have left? 837 01:03:47,356 --> 01:03:50,348 We're all right as long as them smoke signals is there. 838 01:03:50,526 --> 01:03:54,758 Once we're through the mountains, Craigie and the others can pick up the trail. 839 01:03:54,931 --> 01:03:56,694 What others? 840 01:03:56,966 --> 01:04:00,333 You ain't gonna try busting through with a girl and a wounded blue-belly? 841 01:04:00,503 --> 01:04:03,063 What do you suggest? Tapping them on the head? 842 01:04:03,239 --> 01:04:04,638 Leave them here. 843 01:04:04,807 --> 01:04:07,742 Besides, maybe the Yankee lieutenant got through. 844 01:04:07,910 --> 01:04:11,869 If Cole Smith couldn't make it, I wouldn't bet no money on a blue-belly. 845 01:04:12,048 --> 01:04:17,111 Craigie, if we get through, you and that trooper can get her to the settlement? 846 01:04:17,286 --> 01:04:18,548 Sure can, captain. 847 01:04:19,722 --> 01:04:20,780 [HORSE NEIGHS] 848 01:04:20,957 --> 01:04:22,754 We'll pull out tonight. 849 01:04:26,429 --> 01:04:27,953 Lafe? 850 01:04:30,032 --> 01:04:33,331 Hadn't we better saddle up just in... In case? 851 01:04:34,036 --> 01:04:35,765 Maybe you better. 852 01:04:36,739 --> 01:04:40,903 Oh, and give... Give Craigie and the trooper back their guns. 853 01:04:42,511 --> 01:04:44,274 PAP: Saddle up. 854 01:04:50,820 --> 01:04:52,048 Captain. 855 01:04:52,221 --> 01:04:55,782 When the soldiers get here, you won't do anything foolish, will you? 856 01:04:55,958 --> 01:04:57,050 How do you mean? 857 01:04:57,226 --> 01:04:59,922 I know what Rick said about wanting to see you shot. 858 01:05:00,096 --> 01:05:01,586 But he was angry then. 859 01:05:01,764 --> 01:05:06,133 Once we're all safe at the fort, he'll feel differently, really. 860 01:05:06,836 --> 01:05:09,031 - I'm sure he will. - I'll make them understand... 861 01:05:09,205 --> 01:05:12,766 ...none of this would have happened if it hadn't been for you saving my life. 862 01:05:12,942 --> 01:05:16,844 The soldiers wouldn't have found you, or the Indians, or any of this. 863 01:05:17,013 --> 01:05:18,844 "Lf," that's a big word. 864 01:05:19,015 --> 01:05:20,983 But it's true, Lafe. 865 01:05:21,851 --> 01:05:23,682 That's strange... 866 01:05:23,853 --> 01:05:26,344 ...back home, if I'd called a man by his first name... 867 01:05:26,522 --> 01:05:30,014 ...after only knowing him for two days, people would have been shocked. 868 01:05:31,327 --> 01:05:34,455 Back home, you wouldn't have spent two days with him on a mountain. 869 01:05:34,630 --> 01:05:35,654 That's true. 870 01:05:36,666 --> 01:05:39,897 Three days ago I thought this was the most beautiful country I'd seen. 871 01:05:40,069 --> 01:05:41,969 You will again, when this is all over. 872 01:05:43,005 --> 01:05:45,098 People forget. 873 01:05:45,408 --> 01:05:48,434 Something happens and you think you'll never get over it. 874 01:05:48,611 --> 01:05:51,512 But you do. You couldn't go on living if you didn't. 875 01:05:52,281 --> 01:05:53,305 Remember that. 876 01:05:53,482 --> 01:05:56,645 You're trying to tell me you think Rick's been killed. 877 01:05:57,453 --> 01:05:58,477 Rick made it. 878 01:05:59,322 --> 01:06:00,949 I know he did. 879 01:06:01,123 --> 01:06:03,489 I never thought I'd envy a Yankee anything. 880 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:07,361 - Because I believe in someone? - Yes. 881 01:06:07,530 --> 01:06:11,193 There must be a girl somewhere who feels the same about you. 882 01:06:11,367 --> 01:06:14,996 - There was. - Well, she'll be waiting then too. 883 01:06:15,171 --> 01:06:16,195 She died. 884 01:06:18,441 --> 01:06:21,569 - I'm sorry. - It was a long time ago. 885 01:06:22,378 --> 01:06:26,872 When this is over and you're back on that plantation you were telling me about... 886 01:06:27,049 --> 01:06:29,779 ...with the white cotton fields and the river... 887 01:06:29,952 --> 01:06:32,250 ...you'll find someone again. 888 01:06:46,235 --> 01:06:49,864 - Any change out there? - No, sir. 889 01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:21,169 Why don't you get rid of that dog? All he does is lap up water. 890 01:07:21,337 --> 01:07:23,430 It's my ration, I can do with it what I want. 891 01:07:23,606 --> 01:07:26,302 First dog I ever saw that gets dumber instead of smarter. 892 01:07:27,143 --> 01:07:30,544 - Why don't you leave the kid alone? - He's no kid. 893 01:07:30,713 --> 01:07:32,476 Jimmy's grown up, ain't you heard? 894 01:07:32,648 --> 01:07:36,516 - He's got himself a girl. - Why don't you shut your big mouth? 895 01:07:36,685 --> 01:07:38,516 We will talk about something else, huh? 896 01:07:38,687 --> 01:07:41,315 What's the matter? You soft on her too? 897 01:07:42,458 --> 01:07:45,894 I told you, we will not discuss the lady. 898 01:07:46,062 --> 01:07:48,724 RAWLINS: Lady? What's wrong with you two? 899 01:07:49,265 --> 01:07:53,065 Acting like schoolboys over a Yankee tramp. 900 01:08:06,549 --> 01:08:07,538 [DOG BARKING] 901 01:08:07,716 --> 01:08:08,740 Leave him alone. 902 01:08:08,918 --> 01:08:11,546 - We're outnumbered enough... RAWLINS: Get away from me. 903 01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:13,711 [DOG BARKING CONTINUES] 904 01:08:28,137 --> 01:08:30,697 - That crazy kid ought to... - Shut up. 905 01:08:31,707 --> 01:08:34,141 I don't care what you do when this is over. 906 01:08:34,310 --> 01:08:36,608 You can blow your fool heads off if you want to. 907 01:08:36,779 --> 01:08:39,179 But until then, you'll act like soldiers. 908 01:08:39,348 --> 01:08:41,009 Understand? 909 01:08:41,250 --> 01:08:42,649 Yes, sir. 910 01:08:42,818 --> 01:08:43,842 JONAS: Hey, Lafe! 911 01:08:58,033 --> 01:09:00,194 CRAIGIE: Looks like Man Dog's forcing your hand. 912 01:09:00,369 --> 01:09:02,701 Craigie, you and the trooper get ready. 913 01:09:03,506 --> 01:09:05,974 There's the dust cloud. Three of them. 914 01:09:06,142 --> 01:09:08,940 Well, Lafe, which is it? Fight or run? 915 01:09:09,111 --> 01:09:11,409 I don't see that it makes much difference now. 916 01:09:11,580 --> 01:09:15,380 If we stay here, they'll massacre us all. The other way at least we got a chance. 917 01:09:15,551 --> 01:09:18,076 - Some chance. - It's better than no chance at all. 918 01:09:18,254 --> 01:09:21,155 - Lf we scatter, some of us might make it. - The lady wouldn't. 919 01:09:21,323 --> 01:09:23,257 - There's one way she could. - How? 920 01:09:23,425 --> 01:09:27,327 If we stick together and lead them away from The Rock, she might get away. 921 01:09:27,496 --> 01:09:29,987 And what happens to the rest of you? 922 01:09:30,933 --> 01:09:33,834 - Nothing that wouldn't happen anyway. - I won't let you do that. 923 01:09:34,003 --> 01:09:35,027 JONAS: Captain. 924 01:09:35,204 --> 01:09:38,230 I can see them now, war paint and all. 925 01:09:38,674 --> 01:09:41,438 - Well, what do you say? - It's up to me too, and I say, no. 926 01:09:41,610 --> 01:09:43,510 You can hold out up here until help comes. 927 01:09:43,679 --> 01:09:46,648 They know there's only eight of us. We couldn't stop them. 928 01:09:46,815 --> 01:09:50,012 Well, then let's do what he said. Everybody take the same chance. 929 01:09:50,553 --> 01:09:53,317 I guess I've changed my mind. 930 01:09:53,589 --> 01:09:54,613 Pap? 931 01:09:54,790 --> 01:09:56,985 As far as I'm concerned, you're still in charge. 932 01:09:57,159 --> 01:09:58,820 - This isn't an order. - It is with me. 933 01:09:58,994 --> 01:10:00,427 - I'm with you. - Count me in. 934 01:10:00,596 --> 01:10:01,858 - Me too. - Jonas? 935 01:10:02,565 --> 01:10:05,056 We better hurry, they're closing in fast. 936 01:10:05,734 --> 01:10:07,599 Let's get going. 937 01:10:20,216 --> 01:10:22,741 I never thought it would end this way. 938 01:10:22,918 --> 01:10:24,476 There never was any other way. 939 01:10:24,653 --> 01:10:27,315 We just put it off a while. 940 01:10:28,557 --> 01:10:30,991 - The trooper's readying the horses, captain. LAFE: Good. 941 01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:34,129 We'll swing north. Be sure they're after us before you take off. 942 01:10:34,296 --> 01:10:36,821 - Once you start, don't stop. - Don't worry about that. 943 01:10:36,999 --> 01:10:39,627 We'll draw them as far away as we can. 944 01:10:40,236 --> 01:10:41,464 So long, old-timer. 945 01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:44,463 Good luck. 946 01:10:46,108 --> 01:10:47,132 PAP: All set, Lafe. 947 01:10:57,253 --> 01:11:01,019 At least we won't go sneaking around. Might as well let them know who we are. 948 01:11:01,190 --> 01:11:04,318 - Probably never seen a Confederate flag. - They'll see one now. 949 01:11:19,441 --> 01:11:22,035 You think you could keep Spot with you? 950 01:11:22,778 --> 01:11:26,509 He's really awful smart and he won't cause you no trouble. 951 01:11:27,416 --> 01:11:30,317 You do what the lady tells you now, Spot. 952 01:12:00,015 --> 01:12:02,006 [BARKING] 953 01:12:15,998 --> 01:12:18,023 JOHANNA: Spotty, come here. Spotty. 954 01:13:57,599 --> 01:13:59,590 [ALL YELLING] 955 01:14:11,046 --> 01:14:12,843 It worked. 956 01:14:24,159 --> 01:14:25,558 [GUNSHOT] 957 01:15:16,945 --> 01:15:20,005 - Hurry, you must save them. - They drew the Indians into the canyon. 958 01:15:20,182 --> 01:15:22,480 Corporal, look after Miss Carter. 959 01:15:22,651 --> 01:15:26,485 Forward! 960 01:16:31,853 --> 01:16:34,481 PLANK: Looks like the end of the line. 961 01:16:34,723 --> 01:16:37,191 They've seen our backs. Let's show them our faces. 962 01:16:37,359 --> 01:16:38,951 Fan out! 963 01:16:44,099 --> 01:16:46,090 [YELLING CONTINUES] 964 01:16:53,842 --> 01:16:55,867 By volley. Ready. 965 01:16:56,311 --> 01:16:57,869 Fire. 966 01:16:58,046 --> 01:17:00,037 [HORSE NEIGHING] 967 01:17:04,353 --> 01:17:05,513 Charge! 968 01:17:05,687 --> 01:17:07,314 [ALL YELLING] 969 01:17:21,670 --> 01:17:23,661 [GUNSHOTS] 970 01:17:30,045 --> 01:17:32,036 [HORSES NEIGHING] 971 01:17:47,195 --> 01:17:49,186 [GUNSHOTS CONTINUE] 972 01:19:01,603 --> 01:19:03,594 [WARRIORS YELLING] 973 01:19:42,210 --> 01:19:44,474 [BARKING] 974 01:21:09,898 --> 01:21:11,798 Sergeant Ash. 975 01:21:17,472 --> 01:21:19,736 - Yes, sir. - Take this up to The Rock and raise it. 976 01:21:19,908 --> 01:21:21,569 A Confederate flag? 977 01:21:21,743 --> 01:21:25,304 - You heard me, raise it. - Yes, sir. 978 01:22:07,656 --> 01:22:10,090 Draw sabers. 979 01:22:12,527 --> 01:22:15,325 Present sabers. 980 01:22:53,902 --> 01:22:55,893