1 00:01:07,813 --> 00:01:10,943 When the territories of the Great West were thrown open... 2 00:01:11,031 --> 00:01:13,683 men of all kinds rushed in. 3 00:01:15,249 --> 00:01:18,903 Most came to settle peaceably, lured by free land... 4 00:01:18,990 --> 00:01:22,425 gold, cattle. 5 00:01:22,511 --> 00:01:25,121 A man could begin a herd with a maverick: 6 00:01:25,165 --> 00:01:27,948 An unbranded stray on the public range. 7 00:01:28,035 --> 00:01:31,296 By putting his brand on it, he owned it. 8 00:01:31,383 --> 00:01:34,992 Cattle barons had started their great herds with mavericks. 9 00:01:35,079 --> 00:01:39,211 Now they fought each settler who tried to do the same. 10 00:01:39,298 --> 00:01:42,385 They fought to keep the settlers off the public lands... 11 00:01:42,472 --> 00:01:46,168 drive them from their homes... 12 00:01:49,909 --> 00:01:53,430 destroy their towns. 13 00:01:53,517 --> 00:01:56,866 Vast ranges became the battlegrounds of cattle wars. 14 00:02:01,388 --> 00:02:04,693 When the Wyoming big ranchers found guns were not enough... 15 00:02:04,781 --> 00:02:06,781 they used the Maverick Law: 16 00:02:06,867 --> 00:02:09,955 A law through which they appointed themselves commissioners... 17 00:02:09,999 --> 00:02:13,696 with power to rule on the ownership of every maverick branded. 18 00:02:13,782 --> 00:02:17,261 A commissioner's ruling could declare the settler a rustler... 19 00:02:17,347 --> 00:02:21,393 outlaw his brand, make his mavericks illegal to sell. 20 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,132 Of course, there was no shortage of sharp-witted men... 21 00:02:24,220 --> 00:02:26,438 who were quick to take advantage of this law. 22 00:02:26,698 --> 00:02:28,612 I know what I'm entitled to! 23 00:02:28,699 --> 00:02:31,003 I'm willing to fight for my rights! 24 00:02:31,091 --> 00:02:35,483 And I'm willing to fight for your rights, but you've got to stand behind me. 25 00:02:35,570 --> 00:02:38,396 You've got to put me in the Governor's mansion! 26 00:02:38,483 --> 00:02:42,615 You've got to have someone to represent you, not just Reece Duncan. 27 00:02:42,702 --> 00:02:45,094 Go ahead, Mr Averell. Don't let me stop you. 28 00:02:45,180 --> 00:02:48,051 What brings you to town? Your ears burning? 29 00:02:50,225 --> 00:02:52,877 What is this Maverick Law? 30 00:02:52,964 --> 00:02:57,835 The Maverick Law was designed to protect us all against cattle rustling. 31 00:02:57,878 --> 00:03:01,183 There is nothing in that law that says new settlers... 32 00:03:01,270 --> 00:03:04,922 can't pick up unbranded cattle and call them their own. 33 00:03:04,967 --> 00:03:09,184 When a Cattle Commission was appointed to watch over brands and cattle... 34 00:03:09,272 --> 00:03:11,358 that was for our protection too! 35 00:03:11,445 --> 00:03:14,142 I'd like to ask Mr Duncan one question. 36 00:03:14,229 --> 00:03:16,839 I'd like to ask him who paid bribe money... 37 00:03:16,925 --> 00:03:20,405 to the Cattle Commissioners to outlaw your brands? 38 00:03:20,491 --> 00:03:25,014 To see to it that every time you roped a maverick it was confiscated? 39 00:03:28,494 --> 00:03:33,450 Just hold it still everybody, real quiet and still. 40 00:03:33,495 --> 00:03:35,669 Put the gun away. 41 00:03:35,756 --> 00:03:39,800 I only aimed to drill his hat, Sheriff. Just let out some hot air. 42 00:03:46,106 --> 00:03:48,192 Keep it there. 43 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,976 I think Mr Duncan would like a crack at the governorship himself. 44 00:03:52,063 --> 00:03:54,846 Do you reckon Wyoming will ever have a Governor... 45 00:03:54,933 --> 00:03:57,628 who'll take a shot at a man who doesn't wear a gun? 46 00:03:57,716 --> 00:04:02,283 No... or anyone who carries it under cover either. 47 00:04:06,978 --> 00:04:11,631 - This is a big deal, Sheriff. You ought to step out of it. - Everybody oughta. 48 00:04:11,719 --> 00:04:15,936 I'm warning you men, this range is taken. There's no room for squatters. 49 00:04:16,024 --> 00:04:19,502 - You started from scratch yourself, Duncan. - That was a long time past. 50 00:04:19,589 --> 00:04:21,981 For you! But we're just beginnin'! 51 00:04:22,068 --> 00:04:24,633 And we aim to start with mavericks, and we aim to stay. 52 00:04:24,721 --> 00:04:27,939 You'll stay just so long as you stay within the law. 53 00:04:28,026 --> 00:04:32,289 Which means that if I find any one of you rounding up and branding cattle on my range... 54 00:04:32,376 --> 00:04:34,463 I have the right to fill you full of lead. 55 00:04:34,550 --> 00:04:38,289 Easy, boys, easy. 56 00:04:40,768 --> 00:04:44,987 A couple of you boys have asked me if I had any ideas. 57 00:04:45,073 --> 00:04:47,682 Well, gentlemen... 58 00:04:47,770 --> 00:04:51,596 here's one of my biggest ideas right now. 59 00:05:16,818 --> 00:05:20,384 - Hello, Kate. How are you? - Same as always, Jim. 60 00:05:20,428 --> 00:05:22,950 Measurements and... memory. 61 00:05:23,036 --> 00:05:26,124 Keep the measurements, forget the memory. I'm gonna make it up to you. 62 00:05:26,211 --> 00:05:31,473 Folks, the newest and latest scintillating gem to greet our fair town. 63 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,387 Is there anyone here so young who doesn't recognize the name of Kate Maxwell? 64 00:05:40,258 --> 00:05:42,259 Hello, boys. 65 00:05:42,346 --> 00:05:44,563 Pleased to meet you." 66 00:05:51,825 --> 00:05:56,827 Boys, I never was any good at keeping secrets from you, but I sure kept this one. 67 00:05:56,913 --> 00:05:59,044 That place of mine I've been fixing up... 68 00:05:59,131 --> 00:06:01,828 well, it belongs to Kate from here on in. 69 00:06:01,914 --> 00:06:04,175 There'll be music, high-kick dancing... 70 00:06:04,263 --> 00:06:07,959 and the straightest card game in Wyoming. 71 00:06:08,046 --> 00:06:12,264 And you'll have money for it too! Kate's a cattle buyer now. 72 00:06:12,308 --> 00:06:16,700 She aims to buy up every maverick you can lay a rope on, so bring 'em on in. 73 00:06:16,786 --> 00:06:19,483 Kate's got her own brand, and not an outlaw brand. 74 00:06:19,570 --> 00:06:21,787 She'll market your mavericks for you, and there's nothing... 75 00:06:21,874 --> 00:06:25,571 that Duncan and his Cattlemen's Association can do about it. 76 00:06:28,180 --> 00:06:30,571 What are you up to this time, Jim? 77 00:06:30,616 --> 00:06:32,920 I told you I was gonna make you rich. 78 00:06:33,007 --> 00:06:37,791 I don't suppose I've got to ask my lawyer if this is legal? 79 00:06:37,878 --> 00:06:40,792 It's legal, Mr Duncan. I've looked into it. 80 00:06:40,836 --> 00:06:45,445 Miss Maxwell, you've looked into it too? It's liable to get you in some hot water. 81 00:06:45,532 --> 00:06:48,707 Why, I soak in hot water every day, mister. 82 00:06:48,793 --> 00:06:51,664 It's good for the... complexion. 83 00:06:51,750 --> 00:06:54,838 "I'm glad you're used to it... 84 00:06:54,925 --> 00:06:58,056 just in case any of those mavericks "you take in trade come from my range. 85 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:00,056 I'm just warning you. 86 00:07:00,144 --> 00:07:03,535 No animal on my property, branded or not, is a stray. 87 00:07:03,622 --> 00:07:06,319 Whatever you pick up on the open range is yours. 88 00:07:06,405 --> 00:07:09,885 Anything you take from me has lead coming after it. 89 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:15,712 Suppose you and me have a little talk, Mr Averell. 90 00:07:15,798 --> 00:07:19,321 Wait'll you find out what this is all about. 91 00:07:19,408 --> 00:07:23,540 All right boys, take the coach and the wagon over to Kate's Place. 92 00:07:33,497 --> 00:07:36,802 Boys, make room for the lady. 93 00:07:36,889 --> 00:07:39,237 Oh, Kate, this is Stan Blaine... 94 00:07:39,324 --> 00:07:42,324 Sweetwater's strong arm of the law. 95 00:07:42,412 --> 00:07:44,674 Pleased to meet you, Sheriff. 96 00:07:44,761 --> 00:07:48,240 Why don't you show me the town some night before you show me the jail? 97 00:07:50,283 --> 00:07:54,111 You talk like you dress... but you don't feel that way. 98 00:07:56,764 --> 00:07:59,503 - Play along with him. - Play? 99 00:07:59,590 --> 00:08:02,808 He's just a drifter. Doesn't make any trouble, doesn't want any. 100 00:08:02,894 --> 00:08:06,026 - The job was open, so he took it. - Drifter? 101 00:08:06,112 --> 00:08:09,418 Now, I... am a man with a purpose. 102 00:08:11,896 --> 00:08:14,288 Thank you. 103 00:08:18,202 --> 00:08:20,681 Mind if I give you a hand, miss? 104 00:08:20,768 --> 00:08:22,985 Why I'd be pleasured! 105 00:08:23,072 --> 00:08:25,942 I'll carry you! 106 00:08:28,073 --> 00:08:30,074 This one's a lady. 107 00:08:30,161 --> 00:08:32,205 Why, thanks. 108 00:08:44,077 --> 00:08:47,511 Take a look, Kate. It's all yours. 109 00:08:47,598 --> 00:08:50,296 Not bad. In fact, pretty good. 110 00:08:50,383 --> 00:08:52,905 So why are you giving it away? 111 00:08:52,993 --> 00:08:56,905 Well, honey, I've got a sense of obligation. I owe you something. 112 00:08:56,992 --> 00:08:59,645 Oh, the world must be coming to an end. 113 00:08:59,732 --> 00:09:02,950 Not only is Jim Averell giving things away... 114 00:09:03,037 --> 00:09:05,559 but he's paying his debts. 115 00:09:05,646 --> 00:09:09,473 Listen, Kate. A lot of things have changed since I last saw you. 116 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,822 Since I last saw you... running out of Abilene like a jackrabbit... 117 00:09:13,908 --> 00:09:17,736 - leaving me holding the sack. - Did anybody get rough with you? 118 00:09:17,822 --> 00:09:21,475 Why? Will you go back there and gun them down? 119 00:09:21,563 --> 00:09:26,041 Sorry, Jim, there's no money in it, just a poor, underpaid judge. 120 00:09:26,128 --> 00:09:30,303 I guess somebody oughta give me a necktie party for what I've done to you. 121 00:09:30,390 --> 00:09:32,782 Maybe somebody will. 122 00:09:32,869 --> 00:09:36,739 But you came when I called you. You didn't waste any time. 123 00:09:36,826 --> 00:09:38,826 Birds of a feather. 124 00:09:38,914 --> 00:09:42,348 But that doesn't mean I'll ever feel the same way about you. 125 00:09:42,435 --> 00:09:44,827 You will, honey. You will. 126 00:09:44,914 --> 00:09:48,089 Believe me, that last sour deal is way behind me. 127 00:09:48,175 --> 00:09:51,916 I'm going up... up and up right into the Governor's mansion. 128 00:09:52,003 --> 00:09:54,744 - To ask a pardon? - To be the Governor! 129 00:09:54,830 --> 00:09:59,440 I'm going to make the whole territory of Wyoming my own private range. 130 00:09:59,527 --> 00:10:03,266 Think I can't do it? These settlers would vote me into the White House. 131 00:10:03,353 --> 00:10:06,484 I'm the only one around here who'll promise them anything. 132 00:10:06,528 --> 00:10:10,312 - And what's in your way? - Reece Duncan. 133 00:10:10,398 --> 00:10:13,225 I got a big front, but he is big. 134 00:10:13,312 --> 00:10:19,009 Sounds crazy, but it's true. If Duncan goes, I can be Governor of Wyoming. 135 00:10:19,095 --> 00:10:22,444 You will, of course, drop in sometime for a drink. 136 00:10:22,530 --> 00:10:26,575 And you'll be with me. That's what I'm trying to tell you, Kate. 137 00:10:26,662 --> 00:10:29,967 I'm going to make up to you for everything. 138 00:10:31,402 --> 00:10:33,489 What's this other thing about? 139 00:10:35,402 --> 00:10:37,751 Why am I a cattle buyer? 140 00:10:37,838 --> 00:10:41,665 You don't have to know anything about cattle. Don't let that scare you. 141 00:10:41,752 --> 00:10:45,796 I know plenty. I was riding a cow pony before I could walk. 142 00:10:45,883 --> 00:10:49,492 - What's the deal? - Duncan again, but you don't have to know the details. 143 00:10:49,580 --> 00:10:53,580 You just buy mavericks and sell 'em. Look. 144 00:10:56,319 --> 00:11:00,973 Here's your brand, registered and legal. Kate Maxwell. 145 00:11:01,060 --> 00:11:04,453 K-Bar-M. 146 00:11:07,192 --> 00:11:11,019 Honey, it won't be long before people are calling you "Cattle Kate." 147 00:11:22,456 --> 00:11:26,152 - These three for you, Tex. - Good! Let's go. 148 00:11:33,849 --> 00:11:36,632 What'll it be, Tex? Chips or cash? 149 00:11:37,806 --> 00:11:41,154 Chips. Watch me double 'em. 150 00:11:49,243 --> 00:11:51,679 That's Duncan's brand, Wally. 151 00:11:51,765 --> 00:11:54,244 Let it go. 152 00:12:08,596 --> 00:12:12,510 Here's a maverick for you, Wally! It's a clean one. 153 00:12:15,815 --> 00:12:18,467 "For value received, one maverick." 154 00:12:18,554 --> 00:12:21,076 What'll it be? 155 00:12:22,206 --> 00:12:24,164 Chips. 156 00:12:28,078 --> 00:12:30,164 Horses comin', Matt. 157 00:12:36,296 --> 00:12:39,775 It's Duncan! I'll head him off. 158 00:13:17,043 --> 00:13:20,261 - What's the matter with you? That's a rustler! - Matt Jessup? 159 00:13:20,348 --> 00:13:24,132 - I'm missing branded steers. - The Jessup boys are taking mavericks. 160 00:13:24,219 --> 00:13:26,959 These weren't mavericks. They carried the Bar-Double-Check. 161 00:13:27,045 --> 00:13:31,785 I don't say you didn't lose 'em. There've been reports of strange faces. 162 00:13:31,872 --> 00:13:35,874 Sheriff, there's gonna be a range war here. 163 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,656 I suggest you make up "your mind whose side you're on. 164 00:13:38,744 --> 00:13:42,395 I have. I'm on the side of the first man who gets killed. 165 00:13:46,527 --> 00:13:49,832 - I could knock him off right now. - Why wait? - Naw. 166 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:54,050 Save us weeks of work and put that loud-talking Duncan where Averell wants him. 167 00:13:54,137 --> 00:13:57,051 - I said no! - Why not? 168 00:13:57,137 --> 00:14:00,225 'Cause Averell said to let him burn a while. 169 00:14:01,878 --> 00:14:04,183 I told him to come after midnight. 170 00:14:04,269 --> 00:14:06,400 After midnight? He better. 171 00:14:06,487 --> 00:14:09,532 He does what you say. This afternoon he could've finished Duncan off easy... 172 00:14:09,618 --> 00:14:12,227 but he let him go because that's what you wanted. 173 00:14:12,315 --> 00:14:14,707 I don't get it, boss. 174 00:14:14,794 --> 00:14:16,968 Abilene taught me something. 175 00:14:18,448 --> 00:14:20,752 To wait. 176 00:14:20,839 --> 00:14:23,056 We set one side against the other. 177 00:14:23,144 --> 00:14:26,188 Prod 'em a little; first Duncan, then the settlers. 178 00:14:26,274 --> 00:14:28,319 And wait till they kill each other off. 179 00:14:28,405 --> 00:14:30,623 That's the way to get things done for you. 180 00:14:30,711 --> 00:14:33,406 In fact, that's the way into the Governor's chair. 181 00:14:33,493 --> 00:14:36,060 How will that help you to become Governor? 182 00:14:36,146 --> 00:14:40,798 Look, when times are rough, a man can make himself a reputation overnight... 183 00:14:40,886 --> 00:14:43,713 that'll spread through the whole territory like wildfire. 184 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,974 That's if he's on the popular side. 185 00:14:46,061 --> 00:14:49,104 And right now I've got these settlers eating out of my hand. 186 00:14:49,192 --> 00:14:53,063 The way you got it figured, there won't be any settlers left. 187 00:14:53,149 --> 00:14:55,715 Now, that'd be too bad. 188 00:14:55,802 --> 00:14:58,890 In that case, I'd have to take the consolation prize... 189 00:14:58,976 --> 00:15:02,411 and all the cattle and all the land in this valley. 190 00:15:02,499 --> 00:15:07,760 I might become one of the richest, most important men in the territory of Wyoming. 191 00:15:07,848 --> 00:15:10,066 There's more than one way to become Governor. 192 00:15:10,152 --> 00:15:14,588 - Does Kate know how you're running the cattle set-up? - No! 193 00:15:14,674 --> 00:15:19,721 And nobody'll know if you and the boys keep your mouths shut and do as I tell ya. 194 00:15:19,807 --> 00:15:21,851 Understand? 195 00:15:21,937 --> 00:15:24,068 Yeah, boss. 196 00:15:54,074 --> 00:15:57,987 If I don't stand on 19, my mind ain't on the cards. 197 00:15:58,075 --> 00:16:00,206 Friend of yours, Kate. 198 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,598 - Take over. I've got to talk to a customer. - Go ahead. 199 00:16:07,685 --> 00:16:11,294 With Jim, I can at least keep my eyes on the cards. 200 00:16:21,558 --> 00:16:25,125 Good evening, Sheriff. Drifting? 201 00:16:25,211 --> 00:16:28,081 Mmm! Got a nice, clean shave there. 202 00:16:28,168 --> 00:16:31,168 I bet it was for me. 203 00:16:31,256 --> 00:16:35,561 You're keeping the boys busy, roping by day and gambling at night. 204 00:16:35,648 --> 00:16:37,996 This is a free country. They work hard for their money... 205 00:16:38,083 --> 00:16:40,301 and they got a right to spend it the way they want to. 206 00:16:40,388 --> 00:16:42,432 None of my business. 207 00:16:42,519 --> 00:16:45,998 Just wonderin' where some of'em find time to do any rustling. 208 00:16:46,085 --> 00:16:49,433 Duncan's on the warpath. Somebody's taking his branded stock. 209 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,695 Oh, he's just talkin'. He's got to say that to stir up trouble. 210 00:16:53,781 --> 00:16:56,826 No, there's rustling going on. Got it from the other ranchers. 211 00:16:58,652 --> 00:17:02,174 The cows I buy are clean, unbranded mavericks. 212 00:17:02,262 --> 00:17:06,524 - You ever see a range war? - There isn't going to be a range war here. 213 00:17:06,610 --> 00:17:11,480 - A few rustled cattle- - A few rustled cattle started the bloodiest killings in Texas. 214 00:17:11,567 --> 00:17:16,916 - I was there. - Oh, so that's where you hail from, Texas. 215 00:17:17,004 --> 00:17:18,612 Mm-hmm. 216 00:17:18,699 --> 00:17:22,396 - What brought you here? - Passin' through. 217 00:17:22,483 --> 00:17:26,918 - Oh, drifting. - You don't like that. 218 00:17:29,702 --> 00:17:32,746 A man knows where he's going. 219 00:17:32,834 --> 00:17:35,138 Take a look at Jim Averell. 220 00:17:35,225 --> 00:17:40,792 - There's a real man! - I heard him say so. 221 00:17:40,878 --> 00:17:44,227 Kate, you've got a couple more mavericks in your corral than you had. 222 00:17:44,313 --> 00:17:46,792 - Thanks, Hal. - Let's have a look. 223 00:17:46,879 --> 00:17:49,228 Is anything wrong with it? 224 00:17:49,314 --> 00:17:51,923 No. 225 00:17:53,358 --> 00:17:56,576 - Don't you ever forget that badge you're wearing? - No. 226 00:17:56,663 --> 00:17:58,751 Feelin' lucky, Hal? 227 00:17:58,837 --> 00:18:01,664 No, I'd like it in cash. I'm saving. 228 00:18:01,752 --> 00:18:03,883 For any particular reason? 229 00:18:03,969 --> 00:18:08,100 - How'd you know? - He means it, Kate. 230 00:18:08,144 --> 00:18:10,884 Aw, honey, they all mean it! 231 00:18:10,970 --> 00:18:14,363 Here. One free drink on the house and then get out. 232 00:18:14,450 --> 00:18:17,450 I need the space for the free spenders. 233 00:18:19,276 --> 00:18:21,928 Since you're on duty tonight, Sheriff, how 'bout coming out back... 234 00:18:22,016 --> 00:18:24,104 and letting me show you my stuff? 235 00:18:24,190 --> 00:18:28,191 It's a nice moon out tonight. Bright enough to read a brand. 236 00:18:29,843 --> 00:18:33,628 Well, there they are. Any of them look stolen? 237 00:18:33,715 --> 00:18:35,802 Nice lookin' stock. 238 00:18:35,889 --> 00:18:38,847 - And mavericks every one. - Lots of'em too. 239 00:18:38,933 --> 00:18:42,891 - Is that suspicious, doing business on a big scale? - No. 240 00:18:42,977 --> 00:18:45,716 Every one of those cows were taken off the free range. 241 00:18:45,761 --> 00:18:47,935 You don't have to spit fire at me. 242 00:18:48,022 --> 00:18:50,718 My word's good enough for everybody else, it ought to be good enough for you. 243 00:18:50,805 --> 00:18:54,806 - It is. - Then don't come with rumours of rustling and range wars. 244 00:18:54,893 --> 00:18:59,719 I'm a businesswoman giving the homesteaders their first look at cash in two years. 245 00:18:59,807 --> 00:19:04,502 - I don't want trouble! - There's trouble in the range. You'll be in it along with us. 246 00:19:04,590 --> 00:19:08,416 Not if I'm playing straight and minding my own business. 247 00:19:08,504 --> 00:19:11,722 My pa minded his own business. 248 00:19:11,809 --> 00:19:14,679 We had a small spread down near Houston. 249 00:19:14,766 --> 00:19:16,940 When the trouble came, he said he'd stay out of it. 250 00:19:17,027 --> 00:19:19,028 The range war "you were talking about? 251 00:19:19,114 --> 00:19:21,723 I was up in the barn when the shootin' started. 252 00:19:21,811 --> 00:19:25,724 By the time I got down and ran for my rifle, Pa was hanging on the corral fence. 253 00:19:25,812 --> 00:19:30,160 Ma was dead, lying in the front yard. 254 00:19:30,247 --> 00:19:33,508 - They killed my three brothers. - Who killed them? 255 00:19:33,595 --> 00:19:36,247 Folks, neighbours... 256 00:19:36,335 --> 00:19:39,032 people who just got so mad they started killin'. 257 00:19:39,118 --> 00:19:42,511 - How old were you then? - Thirteen. 258 00:19:42,598 --> 00:19:45,686 Thirteen? Your whole family? 259 00:19:45,772 --> 00:19:47,860 Is that when you started drifting? 260 00:19:47,903 --> 00:19:51,165 Drifting's not so bad. A man sees a lot of country. 261 00:19:51,251 --> 00:19:53,382 Not anything he can call his own. 262 00:19:53,469 --> 00:19:56,079 Why own something if you don't need it? 263 00:19:56,166 --> 00:19:59,687 What about marriage? 264 00:19:59,775 --> 00:20:02,384 Have you ever thought about getting married? 265 00:20:02,471 --> 00:20:04,906 Some. You? 266 00:20:04,993 --> 00:20:08,429 Kate, need you inside. 267 00:20:11,777 --> 00:20:14,734 We'll talk some more later, huh? 268 00:20:32,650 --> 00:20:36,564 Someone's coming. Put that away. We'll take care of him. 269 00:21:01,831 --> 00:21:06,527 It's the sheriff. Go get Averell. 270 00:21:06,614 --> 00:21:09,354 You were told not to show up before midnight. 271 00:21:09,441 --> 00:21:11,528 In this business, you show up when "you've got the goods. 272 00:21:11,615 --> 00:21:16,225 - How much did he see? - There's no tellin'. 273 00:21:16,311 --> 00:21:18,747 - Get rid of him. - For good? 274 00:21:18,834 --> 00:21:20,921 Leave him alone. 275 00:21:22,052 --> 00:21:24,965 Ever since that Abilene business... 276 00:21:25,052 --> 00:21:28,661 every time you get called out of a room, I get an urge to follow you. 277 00:21:28,748 --> 00:21:31,618 - Now, what's this about? - Nothing, honey. 278 00:21:31,706 --> 00:21:35,229 This drifter was interfering in something private. 279 00:21:35,315 --> 00:21:39,881 As a drifter or as the sheriff? And what jail did you boys break out of? 280 00:21:39,967 --> 00:21:42,403 Do we take him or not? 281 00:21:42,491 --> 00:21:45,491 You leave him alone, that's what you'll do! 282 00:21:45,578 --> 00:21:50,493 And I hope you're thinking up a good story, Jim, because I'm getting awfully mad. 283 00:21:50,580 --> 00:21:53,450 Don't. You'll only come apologizing later. 284 00:21:53,536 --> 00:21:55,754 He's nobody to be skittish about. 285 00:21:55,842 --> 00:21:58,755 Dump him where he'll have a long walk back. 286 00:21:58,842 --> 00:22:01,016 How do I know they won't kill him? 287 00:22:01,103 --> 00:22:03,669 I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw a steer. 288 00:22:03,755 --> 00:22:08,148 They do exactly as I tell them. Get to it, men. 289 00:22:09,192 --> 00:22:12,322 You like him? 290 00:22:12,409 --> 00:22:16,063 No! There's no money in that kind of maverick. 291 00:22:17,150 --> 00:22:20,716 All right. Who are those men? 292 00:22:20,803 --> 00:22:24,542 It seems they were running some cattle into your corral. 293 00:22:24,629 --> 00:22:26,803 - Whose cattle? - Yours. 294 00:22:26,891 --> 00:22:29,282 Anyway, your brand. 295 00:22:31,892 --> 00:22:34,804 There weren't that many here a few minutes ago! 296 00:22:34,849 --> 00:22:37,414 That's what I'm trying to tell you, Kate. 297 00:22:37,501 --> 00:22:39,241 Look at this. 298 00:22:40,284 --> 00:22:43,415 Here's Reece Duncan's brand. 299 00:22:45,416 --> 00:22:47,590 Bar-Double-Check. 300 00:22:47,677 --> 00:22:50,373 Now watch. This is clever. 301 00:22:58,201 --> 00:23:01,071 K-Bar-M. 302 00:23:03,811 --> 00:23:07,855 Katie, somebody's apt to call you a cattle rustler. 303 00:23:07,942 --> 00:23:12,552 - Why you dirty, low-down- - It takes money to run for office. 304 00:23:12,595 --> 00:23:16,204 You'll never be Governor. You'll be crow bait on the end of a rope. 305 00:23:16,292 --> 00:23:19,336 I'm no rustler... but you are. 306 00:23:19,422 --> 00:23:22,597 This is your brand, registered in your name. 307 00:23:22,684 --> 00:23:25,163 I don't share the business with you. I gave it to you. 308 00:23:25,249 --> 00:23:29,686 You're the one who's been buying and selling cattle. How do you get out of that? 309 00:23:29,772 --> 00:23:32,381 Wait till I tell Stan about this... and Duncan! 310 00:23:32,468 --> 00:23:36,643 What if they don't believe you? Pretty big risk, isn't it? 311 00:23:36,730 --> 00:23:39,818 Jim, what are you up to? 312 00:23:39,905 --> 00:23:42,340 This isn't a big enough operation for you. 313 00:23:42,427 --> 00:23:45,124 I've told you, we're going to the Governor's mansion. 314 00:23:45,167 --> 00:23:48,428 It's going to take time and a lot of money. 315 00:23:48,515 --> 00:23:52,472 And meanwhile, "you'll keep your pretty mouth shut. 316 00:23:52,559 --> 00:23:58,082 When I'm playing for high stakes, I get awfully upset if anyone talks. 317 00:24:22,826 --> 00:24:24,783 Hi, Sheriff! 318 00:24:24,826 --> 00:24:27,784 Maybe you can teach Knuckles how to ride. I give up. 319 00:24:27,871 --> 00:24:30,741 Come on, you stumblebum. 320 00:24:30,828 --> 00:24:32,742 - Where's Kate? - Went riding. 321 00:24:32,829 --> 00:24:36,698 Come on, Knuckles! You're not going to throw in the towel, are you? 322 00:24:36,786 --> 00:24:40,091 I'll get a decision over you yet! 323 00:24:48,744 --> 00:24:51,615 Hold on tight, Knuckles! 324 00:24:56,528 --> 00:24:58,659 Come on, ya bum. 325 00:24:58,745 --> 00:25:01,399 Hi, everybody. 326 00:25:05,096 --> 00:25:08,096 You look like you came off second best. 327 00:25:08,184 --> 00:25:11,011 - Third! - Bet you brought him in, though, whoever he was. 328 00:25:11,097 --> 00:25:13,315 - No, he's still kinda loose. - But you will! 329 00:25:13,402 --> 00:25:18,142 - I aim to. - You had a lot of stock in here last night. - Some. 330 00:25:18,229 --> 00:25:21,012 - How many head when we looked at them? - Why? 331 00:25:21,098 --> 00:25:23,534 How many head this morning before you got them out in such a hurry? 332 00:25:23,622 --> 00:25:25,839 Putting together that question and that tin badge... 333 00:25:25,926 --> 00:25:27,970 it looks like I'm accused of being a rustler. 334 00:25:28,013 --> 00:25:32,319 Two minutes after you left last night, some cattle came headin' for the corral. 335 00:25:32,405 --> 00:25:34,536 Driven by my boys, of course! 336 00:25:34,623 --> 00:25:37,841 - Too dark to see that. - But you did see them put cattle into my corral! 337 00:25:37,928 --> 00:25:42,015 - No, I got busy. - So you've taken such a personal dislike to me... 338 00:25:42,103 --> 00:25:44,234 that without seeing anything, without any proof... 339 00:25:44,321 --> 00:25:47,582 - you're willing to believe that I'm a rustler! - I haven't taken a dislike to ya. 340 00:25:47,669 --> 00:25:49,843 Sheriff, I go by actions, not by words... 341 00:25:49,931 --> 00:25:52,104 and what I feel when you talk to me- 342 00:25:52,192 --> 00:25:57,105 - Why, I just feel as homely as a mud fence! - Homely? You're the most- 343 00:26:02,281 --> 00:26:04,410 Women! 344 00:26:13,761 --> 00:26:18,111 - What did he say? - I gave him a line. He won't be any trouble. 345 00:26:18,197 --> 00:26:22,111 That's why he has that job. That's why I gave it to him. 346 00:26:22,198 --> 00:26:25,764 I took one look at him when he first came into town and I said to myself... 347 00:26:25,851 --> 00:26:28,591 "That's the kind of sheriff I need: A drifter." 348 00:26:28,677 --> 00:26:32,505 I've got to hand it to you. This time you're playing it smart, Jim. 349 00:26:32,591 --> 00:26:35,114 It's nice to hear you say so... 350 00:26:35,157 --> 00:26:38,244 except I know you'd like to see me break my neck. 351 00:26:38,332 --> 00:26:41,289 That would be nice. 352 00:26:41,332 --> 00:26:45,637 Oh, Katie, you're just ungrateful. Makes me very unhappy. 353 00:26:45,724 --> 00:26:49,856 I don't like the way you operate. You don't think of anyone but yourself. 354 00:26:49,942 --> 00:26:52,073 What about the homesteaders in this thing? 355 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,291 How long will it be before Duncan starts taking it out on them? 356 00:26:55,378 --> 00:26:59,031 - What makes you think he'd do a thing like that? - You're hoping he will. 357 00:26:59,117 --> 00:27:02,988 - Why, Kate! - You want trouble. You want a range war. 358 00:27:03,075 --> 00:27:07,032 You want so much killing that they'd have to send troops in to keep the peace. 359 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,250 What an imagination! 360 00:27:09,336 --> 00:27:12,077 Duncan killed, arrested, or any way out of the running. 361 00:27:12,164 --> 00:27:16,339 And the homesteaders just about wiped out and ready to listen to anybody. 362 00:27:16,426 --> 00:27:18,513 And who steps up to lead them? 363 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,905 - Jim Averell, the poor man's hope. - It's a good phrase. 364 00:27:22,992 --> 00:27:26,601 I don't want any part of this. I'm getting out of here. 365 00:27:26,689 --> 00:27:29,559 You can't, Kate. 366 00:27:29,646 --> 00:27:31,602 How far could you get? 367 00:27:31,689 --> 00:27:34,647 It won't take Duncan long to trace his cattle to your corral... 368 00:27:34,734 --> 00:27:37,126 and the sheriff to wire ahead. 369 00:27:37,213 --> 00:27:41,300 They don't just arrest you for cattle rustling. 370 00:27:41,343 --> 00:27:43,822 Jim! 371 00:27:43,909 --> 00:27:47,563 This act you're putting on about not being interested in the sheriff. 372 00:27:47,649 --> 00:27:51,693 - Now you're imagining things. - I hope so. 373 00:27:51,780 --> 00:27:55,216 I'm jealous, honey. Can't get angry with me for that. 374 00:27:55,303 --> 00:27:59,738 Sure, I want to be up there where I know I belong, but I want you with me. 375 00:27:59,826 --> 00:28:02,130 I'm doing all of this for you, Katie. 376 00:28:02,217 --> 00:28:04,652 I'll prove that to you yet. 377 00:28:04,739 --> 00:28:07,914 But these things need time. 378 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,350 Yes, that's what we need... time. 379 00:28:27,397 --> 00:28:30,483 Get some of the boys and fix that north line fence. 380 00:28:30,571 --> 00:28:32,919 We gotta keep the herds closer in. 381 00:28:34,049 --> 00:28:36,050 Jiminy! Look what's coming. 382 00:28:42,660 --> 00:28:44,747 Good morning, Mr Duncan. 383 00:28:44,834 --> 00:28:47,183 What brings you out in broad daylight? 384 00:28:47,270 --> 00:28:49,835 I wouldn't mind sitting in the shade for a while. 385 00:28:49,922 --> 00:28:52,049 I'd like to be polite, but I have a lot of work to do. 386 00:28:52,375 --> 00:28:54,070 My business won't take long. 387 00:29:09,969 --> 00:29:13,361 Not much here to interest a woman. It's a man's place. 388 00:29:13,449 --> 00:29:16,667 - Oh, that would interest a woman. - Well, it hasn't. 389 00:29:16,753 --> 00:29:19,667 No wife? No womenfolk? 390 00:29:19,754 --> 00:29:23,539 - I'd have thought otherwise. - I live alone. 391 00:29:23,625 --> 00:29:25,843 Maybe that's why "you're so successful. 392 00:29:25,930 --> 00:29:30,757 - Everything goes into one big ambition. - "So far." 393 00:29:30,844 --> 00:29:33,757 Miss Maxwell, you said you had something to talk to me about. 394 00:29:33,844 --> 00:29:35,888 I have: You. 395 00:29:35,975 --> 00:29:38,715 I think you're making a big mistake. 396 00:29:38,802 --> 00:29:43,846 No, it's your settler friends who are making the mistake with your encouragement. 397 00:29:43,933 --> 00:29:47,717 Oh, now, Mr Duncan, "you're a fair man. 398 00:29:47,804 --> 00:29:51,631 Why don't you admit you started the whole trouble by blacklisting their brands? 399 00:29:51,674 --> 00:29:55,066 If you came here thinking that by being sweet to me and nice to look at... 400 00:29:55,152 --> 00:29:58,500 - I would become a more reasonable man- - You are a reasonable man. 401 00:29:58,588 --> 00:30:01,806 You've just never been approached in the right way. 402 00:30:05,850 --> 00:30:08,416 Miss Maxwell... 403 00:30:08,503 --> 00:30:12,243 I came to this territory as a boy, a ragged trail hand... 404 00:30:12,330 --> 00:30:15,461 without a penny in my pocket and my boots open at the toes. 405 00:30:15,548 --> 00:30:20,026 In 10 years I owned or controlled most of this valley. If you think I'm going to sit back now- 406 00:30:20,113 --> 00:30:23,419 Don't holler at me, Mr Duncan. 407 00:30:23,506 --> 00:30:27,768 If I made the mistake of thinking that "you knew how to play for big stakes... 408 00:30:27,855 --> 00:30:29,725 I apologize. 409 00:30:29,812 --> 00:30:32,725 I was wrong. 410 00:30:32,813 --> 00:30:35,552 - What do you mean? - I said I was wrong. 411 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,118 I thought you wanted to control more than just this valley. 412 00:30:39,205 --> 00:30:41,205 Why don't you read the cards, Mr Duncan? 413 00:30:41,292 --> 00:30:43,728 Before long, the settlers will outnumber the cattlemen. 414 00:30:43,814 --> 00:30:46,293 It has to be that way. There's nothing that can stop it. 415 00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:48,859 Cooperate. Give them a chance to earn an honest living... 416 00:30:48,947 --> 00:30:52,643 and you'll be the most popular man in the whole territory. 417 00:30:52,729 --> 00:30:56,469 They'll put you in the Governor's mansion... 418 00:30:56,557 --> 00:30:59,209 not Jim Averell. 419 00:30:59,296 --> 00:31:03,557 What happened, Miss Maxwell? You have an argument with him? 420 00:31:06,341 --> 00:31:10,863 Let's just say that I want to be on the winning side. 421 00:31:10,951 --> 00:31:13,124 Suppose this turns out to be the winning side? 422 00:31:13,167 --> 00:31:16,125 What's in it for you? 423 00:31:16,168 --> 00:31:20,865 The winning side will be the one I tell the settlers to throw their weight to. 424 00:31:20,952 --> 00:31:25,344 And I think I'll let you fix the reward. 425 00:31:25,430 --> 00:31:28,040 You sound like a natural-born politician. 426 00:31:28,127 --> 00:31:30,388 It's all in knowing how to deal. 427 00:31:30,431 --> 00:31:33,520 ""Mr Duncan!" 428 00:31:33,607 --> 00:31:35,911 Mr Duncan! 429 00:31:35,999 --> 00:31:38,608 We caught the Jessup brothers running off with some of our stock. 430 00:31:38,695 --> 00:31:42,695 We got 'em holed up the other side of town in Pitchfork Canyon. 431 00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:47,175 You expect me to throw in with a bunch of outlaws? 432 00:32:21,006 --> 00:32:23,833 I'll give you an example of how a man gets rich. 433 00:32:23,921 --> 00:32:26,400 See that section there? 434 00:32:26,443 --> 00:32:30,053 If I buy that up, I'll control six others around it because of the water on it. 435 00:32:30,139 --> 00:32:32,400 "It's all in knowing how. 436 00:32:32,487 --> 00:32:35,400 - You hear shooting? - Yeah. It's over near Duncan's place. 437 00:32:35,488 --> 00:32:37,402 Let's go! 438 00:32:49,404 --> 00:32:51,492 I'm out of shells, Matt. 439 00:32:53,231 --> 00:32:56,145 Looks like we're gonna lose this one. 440 00:33:04,581 --> 00:33:07,191 Blast 'em outta there! 441 00:33:09,582 --> 00:33:11,583 Hold your fire! 442 00:33:11,669 --> 00:33:14,844 Better get down. You don't want one of your own friends to shoot you. 443 00:33:14,931 --> 00:33:17,626 Drop it. 444 00:33:17,714 --> 00:33:19,714 I said drop it! 445 00:33:19,802 --> 00:33:23,107 You'd better learn to take orders once in a while, Mr Duncan. 446 00:33:23,193 --> 00:33:25,889 Now start moving! 447 00:33:27,976 --> 00:33:30,151 Stop firin', men. 448 00:33:32,413 --> 00:33:35,022 I keep underratin' you, Miss Maxwell. 449 00:33:35,108 --> 00:33:37,717 I've got to stop that. 450 00:33:37,804 --> 00:33:39,805 Hal! Matt! 451 00:33:39,892 --> 00:33:43,633 Come out reaching! 452 00:33:51,417 --> 00:33:53,809 Looks interesting. 453 00:33:53,895 --> 00:33:56,374 Keep me covered. 454 00:33:59,113 --> 00:34:01,505 - What's the story? - They was rustling our cattle. 455 00:34:01,592 --> 00:34:05,201 - A lie! We found mavericks. - They're not mavericks when they're on my land. 456 00:34:05,246 --> 00:34:08,116 - We didn't set foot on your land. - He was comin' from that way. 457 00:34:08,203 --> 00:34:10,507 Were those mavericks part of Duncan's stock or weren't they? 458 00:34:10,594 --> 00:34:12,638 - "Where's your proof?" - I don't need proof. 459 00:34:12,725 --> 00:34:16,900 Them Jaspers were comin' from our herd, and I know rustling when I see it. 460 00:34:16,986 --> 00:34:20,639 All you know is gunfighting. But if that's what you want, you can have it now. 461 00:34:20,726 --> 00:34:24,466 - But you'll have a dead boss. - Simmer down, Wade. 462 00:34:24,553 --> 00:34:26,684 What do you want, Miss Maxwell? 463 00:34:26,771 --> 00:34:28,902 Have you still got your horses? 464 00:34:28,988 --> 00:34:32,902 All right, get on 'em and hightail it. 465 00:34:32,989 --> 00:34:35,251 Don't move... anyone. 466 00:34:38,556 --> 00:34:39,556 What's this all about? 467 00:34:39,643 --> 00:34:42,730 Why, it's Mr Averell! Glad to see you, Mr Averell. 468 00:34:42,818 --> 00:34:45,906 Miss Maxwell and I were talking about you just a while ago. 469 00:34:45,949 --> 00:34:47,950 That's nice. What did you say? 470 00:34:47,993 --> 00:34:52,255 Miss Maxwell did most of the talkin'; but I can see she didn't mean a word... 471 00:34:52,342 --> 00:34:56,777 saying she might tell the settlers to throw in with me against you. 472 00:35:01,821 --> 00:35:05,605 You birds stick together all the way. 473 00:35:09,345 --> 00:35:12,954 I'll send this back to him. 474 00:35:13,042 --> 00:35:15,954 You won't want to be seeing him again. 475 00:35:18,521 --> 00:35:21,000 Evenin', boys. Myra? 476 00:35:22,042 --> 00:35:24,130 We're short-handed. 477 00:35:24,218 --> 00:35:27,696 What am I? A marriage bureau? 478 00:35:27,783 --> 00:35:30,305 Every time I get a dancer trained, I lose her. 479 00:35:30,393 --> 00:35:32,392 You're sure going to lose this one. 480 00:35:32,479 --> 00:35:35,654 You know what you're doing, Myra? 481 00:35:35,742 --> 00:35:39,393 I want to see a preacher in this, Hal, or I'm gonna get after you with a.44. 482 00:35:39,481 --> 00:35:42,220 We're gettin' married as soon as I get more maverick money. 483 00:35:42,308 --> 00:35:45,265 See that you hide it from him when he celebrates. 484 00:35:53,919 --> 00:35:56,658 - Been here long? - Settin'. 485 00:35:56,746 --> 00:35:59,182 Can I "set" with you? 486 00:35:59,268 --> 00:36:01,312 Set. 487 00:36:03,486 --> 00:36:06,139 - What do you think? - Nice team. 488 00:36:08,313 --> 00:36:11,139 - Is there going to be trouble hereabouts? - Mm-hmm. 489 00:36:11,227 --> 00:36:13,575 - Killing? - Can't tell. 490 00:36:13,661 --> 00:36:16,271 There's something queer going on. 491 00:36:16,358 --> 00:36:19,706 Got another report of strange faces in the hills. 492 00:36:19,794 --> 00:36:24,403 Got another complaint from Duncan about losing cows. 493 00:36:24,489 --> 00:36:29,230 - What'd you see him about today? - I was trying to make peace. 494 00:36:29,317 --> 00:36:32,622 - How? - I wanted him to look at this whole thing sensibly. 495 00:36:32,708 --> 00:36:35,101 He thinks he's being sensible right now. 496 00:36:35,187 --> 00:36:39,536 - I thought maybe a woman's approach- - A woman's approach? 497 00:36:39,624 --> 00:36:42,537 A gun in the back? 498 00:36:42,624 --> 00:36:46,798 - So you know the whole story? - I know you didn't do peace any good today. 499 00:36:46,886 --> 00:36:51,060 What did you expect me to do? Let him shoot down the Jessup boys or hang them? 500 00:36:51,146 --> 00:36:55,147 Listen, Jim Averell brought you out here and set you up in business. 501 00:36:55,235 --> 00:36:59,193 - Everything you do is tied in with him. Duncan hates Averell. - No, you've- 502 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,455 When you held that gun in his back, it was being held by Jim Averell... 503 00:37:02,541 --> 00:37:04,759 who's lying to the settlers, cattlemen, and... 504 00:37:04,847 --> 00:37:08,150 - for all I know, lying to you. - That's what I want to talk to you about. 505 00:37:08,238 --> 00:37:10,238 Those men are building for a fight... 506 00:37:10,326 --> 00:37:13,804 and it won't take but one wrong move to touch it off, set the range on fire! 507 00:37:13,892 --> 00:37:16,414 Will you listen to me? I'm not Jim Averell's woman. 508 00:37:16,501 --> 00:37:19,936 I choose my own man, whoever he is or whatever he is, kingpin or drifter. 509 00:38:01,945 --> 00:38:06,032 It's a little early to tell anything yet. He's a bit low. 510 00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:08,424 - Any news? - We lost him in the dark. 511 00:38:08,511 --> 00:38:11,208 - Spent the whole night combing the hills. - It's a waste of time! 512 00:38:11,294 --> 00:38:13,685 I know where to go for the bushwhacker. 513 00:38:13,772 --> 00:38:16,990 Duncan or one of his boys shot my brother. Now it's my turn. 514 00:38:17,078 --> 00:38:19,296 And then it's Duncan's turn, and whose turn after that? 515 00:38:19,382 --> 00:38:22,079 It's the way feuds get started, and there's no telling where it will end. 516 00:38:22,166 --> 00:38:26,253 I believe in law and order myself, Sheriff, but there's also a thing called justice. 517 00:38:26,340 --> 00:38:28,557 And I'm dealing some out. 518 00:38:28,645 --> 00:38:32,168 The law didn't appoint you to do that, Matt. Don't make me put you in jail. 519 00:38:32,254 --> 00:38:34,907 Stan, you're holding with Duncan. The boys ain't gonna like it. 520 00:38:34,994 --> 00:38:39,039 You just sit down and cool off. Don't try to jump a gun. It never works. 521 00:38:40,777 --> 00:38:45,257 Matt can always get another gun, and Duncan always gives us another reason. 522 00:38:45,344 --> 00:38:49,735 There's a war ahead, Sheriff. You figure to stop it all by yourself? 523 00:38:49,822 --> 00:38:53,345 - Not if some folks want it. - I say wipe out Duncan and his whole outfit. 524 00:38:53,433 --> 00:38:56,519 - It's the only thing that makes sense. - "You talk too much." 525 00:38:56,606 --> 00:39:00,911 It seems to me that all men want to do is fight... 526 00:39:00,998 --> 00:39:05,304 even when they talk about peace... like you! 527 00:39:05,392 --> 00:39:08,306 It's with a gun in their hands! 528 00:39:08,392 --> 00:39:12,914 It's high time women took a hand in running this world. 529 00:39:13,002 --> 00:39:16,437 Duncan and his men run the Cattle Association. 530 00:39:16,525 --> 00:39:19,873 The homesteaders are mad because he keeps them out in the cold. 531 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,221 Very well. Let's form an association of our own! 532 00:39:23,308 --> 00:39:27,308 Sure! Our own outfit to do business for us! 533 00:39:30,005 --> 00:39:33,180 That's for being the brainiest woman I've ever met. 534 00:39:34,615 --> 00:39:38,267 Boys, Kate just had a great idea. 535 00:39:38,354 --> 00:39:42,659 It's the answer to everything. We'll form our own stockmen's corporation. 536 00:39:42,746 --> 00:39:47,095 We'll register our brands with it, find buyers who'll deal with us. 537 00:39:47,181 --> 00:39:50,965 If the courts try to stop us, we'll have an organization to fight back with. 538 00:39:51,052 --> 00:39:54,922 Jim, please. You're not a cattle raiser. This has nothing to do with you. 539 00:39:55,009 --> 00:39:58,532 Of course, this will all take money. And it'll need leadership. 540 00:39:58,575 --> 00:40:00,576 I'm going to advance you the money. 541 00:40:00,663 --> 00:40:03,489 I want all you people in this territory to know... 542 00:40:03,576 --> 00:40:07,054 that Jim Averell is with you... all the way. 543 00:40:07,142 --> 00:40:09,794 Get the boys together. 544 00:40:09,881 --> 00:40:12,797 Better pick your side, Sheriff. 545 00:40:14,579 --> 00:40:17,883 Smartest girl I ever knew. 546 00:40:21,015 --> 00:40:24,016 You make good partners, "you and Averell. 547 00:40:24,103 --> 00:40:26,189 What one thinks of is good for the other. 548 00:40:26,277 --> 00:40:30,016 I didn't want him to be part of this. He took it out of my hands. 549 00:40:30,103 --> 00:40:33,148 Played right into Duncan's. 550 00:40:48,020 --> 00:40:51,238 This is what we needed for a long time. 551 00:40:58,891 --> 00:41:03,501 Kramer, you and Tiny Peterson start bringing 'em in from the north range. 552 00:41:03,588 --> 00:41:07,110 O'Conners, Stubbs, handle the west range. 553 00:41:07,197 --> 00:41:11,024 Andrews, Elliot, Lamont- 554 00:41:22,506 --> 00:41:25,941 Hey, Matt, you wouldn't want the men to ride out in the sun... 555 00:41:26,027 --> 00:41:28,289 without something to line their throats, would you? 556 00:41:28,376 --> 00:41:32,116 - Where's Averell? - I don't know. He left ahead of us. 557 00:41:32,202 --> 00:41:35,377 Kinda slow for a man so anxious to help. 558 00:41:35,465 --> 00:41:38,160 All right, men, we got plenty of work ahead. 559 00:41:43,335 --> 00:41:45,988 - Got it? - Couldn't you wait? 560 00:41:46,075 --> 00:41:48,988 Sure. 561 00:41:49,075 --> 00:41:52,554 But not the boys. They like to be paid as they go along. 562 00:41:54,729 --> 00:41:59,207 It seems to me you go to an awful lot of trouble just to start a shootin' war. 563 00:41:59,295 --> 00:42:03,166 We could do the same thing by nightfall by riding out and throwing a little lead. 564 00:42:03,252 --> 00:42:07,644 Mm-hmm. That's why it's a good idea for you to do exactly as I say... 565 00:42:07,731 --> 00:42:10,471 no more, no less. 566 00:42:20,213 --> 00:42:23,474 - Good coffee. - Makes the best coffee in the whole dang world. 567 00:42:23,561 --> 00:42:26,040 Learned it from Kate. There's someone who can cook. 568 00:42:26,127 --> 00:42:29,693 Tell him some more. I need all the recommendations I can get. 569 00:42:29,779 --> 00:42:31,649 Here comes Averell with the tally book. 570 00:42:37,434 --> 00:42:39,998 Where have you been? We've been waiting for the tally book. 571 00:42:40,086 --> 00:42:43,782 The horse threw his shoe. We had to stop at the blacksmith's. 572 00:42:54,740 --> 00:42:57,655 What's the matter, Sheriff? Don't you believe me? 573 00:42:57,741 --> 00:43:00,524 Just looking at the white stuff. 574 00:43:00,612 --> 00:43:03,089 What about it? 575 00:43:03,177 --> 00:43:06,786 You come by way of Salt Lick Canyon. Long way around, wasn't it? 576 00:43:06,873 --> 00:43:09,613 I said, what about it? 577 00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:12,352 Nothing about it. Relax. 578 00:43:12,439 --> 00:43:15,397 Here comes the first bunch! 579 00:43:21,876 --> 00:43:24,616 - Duncan showed up yet? - He'll be here. 580 00:43:24,703 --> 00:43:27,095 Sandy, you just standin' around? 581 00:43:27,182 --> 00:43:31,009 - "I need an extra man to look for strays." - I work for Jim Averell. 582 00:43:31,096 --> 00:43:33,313 You'll work in this camp or you don't eat. 583 00:43:33,357 --> 00:43:36,401 There's no grub to spare for gunslingers. 584 00:43:39,706 --> 00:43:40,837 I'll help you, Matt. 585 00:43:40,923 --> 00:43:43,185 I said a man to look for strays! 586 00:43:43,272 --> 00:43:45,663 Oh, I was cuttin' cattle long before I cut cards! 587 00:43:45,751 --> 00:43:47,794 Get me a horse, something alive! 588 00:43:48,926 --> 00:43:49,838 Tom! 589 00:43:57,318 --> 00:43:58,274 Thank you. 590 00:43:58,362 --> 00:44:01,232 I wouldn't get on that critter, Kate. It ain't safe! 591 00:44:15,974 --> 00:44:18,365 Kate! 592 00:44:27,410 --> 00:44:31,586 Bet she'd be real handy on a homestead. 593 00:45:30,293 --> 00:45:34,468 - Round-up could be finished before Duncan shows up. - Not likely. 594 00:45:34,511 --> 00:45:36,903 Trouble is, I hold with the settlers instead of him. 595 00:45:36,990 --> 00:45:39,730 - Makes it pretty hard being sheriff. - It'll get harder all the time. 596 00:45:39,817 --> 00:45:43,861 - Duncan's not the kind who gives up. - Maybe I am. 597 00:45:43,949 --> 00:45:46,861 I didn't figure on this kind of thing when I took this job. 598 00:45:46,949 --> 00:45:49,340 I didn't figure on being Duncan's man... 599 00:45:49,428 --> 00:45:52,037 running around arresting homesteaders. 600 00:45:52,123 --> 00:45:57,341 Seems to me the best thing I can do is turn in my badge and move on. 601 00:45:57,429 --> 00:46:00,038 - Where would you go? - Yonder. 602 00:46:01,125 --> 00:46:03,517 Yonder! Always yonder. 603 00:46:04,561 --> 00:46:06,517 That's no life for a man. 604 00:46:06,604 --> 00:46:09,518 Haven't you ever thought about sending down roots? 605 00:46:09,604 --> 00:46:13,345 - Staying in one place for a while? - Reckon so... 606 00:46:15,084 --> 00:46:17,823 when I find what I want. 607 00:46:17,911 --> 00:46:20,607 What do you want? 608 00:46:26,608 --> 00:46:30,566 When Duncan hears how many mavericks we rounded up... 609 00:46:33,827 --> 00:46:36,784 he's gonna get a real bellyache. 610 00:46:49,178 --> 00:46:50,961 Bar-VRanch, one calf. 611 00:46:53,005 --> 00:46:55,441 Duncan's comin' up Loma Pass! 612 00:46:57,702 --> 00:47:00,702 Get your girls into that tent, and get in with 'em. Stay under cover. 613 00:47:00,790 --> 00:47:03,094 - But I want to be out here. - Get into the tent! 614 00:47:03,181 --> 00:47:06,442 Off your horses, boys, and into place. You know what to do. 615 00:47:06,529 --> 00:47:08,312 Get every horse outta camp! 616 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,704 If there's any trouble, they'll only be in the way. 617 00:47:10,791 --> 00:47:14,052 Step lively, everybody! He's on the other side of the hill. 618 00:47:23,315 --> 00:47:25,576 Wade, hold the men up here. 619 00:47:37,839 --> 00:47:41,492 I don't know how far you thought "you'd go with this fool idea, Averell... 620 00:47:41,580 --> 00:47:43,841 but it comes to an end right now. 621 00:47:44,799 --> 00:47:46,016 Where's that sheriff? 622 00:47:49,016 --> 00:47:51,320 Here's a complaint signed by Judge Crawford... 623 00:47:51,408 --> 00:47:54,495 to the effect that these men are defying the Maverick Law. 624 00:47:55,539 --> 00:47:57,670 Serve it. 625 00:48:00,888 --> 00:48:03,931 Seems all regular and in order. 626 00:48:04,019 --> 00:48:08,150 Well, Sheriff, I just happen to have a Federal injunction... 627 00:48:08,238 --> 00:48:11,411 enjoining these men from interfering with this round-up... 628 00:48:11,498 --> 00:48:13,542 in any manner, shape or form. 629 00:48:13,629 --> 00:48:16,369 Will you serve it, please? 630 00:48:21,457 --> 00:48:23,413 Looks like a stand-off. 631 00:48:25,632 --> 00:48:29,589 That Jim Averell! Did anybody ever outsmart him? 632 00:48:29,676 --> 00:48:33,763 If Duncan doesn't win by brains, he'll win another way. 633 00:48:33,850 --> 00:48:36,503 Here it comes. Keep back. 634 00:48:38,068 --> 00:48:40,547 That's a pretty clever trick, Mr Averell. 635 00:48:40,634 --> 00:48:43,331 I'm surprised at myself not figurin'on that. 636 00:48:43,417 --> 00:48:46,113 I've had it in my pocket for a couple of days... 637 00:48:46,201 --> 00:48:48,114 just waiting for you to show up. 638 00:48:48,201 --> 00:48:52,159 Cancelling out my court order doesn't cancel out my rights as a rancher. 639 00:48:52,247 --> 00:48:55,072 You don't know of any way to stop me from stayin' here... 640 00:48:55,116 --> 00:48:59,509 - and keeping an eye peeled for my own stock? - I wouldn't wanna stop ya. 641 00:48:59,595 --> 00:49:03,901 Get a little nervous, though, lookin' at all that artillery. 642 00:49:06,118 --> 00:49:08,379 That's why we brought it here. 643 00:49:08,466 --> 00:49:11,467 You won't need it here. 644 00:49:11,554 --> 00:49:14,467 Pick 'em up. 645 00:49:14,554 --> 00:49:17,554 Duncan, tell your boys to drop their guns off over in Kate's wagon. 646 00:49:17,642 --> 00:49:19,555 I've got an idea they wouldn't do that. 647 00:49:19,599 --> 00:49:22,295 I'm tellin' ya they will. 648 00:49:22,382 --> 00:49:24,295 Never had so many deputies before. 649 00:49:28,775 --> 00:49:32,036 Look over there. 650 00:49:32,123 --> 00:49:34,167 I've got more, but you can't see 'em. 651 00:49:34,254 --> 00:49:36,863 Gentlemen, peace is declared. 652 00:49:36,949 --> 00:49:38,516 What about them? 653 00:49:38,602 --> 00:49:43,777 All right, everybody! Over at Kate's wagon, and drop off your hardware. 654 00:49:43,865 --> 00:49:46,952 You deputies too! 655 00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:54,171 All right, men, drop your guns in the wagon. 656 00:50:13,218 --> 00:50:15,218 Hey, Duncan? 657 00:50:15,479 --> 00:50:19,175 Cut out a bunch of your cows a while ago. You want the calves branded? 658 00:50:19,263 --> 00:50:21,872 I'll take that as a favour. 659 00:50:25,307 --> 00:50:26,177 Where's its mother? 660 00:50:26,264 --> 00:50:28,916 Got separated somehow. 661 00:50:29,004 --> 00:50:31,613 - How do you know this one doesn't belong to me? - We don't... 662 00:50:31,700 --> 00:50:35,614 Half for you and half for us. 663 00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:39,180 - Can you think of anything better? - That's fair enough. 664 00:50:42,484 --> 00:50:45,093 - Acts just like you when you won't listen to reason. - Oh? 665 00:50:45,180 --> 00:50:47,747 If you'd settle down and talk things over... 666 00:50:47,833 --> 00:50:52,052 - you might find there's room enough here for all of us. - Could be. 667 00:50:53,617 --> 00:50:57,095 You're the prettiest little maverick I ever did see! 668 00:50:57,183 --> 00:50:59,272 How 'bout lettin' me put my brand on ya? 669 00:50:59,358 --> 00:51:01,489 Thanks. I'm wearing one already. 670 00:51:01,576 --> 00:51:05,360 You gotta get used to sudden changes. 671 00:51:08,012 --> 00:51:10,055 Hey!" 672 00:51:21,710 --> 00:51:23,798 Get outta here! 673 00:51:23,884 --> 00:51:26,493 Stop it! Stop it! 674 00:51:46,932 --> 00:51:48,193 What's the idea? 675 00:52:04,762 --> 00:52:07,198 Stampede! Stampede! 676 00:52:10,286 --> 00:52:12,415 Mount up and head 'em off! 677 00:52:41,203 --> 00:52:42,943 Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! 678 00:53:04,556 --> 00:53:07,599 Whoa! Whoa! 679 00:53:09,210 --> 00:53:11,210 Whoa! Whoa! 680 00:53:12,819 --> 00:53:15,341 Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! 681 00:53:27,257 --> 00:53:29,213 Duncan! 682 00:53:29,301 --> 00:53:32,213 Get your men together and clear out. We've had enough trouble here. 683 00:53:32,301 --> 00:53:34,432 Nobody talks to me like that. 684 00:53:34,519 --> 00:53:37,476 That's a Federal court order talking to you like that. 685 00:53:37,562 --> 00:53:40,129 You better go. 686 00:53:40,216 --> 00:53:43,389 Call the men in. Tell them I've gone back to the ranch. 687 00:53:45,608 --> 00:53:48,913 - Can you finish this round-up in one more day? - There's a chance. 688 00:53:48,999 --> 00:53:51,522 Well, then, get movin'. 689 00:54:15,396 --> 00:54:18,005 Well, there's the last one. 690 00:54:18,093 --> 00:54:20,527 Round-up's over. 691 00:54:25,660 --> 00:54:27,834 - How's the round-up? - It's over. Your men standing by? 692 00:54:27,921 --> 00:54:31,225 Yeah. When do we move? Averell will give us the word. 693 00:54:59,709 --> 00:55:03,145 Hi, Maverick. How goes it with law and order? 694 00:55:03,231 --> 00:55:06,232 - Not much change. - There never is any change with you. 695 00:55:06,318 --> 00:55:09,668 Don't you ever sing or dance, or feel like kickin' up your heels? 696 00:55:09,754 --> 00:55:11,885 Come on. Dance with me. 697 00:55:11,972 --> 00:55:14,016 I wish I knew what to think about you. 698 00:55:14,103 --> 00:55:16,930 If I ride off, it'll be too late. 699 00:55:17,016 --> 00:55:19,496 Still talking about going away? 700 00:55:19,583 --> 00:55:23,322 About ready to turn in my badge and saddle up. 701 00:55:23,410 --> 00:55:27,063 What's holding you back? 702 00:55:27,106 --> 00:55:29,150 Nothin', I reckon. 703 00:55:29,237 --> 00:55:33,194 I hope it turns out to be as green as you think- 704 00:55:33,238 --> 00:55:37,238 the grass on... the other side of the fence." 705 00:55:37,325 --> 00:55:39,935 Hold still, everybody! 706 00:55:40,022 --> 00:55:42,848 Just stay like that and there won't be any trouble. 707 00:55:49,110 --> 00:55:51,762 I'm takin' you to the marshal at Rawlins. 708 00:55:51,850 --> 00:55:54,850 - What for? - For rustling cattle... 709 00:55:54,937 --> 00:55:58,112 - and murdering my foreman, Wade Burrows. - That's ridiculous! 710 00:55:58,199 --> 00:56:00,286 - What are you trying to start here? - Keep out of this, Averell. 711 00:56:00,373 --> 00:56:04,200 I'm in this all the way, and you better have plenty of evidence. 712 00:56:04,287 --> 00:56:08,462 There's enough evidence to hang her six times over. 713 00:56:08,549 --> 00:56:10,941 Come out to the corral. 714 00:56:15,811 --> 00:56:18,289 Found him out on the range near my north section... 715 00:56:18,376 --> 00:56:22,944 stretched out near a brandin'fire with two holes in his back. 716 00:56:23,030 --> 00:56:25,205 They never gave him a chance. 717 00:56:25,291 --> 00:56:28,509 Wade Burrows was a troublemaker. It just caught up with him. 718 00:56:28,596 --> 00:56:32,858 - What's the connection with Kate? - I'll show you right now. 719 00:56:32,946 --> 00:56:35,728 Every time I complained to you about losin' branded cattle... 720 00:56:35,816 --> 00:56:41,034 "you'd talk about strange faces in the hills, and rustlers nobody ever sees. 721 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,121 I'll show ya some rustlers. 722 00:56:47,252 --> 00:56:50,991 That's my brand, the Bar-Double-Check. 723 00:56:51,079 --> 00:56:54,166 When we picked up Wade, there was a brandin'iron under him. 724 00:56:54,254 --> 00:56:56,167 I reckon the killers forgot that. 725 00:56:56,254 --> 00:56:59,342 Here's the iron. 726 00:56:59,428 --> 00:57:01,603 And here's what it does. 727 00:57:04,516 --> 00:57:06,908 K- Bar-M. 728 00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:12,126 I'm takin' you in on suspicion of rustlin' and murder. 729 00:57:12,213 --> 00:57:16,475 The sheriff's office is still filled, Duncan. Don't try to do my job. 730 00:57:16,561 --> 00:57:19,693 - This woman is goin' to jail! - "But I'll do the takin'." 731 00:57:19,779 --> 00:57:23,389 I trust you, Duncan, but you got a vigilante look in your eye. 732 00:57:23,475 --> 00:57:26,911 He'd put a rope around her neck as soon as they got out of sight. 733 00:57:26,998 --> 00:57:29,304 Don't worry, honey. I'll get you the best... 734 00:57:29,391 --> 00:57:32,523 legal representation in the territory of Wyoming. 735 00:57:32,609 --> 00:57:34,522 By the time these charges are heard... 736 00:57:34,609 --> 00:57:37,436 Mr Duncan'll have to eat a lot of words. 737 00:57:37,479 --> 00:57:41,176 - Am I right, boys? - "You bet." 738 00:57:42,525 --> 00:57:45,394 Your deputies must be tired after the round-up... 739 00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,655 so I know you'll be glad if I post some of my men at the jail... 740 00:57:48,700 --> 00:57:51,177 to see she doesn't get away. 741 00:57:56,092 --> 00:57:59,962 There'll be more in jail when I found out which of ya have been takin' orders from her. 742 00:58:03,224 --> 00:58:06,355 You haven't said a word for the last 15 minutes. 743 00:58:06,442 --> 00:58:09,399 You used to find it easy to talk. Why not now? 744 00:58:09,485 --> 00:58:12,617 Talking to you never helped me before. 745 00:58:12,703 --> 00:58:14,747 What's the truth, Kate? 746 00:58:14,834 --> 00:58:17,226 Is Averell playin' you, or are you both playin' me? 747 00:58:17,313 --> 00:58:21,618 Things were bad enough in this town before you came. They're twice as bad now. 748 00:58:21,705 --> 00:58:24,357 You think I'm a murderer and a rustler? 749 00:58:24,445 --> 00:58:27,706 I don't know what to think. 750 00:58:27,793 --> 00:58:30,707 What's between you and Averell? 751 00:58:34,056 --> 00:58:36,230 Too much. 752 00:58:54,625 --> 00:58:56,712 Keep your eyes peeled for trouble. 753 00:58:56,799 --> 00:59:00,670 Want these gents barbecued or slow-fried? 754 00:59:00,756 --> 00:59:04,236 Don't get the idea "you're deputies, boys. 755 00:59:04,322 --> 00:59:08,236 Anything happens to her, "you'll pay for it. 756 00:59:17,063 --> 00:59:18,977 You might as well catch 40 winks. 757 00:59:19,064 --> 00:59:22,587 - Tomorrow could be a big day. - I'll stay here. 758 00:59:22,674 --> 00:59:27,022 - You can't help her. She's locked up. - I'll stay here! 759 00:59:33,936 --> 00:59:36,720 Kinda wondered why he wasn't around. 760 00:59:36,806 --> 00:59:38,895 I wouldn't put it past Reece Duncan... 761 00:59:38,982 --> 00:59:41,808 to kill one of his own men and pin it on us. 762 00:59:41,895 --> 00:59:44,896 What his second move will be, I can only guess. 763 00:59:44,983 --> 00:59:47,765 L-I'm too busy thinking about Kate... 764 00:59:47,810 --> 00:59:50,114 sitting over in that jail. 765 00:59:52,898 --> 00:59:56,289 Seems to me we got nothing to go on but her own word that she's innocent. 766 00:59:59,073 --> 01:00:02,812 - We brought in 300 unbranded mavericks... - How did it work? 767 01:00:02,900 --> 01:00:06,248 Fine. She was so surprised she couldn't say a word. 768 01:00:06,335 --> 01:00:08,249 Go back and tell 'em to get set. 769 01:00:08,335 --> 01:00:11,945 You'll see the signal as soon as it's light enough to see smoke. 770 01:00:12,031 --> 01:00:15,118 There isn't much hay over there. You'd better drag over another bale. 771 01:00:15,206 --> 01:00:18,250 Go on. 772 01:00:18,336 --> 01:00:22,860 I say Kate had nothin' to do with it. She's innocent as a newborn babe! 773 01:00:22,946 --> 01:00:26,425 All right. If nobody'll back me up to bust her outta that jail... 774 01:00:26,469 --> 01:00:29,557 - I'll do it myself. - I don't think you'll have time. 775 01:00:29,644 --> 01:00:32,252 Boys, I just got some pretty bad news. 776 01:00:32,339 --> 01:00:35,557 Sandy tells me Duncan's calling in every man he's got. 777 01:00:35,644 --> 01:00:40,080 He's getting set for a fight, and he'll find a good reason to start one. 778 01:00:40,167 --> 01:00:42,472 I'm going out there and try and talk him out of it. 779 01:00:42,559 --> 01:00:46,909 - I never heard of Duncan bein' talked out of anything. - Maybe so. 780 01:00:46,995 --> 01:00:51,953 At least it'll give you men a chance to get organized for a battle. 781 01:01:27,872 --> 01:01:30,569 See that nothin' happens to her. 782 01:01:34,221 --> 01:01:39,091 As miserable a collection of faces as ever I seen off a reward poster. 783 01:01:39,178 --> 01:01:42,657 What kind of records did you gents have before you went to work for Duncan? 784 01:01:42,744 --> 01:01:45,832 Smart aleck! Don't pay him no heed. 785 01:01:47,921 --> 01:01:51,921 All right, men! Come and get it! 786 01:01:52,008 --> 01:01:55,747 That's real cordial, but kinda sudden. 787 01:01:55,835 --> 01:01:58,053 See who's outside. 788 01:01:58,096 --> 01:02:00,270 How do you like that? They got suspicions. 789 01:02:00,357 --> 01:02:02,793 I've got a good mind to spill this stuff on the floor. 790 01:02:11,185 --> 01:02:14,012 Quiet outside, but I'm kinda dry inside. Gimme some of that! 791 01:02:14,099 --> 01:02:18,317 Just a minute. I kinda changed my mind about you fellas. 792 01:02:18,404 --> 01:02:21,144 - Gimme some of that beer, sonny. - Sonny? 793 01:02:21,231 --> 01:02:24,319 I'm gonna like this! 794 01:02:31,233 --> 01:02:33,842 Nice work, Knuckles. Pick him up. 795 01:02:33,928 --> 01:02:36,364 You got me covered. 796 01:02:40,364 --> 01:02:42,670 Hey, ain't this somethin'? Ajailbreak! We're bustin' ya outta here. 797 01:02:42,757 --> 01:02:44,931 - Who organized it? - We did. The sheriff's outta town. 798 01:02:44,974 --> 01:02:46,931 Jim's ridin' up to Duncan's ranch. 799 01:02:46,974 --> 01:02:51,279 Jim found out Duncan's gettin' ready for a fight. He's gonna try and stop him. 800 01:02:51,367 --> 01:02:55,021 - Don't you believe it! - In ya go! 801 01:02:55,107 --> 01:02:58,239 He doesn't want to stop a war. He wants to start one. 802 01:02:58,325 --> 01:03:00,848 Boys, I think it's about time "you knew the truth. 803 01:03:00,934 --> 01:03:03,109 I've been covering up for Jim Averell in one of... 804 01:03:03,195 --> 01:03:06,109 the slickest rustling schemes Wyoming ever saw. 805 01:03:06,197 --> 01:03:09,110 And the idea back of the whole thing is to start you... 806 01:03:09,197 --> 01:03:11,676 and the big cattle raisers to killing each other off. 807 01:03:11,762 --> 01:03:14,894 I told you she mightn't be innocent. 808 01:03:14,980 --> 01:03:17,459 You didn't finish. We're still listenin'. 809 01:03:17,546 --> 01:03:19,938 Jim's got a bunch of gunslingers up in the hills. 810 01:03:20,025 --> 01:03:24,243 And one of them, or Sandy, killed Wade Burrows to pin the whole thing on me... 811 01:03:24,330 --> 01:03:26,504 and start this big range war that he wants. 812 01:03:26,591 --> 01:03:29,896 He sure did pin it on ya. How many times that brandin' iron been used? 813 01:03:29,984 --> 01:03:34,462 I don't know, but the important thing is he wants to start a range war. 814 01:03:34,549 --> 01:03:38,506 Boys, I know Jim Averell and you don't. He wants to be Governor. 815 01:03:38,594 --> 01:03:41,942 He doesn't care how many people he walks over to get to the Governor's chair... 816 01:03:41,986 --> 01:03:44,116 or how many he kills to stay there. 817 01:03:44,203 --> 01:03:46,291 I don't believe anything she says, good or bad. 818 01:03:46,377 --> 01:03:49,987 - Shut up! - Boys, you've got to believe me. 819 01:03:50,074 --> 01:03:52,161 He's got this whole thing worked out! 820 01:03:52,204 --> 01:03:56,858 - What's he doing at Duncan's? - Duncan's as big a sucker as any of us. 821 01:03:56,944 --> 01:04:00,599 Jim made him want to fight, and he's gone up there to push him into it. 822 01:04:00,686 --> 01:04:03,208 I wish somebody would get over to that case of rifles... 823 01:04:03,295 --> 01:04:06,556 and start protecting me from what's coming. 824 01:04:25,429 --> 01:04:28,865 - What do you want? - I'll talk to you inside. 825 01:04:33,604 --> 01:04:36,953 If you came here to talk for Kate Maxwell, "you're wastin' your time. 826 01:04:37,039 --> 01:04:39,518 Kate doesn't need anybody to talk for her. 827 01:04:39,606 --> 01:04:43,041 - She's probably out of jail by now. - I don't think so. 828 01:04:43,084 --> 01:04:46,998 - I left five of my men there. - Hope they're alive. 829 01:04:47,085 --> 01:04:49,390 Duncan, the settlers are talking fight. 830 01:04:49,477 --> 01:04:51,478 They're gonna end this by wiping you out. 831 01:04:51,564 --> 01:04:53,695 Wantin' to won't make it easy. 832 01:04:53,782 --> 01:04:56,348 I'd hate to be around when she sends them out here. 833 01:04:56,434 --> 01:04:59,305 They'll smoke you and your men out, and knock you over like rabbits. 834 01:04:59,348 --> 01:05:04,916 Maybe, unless I crack down on them first with a few ideas of my own. 835 01:05:05,002 --> 01:05:06,481 Ned! 836 01:05:08,482 --> 01:05:11,482 - Call the men in. - Right. 837 01:05:12,612 --> 01:05:17,049 I suppose your story's pretty straight, Mr Averell. 838 01:05:17,135 --> 01:05:21,093 - Now I'd like to know how straight you are. - Use your head. 839 01:05:21,179 --> 01:05:23,093 Why are we fighting each other? 840 01:05:23,179 --> 01:05:25,833 Neither of us really have anything in common with these settlers. 841 01:05:25,919 --> 01:05:28,876 We live in a different world. We live a different life. 842 01:05:28,964 --> 01:05:32,138 When the chips are down, whose side do you think I'll be on? 843 01:05:32,224 --> 01:05:34,052 Theirs or ours? 844 01:05:34,138 --> 01:05:37,052 You're a real high-minded citizen to be looking for the governorship. 845 01:05:37,139 --> 01:05:40,009 - I'm for Jim Averell. - I see that. 846 01:05:40,095 --> 01:05:44,227 - So after all your big talk, "you're double-crossin' 'em. - That's not a nice word. 847 01:05:44,314 --> 01:05:47,227 How do I know you're not double-crossin' me? 848 01:05:47,314 --> 01:05:50,272 You don't. It's a big chance, isn't it? 849 01:05:50,315 --> 01:05:52,576 Which reminds me. While we're here talking... 850 01:05:52,663 --> 01:05:56,577 - we're giving them more time to get organized. - That time's about up. 851 01:05:56,664 --> 01:05:59,186 They want a fight, I'll bring it to them. 852 01:06:03,056 --> 01:06:05,535 You're comin' along, Mr Averell. 853 01:06:05,579 --> 01:06:09,710 If anything goes wrong, I'll have you right under my guns. 854 01:06:16,364 --> 01:06:19,930 Ned, get all the hands in from the range. 855 01:06:20,017 --> 01:06:23,062 Saddle up. We're ridin'. 856 01:06:29,888 --> 01:06:32,671 - All set. - All right. Come on. 857 01:06:32,758 --> 01:06:35,194 Get on the horses, boys. Let's go. 858 01:06:58,633 --> 01:07:01,373 - If you try to stop me now, Sheriff- - I'm not gonna stop ya. 859 01:07:01,459 --> 01:07:04,416 I'm gonna join ya like Averell's done. 860 01:07:04,503 --> 01:07:07,330 How have you managed to keep "your outlaw friends under cover so long? 861 01:07:07,418 --> 01:07:09,852 - What outlaws? - Wanna tell him? 862 01:07:09,939 --> 01:07:12,984 - I don't know what you're talking about. - The outlaws working for him. 863 01:07:13,071 --> 01:07:16,637 - The ones that killed your foreman and stole your cattle. - That's a lie! 864 01:07:16,724 --> 01:07:19,594 - If it isn't Averell- - No use arguing now. 865 01:07:19,682 --> 01:07:22,594 We'll find out. 866 01:07:28,944 --> 01:07:33,858 If there's going to be a fight with Duncan's men, we know we're going into it with clean hands. 867 01:07:33,945 --> 01:07:37,945 But let's keep it clean all the way. The first shot must come from him. 868 01:07:38,032 --> 01:07:41,163 And if it does, well, "you boys know how to fight back. 869 01:07:41,250 --> 01:07:43,294 - Here they come! - Now, remember: 870 01:07:43,338 --> 01:07:45,642 Duncan's boys must be the first to start. 871 01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:56,253 Duncan, you've got about a minute to make up your mind. 872 01:07:56,340 --> 01:07:58,905 Throw in with the settlers, and I think we can prove our friend here... 873 01:07:58,992 --> 01:08:01,471 has been double-crossing every one of us. 874 01:08:01,559 --> 01:08:04,602 Start battlin', and the outlaws will wipe out the town. 875 01:08:04,646 --> 01:08:08,168 Seems to me a man of your position, with all you have at stake... 876 01:08:08,255 --> 01:08:12,387 isn't going to let your thinking be done for you by a $50-a-month sheriff... 877 01:08:12,473 --> 01:08:15,474 a saddle bum who rode in here from nowhere. 878 01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:18,563 What's your play, Sheriff? 879 01:08:26,216 --> 01:08:28,304 You didn't spend much time in jail. 880 01:08:28,390 --> 01:08:31,347 Couldn't afford it. Too many chores. 881 01:08:31,434 --> 01:08:35,304 "Glad everybody's in good humour. 882 01:08:35,391 --> 01:08:38,566 - What's it going to be, Stan? - We're gonna have a party. 883 01:08:38,653 --> 01:08:41,045 A mite different from the one Mr Averell planned on... 884 01:08:41,131 --> 01:08:44,263 but he's gonna be the host. 885 01:08:44,349 --> 01:08:46,742 - Get off. - What for? 886 01:08:46,828 --> 01:08:49,567 The man spoke to ya. 887 01:08:53,742 --> 01:08:58,613 Some odd characters in the hills are waiting for him to tell them we're killing each other. 888 01:08:58,657 --> 01:09:00,831 All right, tell them. 889 01:09:00,918 --> 01:09:03,092 I don't know what you mean. 890 01:09:03,179 --> 01:09:05,614 The smoke signal, Mr Averell. 891 01:09:05,701 --> 01:09:09,050 You're supposed to light that stack of hay as soon as we start throwin' lead at each other. 892 01:09:09,137 --> 01:09:12,963 Then they come riding in to take over the town. 893 01:09:13,051 --> 01:09:17,313 - "Light it." - The wind'll sweep the fire into every building in town. 894 01:09:17,399 --> 01:09:22,705 Hal, get over in the hotel and keep a bead on him. 895 01:09:22,793 --> 01:09:24,792 If he tries to move anywhere... 896 01:09:24,879 --> 01:09:27,967 - "let him have it." - Right. 897 01:09:31,576 --> 01:09:33,664 Now light it. 898 01:09:46,318 --> 01:09:49,014 Light it, Jim! 899 01:10:03,799 --> 01:10:05,713 Let's draw 'em in close, boys. 900 01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,844 - Let 'em think we're in a free-for-all, and make it good! - 901 01:10:18,976 --> 01:10:20,977 What are we waitin' for? 902 01:10:22,368 --> 01:10:24,456 All right. Come on! 903 01:10:36,807 --> 01:10:39,416 Rise and shine, Governor! 904 01:10:51,418 --> 01:10:55,070 - Listen to that battle. - This is where we split up. 905 01:10:55,158 --> 01:10:58,463 Let's ride! 906 01:11:02,811 --> 01:11:05,420 I left five men guardin' you. 907 01:11:05,507 --> 01:11:09,030 Nobody hurt them. Their pride maybe, but that's all. 908 01:11:09,116 --> 01:11:13,074 You think I'm crooked and no-account. You'd put more trust in a lead dollar. 909 01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:16,553 - Who killed Wade Burrows? - Do you think if I had anything to do with that... 910 01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:20,424 I'd have left that branding iron under him like a signed confession? 911 01:11:20,510 --> 01:11:22,859 Now you're saying that Averell tried to frame you. 912 01:11:22,946 --> 01:11:25,771 Why should he? You're working together. 913 01:11:25,859 --> 01:11:29,382 If I talk from now till Christmas, "you'd still only believe what you want. 914 01:11:29,469 --> 01:11:32,513 All right, go ahead. Believe what you want. 915 01:11:32,601 --> 01:11:37,253 - But make up your mind quickly. There's a fight comin' on. - "" 916 01:11:51,735 --> 01:11:55,604 You ain't playin' fair, Jim. You left us no chance for fun. 917 01:11:55,692 --> 01:11:57,605 They're partners, all right! 918 01:11:57,692 --> 01:12:01,476 - I kept trying not to believe it. - Well? 919 01:12:01,562 --> 01:12:04,824 I've been with ya since we rode into town. 920 01:12:04,911 --> 01:12:07,564 You-You boys better put up your guns. 921 01:12:07,651 --> 01:12:11,085 - Why? - Well, I, uh-l- 922 01:12:16,086 --> 01:12:21,261 Well, look here! Captured ourselves a sheriff! 923 01:12:21,349 --> 01:12:23,435 You boys had a nice little scheme. 924 01:12:23,523 --> 01:12:25,697 Don't talk! Don't shoot! It's a trap. 925 01:12:25,784 --> 01:12:29,350 Not the kind of scheme that'd give anybody a chance, but I'm givin' you one: 926 01:12:29,393 --> 01:12:32,655 A fair trial if you drop your guns. 927 01:12:38,831 --> 01:12:41,092 - We're covered. - That's it, boys. 928 01:12:41,179 --> 01:12:43,136 There's a bead on every one of ya. 929 01:12:45,571 --> 01:12:47,223 Let's go! 930 01:13:22,795 --> 01:13:27,448 Get that guy in the hotel window. He's got me pinned down. 931 01:14:50,552 --> 01:14:53,510 You stay inside! 932 01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:04,641 Jim, grab on! 933 01:16:37,616 --> 01:16:39,442 Leaving? 934 01:16:40,573 --> 01:16:42,835 Pointing a gun at me again, Kate? 935 01:16:42,922 --> 01:16:46,227 I ought to kill you, but I'd rather see you hang. 936 01:16:46,313 --> 01:16:51,010 - Now, Kate! - You lying, sneaking, murdering- 937 01:16:51,096 --> 01:16:54,837 They'll be piling in here in a minute, Kate. You gotta let me go. 938 01:16:54,924 --> 01:16:57,577 Why? For what you've done to me? 939 01:16:59,969 --> 01:17:02,273 For what I used to mean to you. 940 01:17:02,318 --> 01:17:04,666 That was an idea I had. 941 01:17:04,752 --> 01:17:07,101 But you were never like the idea. 942 01:17:08,145 --> 01:17:10,884 Well, uh, the good times we had. 943 01:17:10,972 --> 01:17:13,058 We had good times. 944 01:17:13,146 --> 01:17:15,668 Think about them, Kate. 945 01:17:15,755 --> 01:17:18,668 What are you gonna gain if I die? 946 01:17:18,755 --> 01:17:23,104 You'll never see me again! You got Stan Blaine, and- 947 01:17:25,626 --> 01:17:28,191 Did I kill him, Kate, when I had a chance? 948 01:17:28,279 --> 01:17:33,279 When you asked me not to, Kate, did I kill him? 949 01:17:33,367 --> 01:17:35,889 There's another reason "you gotta let me go. 950 01:17:37,932 --> 01:17:41,237 Look, Kate. Look at this. 951 01:17:42,846 --> 01:17:46,021 How can I believe anything you've said? The last time- 952 01:18:12,245 --> 01:18:15,418 - Let's listen to him, boys. - Thank you. 953 01:18:15,505 --> 01:18:18,115 I think we can give credit for this to... 954 01:18:18,202 --> 01:18:21,245 Cattle Kate! I've come to realize... 955 01:18:21,333 --> 01:18:25,725 that I've got to consider "your interests as well as mine. 956 01:18:25,768 --> 01:18:29,987 If you want to make a friend of me, think of my interests as well as yours. 957 01:18:30,074 --> 01:18:34,943 "The West is gettin'smaller, friends, and I reckon we've gotta learn to live together. 958 01:18:34,987 --> 01:18:39,814 Now, I'm not the kind of man that'll throw away the things that I worked hard for. 959 01:18:39,901 --> 01:18:42,032 - Who gave you that? - He did. 960 01:18:42,075 --> 01:18:45,425 - Where is he? - Saddling up. 961 01:18:54,470 --> 01:18:56,383 Where to, Maverick? 962 01:18:56,469 --> 01:19:01,339 Could be California, maybe Oregon Territory. 963 01:19:01,427 --> 01:19:05,124 - Do you still think I was Jim Averell's woman? - That's how it looked. 964 01:19:05,211 --> 01:19:09,298 Because I cried? Sure, I cried, but not because I love Jim. 965 01:19:09,386 --> 01:19:12,256 I cried because when I found you I realized I was all the things... 966 01:19:12,343 --> 01:19:15,083 I never wanted to be, and because- 967 01:19:15,170 --> 01:19:19,431 Oh, what do you know about women or the way they feel? 968 01:19:31,085 --> 01:19:33,303 There's a piece of bottom land a few miles down. 969 01:19:33,390 --> 01:19:36,956 Good for homesteadin'. Let's have a look at it. 970 01:19:39,173 --> 01:19:41,261 Tantico