1 00:02:07,878 --> 00:02:12,716 You see, the story of the Red River D started this way: 2 00:02:12,842 --> 00:02:16,344 Along about August of 1851... 3 00:02:16,470 --> 00:02:18,638 Tom Dunson and me left St. Louis... 4 00:02:18,764 --> 00:02:21,474 And joined a wagon train headed for California. 5 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,893 After about three weeks on the trail... 6 00:02:24,061 --> 00:02:26,813 We was close to the northern border of Texas. 7 00:02:32,236 --> 00:02:35,071 What's wrong, Campbell? We have three hours yet till we stop. 8 00:02:35,239 --> 00:02:37,449 Dunson here says he's leaving the train. 9 00:02:37,575 --> 00:02:39,868 Is that right, Dunson? Are you leaving? -I am. 10 00:02:39,994 --> 00:02:42,996 You can't do that. You signed on. You agreed... 11 00:02:43,122 --> 00:02:45,582 I signed nothing. If I had, I'd stay. 12 00:02:45,708 --> 00:02:49,169 You'll remember I joined your train after you left St. Louis. -Wait, Dunson. 13 00:02:49,295 --> 00:02:52,255 This is Indian country. You might be walking into trouble. 14 00:02:52,381 --> 00:02:56,509 For two days past and this day, we've seen smoke and signs. -Yeah, we know that. 15 00:02:56,635 --> 00:02:58,720 They're around somewhere. I can feel 'em. 16 00:02:58,846 --> 00:03:02,307 The Comanches are welcome to you, but not to your bull and cows. 17 00:03:02,433 --> 00:03:04,517 We need the beginnings of herds in California. 18 00:03:04,643 --> 00:03:07,771 You're right about one thing: the beginning of herds. 19 00:03:07,938 --> 00:03:09,856 But I'm starting my own herd. 20 00:03:09,982 --> 00:03:13,276 I watched the land south of here since we left the Salt Fork. 21 00:03:13,444 --> 00:03:15,320 It's good land. Good grass for beef. 22 00:03:15,446 --> 00:03:17,447 So I'm going south where it is. 23 00:03:17,573 --> 00:03:19,866 You're too good a gun to let you leave. 24 00:03:19,992 --> 00:03:23,536 Then I'm too good a gun for you to argue with. 25 00:03:23,662 --> 00:03:26,081 If I was you, I'd ponder on letting him be. 26 00:03:26,207 --> 00:03:29,834 He's a mighty set man when his mind's made up. Even you can't change him. 27 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,754 He'll be heading south. Mind he don't stomp on you on the way. 28 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,633 Are you leaving too? -Colonel, me and Dunson... 29 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:38,426 Well, it's me and Dunson. 30 00:03:38,552 --> 00:03:40,428 Tell him I wish him luck. 31 00:03:40,554 --> 00:03:42,514 Good luck to you, Colonel. 32 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,432 I decided last night. 33 00:03:44,558 --> 00:03:46,810 I decided too. I want to go with you. 34 00:03:48,646 --> 00:03:51,439 No, I'll send for... -I know you've work to do, Tom. 35 00:03:51,565 --> 00:03:55,652 But I want to be part of it. I love you. I want to be with you. 36 00:03:55,778 --> 00:03:58,154 No, no. -I'm asking you, please take me with you. 37 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,158 I'm strong. I can stand anything you can. -It's too much for a woman. 38 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,161 Too much for a woman? 39 00:04:06,163 --> 00:04:08,456 Put your arms around me, Tom. 40 00:04:13,254 --> 00:04:16,381 Hold me. Feel me in your arms. 41 00:04:16,507 --> 00:04:20,135 Do I feel weak, Tom? I don't, do I? 42 00:04:20,261 --> 00:04:23,680 Oh, you'll need me. You'll need a woman. 43 00:04:23,848 --> 00:04:27,600 You need what a woman can give you to do what you have to do. 44 00:04:27,726 --> 00:04:31,604 Listen to me, Tom. Listen with your head and your heart too. 45 00:04:31,730 --> 00:04:35,525 The sun only shines half the time, Tom. The other half is night. 46 00:04:36,652 --> 00:04:39,028 I've made up my mind. -Change your mind, Tom. 47 00:04:39,155 --> 00:04:41,865 Just once in your life, change your mind. 48 00:04:42,032 --> 00:04:44,117 I'll send for you. 49 00:04:46,996 --> 00:04:48,746 Will you come? 50 00:04:48,873 --> 00:04:51,207 Of course I'll come. But you're wrong. 51 00:05:13,314 --> 00:05:15,315 My mother's. 52 00:05:19,904 --> 00:05:23,114 Go, please. If you're going to go, please go now. 53 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,618 I want to be with you so much, my knees feel like... 54 00:05:26,744 --> 00:05:29,496 Like they've knives in them. 55 00:05:29,622 --> 00:05:31,748 Bye. 56 00:06:08,786 --> 00:06:11,496 All that day, Tom didn't do much talking, 57 00:06:11,622 --> 00:06:15,625 and by night, we'd left the wagon train a good piece behind. 58 00:06:23,467 --> 00:06:26,427 Whoa. What river do you reckon that is? 59 00:06:26,554 --> 00:06:29,305 The Red River, I think. 60 00:06:29,473 --> 00:06:32,016 If it is, that's Texas on the other side. 61 00:06:32,142 --> 00:06:34,686 How about calling it a day, huh? 62 00:06:34,812 --> 00:06:37,522 All right. Wheel your wagon... 63 00:06:40,776 --> 00:06:43,319 It's too big for signal smoke, ain't it? 64 00:06:43,445 --> 00:06:44,904 Yeah. 65 00:06:46,323 --> 00:06:49,993 It's just about where the wagon train would be. 66 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,121 Why do Indians always want to be burning up good wagons? 67 00:06:54,832 --> 00:06:56,833 Take us hours to get back there. 68 00:06:58,335 --> 00:07:01,170 Yeah. We shoulda took her along. 69 00:07:02,298 --> 00:07:05,967 They'll most likely be sending some out after us. 70 00:07:06,093 --> 00:07:07,969 If they do... 71 00:07:09,346 --> 00:07:11,723 This is as good a place as any. 72 00:07:11,849 --> 00:07:14,934 Swing the wagon around. We'll keep the river at our back. 73 00:07:47,718 --> 00:07:49,010 Tom... 74 00:07:49,136 --> 00:07:52,680 We could've been wrong about that smoke, or she might've got away. 75 00:07:52,806 --> 00:07:54,891 Well, I wish... 76 00:08:05,277 --> 00:08:06,736 Here they are. 77 00:08:09,239 --> 00:08:11,240 I hope there ain't too many of 'em. 78 00:08:45,818 --> 00:08:48,945 Give me your rifle! 79 00:09:08,966 --> 00:09:10,466 Tom! 80 00:09:58,056 --> 00:09:59,891 You all right, Tom? -Yeah. 81 00:10:00,017 --> 00:10:04,187 I got two more of 'em. Near as I can figure, there's only one left. 82 00:10:04,313 --> 00:10:06,856 They got the two cows, but... 83 00:10:07,858 --> 00:10:09,525 Oh, Tom. 84 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:14,363 That's too bad. We should've took... 85 00:10:16,992 --> 00:10:18,826 That's him. 86 00:10:21,747 --> 00:10:25,750 Answer him. -Huh? -Answer him. 87 00:10:48,065 --> 00:10:50,566 Next morning there weren't a sign of an Injun... 88 00:10:50,734 --> 00:10:53,486 But the buzzards had come before we was ready to start. 89 00:10:59,284 --> 00:11:02,537 Let's get out of here. -Yeah, and give them buzzards a chance. 90 00:11:13,006 --> 00:11:15,258 People dying, and burning the wagons... 91 00:11:15,384 --> 00:11:17,635 And shooting and screaming and burning. 92 00:11:17,761 --> 00:11:20,596 People dying and wagons burning. People dying... 93 00:11:20,722 --> 00:11:23,099 Where'd you come from? 94 00:11:23,225 --> 00:11:26,602 It was all burning. Only Indians around. 95 00:11:26,770 --> 00:11:30,106 Just all burning and smoking and smelling... -How did you get away? 96 00:11:30,232 --> 00:11:32,775 They were burning everything... -He's plumb out of his head! 97 00:11:32,943 --> 00:11:37,280 Just plain. I could see it. They was burning the wagons, and people was screaming... 98 00:11:38,031 --> 00:11:40,283 I wouldn't do that again. -Put that gun down. 99 00:11:40,450 --> 00:11:43,494 I said don't do that again. 100 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:47,164 All right, son. I just wanted to find out where you... 101 00:11:48,166 --> 00:11:50,710 Don't ever trust anybody till you know 'em. 102 00:11:50,836 --> 00:11:54,130 I won't... After this. 103 00:11:57,384 --> 00:12:00,094 Thanks for telling me. 104 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:03,472 All right. Now, how'd you get away? 105 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,642 I was following my cow. She got away in the brush. 106 00:12:06,810 --> 00:12:08,978 Miles, it seemed like. 107 00:12:09,146 --> 00:12:11,272 Up a long hill she went. 108 00:12:15,569 --> 00:12:18,154 And then I heard 'em. 109 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,531 And then I saw 'em. 110 00:12:23,869 --> 00:12:26,162 And I wish I hadn't. 111 00:12:26,330 --> 00:12:27,830 Yeah. 112 00:12:30,125 --> 00:12:33,210 Well, it looks like we'll have to take you along. 113 00:12:43,972 --> 00:12:46,223 Well, are you gonna use it? 114 00:12:46,350 --> 00:12:48,225 No. 115 00:12:48,352 --> 00:12:49,977 No. 116 00:12:50,103 --> 00:12:52,897 But don't ever try to take it away from me again. 117 00:13:02,407 --> 00:13:04,617 He'll do. 118 00:13:09,247 --> 00:13:11,248 Tie 'em up short. 119 00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:14,585 Get up on the seat. 120 00:13:24,596 --> 00:13:26,024 Let's go. 121 00:13:40,529 --> 00:13:43,614 We're in Texas. -It feels good to me. 122 00:13:47,202 --> 00:13:50,538 And that was the meetin' of a man and a boy... 123 00:13:50,664 --> 00:13:53,249 And the beginnin' of a great herd. 124 00:13:53,417 --> 00:13:56,335 We traveled south through Texas. 125 00:13:56,461 --> 00:14:01,132 We went through good country, but Tom always found it wanting. 126 00:14:01,258 --> 00:14:04,051 In three to four weeks, we was through the Panhandle... 127 00:14:04,177 --> 00:14:06,137 And kept on goin'. 128 00:14:06,263 --> 00:14:08,931 Another month and we was past the Pecos... 129 00:14:09,099 --> 00:14:11,684 And the country begun to change a mite. 130 00:14:11,810 --> 00:14:15,855 Near the Rio Grande, the land looked good. Tom liked it. 131 00:14:15,981 --> 00:14:18,232 All day, he'd been gettin' off his horse... 132 00:14:18,358 --> 00:14:20,401 And feelin' the grass and smellin' of it. 133 00:14:20,527 --> 00:14:23,779 Matt and me could tell somethin' was comin'. 134 00:14:31,204 --> 00:14:32,747 This is it. 135 00:14:32,873 --> 00:14:35,041 This is where we start growing good beef. 136 00:14:35,167 --> 00:14:38,294 Sure looks good, Tom. Worth coming 2,000 miles for. 137 00:14:38,420 --> 00:14:40,296 Everything a man could want: 138 00:14:40,422 --> 00:14:43,466 Good water and grass, and plenty of it. 139 00:14:43,592 --> 00:14:45,176 Who does it belong to? -To me. 140 00:14:45,302 --> 00:14:48,804 Someday that'll all be covered with good beef. 141 00:14:48,972 --> 00:14:52,850 I'll put a mark, a brand, on 'em to show they're mine too. 142 00:14:52,976 --> 00:14:54,977 What kind of a mark? 143 00:14:56,980 --> 00:14:59,065 I've been thinking about that. 144 00:15:01,151 --> 00:15:05,071 There'll be two lines, like this. 145 00:15:05,197 --> 00:15:07,573 Like the banks of a river. 146 00:15:09,409 --> 00:15:11,535 It'll be the Red River brand. 147 00:15:13,163 --> 00:15:16,082 And we'll start now. Get a fire going, Matt. 148 00:15:16,208 --> 00:15:18,167 Heat the iron. 149 00:15:26,384 --> 00:15:29,345 There's the first one. 150 00:15:29,471 --> 00:15:32,890 The first Red River D. -You gonna put that on my cow too? 151 00:15:33,016 --> 00:15:35,351 Why not? -She's mine. 152 00:15:35,477 --> 00:15:38,270 I see a D for Dunson, but my name's Matthew. 153 00:15:38,396 --> 00:15:42,441 We'll talk about that later. -I don't see any M on that brand. 154 00:15:43,443 --> 00:15:45,945 I'll put an M on it when you earn it. 155 00:15:46,071 --> 00:15:47,947 That's fair enough. I'll earn it. 156 00:15:52,327 --> 00:15:54,328 Never like seeing strangers. 157 00:15:54,454 --> 00:15:57,998 Guess it's 'cause no stranger ever good-news'ed me. 158 00:16:07,425 --> 00:16:09,677 Buenos dias, senores. -Hello. 159 00:16:09,803 --> 00:16:11,887 Saw the smoke from your fire. -Yes? 160 00:16:12,013 --> 00:16:14,056 Where do you travel? -Nowhere. 161 00:16:14,224 --> 00:16:18,894 To remain here on Don Diego's land, you are welcome for a night, a week... 162 00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:21,522 Are you Diego? -No, senor, I... 163 00:16:21,648 --> 00:16:23,399 Where is he? 164 00:16:23,525 --> 00:16:26,360 At his home across the river, 600 kilometros south. 165 00:16:26,486 --> 00:16:29,155 How far is that? -About 400 miles. 166 00:16:29,281 --> 00:16:31,907 That's too much land for one man. It ain't decent. 167 00:16:32,033 --> 00:16:34,535 Here's this land achin' to be used. It ain't decent! 168 00:16:34,661 --> 00:16:37,872 But senor, it is for Don Diego to do as he chooses. 169 00:16:37,998 --> 00:16:41,750 This land is Don Diego's. -What is that river you were talking about? 170 00:16:41,877 --> 00:16:44,587 El Rio Grande, but I told you... -Tell Don Diego... 171 00:16:44,713 --> 00:16:48,716 All the land north of that river is mine. Tell him to stay off of it. 172 00:16:48,842 --> 00:16:51,468 But the land is his. -Where did he get it? 173 00:16:51,595 --> 00:16:53,721 Oh, many years ago, by grant and patent... 174 00:16:53,847 --> 00:16:55,890 Inscribed by the king of all the Spains. 175 00:16:56,016 --> 00:16:59,518 You mean he took it away from whoever was here before. Indians, maybe. 176 00:16:59,644 --> 00:17:03,147 Maybe so. -Well, I'm taking it away from him. 177 00:17:03,273 --> 00:17:06,734 Others have thought as you, senor. Others have try. 178 00:17:06,860 --> 00:17:09,236 And you've always been good enough to stop 'em? 179 00:17:09,362 --> 00:17:11,071 Amigo, it is my work. 180 00:17:11,198 --> 00:17:13,490 Pretty unhealthy job. 181 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,702 Get away, Matt. 182 00:17:17,787 --> 00:17:19,455 I'm sorry for you... 183 00:17:24,586 --> 00:17:27,463 How about you? Do you want some of it? 184 00:17:27,631 --> 00:17:29,673 It is not my land, senor. 185 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:32,593 I will wait until Don Diego tells me what to do. 186 00:17:32,719 --> 00:17:36,972 All right, go tell him what happened. Tell him what I said. 187 00:17:37,098 --> 00:17:38,974 Take your friend's horse. 188 00:17:39,142 --> 00:17:42,853 We'll bury him. Move! -Muy bien, senor. 189 00:17:48,777 --> 00:17:51,612 Matt, I told you to get away. You might've got hurt. 190 00:17:51,738 --> 00:17:53,656 He went for his gun first, but you... 191 00:17:53,823 --> 00:17:56,784 Next time do what I say. -How'd you know when he was gonna draw? 192 00:17:56,910 --> 00:17:58,827 By watching his eyes. 193 00:17:58,995 --> 00:18:01,038 Remember that. -I will. 194 00:18:06,544 --> 00:18:09,505 Get a shovel and my Bible. 195 00:18:09,673 --> 00:18:11,507 I'll read over him. 196 00:18:17,180 --> 00:18:21,308 We brought nothing into this world, and it's certain we can carry nothing out. 197 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:23,686 The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. 198 00:18:23,853 --> 00:18:26,605 Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen. 199 00:18:43,665 --> 00:18:45,165 Turn 'em loose. 200 00:18:59,472 --> 00:19:01,307 They're gonna get away. 201 00:19:01,433 --> 00:19:03,726 Wherever they go, they'll be on my land. 202 00:19:08,898 --> 00:19:10,774 My land. 203 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:12,901 We're here, and we're gonna stay here. 204 00:19:13,945 --> 00:19:16,989 Give me 10 years, and I'll have that brand on the gates... 205 00:19:17,115 --> 00:19:19,575 Of the greatest ranch in Texas. 206 00:19:20,994 --> 00:19:23,245 The big house will be down by the river... 207 00:19:23,413 --> 00:19:25,914 And the corrals and the barns behind it. 208 00:19:26,041 --> 00:19:28,667 It'll be a good place to live in. 209 00:19:28,793 --> 00:19:31,086 Ten years and I'll have the Red River D... 210 00:19:31,254 --> 00:19:34,089 On more cattle than you've looked at anywhere. 211 00:19:34,257 --> 00:19:36,925 I'll have that brand on enough beef... 212 00:19:37,052 --> 00:19:39,053 To feed the whole country. 213 00:19:39,179 --> 00:19:41,597 Good beef for hungry people. 214 00:19:41,765 --> 00:19:43,766 Beef to make 'em strong... 215 00:19:43,933 --> 00:19:45,893 Make 'em grow. 216 00:19:46,019 --> 00:19:49,563 But it takes work, and it takes sweat... 217 00:19:49,689 --> 00:19:51,648 And it takes time. 218 00:19:51,775 --> 00:19:53,484 Lots of time. 219 00:19:53,610 --> 00:19:55,486 It takes years. 220 00:19:56,946 --> 00:19:59,656 Well, we've had our 10 years and more. 221 00:19:59,783 --> 00:20:02,284 Be about 14. -Nearer to 15. 222 00:20:02,452 --> 00:20:04,620 And we've got the cattle. 223 00:20:04,746 --> 00:20:07,498 Thousands of heads of good beef. 224 00:20:07,624 --> 00:20:10,000 And there as they stand, there isn't a head... 225 00:20:10,126 --> 00:20:11,960 Worth a plug three-cent piece. 226 00:20:12,087 --> 00:20:15,881 Three-cent piece? That's more silver money than I've seen since the war. 227 00:20:16,007 --> 00:20:19,843 That's right. It all happened while you were away, Matt. 228 00:20:19,969 --> 00:20:24,556 More cattle than a man could gather elsewhere in two lifetimes... 229 00:20:24,682 --> 00:20:26,809 And I'm broke. 230 00:20:26,935 --> 00:20:30,854 Unless we can move 'em, I'm broke. -I figured that's why you rounded 'em up. 231 00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:33,816 I'm not gonna take it haunched back like the rest around here. 232 00:20:33,942 --> 00:20:36,568 If there's no market for cattle in Texas... -There ain't. 233 00:20:36,694 --> 00:20:39,029 Then I'll take 'em where there is a market... 234 00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:41,615 If it means driving 'em a thousand miles. -Missouri? 235 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:43,450 Yeah. -That's what I figured. 236 00:20:44,994 --> 00:20:47,579 Seems you two been doing a lot of figuring. 237 00:20:47,705 --> 00:20:50,582 Did you figure out the best way to get 'em there? 238 00:20:50,708 --> 00:20:52,584 Which trail to take? Yeah. 239 00:20:52,710 --> 00:20:56,338 San Saba, then Meridian, then along the Brazos... -That's the long way around. 240 00:20:56,506 --> 00:21:00,634 Along the Brazos and up Palo Pinto... -I said that's the long way. 241 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,513 I know, but there's good water clear all the way up to the Red. 242 00:21:04,639 --> 00:21:06,890 But going that way, we'd get two extra crossings. 243 00:21:07,016 --> 00:21:09,518 You're not going. How do you know... -I'm not? 244 00:21:09,644 --> 00:21:12,312 No, you're not. How do you know the water's good? 245 00:21:12,439 --> 00:21:14,189 I led a patrol that way. 246 00:21:14,357 --> 00:21:16,817 You think it's worth... You think it's worth... 247 00:21:16,943 --> 00:21:20,446 What are you mumbling about? Where are those store teeth Matt brought you? 248 00:21:20,572 --> 00:21:22,573 In my pocket. -Why don't you use 'em? 249 00:21:22,699 --> 00:21:24,700 'Cause they whistle. I use 'em for eatin'. 250 00:21:24,868 --> 00:21:26,702 I can't understand you. -Everybody else can. 251 00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:28,537 Well, what did you say? 252 00:21:28,705 --> 00:21:32,207 I said there's a lot of things you don't know about, Mr. Dunson. -What? 253 00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:35,127 First off, about me going on this here drive. -Go ahead. 254 00:21:35,253 --> 00:21:37,546 It's a thousand miles to Missouri, ain't it? -Right. 255 00:21:37,672 --> 00:21:40,883 You figure me and my bad leg couldn't ride that far. -That's it. 256 00:21:41,009 --> 00:21:44,636 It might be I could ride a chuck wagon. -We've already got a cook. 257 00:21:44,762 --> 00:21:47,681 That is right, Mr. Dunson. 258 00:21:47,807 --> 00:21:51,226 But might be old Cookie might not like... 259 00:21:51,352 --> 00:21:53,145 Grubbing the trip all that way. 260 00:21:53,271 --> 00:21:55,647 You heard me good that time, didn't you? 261 00:21:55,773 --> 00:21:59,234 It might be old Cookie would like a change of scenery. 262 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,905 It might be I already persuaded him, 'cause he up and quit this morning! 263 00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:09,495 Then it might be we could persuade you to drive the chuck wagon. 264 00:22:09,621 --> 00:22:12,414 Might be, Mr. Dunson. Might be. 265 00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:24,301 That's a pretty nice gun you're scratching those matches on. 266 00:22:24,427 --> 00:22:26,929 How is your gun arm? 267 00:22:27,055 --> 00:22:29,556 I've been using it a lot the last few years. 268 00:22:29,682 --> 00:22:31,725 Get me my horse, will you, Matt? 269 00:22:31,851 --> 00:22:34,937 Funny things about guns... Draw! 270 00:22:36,940 --> 00:22:39,983 I haven't heard that in a lot of years. -He beat you. 271 00:22:40,109 --> 00:22:41,818 He sure did beat me. 272 00:22:41,945 --> 00:22:45,614 I'd say he's just a little faster, just a mite faster than you was. 273 00:22:45,740 --> 00:22:49,701 Matt, draw up a map of that country we were talking about, and... 274 00:22:49,827 --> 00:22:53,664 I did. It's on your desk. 275 00:22:53,790 --> 00:22:56,708 A mite faster about a lot of things. 276 00:22:56,834 --> 00:22:58,835 I'll see you later. 277 00:23:01,130 --> 00:23:04,967 That's the first time in one year I've seen a grin on his face... 278 00:23:05,093 --> 00:23:07,135 Excepting the other day when you come home. 279 00:23:07,303 --> 00:23:09,555 Didn't you see anything else? -Huh? 280 00:23:11,057 --> 00:23:14,434 That look on his face when he was talking about the cattle. 281 00:23:16,020 --> 00:23:18,146 He's afraid. -Afraid? 282 00:23:18,273 --> 00:23:21,149 Why, you're craza, you're loony, you're... -Am I? 283 00:23:22,860 --> 00:23:25,779 Oh, sure, sure. I'm a-scared too. 284 00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:28,448 But I've been here watchin' and seein' and... 285 00:23:28,575 --> 00:23:31,451 Seein' what? -Seein' a man fightin'... 286 00:23:31,578 --> 00:23:34,496 With his soul and gut to hang on to this place. 287 00:23:34,664 --> 00:23:37,624 Fourteen years of it. And it cost him dear too. 288 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:40,586 Cost him a woman, the only woman he ever wanted. 289 00:23:40,712 --> 00:23:42,754 Yeah. -Yeah, you knew about that. 290 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,217 Cost him the killing of them seven graves, men who tried to take the place from him. 291 00:23:47,343 --> 00:23:49,177 But that weren't hard. Not that. 292 00:23:49,304 --> 00:23:52,472 No, he knows that kind of fighting. What else? 293 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:54,850 And then come the war, while you was away. 294 00:23:55,018 --> 00:23:59,521 He learned a lot of things for hisself. He learned a ranch ain't only beef, but it's money. 295 00:23:59,647 --> 00:24:02,399 But the war took all the money out of the South. 296 00:24:02,525 --> 00:24:06,528 He didn't know about money. He never had none. He didn't know what to do. 297 00:24:06,696 --> 00:24:09,448 You mean, he just doesn't know who to fight. -Yep. 298 00:24:09,574 --> 00:24:11,742 That's all right. 299 00:24:11,868 --> 00:24:14,661 He's just been waiting for you to head the herd north... 300 00:24:14,787 --> 00:24:17,164 In a fool drive that's never been done before. 301 00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:19,833 Nine, ten thousand head of cattle clear to Missouri. 302 00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:22,002 We could make it. -We? 303 00:24:23,254 --> 00:24:25,547 Well, Matt, I'm... 304 00:24:25,715 --> 00:24:27,841 I'm glad you come home, 'cause... 305 00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:29,760 Well... 306 00:24:30,887 --> 00:24:32,971 I'm glad you come home. 307 00:24:48,821 --> 00:24:50,947 Let him go. 308 00:24:54,494 --> 00:24:57,746 Hey, Matt, it's a Diego. 309 00:24:57,872 --> 00:25:00,040 Let him go. -Let him go. 310 00:25:05,088 --> 00:25:06,713 And another Meeker. 311 00:25:06,839 --> 00:25:09,257 Turn him loose. -Hold it. 312 00:25:10,593 --> 00:25:12,886 Put a brand on him. -It's a Meeker steer. 313 00:25:13,012 --> 00:25:14,596 I said brand him. 314 00:25:14,764 --> 00:25:16,640 He's wearing a Meeker iron. 315 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,226 I can't see it. 316 00:25:21,854 --> 00:25:25,190 Brand him. -All right, but the next up is another Diego. 317 00:25:28,861 --> 00:25:30,654 Brand him. 318 00:25:35,201 --> 00:25:37,327 Put the iron on all of them, Teeler. 319 00:25:37,453 --> 00:25:41,123 Anything you see, slap it with a Red River D, and burn it deep. 320 00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:43,500 Why not? 321 00:25:43,626 --> 00:25:47,921 You're gonna wind up branding every rump in the state of Texas except mine. 322 00:25:49,632 --> 00:25:51,383 Hand me that iron, Teeler. 323 00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:57,264 Don't think I'd do it, do you? -No. 324 00:25:57,390 --> 00:25:59,808 Matt, I'm going to Missouri... 325 00:25:59,976 --> 00:26:03,103 With every steer, cow, and bull I can lay my hands on. 326 00:26:03,229 --> 00:26:05,564 I think Meeker might be real pleased... 327 00:26:05,690 --> 00:26:08,442 To see our brand on his stock. 328 00:26:08,568 --> 00:26:10,986 That I'll argue with Meeker. 329 00:26:11,112 --> 00:26:13,447 And now might be a good time. 330 00:26:13,573 --> 00:26:15,949 He's even got some people to back him up. 331 00:26:25,668 --> 00:26:28,003 I want to see this. 332 00:26:28,171 --> 00:26:30,338 Hiya, Dunson, Matt. 333 00:26:30,465 --> 00:26:32,591 I hear you're making a drive, Dunson. 334 00:26:32,717 --> 00:26:35,343 News travels fast. Yeah, we're going to Missouri. 335 00:26:35,470 --> 00:26:38,305 That's what I heard. I also heard something else yesterday. 336 00:26:38,431 --> 00:26:41,683 Cumberland, a neighbor of mine, drove 3,000 to the Red River. 337 00:26:41,851 --> 00:26:44,352 When he got across, the Missouri border gangs jumped him... 338 00:26:44,479 --> 00:26:46,271 Stole the herd, killed all his men. 339 00:26:46,397 --> 00:26:48,148 Hard luck. -You know about it? 340 00:26:48,274 --> 00:26:51,276 Yeah, I know about Cumberland and Schreiber and a lot of others. 341 00:26:51,402 --> 00:26:54,946 But nobody's gonna take my cattle. -I don't want anybody to take mine either. 342 00:26:55,072 --> 00:26:57,365 I hear some of my brand wandered this way. 343 00:26:57,533 --> 00:27:00,160 Mind if we look your herd over? -I do mind. 344 00:27:00,286 --> 00:27:01,828 You'd stop us? 345 00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:05,457 Yeah, we would. -Can't you hold that horse still? 346 00:27:05,583 --> 00:27:09,127 Well? -Shall we take that look around, Mr. Meeker? 347 00:27:09,253 --> 00:27:11,004 Say, you must be new around here. 348 00:27:11,130 --> 00:27:14,382 I told you we'd stop... -I heard you. 349 00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:16,551 Well, Mr. Meeker? 350 00:27:16,677 --> 00:27:19,679 Maybe I should introduce you two before... -Who are you? 351 00:27:19,806 --> 00:27:21,932 Some call me one thing, some another. 352 00:27:22,058 --> 00:27:25,227 What do they call you most? -By my name: Cherry Valance. 353 00:27:25,394 --> 00:27:28,688 Of Val Verde? -Val Verde way. 354 00:27:28,815 --> 00:27:31,399 Yeah, we've heard of you. -Thanks. 355 00:27:31,526 --> 00:27:34,069 They say you're good with a gun. How good? 356 00:27:34,237 --> 00:27:36,071 I manage to stay alive. 357 00:27:36,197 --> 00:27:39,032 You've been doing pretty good. -Still want to stop us? 358 00:27:39,158 --> 00:27:41,159 Yeah. 359 00:27:42,620 --> 00:27:44,996 Well, Mr. Meeker, what do you say? 360 00:27:45,122 --> 00:27:48,416 Well, at one time, I would've said yes. But now... 361 00:27:48,584 --> 00:27:52,838 Look, Tom, everything I've got's... -Yeah, I know. Me too. 362 00:27:52,964 --> 00:27:55,257 All right, we rounded up some of your stock... 363 00:27:55,383 --> 00:27:58,009 Some of Diego's, and some of everybody else's around here. 364 00:27:58,135 --> 00:28:01,263 And? -I haven't got the time or inclination to cut 'em out. 365 00:28:01,430 --> 00:28:05,392 I'll drive 'em to Missouri and give you two dollars a head when I get back. 366 00:28:05,518 --> 00:28:08,395 And if you don't get back? -That's your gamble. 367 00:28:08,521 --> 00:28:11,773 I reckon it is. Not a bad one either. 368 00:28:11,941 --> 00:28:13,775 All right. Suits me. 369 00:28:13,943 --> 00:28:18,446 Mr. Meeker, I changed my mind about working with you. Can you use another hand? 370 00:28:19,615 --> 00:28:21,908 We're full up. -I'd like to go with you. 371 00:28:22,034 --> 00:28:25,245 I told you we've... -I heard you. I'd care to go along. 372 00:28:25,371 --> 00:28:28,164 Might find it harder to stay alive along the Missouri border. 373 00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:32,419 Yeah, I might at that. 374 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:36,298 Wages are 10 $ a month. Triple if the steers bring 15 $ at the railroad. 375 00:28:36,465 --> 00:28:39,134 We lose the herd, you lose your wages. -Fair enough. 376 00:28:39,302 --> 00:28:41,261 All right, good luck. 377 00:28:41,387 --> 00:28:43,305 Good-bye, Mr. Meeker. 378 00:28:46,017 --> 00:28:48,643 Take care of him, Matt. -Sure. 379 00:28:50,646 --> 00:28:52,814 I take it I'm hired. 380 00:28:52,982 --> 00:28:54,816 You're hired. 381 00:28:55,693 --> 00:28:58,486 Brand 'em all, Teeler. Everything that can walk. 382 00:28:58,613 --> 00:29:02,282 Yes, sir. Brand 'em all, boys! Get going! 383 00:29:02,408 --> 00:29:04,826 You ought to stick around back there. -What for? 384 00:29:04,952 --> 00:29:07,287 See the shooting. -Why? You reckon they're gonna fight? 385 00:29:07,413 --> 00:29:10,040 No, not yet. They'll just paw at each other. 386 00:29:10,166 --> 00:29:13,627 Find out what they're up against. Be worth seeing. 387 00:29:13,753 --> 00:29:15,420 Could be. 388 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:21,301 Let's give 'em a hand over here. -Sure. 389 00:29:21,427 --> 00:29:24,346 That's a good-looking gun. Can I see it? 390 00:29:30,770 --> 00:29:32,854 Maybe you'd like to see mine. 391 00:29:36,108 --> 00:29:38,109 Nice, awful nice. 392 00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:41,363 There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun: 393 00:29:41,530 --> 00:29:44,199 A Swiss watch, or a woman from anywhere. 394 00:29:44,325 --> 00:29:46,910 You ever had a good Swiss watch? 395 00:29:50,623 --> 00:29:52,165 Go ahead, try it. 396 00:29:54,168 --> 00:29:56,169 Hey, that's very good. 397 00:29:59,924 --> 00:30:02,801 Hey, hey, that's good too. 398 00:30:02,927 --> 00:30:04,719 Go on, keep it going. 399 00:30:13,604 --> 00:30:16,398 Yeah, now I know who you'd be. 400 00:30:16,524 --> 00:30:19,609 You'd be Matthew Garth, wouldn't you? -That's right. 401 00:30:19,735 --> 00:30:23,822 You're as good as they say you are. Maybe as good as me. 402 00:30:23,948 --> 00:30:28,243 That puts two of us at the head of the list. -I'd leave room for a third. 403 00:30:28,411 --> 00:30:31,246 Yeah? Who? -Dunson. 404 00:30:31,372 --> 00:30:33,289 Is he that good? 405 00:30:33,416 --> 00:30:35,083 He taught me. 406 00:30:35,209 --> 00:30:36,751 Yeah? 407 00:30:42,758 --> 00:30:45,635 How we doing? -What was all that shooting a while back? 408 00:30:45,761 --> 00:30:49,097 Two of the best men with a gun anybody'd ever see'd together. 409 00:30:49,265 --> 00:30:51,141 Who? -Matt and Cherry Valance. 410 00:30:51,267 --> 00:30:52,851 From Val Verde? -Yeah. 411 00:30:52,977 --> 00:30:55,770 What happened? -They was having some fun. 412 00:30:55,938 --> 00:30:58,273 Peculiar kind of fun. 413 00:30:58,441 --> 00:31:00,859 Sizing each other up for the future. 414 00:31:00,985 --> 00:31:04,988 Them two is gonna tangle for certain, and when they do, it ain't gonna be pretty. 415 00:31:05,114 --> 00:31:07,991 They got a thousand miles to do it in. How much flour? 416 00:31:08,117 --> 00:31:09,325 Twenty-eight. -Beans? 417 00:31:09,452 --> 00:31:10,618 Twelve. -Plenty sugar? 418 00:31:10,745 --> 00:31:12,328 Yeah. 419 00:31:14,165 --> 00:31:17,125 You know, Bunk, I always figured Matt was better than... 420 00:31:23,507 --> 00:31:25,425 Say, I could take that personal. 421 00:31:25,551 --> 00:31:27,927 I could take your nose off just as easy. 422 00:31:28,054 --> 00:31:31,306 A man of your age stealing sugar. Get the rest of that stuff. 423 00:31:31,474 --> 00:31:32,974 All right, Pop. 424 00:31:33,142 --> 00:31:35,935 Lapping up sugar afore we even started. 425 00:31:47,073 --> 00:31:48,364 Hiya, Matt. 426 00:31:48,491 --> 00:31:50,116 Your bet, Teeler. -Check. 427 00:31:50,242 --> 00:31:52,660 Quo? -Me bet one silver dollar. 428 00:31:52,828 --> 00:31:55,497 One silver dollar? Why, that's three days' pay. 429 00:31:55,623 --> 00:31:59,042 Bet one silver dollar. Put up or keep face closed. 430 00:31:59,168 --> 00:32:01,836 Keep face closed? Why don't you talk English? 431 00:32:02,004 --> 00:32:05,173 It's too much for me. -What about you, Groot? What do you say? 432 00:32:05,299 --> 00:32:07,300 Look. Anything I hate, it's a happy Injun. 433 00:32:07,426 --> 00:32:11,137 That gaping puss! How's a body to tell whether an Injun's running a bluff? 434 00:32:11,263 --> 00:32:14,682 Think he's bluffing. -Look, will you call or fold? 435 00:32:14,809 --> 00:32:18,311 Yeah. Hey, Matt, how about the loan of a silver dollar? -No. 436 00:32:18,437 --> 00:32:20,688 Why not? -Is it table stakes? -Yeah. 437 00:32:20,815 --> 00:32:23,817 Quo's right. Bet what you've got on the table and that's all. 438 00:32:23,943 --> 00:32:27,821 Doggone the luck: me with a good hand and nothing to bet. -What in bag? 439 00:32:27,947 --> 00:32:32,033 The bag? Oh, them's my store teeth. Couldn't bet them. They... 440 00:32:33,869 --> 00:32:35,829 Now, look, Quo. 441 00:32:35,955 --> 00:32:39,124 Them teeth's worth more than your silver dollar. -Ah. 442 00:32:39,250 --> 00:32:41,084 Got any more money? -No. 443 00:32:41,210 --> 00:32:43,086 No more money, eh? 444 00:32:43,212 --> 00:32:47,298 I'll bet you a quarter interest in my teeth against your silver dollar. -No. 445 00:32:47,424 --> 00:32:49,592 A half interest against your dollar. -Ah. 446 00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:51,386 You heard him. It's a bet. 447 00:32:51,554 --> 00:32:53,847 There it is, boys, back to back. 448 00:32:53,973 --> 00:32:57,308 Three men. -Three men. 449 00:32:58,853 --> 00:33:02,564 Dumb Cherokee! Betting a silver dollar against a half interest in my store teeth... 450 00:33:02,690 --> 00:33:06,943 And him with a set fitting to chew the brand off the tough end of a longhorn. 451 00:33:07,069 --> 00:33:09,112 You ain't gonna take a man's only teeth? 452 00:33:09,238 --> 00:33:11,614 Ah. -But I gotta use 'em for eatin'! 453 00:33:11,740 --> 00:33:13,867 Come grub, you get-um. 454 00:33:13,993 --> 00:33:17,203 What are you gonna do with 'em? -My name now Two-Jaw Quo. 455 00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:19,497 Two-Jaw Quo. 456 00:33:19,623 --> 00:33:22,917 That's what I get for playing with an Injun. 457 00:33:23,919 --> 00:33:26,796 I've worn this hat a long time, and I'm going to continue. 458 00:33:26,922 --> 00:33:29,340 If you got any objections, I'll hear 'em now. 459 00:33:29,466 --> 00:33:31,801 It's your hat, brother. -You made a wise decision. 460 00:33:31,927 --> 00:33:34,304 Would you be wantin' to get up now? 461 00:33:49,111 --> 00:33:52,071 Well, we start tomorrow. 462 00:33:52,198 --> 00:33:54,490 We're going to Missouri with 10,000 head. 463 00:33:54,617 --> 00:33:57,410 Most of you have come back to Texas from the war. 464 00:33:57,536 --> 00:34:00,079 You came back to nothing. You found your homes gone... 465 00:34:00,206 --> 00:34:04,167 Your cattle scattered, and your land stolen by carpetbaggers. 466 00:34:04,293 --> 00:34:06,377 There's no money and no work... 467 00:34:06,503 --> 00:34:09,047 Because there's no market for beef in the South. 468 00:34:09,173 --> 00:34:12,175 But there is in Missouri, so we're going to Missouri. 469 00:34:12,301 --> 00:34:15,303 I hear tell Cumberland has... -Cumberland didn't make it. 470 00:34:15,429 --> 00:34:18,473 No one else has. That's the reason I'm here. 471 00:34:18,641 --> 00:34:21,142 I want you all to know what you're up against. 472 00:34:21,268 --> 00:34:24,646 You probably already know, but I want to make sure you do. 473 00:34:24,813 --> 00:34:27,065 We got a thousand miles to go. 474 00:34:27,191 --> 00:34:30,360 Ten miles a day will be good. Fifteen will be luck. 475 00:34:30,486 --> 00:34:33,071 There'll be dry country, dry wells when we get to 'em. 476 00:34:33,197 --> 00:34:35,031 There'll be wind and rain. 477 00:34:35,157 --> 00:34:38,993 There's gonna be Indian territory... How bad, I don't know. 478 00:34:39,161 --> 00:34:41,412 When we get to Missouri, there'll be border gangs. 479 00:34:41,538 --> 00:34:43,748 It's gonna be a fight all the way... 480 00:34:43,874 --> 00:34:45,833 But we'll get there. 481 00:34:47,086 --> 00:34:49,295 Nobody has to come along. 482 00:34:49,421 --> 00:34:52,340 I'll still have a job for you when we get back. 483 00:34:52,466 --> 00:34:53,841 But remember this: 484 00:34:54,009 --> 00:34:57,303 Every man who signs on for this drive agrees to finish it. 485 00:34:57,429 --> 00:35:02,350 There'll be no quitting along the way... Not by me and not by you. 486 00:35:02,518 --> 00:35:06,521 There's no hard feelings if you don't want to go, but just let me know now. 487 00:35:06,647 --> 00:35:08,189 Mr. Dunson, I... 488 00:35:08,357 --> 00:35:11,943 It's all right, Dan. Go ahead. -Mr. Dunson, my wife... 489 00:35:12,069 --> 00:35:15,488 You don't have to explain, Bill. -Thanks. Good luck. 490 00:35:15,614 --> 00:35:17,240 Go on, Joe, Taylor. 491 00:35:17,366 --> 00:35:20,952 Thank you, Mr. Dunson. -It's all right, Dan. Go ahead. 492 00:35:21,078 --> 00:35:23,746 No, sir. I... I didn't mean that... -You mean what, Dan? 493 00:35:23,872 --> 00:35:27,292 I... I... I... I just wanted to say I want to go. 494 00:35:27,418 --> 00:35:29,460 Fine. 495 00:35:29,586 --> 00:35:32,171 And the rest of you? 496 00:35:32,298 --> 00:35:34,757 That means you're all coming along. 497 00:35:34,883 --> 00:35:36,843 Good. 498 00:35:36,969 --> 00:35:39,137 Matt here will sign you on. 499 00:35:39,263 --> 00:35:41,347 We'll start at sunup. 500 00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:43,224 All right, come on. 501 00:35:43,392 --> 00:35:45,393 Sign your name or make your mark. 502 00:35:46,562 --> 00:35:48,563 Let me sign first, Matt. 503 00:36:29,104 --> 00:36:31,939 Ready, Matthew? -All ready. 504 00:37:16,485 --> 00:37:18,986 Take 'em to Missouri, Matt. 505 00:38:10,289 --> 00:38:13,499 All right, Quo, let's go to Missouri! 506 00:38:38,692 --> 00:38:40,526 There they are, Matt. 507 00:38:40,652 --> 00:38:43,362 Fourteen years of hard work... 508 00:38:44,615 --> 00:38:47,408 And they say we can't make the drive. 509 00:38:47,534 --> 00:38:50,119 They could be wrong. 510 00:38:50,245 --> 00:38:52,079 They'd better be. 511 00:39:07,137 --> 00:39:10,515 First night out, we had a good place for camp, 'cause... 512 00:39:10,641 --> 00:39:12,808 Well, 'cause we knowed the country. 513 00:39:14,394 --> 00:39:18,940 Teeler, you and Walt and Sims are on the next watch. 514 00:39:19,066 --> 00:39:21,943 Breakfast at 4:30, Groot. Trail at 5:00. 515 00:39:22,069 --> 00:39:23,444 All right, Tom. 516 00:39:23,612 --> 00:39:26,155 Quo, when you finish there, get some... 517 00:39:26,281 --> 00:39:28,366 What's the matter? -Grub finish? 518 00:39:28,492 --> 00:39:31,327 Sure, I ate. -Give-um tooth. 519 00:39:31,453 --> 00:39:33,204 Teeth, I told you. 520 00:39:33,330 --> 00:39:37,750 It's only a few hours till morning, and I'll be using them again. -Come morning, you get-um. 521 00:39:37,876 --> 00:39:40,461 Now, look, Quo, this is getting to be plumb craza. 522 00:39:40,629 --> 00:39:43,965 We been doing this all day. By the time we get to Missouri... 523 00:39:44,132 --> 00:39:47,969 We'll have 'em all wore out passing 'em back and forth and back and forth! 524 00:39:48,095 --> 00:39:49,804 Tell you what I'll do. 525 00:39:49,972 --> 00:39:53,140 I'll give you a hundred-percent profit: two dollars for your half interest. 526 00:39:53,308 --> 00:39:54,892 Ah. 527 00:39:56,311 --> 00:39:59,772 Not now! When I get it. When we finish the drive. 528 00:39:59,898 --> 00:40:02,149 I get money, you get-um tooth. 529 00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:05,653 Teeth, you dumb heathen. 530 00:40:05,821 --> 00:40:07,863 Why do I always have to... 531 00:40:07,990 --> 00:40:10,491 Oh, what's the use? 532 00:40:13,328 --> 00:40:15,371 The way we worked it: 533 00:40:15,497 --> 00:40:19,125 Along the Brazos, the Palo Pinto... 534 00:40:19,251 --> 00:40:22,003 Up to the Red... 535 00:40:22,129 --> 00:40:24,505 Then north to Sedalia. 536 00:40:24,631 --> 00:40:27,508 You make that drive to Sedalia look very easy. 537 00:40:27,676 --> 00:40:31,178 There are a lot of rough boys along the border. I just got back. 538 00:40:31,346 --> 00:40:34,181 And you want to stick your nose back in that country? 539 00:40:34,308 --> 00:40:36,475 Cherry, how come you joined the drive? 540 00:40:36,602 --> 00:40:39,353 Just a notion I had, and then Matt turned me down. 541 00:40:39,521 --> 00:40:41,480 Made me want to go. 542 00:40:41,607 --> 00:40:44,191 Besides, I've taken a liking to that gun of his. 543 00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:48,070 Fat chance you got of getting that, bub. 544 00:40:48,196 --> 00:40:51,991 I've been wondering, Matt: Why'd you turn me down? You're not afraid of me. Why? 545 00:40:52,117 --> 00:40:55,202 You know what happens if this drive doesn't get to market? 546 00:40:55,329 --> 00:40:57,079 According to Dunson, we lose our wages. 547 00:40:57,205 --> 00:40:59,415 You've been through the state. What did you see? 548 00:40:59,541 --> 00:41:02,043 Yeah, I know: cattle running wild... 549 00:41:02,169 --> 00:41:04,170 Carpetbaggers reaching with both hands... 550 00:41:04,296 --> 00:41:07,006 Ranchers roasting grain and calling it coffee. 551 00:41:07,132 --> 00:41:11,052 I've seen a man try to swap a steer for half a sack of flour. 552 00:41:11,178 --> 00:41:14,096 I know why you want to get through. I do too. 553 00:41:14,222 --> 00:41:16,682 But why Missouri? Why not head 'em for Kansas? 554 00:41:16,808 --> 00:41:19,810 Kansas, he says. Fine howdy-ma'am that'd be... 555 00:41:19,936 --> 00:41:22,229 Heading 'em for Kansas when the railroad's in Missouri. 556 00:41:22,397 --> 00:41:24,190 Railroad in Kansas too. -What? -Where? 557 00:41:24,316 --> 00:41:27,234 I saw the one in Topeka, and there's one in Abilene. 558 00:41:27,361 --> 00:41:29,236 Abilene? That's further west. 559 00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:31,572 Did you see it in Abilene? 560 00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:34,784 I didn't get there. I met a girl in Kansas City. 561 00:41:34,910 --> 00:41:37,536 She fancied she could sing. But she had other... 562 00:41:37,663 --> 00:41:40,748 You know, if we could head west at the Red... 563 00:41:40,916 --> 00:41:44,168 We'd save ourselves a heap... -We're going to Missouri. 564 00:41:44,294 --> 00:41:48,089 I've seen buyers and cash in Sedalia. What have you seen in Abilene? 565 00:41:48,256 --> 00:41:50,633 Not a thing. Just a girl told me. 566 00:41:50,759 --> 00:41:52,927 It appears to me, Mr. Dunson... 567 00:41:53,095 --> 00:41:55,137 I didn't ask you, Groot. -No. 568 00:41:55,263 --> 00:41:58,683 No, that's right. You didn't ask me, Mr. Dunson. 569 00:41:59,851 --> 00:42:01,519 We're going to Missouri. 570 00:42:02,688 --> 00:42:06,023 Suppose if I tangled with him, I'd have to take you on too. 571 00:42:10,529 --> 00:42:13,447 You'll find him a handful by himself. 572 00:42:16,368 --> 00:42:18,285 And so we drove north... 573 00:42:18,453 --> 00:42:23,040 10.000 cattle crawlin' through hot, dry country. 574 00:42:23,166 --> 00:42:26,794 The dust made things bad, and it was hard work... 575 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:31,632 But by the end of the first two weeks, we'd come over 160 miles. 576 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,676 How much further we going today? 577 00:42:33,802 --> 00:42:37,763 Oh, about four miles north of here, there's a good... Hold that horse! 578 00:42:37,889 --> 00:42:40,224 There's a good stream and bed grounds. 579 00:42:40,350 --> 00:42:41,976 Cinch him up. 580 00:42:43,395 --> 00:42:45,980 That old ankle's sure puffing up. 581 00:42:46,106 --> 00:42:48,107 Yeah. 582 00:42:48,233 --> 00:42:50,609 We're going to have to paint it tonight. 583 00:42:57,159 --> 00:42:58,993 Keep 'em moving. 584 00:43:03,457 --> 00:43:05,791 It's a good thing we got a big remuda. 585 00:43:05,917 --> 00:43:08,252 He's been wearing out three, four horses a day... 586 00:43:08,378 --> 00:43:11,672 All the same, I don't like it. -What don't you like? 587 00:43:11,798 --> 00:43:15,676 Everything's going too good. We're bound to have a hat full of trouble. 588 00:43:15,844 --> 00:43:17,970 You're always yammering, I tell you. 589 00:43:18,096 --> 00:43:21,766 Well, I don't like to see things go good or bad. 590 00:43:21,892 --> 00:43:23,976 I like 'em in between. 591 00:43:34,446 --> 00:43:37,740 Groot, what's Dan riding in Quo's wagon for? 592 00:43:37,866 --> 00:43:40,201 I was wanting to discuss something with Quo. -What? 593 00:43:40,327 --> 00:43:44,371 I was wanting to discuss... -I can't understand you. Why don't you use your teeth? 594 00:43:44,498 --> 00:43:45,790 Whoa! 595 00:43:47,375 --> 00:43:51,045 My teeth is just what we was disgustin'. 596 00:43:51,171 --> 00:43:53,881 Well, talk on your own time. Dan should be working. 597 00:43:54,049 --> 00:43:58,052 If you was half human, you'd give 'em back. You can see I could use 'em. 598 00:43:58,178 --> 00:44:02,681 Besides, it'd help keep the dust out of my mouth. -Keep mouth shut, dust not get in. 599 00:44:02,808 --> 00:44:05,810 Bet I ate 10 pounds in the last 16 days. 600 00:44:05,936 --> 00:44:09,897 Before this shenanigan's over, I'll probably eat enough land to incorporate me in the Union. 601 00:44:10,023 --> 00:44:12,316 The state of Groot. 602 00:44:12,442 --> 00:44:14,610 Ow! Hey, that hurt! 603 00:44:14,736 --> 00:44:18,405 Teeth or no, I can still use a whip. Keep out of that sugar. 604 00:44:18,573 --> 00:44:20,866 Too late, Pop. Already got me some. 605 00:44:20,992 --> 00:44:23,077 Having a sweet tooth is almost as bad... 606 00:44:23,203 --> 00:44:25,955 As having a whiskey tongue or liking a woman. 607 00:44:26,081 --> 00:44:27,790 A hundred days. 608 00:44:27,916 --> 00:44:30,626 Well, all I got to worry about is feeding 'em. 609 00:44:30,752 --> 00:44:32,920 Come on, giddyap! Hey! 610 00:44:35,465 --> 00:44:38,342 In three weeks we got to San Saba. 611 00:44:38,468 --> 00:44:42,429 The further we went, the longer the miles and the days. 612 00:44:42,556 --> 00:44:44,932 Tom... Well... 613 00:44:45,100 --> 00:44:47,643 Tom couldn't think of nothin' but to get there. 614 00:44:47,769 --> 00:44:49,770 Tom had changed. 615 00:44:49,938 --> 00:44:52,273 He'd always been a hard man... 616 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,441 But now he was harder. 617 00:44:54,609 --> 00:44:58,445 Anyways, we needed a rest and come to a good place to take it. 618 00:45:11,668 --> 00:45:14,628 Hey, Buster, how is it down there? 619 00:45:14,754 --> 00:45:18,007 This water's really fine. Nice and cool. 620 00:45:18,133 --> 00:45:20,634 Man could take himself a right good bath. 621 00:45:22,679 --> 00:45:25,139 Matt! 622 00:45:25,307 --> 00:45:27,308 What's the matter? 623 00:45:28,852 --> 00:45:30,769 What are you stopping 'em for? 624 00:45:30,896 --> 00:45:32,730 This water here looks pretty good. 625 00:45:32,856 --> 00:45:34,857 There's water three or four miles on ahead. 626 00:45:34,983 --> 00:45:37,276 The men are beat. They've had a tough day. 627 00:45:37,402 --> 00:45:39,570 I think... -I'll do the thinking. 628 00:45:39,696 --> 00:45:41,780 Keep 'em goin'. 629 00:45:45,535 --> 00:45:47,161 Hey! 630 00:45:47,287 --> 00:45:49,330 Buster, we're moving on. 631 00:45:49,497 --> 00:45:51,498 Come on, get going! 632 00:45:52,834 --> 00:45:55,628 I knowed this was too good to be true. 633 00:45:55,754 --> 00:45:57,880 We're moving on. -Why does he want... 634 00:45:58,006 --> 00:46:00,090 We're moving on! 635 00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:17,191 Thirty days and we reached the Brazos. 636 00:46:17,317 --> 00:46:19,360 The herd was gettin' tired. 637 00:46:19,486 --> 00:46:23,530 They was spooky and restless, and it was hard to keep 'em together. 638 00:46:23,698 --> 00:46:25,866 Groot! We'll bed down here! 639 00:46:25,992 --> 00:46:27,952 All right, Matt. 640 00:46:33,708 --> 00:46:36,377 Hi, Laredo. Just get in? -Yep. Got any coffee? 641 00:46:36,503 --> 00:46:38,796 I'll get you some. -Hi, Laredo. What'd you find? 642 00:46:38,922 --> 00:46:41,423 Good water ahead for the next three days. 643 00:46:41,549 --> 00:46:44,510 Where's Dunson? -He and Matt are out with the herd. 644 00:47:15,208 --> 00:47:17,960 Hello, Dan. -Hello, Mr. Dunson. 645 00:47:18,086 --> 00:47:20,754 How they doing? -Kind of... Kind of uneasy. 646 00:47:24,676 --> 00:47:26,760 That coyote ain't helping 'em none. 647 00:47:26,928 --> 00:47:30,222 No. -Whoa, cattle. Whoa. 648 00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:33,642 Just keep quieting 'em. They'll be all right. 649 00:47:33,768 --> 00:47:36,854 Sure hope nothing happens. I been thinking about the drive... 650 00:47:36,980 --> 00:47:39,189 And what it means to everybody. 651 00:47:39,315 --> 00:47:43,152 Me too. It means... Means... -What does it mean, Dan? 652 00:47:43,278 --> 00:47:46,613 Well, one thing... 653 00:47:46,781 --> 00:47:49,950 When we get there, I'll have over a hundred dollars coming. 654 00:47:50,118 --> 00:47:53,662 That's more than I ever had before, and I... I... I... 655 00:47:53,788 --> 00:47:56,915 What are you gonna do with it? -A whole lot of things. 656 00:47:57,042 --> 00:48:00,294 I'm gonna buy the old Chapman place, and then I'm gonna... Gonna... 657 00:48:00,420 --> 00:48:02,296 What are you gonna? 658 00:48:02,464 --> 00:48:04,465 It's my wife. She... 659 00:48:04,632 --> 00:48:07,634 She always wanted a little pair of red shoes. 660 00:48:07,802 --> 00:48:10,721 I kind of figured I'd get 'em for her. 661 00:48:10,847 --> 00:48:12,890 Is that such a fool idea, Mr. Dunson? 662 00:48:13,016 --> 00:48:17,186 It's a good idea, Dan. I'd do it. 663 00:48:17,312 --> 00:48:18,729 I will. 664 00:48:26,571 --> 00:48:30,324 Don't make too much noise putting them pans away. 665 00:48:41,336 --> 00:48:43,504 I don't like coyotes. 666 00:48:43,630 --> 00:48:45,923 I had a little roan horse once, and they... 667 00:48:50,386 --> 00:48:54,014 I wish he'd quit a-yowlin'. Botherin' the cattle. 668 00:48:54,182 --> 00:48:57,184 The dust and wind today put 'em on the prod. 669 00:48:57,310 --> 00:48:59,520 Wouldn't take much to stampede the whole outfit. 670 00:48:59,646 --> 00:49:03,398 I was in a stampede once. Don't want no more. 671 00:49:03,525 --> 00:49:07,111 Nighthawk sneezed... Just sneezed... And the whole bunch was off. 672 00:49:07,237 --> 00:49:10,030 They run for six miles before we got 'em headed. 673 00:49:10,156 --> 00:49:13,033 That's when old Whizzer White and three other fellas got it. 674 00:49:13,201 --> 00:49:14,451 I remember. 675 00:49:14,577 --> 00:49:16,537 You knowed old Whizzer, didn't you? 676 00:49:16,704 --> 00:49:18,705 Yeah, no stampedes for me. I... 677 00:49:21,501 --> 00:49:25,212 I don't like 'em. -I don't like coyotes. 678 00:49:26,881 --> 00:49:28,465 Use your head, Teeler. 679 00:49:28,591 --> 00:49:31,885 One shot tonight is apt to start the whole herd a-running. 680 00:49:32,053 --> 00:49:34,888 Sure. I wasn't thinking. 681 00:49:55,243 --> 00:49:57,828 Kennelly! 682 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,668 Stampede! 683 00:50:23,188 --> 00:50:25,772 They're headin' for camp! Head 'em off! 684 00:51:10,068 --> 00:51:11,985 Ho, cattle! Ho! 685 00:51:17,158 --> 00:51:19,493 Round 'em! Round 'em, Matt! 686 00:51:19,661 --> 00:51:20,827 Don't let 'em split! 687 00:51:24,791 --> 00:51:26,959 Help! Help! -Cherry, come here! 688 00:51:38,846 --> 00:51:41,515 Turn 'em in! -Over this way, Sims! 689 00:51:44,519 --> 00:51:46,561 Head 'em down the coulee! 690 00:51:53,945 --> 00:51:55,529 Head 'em into the canyon! 691 00:52:21,139 --> 00:52:24,725 Let 'em mill! Let 'em mill! 692 00:52:24,851 --> 00:52:27,644 All right, Laredo, hold 'em right in there! 693 00:52:27,770 --> 00:52:31,565 Give 'em a hand back there, will ya? They're too tired to run anymore. 694 00:52:31,733 --> 00:52:34,234 Have you seen Teeler or Dan Latimer? 695 00:52:34,402 --> 00:52:36,403 Teeler's right over there on that high ground. 696 00:52:36,571 --> 00:52:39,573 I saw Dan ridin' among 'em back near camp. 697 00:52:39,699 --> 00:52:42,326 Next look I didn't see him. 698 00:52:42,452 --> 00:52:45,829 Buster, you seen Latimer? -No, not since they started. 699 00:52:48,624 --> 00:52:50,876 Where'd you see him last? 700 00:53:26,788 --> 00:53:28,455 Sims. 701 00:53:39,133 --> 00:53:42,469 Dan was wearing checkered pants, wasn't he? 702 00:53:42,595 --> 00:53:45,472 Yeah, and he was riding a little buckskin mare. 703 00:53:55,316 --> 00:53:57,526 I'll stay here till morning. 704 00:54:43,990 --> 00:54:46,867 Did you find him, Tom? -Yeah. 705 00:55:02,717 --> 00:55:06,928 We'll bury him, and I'll read over him in the morning. 706 00:55:07,054 --> 00:55:10,474 Right. -And Matt, about his wife... 707 00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,560 See that she gets full pay for the whole drive... 708 00:55:13,686 --> 00:55:15,645 Just as if he'd finished it. 709 00:55:15,771 --> 00:55:18,356 Sure. -And, uh, get her a... 710 00:55:20,776 --> 00:55:23,445 Well, anything else you can think of. 711 00:55:25,072 --> 00:55:26,990 Like a pair of red shoes, maybe. 712 00:55:31,496 --> 00:55:33,663 That's the way he wanted it, wasn't it? 713 00:55:40,505 --> 00:55:44,424 We brought nothing into this world, and it's certain we can carry nothing out. 714 00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:47,177 The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. 715 00:55:47,303 --> 00:55:49,930 Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen. 716 00:56:21,671 --> 00:56:23,255 Bunk Kennelly! 717 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,301 You started all this. -Yeah. 718 00:56:28,469 --> 00:56:31,304 Yeah, I did. I know it, and I'd do anything. 719 00:56:31,472 --> 00:56:34,140 A tally would show we're 300 or 400 head short. 720 00:56:34,267 --> 00:56:37,310 And you killed Dan Latimer. -Sure, sure, I did. 721 00:56:37,478 --> 00:56:38,937 I know that too. 722 00:56:39,063 --> 00:56:41,815 I know it, I know it, and I'd give... 723 00:56:41,941 --> 00:56:45,652 I'd give my right arm... -Stealing sugar like a kid! 724 00:56:45,820 --> 00:56:48,863 Well, they whip kids to teach 'em better! -They what? 725 00:56:48,990 --> 00:56:51,908 Laredo, Teeler, tie him to that wagon wheel. 726 00:56:52,034 --> 00:56:55,203 No, nobody's gonna tie me to no wagon wheel. No, sir. 727 00:56:55,329 --> 00:56:57,330 Then you'll take it without a wheel to lean against. 728 00:56:57,456 --> 00:57:00,458 I was wrong, awful wrong, but nobody's gonna whip me. 729 00:57:00,585 --> 00:57:02,711 Turn around, Bunk. -Don't do it. 730 00:57:02,837 --> 00:57:05,589 Turn around, or you'll get it in the eye. -Don't do it! 731 00:57:15,808 --> 00:57:18,560 You'd have shot him right between the eyes. 732 00:57:18,686 --> 00:57:21,605 Just as sure as you're standing there. 733 00:57:23,691 --> 00:57:26,651 Well, you shot him. You can take care of him. 734 00:57:28,696 --> 00:57:30,238 And the rest of you... 735 00:57:30,364 --> 00:57:34,034 You got a couple of thousand head to round up. 736 00:57:34,201 --> 00:57:35,785 Get at it. 737 00:57:44,545 --> 00:57:46,338 Go ahead. Say it. 738 00:57:47,632 --> 00:57:50,216 You was wrong, Mr. Dunson. 739 00:57:57,558 --> 00:58:01,227 Thanks, Matt. He... He'd have killed me. 740 00:58:01,354 --> 00:58:04,981 Yeah. You gonna be able to make it home all right? 741 00:58:05,107 --> 00:58:08,234 Won't be no party, but he'll make it. 742 00:58:08,361 --> 00:58:11,529 Groot will fix you up with some food. -Sure. 743 00:58:11,656 --> 00:58:13,865 Take along an extra horse, huh? 744 00:58:15,493 --> 00:58:17,160 This might hurt. 745 00:58:19,580 --> 00:58:21,956 You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. 746 00:58:22,083 --> 00:58:24,918 But your heart's soft. Too soft. 747 00:58:25,086 --> 00:58:27,545 Might get you hurt someday. 748 00:58:27,672 --> 00:58:29,589 Could be. 749 00:58:29,757 --> 00:58:31,883 I wouldn't count on it. 750 00:58:45,439 --> 00:58:48,358 And then we got rain. 751 00:58:48,484 --> 00:58:51,736 It was 10 days later, 40 days in all... 752 00:58:51,862 --> 00:58:54,072 And the dust turned to mud. 753 00:58:54,198 --> 00:58:56,908 We had over a solid week of rain... 754 00:58:57,034 --> 00:58:59,244 And rain does things to men... 755 00:58:59,370 --> 00:59:01,121 Rain and Tom... 756 00:59:01,247 --> 00:59:03,581 'Cause by now, the boys were scared of Tom. 757 00:59:11,757 --> 00:59:15,009 Beef again? -Yeah, I was figuring on having sow belly and beans. 758 00:59:15,136 --> 00:59:19,389 Got a mite of that left, but it takes time to cook up a tasty meal. 759 00:59:19,515 --> 00:59:23,810 I can't whip up no "patty foy grass" with 30 hungry drivers breathing down my neck. 760 00:59:23,936 --> 00:59:27,272 I could eat something else. -You're gonna bed down early or have beef. 761 00:59:27,398 --> 00:59:29,149 I don't like it myself. -Me neither. 762 00:59:29,275 --> 00:59:32,527 Who asked you to talk? -I was just saying the same as you. 763 00:59:32,653 --> 00:59:35,655 Wait till you're as old as me afore you talk like me. 764 00:59:35,823 --> 00:59:38,241 What's the matter with you? -This stuff tastes awful. 765 00:59:38,367 --> 00:59:40,410 Me and nature done the best we could. 766 00:59:40,536 --> 00:59:43,288 You can't make burnt grain taste like coffee. 767 00:59:43,414 --> 00:59:46,875 Lousy muck! I'd like to tell that Dunson... 768 00:59:50,129 --> 00:59:52,338 Give me some coffee. 769 00:59:56,177 --> 00:59:59,387 What was it you wanted to tell Dunson, Teeler? 770 00:59:59,513 --> 01:00:01,681 A man can't eat this kind of food. 771 01:00:01,849 --> 01:00:04,601 After we lost that other grub wagon, we should've turned back. 772 01:00:04,727 --> 01:00:07,270 Well, we didn't turn back, and we're not going to. 773 01:00:07,396 --> 01:00:10,482 And even if we had, I couldn't replace what we lost. 774 01:00:10,608 --> 01:00:12,984 I'm broke. Got nothing to buy it with. 775 01:00:13,110 --> 01:00:15,945 So you're on short rations and bad coffee... 776 01:00:16,071 --> 01:00:18,531 And you're gonna be until we finish the drive. 777 01:00:18,657 --> 01:00:21,659 And you're gonna finish it. -Teeler, I like what the man says. 778 01:00:21,786 --> 01:00:24,078 Like it or not, that's it. 779 01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:29,042 Come on and get it, you hungry hounds. 780 01:00:32,713 --> 01:00:36,341 Sixty days and we was bedded down near the Ouachitas... 781 01:00:36,467 --> 01:00:39,761 Tired cattle and tireder men. 782 01:00:39,887 --> 01:00:42,847 And rations was gettin' mighty low too. 783 01:00:42,973 --> 01:00:45,391 The men was gettin' awful near mutiny... 784 01:00:45,559 --> 01:00:48,895 And Tom knew it, 'cause... Well, 'cause he just kept watchin'... 785 01:00:49,021 --> 01:00:51,815 Watchin' 'em all the time. 786 01:01:24,306 --> 01:01:26,099 My name's Sutter. 787 01:01:26,267 --> 01:01:28,601 Been riding point for old man Carwood. 788 01:01:28,769 --> 01:01:30,728 Over 2.000 head of... 789 01:01:32,815 --> 01:01:35,024 My... My neck. It hurts. 790 01:01:35,150 --> 01:01:37,861 They put a rope around it, and... 791 01:01:37,987 --> 01:01:40,738 And then they... 792 01:01:40,865 --> 01:01:42,949 That food sure looks good. 793 01:01:43,075 --> 01:01:46,160 I haven't had anything in over four days, and a... 794 01:01:47,621 --> 01:01:49,998 A fella gets... A fella gets... 795 01:01:50,124 --> 01:01:52,292 Grab him. 796 01:01:52,418 --> 01:01:54,586 Bring him over here. 797 01:02:00,467 --> 01:02:03,928 Yeah, that's better. I was nearly all in. 798 01:02:04,054 --> 01:02:06,806 Want to hear about it now? -Go ahead. 799 01:02:06,974 --> 01:02:09,225 Well, we had nearly 2.000 head of cattle... 800 01:02:09,351 --> 01:02:11,269 Belonging to old man Carwood. 801 01:02:11,395 --> 01:02:13,897 Everything went fine till we crossed the Big Red... 802 01:02:14,023 --> 01:02:15,398 And then it happened. 803 01:02:15,524 --> 01:02:18,318 We got as far as the Ouachitas when they jumped us. 804 01:02:18,485 --> 01:02:20,778 How many were in that bunch that jumped you? 805 01:02:20,905 --> 01:02:22,697 Maybe a hundred, I guess. 806 01:02:22,823 --> 01:02:24,782 They stampeded the cattle... 807 01:02:24,909 --> 01:02:28,411 Then picked us off one by one as we came out. 808 01:02:28,537 --> 01:02:30,538 We didn't have a chance. Not a chance. 809 01:02:30,664 --> 01:02:34,125 Why'd they put a rope on you? -They did worse than that. 810 01:02:34,251 --> 01:02:37,128 They nailed Carwood's feet and hands to a wagon wheel. 811 01:02:37,254 --> 01:02:40,340 He was dead when I got to him. -How'd you get loose? 812 01:02:40,466 --> 01:02:42,842 Just luck. The rope they put on me broke. 813 01:02:43,010 --> 01:02:47,388 We should never have gone that way. We should've turned north at the Big Red. 814 01:02:47,514 --> 01:02:49,599 Why do you say that? 815 01:02:49,725 --> 01:02:52,644 A fella named Jess Chisholm, an Indian trader... 816 01:02:52,770 --> 01:02:55,605 He told me he blazed a trail all through the Nations. 817 01:02:55,731 --> 01:02:58,232 Said we could follow it clear to Kansas. 818 01:02:58,359 --> 01:03:01,444 That way we only have Indians to worry about. -Where in Kansas? 819 01:03:01,570 --> 01:03:03,863 Abilene. Said there's a railroad there. 820 01:03:04,031 --> 01:03:07,158 Railroad? -In Abilene? -That's what Cherry was saying. 821 01:03:07,284 --> 01:03:09,202 Did he say he saw it? 822 01:03:09,328 --> 01:03:11,287 Well, I... 823 01:03:11,413 --> 01:03:15,041 I... I can't remember. 824 01:03:15,167 --> 01:03:19,045 Ah. Get me a razor. 825 01:03:19,171 --> 01:03:22,131 Want to come along with us? -Where to? Missouri? 826 01:03:22,257 --> 01:03:24,509 Yeah. -No. No, I've had enough. 827 01:03:24,635 --> 01:03:27,345 If you could spare a little food, though... -Sure. 828 01:03:31,517 --> 01:03:34,727 I've had enough too. -What? 829 01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:38,523 We started a drive we'll never finish. -We'll finish the drive, Mailer. 830 01:03:38,649 --> 01:03:42,068 And I'll sell my beef in Missouri. -What do we eat on the way? 831 01:03:42,194 --> 01:03:43,945 Beef. -What do we drink? 832 01:03:50,285 --> 01:03:51,911 Rainwater, if we have to. 833 01:03:52,079 --> 01:03:54,831 Not me. I'm heading south. 834 01:03:54,957 --> 01:03:58,751 I've had enough, Dunson, unless we try for Abilene. 835 01:04:01,422 --> 01:04:03,506 And you, Fernandez? 836 01:04:04,842 --> 01:04:06,592 Me, I think this way: 837 01:04:06,719 --> 01:04:09,262 If I'm going to die, I go south to die. 838 01:04:09,388 --> 01:04:12,181 My people can find my grave and put flowers on it. 839 01:04:14,810 --> 01:04:17,895 There was an agreement made when you signed on. 840 01:04:18,022 --> 01:04:21,607 You agreed to finish this drive. 841 01:04:21,734 --> 01:04:24,736 I'm gonna hold you to it. -How? 842 01:04:26,697 --> 01:04:29,449 I don't want to have to kill you, Mailer. -With what? 843 01:04:40,252 --> 01:04:44,255 All right, anyone else? Say it now, 'cause I don't want to ever hear it again. 844 01:04:44,381 --> 01:04:46,924 I don't like quitters, especially when they're not good enough... 845 01:04:47,051 --> 01:04:49,260 To finish what they start. 846 01:04:49,386 --> 01:04:52,638 Go on! Speak up! Say it, and you can join your friends here! 847 01:04:52,806 --> 01:04:54,599 All I want... Where are you going? 848 01:04:54,725 --> 01:04:56,768 I'm gonna sit down. 849 01:04:56,894 --> 01:04:59,062 Well, you got work to do, you... 850 01:04:59,188 --> 01:05:01,189 Watch it. 851 01:05:01,315 --> 01:05:04,358 I was just getting myself a drink of water. 852 01:05:13,577 --> 01:05:14,869 I'm just listening. 853 01:05:16,413 --> 01:05:19,624 Well, there's quitters to be buried. 854 01:05:19,750 --> 01:05:21,167 I'll... 855 01:05:22,169 --> 01:05:24,337 I'll read over 'em in the morning. 856 01:05:26,048 --> 01:05:29,175 Plantin' and readin', plantin' and readin'. 857 01:05:29,343 --> 01:05:31,177 Fill a man full of lead... 858 01:05:31,345 --> 01:05:34,138 Stick him in the ground, and then read words at him. 859 01:05:34,264 --> 01:05:36,015 When you've killed a man... 860 01:05:36,141 --> 01:05:39,393 Why try to read the Lord in as a partner on the job? 861 01:05:53,367 --> 01:05:55,368 Well? 862 01:05:55,536 --> 01:05:58,329 You didn't have to do that back there. -You joined in. 863 01:05:58,455 --> 01:06:00,456 I thought you were wrong. -Why didn't you... 864 01:06:00,582 --> 01:06:05,086 Don't tell me what to think! I'll take your orders about work, but not about what to think. 865 01:06:05,212 --> 01:06:08,798 You think I'm to blame for that? -Just as sure as you're sitting there. 866 01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:12,969 And so? -So I'll take your orders. 867 01:06:23,689 --> 01:06:26,232 Got you in the leg, huh? -Yeah. 868 01:06:35,826 --> 01:06:39,620 It ain't bad. -Went clean through. 869 01:06:39,746 --> 01:06:41,873 Ain't as bad as it should be. 870 01:06:41,999 --> 01:06:45,543 You too? What do you got to say? 871 01:06:45,669 --> 01:06:49,046 Nothin'. If I did, you wouldn't listen to it. 872 01:07:04,062 --> 01:07:05,897 Did you find 'em? 873 01:07:06,023 --> 01:07:09,358 Nope. They're gone, all right. -That's a pretty how-do-you-do! 874 01:07:09,484 --> 01:07:11,527 You ought to... 875 01:07:11,653 --> 01:07:13,821 No, I better tell him myself. 876 01:07:19,828 --> 01:07:22,288 Tom. Tom. 877 01:07:26,210 --> 01:07:28,753 Teeler, Laredo, and Bill Kelsey are gone. 878 01:07:28,879 --> 01:07:30,963 What? -They up and left. 879 01:07:31,965 --> 01:07:35,218 How do you know? -I went to wake 'em, and they wasn't there. 880 01:07:35,344 --> 01:07:37,261 When did they go? -During the night. 881 01:07:37,387 --> 01:07:41,098 They was on second guard. It could've happened anytime. 882 01:07:41,225 --> 01:07:43,684 Anybody know anything about Teeler, Kelsey, or Laredo? 883 01:07:43,810 --> 01:07:46,354 There ain't no doubt about it. I checked the wagon. 884 01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:48,981 We're shy some cartridges, flour, and a mite of salt. 885 01:07:49,149 --> 01:07:51,275 How many cartridges? -This side of a hundred. 886 01:07:51,401 --> 01:07:52,944 Flour? -One sack. 887 01:07:53,070 --> 01:07:55,863 Sneakin', yellow... 888 01:07:55,989 --> 01:07:58,866 Well, they're not gonna... Matt, get... 889 01:07:58,992 --> 01:08:02,411 No. Cherry, get mounted and take Grant here, and Bill... 890 01:08:02,537 --> 01:08:04,330 Grant will be enough. 891 01:08:04,498 --> 01:08:07,708 They'll probably head straight south. Find 'em and bring 'em back. 892 01:08:07,834 --> 01:08:10,461 Supposing they won't come. -Bring 'em! 893 01:08:10,587 --> 01:08:13,005 We'll catch up with you. 894 01:08:13,173 --> 01:08:15,841 From now on, this outfit's gonna move. 895 01:08:16,009 --> 01:08:17,677 Get 'em goin'. 896 01:08:19,513 --> 01:08:22,598 And move we did, with Tom drivin' every step. 897 01:08:22,724 --> 01:08:24,600 Matt. 898 01:08:24,726 --> 01:08:27,353 Keep your point moving. The drag's catching up. 899 01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:28,938 Sure. 900 01:08:30,899 --> 01:08:33,859 The boys hoped Teeler, Laredo, and Kelsey'd get away... 901 01:08:33,986 --> 01:08:35,987 But didn't give 'em much chance. 902 01:08:36,113 --> 01:08:39,573 Cherry and Grant was too good, too fast with their guns. 903 01:08:39,700 --> 01:08:43,202 And so we kept on drivin' until... -Red River ahead! 904 01:08:44,204 --> 01:08:46,330 Hey, it's the Red River! 905 01:08:46,456 --> 01:08:48,708 Red River ahead! 906 01:08:48,834 --> 01:08:51,168 It's the Red River! 907 01:08:51,295 --> 01:08:54,839 It's the Red River! -Red River ahead! 908 01:09:35,714 --> 01:09:39,383 Well, here's your Red. -It's quite a river. 909 01:09:39,509 --> 01:09:43,763 We sure had a lot smaller herd the last time we crossed. 910 01:09:45,932 --> 01:09:47,933 One bull and a cow. 911 01:09:48,935 --> 01:09:51,437 Well, this looks like as good a place as any. 912 01:09:51,605 --> 01:09:55,775 This'll take the rest of the day and part of the night. Why not cross in the morning? 913 01:09:55,901 --> 01:09:59,111 We'll put 'em across now. -We've got a pretty tired bunch behind us. 914 01:09:59,237 --> 01:10:00,821 Tired men don't run away. 915 01:10:00,947 --> 01:10:03,574 We can't keep 'em this wore out the rest of the drive. 916 01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:07,328 No, but we can keep 'em this wore out until Cherry gets back. 917 01:10:07,454 --> 01:10:09,121 Then nobody'll want to run away. 918 01:10:09,247 --> 01:10:12,875 Mark for us, will you, Leather? -Sure enough. 919 01:10:30,644 --> 01:10:33,187 Quicksand out in here! Mark it! 920 01:10:38,068 --> 01:10:40,319 More of it in here! 921 01:10:40,487 --> 01:10:43,989 Mark it from the stump to the tree! -From the stump to the tree. 922 01:10:44,157 --> 01:10:47,368 How is it up there, Matt? -Firm all the way. 923 01:10:47,494 --> 01:10:51,330 All right, bring 'em on in, but keep 'em downstream! 924 01:10:51,498 --> 01:10:52,957 Bring 'em on, boys! 925 01:10:53,083 --> 01:10:55,835 Matt, watch for strays. 926 01:10:55,961 --> 01:10:57,503 Right. 927 01:11:26,491 --> 01:11:28,951 Come on, cattle! Get in, cattle! 928 01:11:29,077 --> 01:11:31,370 Come on, cattle. 929 01:11:31,538 --> 01:11:33,539 Come on, get going. 930 01:11:44,551 --> 01:11:46,677 Keep 'em coming. 931 01:11:51,558 --> 01:11:54,185 Hyah, cattle! Go! 932 01:11:54,311 --> 01:11:55,769 Come on, cattle! 933 01:12:05,071 --> 01:12:08,699 Hyah! Get over there! 934 01:12:47,697 --> 01:12:50,032 Straighten out that line! 935 01:12:52,953 --> 01:12:55,663 Keep 'em downstream! 936 01:13:04,130 --> 01:13:06,966 Hyah! Keep 'em comin'! 937 01:13:12,806 --> 01:13:15,307 Your bedroll's right down there, Tom. 938 01:13:28,154 --> 01:13:30,614 Have some coffee, Tom? 939 01:13:30,740 --> 01:13:32,616 We picked up a few. -Hi, Matt. 940 01:13:32,742 --> 01:13:36,287 Hi. We just picked up a few strays downstream. 941 01:13:36,413 --> 01:13:39,164 All told, we've lost 30 to 40 head. 942 01:13:39,291 --> 01:13:42,960 Better than 9.000 head across in less than four hours. 943 01:13:43,086 --> 01:13:45,963 That's awful good, Tom. The boys did all right. 944 01:13:46,089 --> 01:13:48,841 Yeah. -Why don't you tell 'em so? 945 01:13:50,594 --> 01:13:52,344 That's their job. 946 01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:55,889 They're awful tired. 947 01:13:56,016 --> 01:13:58,684 Then we won't have to count noses in the morning. 948 01:14:04,566 --> 01:14:06,400 That leg bothering you? 949 01:14:06,526 --> 01:14:09,820 Yeah, I hooked it on a horn. It opened it up a little. 950 01:14:09,946 --> 01:14:12,781 I'll take a look at it. -No, wait till morning. 951 01:14:16,328 --> 01:14:19,830 You need sleep, Tom. You need it bad. 952 01:14:21,207 --> 01:14:24,084 Some nights ago, we lost three men. 953 01:14:24,210 --> 01:14:27,171 I haven't slept since, and we haven't lost any more. 954 01:14:27,297 --> 01:14:30,758 We're not gonna lose any tonight, nor from now on. 955 01:14:40,727 --> 01:14:44,563 Why did we have to cross today? Wouldn't tomorrow have been just as good? 956 01:14:44,731 --> 01:14:47,149 Dunson's orders. Ask him. 957 01:14:47,275 --> 01:14:51,278 We could've waited till morning instead of finishing after dark. 958 01:14:51,404 --> 01:14:54,782 It don't make sense. We got a long way to go yet. 959 01:14:54,908 --> 01:14:56,825 He's getting worse every day. 960 01:14:56,951 --> 01:15:00,579 Sometimes I think he's going plumb out of his head. 961 01:15:01,581 --> 01:15:03,290 Why tell me? 962 01:15:03,416 --> 01:15:06,210 If you feel that way, what do you tell me for? 963 01:15:07,420 --> 01:15:10,923 Next mornin', while I was fixin' Tom's leg... 964 01:15:11,049 --> 01:15:14,259 Cherry come back, just like I knowed he would. 965 01:15:42,664 --> 01:15:46,542 Get down off them horses. I don't favor looking up to the likes of you. 966 01:15:50,213 --> 01:15:53,882 That's better. You should be crawling. 967 01:15:54,008 --> 01:15:57,177 Cherry, I sent you out after three. You brought back two. 968 01:15:57,303 --> 01:16:01,098 Bill Kelsey figured he'd rather fight. Made a good run of it for a while. 969 01:16:01,224 --> 01:16:04,143 Mm. Laredo, Teeler... 970 01:16:04,310 --> 01:16:07,604 You signed on for the drive, and you signed on to finish it. 971 01:16:07,731 --> 01:16:11,108 That's right... -You stole beans and flour and cartridges. 972 01:16:11,234 --> 01:16:13,485 Besides being deserters, you're common thieves. 973 01:16:13,653 --> 01:16:16,655 The law might see it different... -I'm the law. You're a thief. 974 01:16:16,823 --> 01:16:19,742 You too, Teeler. 975 01:16:19,868 --> 01:16:24,163 Anything more? -I know what you're gonna do, but first I want to tell you something. 976 01:16:24,289 --> 01:16:26,123 Go ahead. -You're crazy. 977 01:16:26,249 --> 01:16:29,668 You been drinking and you ain't been sleeping. If you ain't craza, you're close. 978 01:16:29,836 --> 01:16:31,462 You through? -No. 979 01:16:31,588 --> 01:16:34,798 You want to get this herd to market. So do all of us. 980 01:16:34,924 --> 01:16:37,384 There's a good way to Abilene, but you won't listen. 981 01:16:37,510 --> 01:16:41,972 You want to drive 'em to Missouri when you got the high, low, and jack against you. 982 01:16:42,098 --> 01:16:45,851 I ain't through yet. This herd don't belong to you. 983 01:16:45,977 --> 01:16:49,146 It belongs to every poor, hoping-and-praying cattleman in the whole wide state. 984 01:16:49,272 --> 01:16:51,565 I shouldn't have run away. 985 01:16:51,691 --> 01:16:53,984 I should've stayed and put a bullet in you. 986 01:16:54,110 --> 01:16:57,029 I signed a pledge, but you ain't the man I signed with. 987 01:16:57,155 --> 01:16:58,989 You finished? -Yeah. 988 01:16:59,115 --> 01:17:03,327 Now you can get your Bible and read over us after you shoot us. 989 01:17:05,205 --> 01:17:07,372 I'm gonna hang you. 990 01:17:08,541 --> 01:17:11,710 No. No, you're not. 991 01:17:11,878 --> 01:17:15,297 What? -You're not going to hang them. 992 01:17:16,382 --> 01:17:18,050 Who'll stop me? 993 01:17:18,968 --> 01:17:20,427 I will. 994 01:17:56,381 --> 01:17:58,006 Give me that gun. 995 01:17:58,132 --> 01:17:59,716 Somebody give me... 996 01:17:59,843 --> 01:18:01,677 I'll kill him! Let me go! 997 01:18:01,803 --> 01:18:04,596 He was gonna kill me. Wasn't gonna give me a chance! 998 01:18:04,722 --> 01:18:05,931 Teeler! 999 01:18:06,057 --> 01:18:07,808 Turn him loose. 1000 01:18:07,934 --> 01:18:11,770 Cherry, give me that gun. Here's what you've been crying for. 1001 01:18:13,106 --> 01:18:16,567 All right, use it! Go on. You got what you wanted. 1002 01:18:16,693 --> 01:18:21,029 What are you waiting for? If you don't want to live, all you have to do is... 1003 01:18:30,164 --> 01:18:32,833 You're a lucky man, Teeler. 1004 01:18:32,959 --> 01:18:35,127 That's how close it came. 1005 01:18:37,213 --> 01:18:39,423 Matt, we're getting as craza as he is. 1006 01:18:43,720 --> 01:18:46,847 Keep it. You want to finish the drive? 1007 01:18:46,973 --> 01:18:48,974 Where are we going? -Abilene. 1008 01:18:49,100 --> 01:18:50,934 Who's heading it? -I am. 1009 01:18:51,060 --> 01:18:52,853 What about Dunson? 1010 01:18:54,063 --> 01:18:55,772 He stays here. 1011 01:18:57,317 --> 01:18:59,067 We're taking the herd. 1012 01:19:00,236 --> 01:19:02,571 That's good enough for me. -I'm with you, Matt. 1013 01:19:02,697 --> 01:19:04,364 Groot? 1014 01:19:04,490 --> 01:19:06,533 How about you? 1015 01:19:12,665 --> 01:19:14,499 You was wrong, Mr. Dunson. 1016 01:19:14,667 --> 01:19:17,878 I been with you a lot of years... 1017 01:19:18,004 --> 01:19:22,007 And up till now, right or wrong, I always done like you said. 1018 01:19:22,175 --> 01:19:25,969 Got to be kind of a habit, 'cause that's why I'm staying with you. 1019 01:19:26,095 --> 01:19:29,431 Go on with 'em. -Thanks. 1020 01:19:29,557 --> 01:19:33,352 Thanks for making it easy on me. All right, I'll be coming with you. 1021 01:19:33,519 --> 01:19:35,896 Throw 'em on the trail. Start driving. 1022 01:19:36,022 --> 01:19:38,190 Buster... 1023 01:19:38,316 --> 01:19:40,651 You wait here till I get back. 1024 01:19:41,653 --> 01:19:44,821 You come looking for me, Mr. Dunson, I'll be in Abilene. 1025 01:19:55,041 --> 01:19:57,834 All right, Groot, get going. 1026 01:20:13,559 --> 01:20:17,187 If there's any chance at all, we'll get your herd to Abilene. 1027 01:20:17,313 --> 01:20:20,649 Cherry was right. You're soft. 1028 01:20:20,775 --> 01:20:23,568 You should've let 'em kill me, 'cause I'm gonna kill you. 1029 01:20:24,696 --> 01:20:27,948 I'll catch up with you. I don't know when, but I'll catch up. 1030 01:20:29,117 --> 01:20:32,577 Every time you turn around, expect to see me... 1031 01:20:32,745 --> 01:20:35,956 'Cause one time you'll turn around, and I'll be there. 1032 01:20:36,082 --> 01:20:37,874 I'm gonna kill you, Matt. 1033 01:21:13,953 --> 01:21:16,621 So they took Tom's herd away from him... 1034 01:21:16,789 --> 01:21:19,708 And we went on with everybody looking over their shoulders... 1035 01:21:19,834 --> 01:21:21,460 Watchin' for Tom. 1036 01:21:30,178 --> 01:21:32,429 It's only me. -Oh, I thought... 1037 01:21:32,555 --> 01:21:35,724 I was scared it was... -Yeah. Got some coffee? 1038 01:21:35,850 --> 01:21:37,476 Yeah. 1039 01:21:38,936 --> 01:21:40,687 I'm an idiot. 1040 01:21:40,813 --> 01:21:44,066 Jumping at every sound I hear. 1041 01:21:44,192 --> 01:21:47,277 He wouldn't be coming back yet, would he? 1042 01:21:47,403 --> 01:21:49,946 I don't know. 1043 01:21:50,073 --> 01:21:54,076 You know, Matt, I been figuring. 1044 01:21:54,202 --> 01:21:57,204 He'd be a fool to come alone. Then again, he might. 1045 01:21:57,330 --> 01:21:59,164 Yep. -Yeah. 1046 01:21:59,332 --> 01:22:01,833 Most likely he'll ride back and get men and cartridges. 1047 01:22:02,001 --> 01:22:04,669 You took all of his before you left. 1048 01:22:05,963 --> 01:22:07,798 Let me see, now. 1049 01:22:07,924 --> 01:22:11,009 Nearest place is San Felipe. 1050 01:22:11,177 --> 01:22:13,845 With that bad leg, he'll have to take it easy. 1051 01:22:14,013 --> 01:22:16,473 It'll take him at least four days. 1052 01:22:16,599 --> 01:22:18,892 He'll pick up men and start after us. 1053 01:22:19,018 --> 01:22:21,019 That's four more. That's eight days. 1054 01:22:21,145 --> 01:22:24,356 At the rate we been traveling, it's eight days to the river... 1055 01:22:24,482 --> 01:22:27,526 Nearer ten. I been figuring some myself. 1056 01:22:28,611 --> 01:22:31,905 And four more... That's 8, 16, 20... 1057 01:22:32,031 --> 01:22:34,616 That's 22 days altogether. 1058 01:22:34,742 --> 01:22:37,035 And we been gone four days. 1059 01:22:37,203 --> 01:22:40,997 Four from 22 is, uh... Uh... 1060 01:22:41,124 --> 01:22:43,125 That's 18 days from now. 1061 01:22:44,293 --> 01:22:46,837 He couldn't get back quicker than that, could he? 1062 01:22:46,963 --> 01:22:49,965 If that's the way he does it, that's figuring pretty fine. 1063 01:22:50,091 --> 01:22:53,552 Yeah. The men are figuring pretty fine too: 1064 01:22:53,678 --> 01:22:57,055 Snarling and snapping and jumping at their own shadows. 1065 01:22:58,474 --> 01:23:02,352 What do you think will happen when he does come back, Matt? 1066 01:23:02,478 --> 01:23:04,646 Yeah, I been wondering too. 1067 01:23:06,816 --> 01:23:09,442 The way he looked when we left him... 1068 01:23:09,569 --> 01:23:11,903 It all happened so fast. 1069 01:23:12,029 --> 01:23:13,905 I didn't... 1070 01:23:14,031 --> 01:23:16,199 I hadn't started out... 1071 01:23:18,035 --> 01:23:20,787 I couldn't let him hang Teeler and Laredo. 1072 01:23:22,540 --> 01:23:24,916 You ain't sorry you done it? 1073 01:23:25,042 --> 01:23:27,043 I don't know. 1074 01:23:28,379 --> 01:23:30,255 He was wrong. 1075 01:23:31,507 --> 01:23:35,177 Hope I'm right. Hope there's a railroad in Abilene. 1076 01:23:37,013 --> 01:23:39,014 Ten days after we left Tom... 1077 01:23:39,140 --> 01:23:42,475 The herd was drivin' good, and the only bad thing... 1078 01:23:42,602 --> 01:23:45,145 well, Tom was out behind. 1079 01:23:53,321 --> 01:23:56,531 Hey, Matt! Come here! 1080 01:24:02,580 --> 01:24:04,789 Matt, look at this. 1081 01:24:14,634 --> 01:24:18,887 About a day ago. -Not over a day, as I make it. 1082 01:24:28,397 --> 01:24:29,981 Quo? 1083 01:24:31,108 --> 01:24:32,651 Comanche. 1084 01:24:32,818 --> 01:24:34,736 You sure? -Comanche arrow. 1085 01:24:34,862 --> 01:24:36,780 That's trouble. 1086 01:24:36,906 --> 01:24:39,032 Tracks lead north. 1087 01:24:39,158 --> 01:24:41,826 Well, do we go on? 1088 01:24:41,994 --> 01:24:44,955 Which would you rather have: what's behind... 1089 01:24:45,081 --> 01:24:47,374 Or what might be ahead? 1090 01:24:50,503 --> 01:24:52,170 Cherry. -Yeah? 1091 01:24:52,338 --> 01:24:56,841 You and Buster go on ahead about 10, 12 miles. 1092 01:24:56,968 --> 01:24:58,760 Enough to give warning. 1093 01:24:58,886 --> 01:25:01,429 Get Groot to give you some food. Take your rifles. 1094 01:25:01,555 --> 01:25:04,015 Teeler, see the rest of the men have theirs. 1095 01:25:04,183 --> 01:25:05,850 Buster. 1096 01:25:09,522 --> 01:25:11,690 Three more days pass. 1097 01:25:11,816 --> 01:25:14,734 Each day, we found more Injun signs... 1098 01:25:14,860 --> 01:25:17,612 But not a word from Buster and Cherry. 1099 01:25:30,042 --> 01:25:31,793 It's Buster. 1100 01:25:33,713 --> 01:25:35,380 Women! 1101 01:25:35,548 --> 01:25:37,882 Women and coffee, I tell you! I seen 'em! 1102 01:25:38,009 --> 01:25:40,051 Trail-craza! -No, I ain't. 1103 01:25:40,219 --> 01:25:42,220 I tell you, I had pie and biscuits... 1104 01:25:42,346 --> 01:25:44,681 And beans and coffee and a bottle of whiskey... 1105 01:25:47,518 --> 01:25:50,395 Hey, hey, hey, hey. Where was all this, Buster? 1106 01:25:50,563 --> 01:25:52,814 About 15, 18 miles north of here. 1107 01:25:52,940 --> 01:25:55,567 A whole wagon train of 'em heading for Nevady! 1108 01:25:55,693 --> 01:25:58,111 No foolin'? -I ain't foolin'. I seen 'em! 1109 01:25:58,237 --> 01:26:00,572 They belong to the Donegal. He went to Nevady... 1110 01:26:00,740 --> 01:26:03,491 And he sent back to New Orleans for his whole outfit! 1111 01:26:03,617 --> 01:26:06,995 They got a big long bar and dice tables... -That's for me! 1112 01:26:07,121 --> 01:26:09,414 They got dancing girls. -Let's go! 1113 01:26:09,540 --> 01:26:11,541 Hold it! 1114 01:26:11,667 --> 01:26:16,504 Buster, you say about 15 miles away? -Maybe a little more. 1115 01:26:16,630 --> 01:26:19,591 Yeah, about a two-day drive. 1116 01:26:19,759 --> 01:26:23,094 Well, who's going to stay behind and drive the herd? 1117 01:26:25,639 --> 01:26:27,390 Nobody. 1118 01:26:27,516 --> 01:26:29,392 I don't blame you. 1119 01:26:29,518 --> 01:26:31,936 We're going together and taking the herd. -Fair enough. 1120 01:26:32,104 --> 01:26:34,939 Two days, we'll all have a cup of coffee. -Bueno! 1121 01:26:35,066 --> 01:26:37,942 Tell the rest of the men. Maybe they'd like to hear. 1122 01:26:41,155 --> 01:26:43,907 Buster, where's Cherry? 1123 01:26:44,033 --> 01:26:47,869 Cherry? Well, he figured there was no need in the two of us coming. 1124 01:26:47,995 --> 01:26:49,204 Yeah. -One was... 1125 01:26:49,330 --> 01:26:50,872 She pretty? 1126 01:26:50,998 --> 01:26:53,792 Matt, you remember that little filly I used to own? 1127 01:26:53,959 --> 01:26:55,502 That's what I figured. 1128 01:26:55,628 --> 01:26:57,295 Come on. 1129 01:27:04,678 --> 01:27:08,139 Buster's news made a heap of difference in the boys. 1130 01:27:08,265 --> 01:27:11,643 Nobody had to tell 'em to hurry now. 1131 01:27:11,811 --> 01:27:15,313 I ain't never seen such a bunch of men in all my born days. 1132 01:27:15,481 --> 01:27:17,857 Everybody wants to ride point so's he'll get in sooner. 1133 01:27:17,983 --> 01:27:20,110 I'll bet there ain't a man back in the drag! 1134 01:27:22,279 --> 01:27:25,698 What's the matter? -I thought I heard something. 1135 01:27:25,825 --> 01:27:27,700 Oh, hi, Buster. -Hi. 1136 01:27:27,827 --> 01:27:29,744 How much further to your coffee? 1137 01:27:29,870 --> 01:27:32,622 It ain't so far. Any of that water left? 1138 01:27:32,748 --> 01:27:35,166 Cherry and me rode over this part at night. 1139 01:27:35,292 --> 01:27:37,168 I'd say it was nearer than further. 1140 01:27:43,008 --> 01:27:45,510 What's he want? 1141 01:27:45,636 --> 01:27:47,595 I don't know. 1142 01:27:47,721 --> 01:27:50,515 Let's find out. 1143 01:27:55,062 --> 01:27:57,355 Matt, I hear gunfire. -Where? 1144 01:27:57,481 --> 01:27:59,858 Seems like it's coming from over that next ridge. 1145 01:27:59,984 --> 01:28:03,027 Hey, I hear guns poppin' up ahead! -I know, Laredo. 1146 01:28:20,546 --> 01:28:24,424 What do they always yell for? -I don't know. 1147 01:28:24,550 --> 01:28:28,511 I make it a few past a hundred. -That's my count. 1148 01:28:28,637 --> 01:28:31,222 We're gonna need the rest of the men. 1149 01:28:31,348 --> 01:28:33,057 Laredo? -Yeah? 1150 01:28:33,225 --> 01:28:37,312 While you get the men, four of us will go on in. -What about the cattle? 1151 01:28:37,438 --> 01:28:41,065 Herd'll go sage-belly without the men. It'll take us days to gather 'em. 1152 01:28:41,233 --> 01:28:44,777 Yeah, I know, saving a bunch of gamblers and women. 1153 01:28:45,696 --> 01:28:49,407 Laredo, when you get the men, split 'em up. 1154 01:28:49,533 --> 01:28:53,244 Half go in from over there, half from behind the knoll. 1155 01:28:53,412 --> 01:28:56,789 As you go in, we'll come out from the wagons and meet you. 1156 01:28:56,916 --> 01:28:59,334 You got that? -Yep. 1157 01:28:59,460 --> 01:29:03,254 Don't leave any of them alive, or they'll come back and hit the herd. 1158 01:29:05,132 --> 01:29:07,550 Well, Buster... 1159 01:29:07,676 --> 01:29:09,761 Want some more coffee? 1160 01:29:14,183 --> 01:29:16,351 All righty. 1161 01:29:16,477 --> 01:29:19,354 Don't shoot until you have to. 1162 01:29:31,951 --> 01:29:33,117 Over here, Matt! 1163 01:29:33,285 --> 01:29:36,663 Spread out! Buster, yell when you see them coming! 1164 01:29:40,709 --> 01:29:45,171 Glad you got here. They hit us about an hour ago. The others coming? 1165 01:29:45,297 --> 01:29:47,632 Yeah, shouldn't take long. They're coming in... 1166 01:29:49,677 --> 01:29:52,470 Coming in from both sides of that slope. 1167 01:29:52,596 --> 01:29:55,473 We're going out when they get here. Tell 'em, will you? 1168 01:29:55,641 --> 01:29:56,975 Sure. 1169 01:29:57,101 --> 01:29:59,811 Some extra guns and a rifle. Help yourself. 1170 01:30:05,943 --> 01:30:08,111 You're shooting high. Aim lower. 1171 01:30:08,237 --> 01:30:11,781 And you're standing in a lot of mud. A water barrel got hit. 1172 01:30:13,867 --> 01:30:15,660 You're still shooting high! 1173 01:30:15,786 --> 01:30:17,954 I probably am. I'm no good. 1174 01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:21,666 Stop wasting powder. Load for me. Keep down. 1175 01:30:26,505 --> 01:30:28,131 What are you so mad about? 1176 01:30:34,013 --> 01:30:36,556 I asked you why you're angry. 1177 01:30:36,682 --> 01:30:38,683 Is it because... 1178 01:30:40,644 --> 01:30:42,812 Because some of your men might... 1179 01:30:42,938 --> 01:30:46,065 Might get hurt, killed maybe? 1180 01:30:46,191 --> 01:30:48,526 Why don't you stop talking and load... 1181 01:30:49,528 --> 01:30:51,070 That's fine. 1182 01:30:51,196 --> 01:30:53,740 I thought I told you to stay down. -You did. 1183 01:30:53,866 --> 01:30:55,867 Then why didn't you? -'Cause I got up. 1184 01:30:56,035 --> 01:30:57,660 Not so bad. 1185 01:30:58,912 --> 01:31:00,538 Hold still. 1186 01:31:03,042 --> 01:31:05,877 All right, it's free. -Here they come, Matt! 1187 01:31:11,508 --> 01:31:15,053 You'll have to wait. Ma'am, over here. 1188 01:31:15,179 --> 01:31:18,222 Watch her, will you? See she doesn't move till I get back. 1189 01:31:36,992 --> 01:31:40,203 All right, thanks. Leave the cloth, will you? 1190 01:31:40,329 --> 01:31:42,330 I'm gonna have to cut your dress away. 1191 01:31:42,456 --> 01:31:44,457 That shouldn't bother you. -It doesn't. 1192 01:31:44,583 --> 01:31:47,126 I asked you before why you were so mad. 1193 01:31:47,252 --> 01:31:49,420 Is it... Is it because your cattle... 1194 01:31:49,546 --> 01:31:52,507 The cattle Cherry told me about, might run off? 1195 01:31:52,633 --> 01:31:56,052 Or maybe... Maybe you don't like the idea of helping... 1196 01:31:56,178 --> 01:31:57,845 Helping a bunch of... 1197 01:31:57,971 --> 01:31:59,722 Bunch of what? 1198 01:31:59,848 --> 01:32:01,641 Yeah, that's what I thought you thought. 1199 01:32:01,767 --> 01:32:03,101 This is gonna hurt. 1200 01:32:03,268 --> 01:32:06,062 Like they say: "This'll hurt you more than it does me." 1201 01:32:06,188 --> 01:32:08,106 No, this'll hurt you. 1202 01:32:10,943 --> 01:32:13,736 You were right. It did. 1203 01:32:13,862 --> 01:32:15,905 Sometimes they're poisoned. 1204 01:32:21,412 --> 01:32:26,708 It's... It's too bad to put you to so much trouble. I... 1205 01:32:26,834 --> 01:32:29,293 Here. Hold this. -You got... 1206 01:32:29,420 --> 01:32:32,630 You got blood on your cheek. -Is it gonna make you faint? 1207 01:32:32,798 --> 01:32:34,799 I hope not. 1208 01:32:34,967 --> 01:32:38,845 At least not until I've done something I've been wanting to do. 1209 01:32:44,435 --> 01:32:46,436 Well, I saw the slap. 1210 01:32:46,562 --> 01:32:48,896 Come on, lift her up. -What happened? 1211 01:32:49,022 --> 01:32:51,315 She's gonna be all right. -Where does she belong? 1212 01:32:51,483 --> 01:32:53,025 Over here. 1213 01:33:11,962 --> 01:33:15,965 Were any of your men hurt, Cherry? -Not enough to count. We were lucky. We were... 1214 01:33:16,091 --> 01:33:18,050 I said we were lucky. 1215 01:33:19,219 --> 01:33:21,012 I'm sorry. I was just... 1216 01:33:21,138 --> 01:33:24,724 I know. There's no use looking, Millay. He won't be coming. 1217 01:33:24,850 --> 01:33:28,478 I didn't really think he would. I just... Where is he? 1218 01:33:28,604 --> 01:33:31,814 Out with the herd, watching. 1219 01:33:31,940 --> 01:33:34,859 What's his name, Cherry? -Matthew Garth. 1220 01:33:37,112 --> 01:33:38,946 Matthew Garth. 1221 01:33:41,033 --> 01:33:43,951 Shoulder hurt much? -A little. 1222 01:33:44,912 --> 01:33:47,163 I made a mess of things, didn't I? 1223 01:33:47,289 --> 01:33:49,665 I don't know. I wasn't there. What happened? 1224 01:33:50,667 --> 01:33:54,921 Took one look at me and made up his mind I was one of a bunch of... 1225 01:33:55,047 --> 01:33:57,048 One look... That's all he took. 1226 01:33:57,216 --> 01:34:00,051 Got mad. Wasn't any excuse. I just... 1227 01:34:00,177 --> 01:34:01,928 Yeah. 1228 01:34:02,054 --> 01:34:04,055 Tell me why he did that, Cherry. 1229 01:34:04,223 --> 01:34:08,184 Well, there's a lot to it. I don't know the whole... 1230 01:34:08,310 --> 01:34:10,895 Hey, Groot, come here. 1231 01:34:13,690 --> 01:34:15,900 This is Miss Millay. 1232 01:34:16,068 --> 01:34:19,070 Howdy, ma'am. -He's Groot. He knows more about Matt than anyone else. 1233 01:34:20,072 --> 01:34:22,865 She'd like to know about him. 1234 01:34:22,991 --> 01:34:24,951 Just what did you want to know? 1235 01:34:25,077 --> 01:34:28,788 Anything you can tell me, Groot. -Why? 1236 01:34:28,914 --> 01:34:32,083 See, I met Matt today, just after he rode in. 1237 01:34:32,209 --> 01:34:34,418 We didn't get along very well... 1238 01:34:34,586 --> 01:34:37,088 And I want to find out why. 1239 01:34:37,214 --> 01:34:39,465 See, he thought I was one of a bunch... 1240 01:34:57,276 --> 01:34:59,902 Hold it. Right there. 1241 01:35:00,028 --> 01:35:02,238 It's all right, Buster. It's me, Matt. 1242 01:35:05,742 --> 01:35:07,785 I thought it was... 1243 01:35:07,911 --> 01:35:09,745 Oh, look at me. 1244 01:35:09,872 --> 01:35:12,331 The fog's got me jumpy. 1245 01:35:12,457 --> 01:35:14,292 Wish it'd rain. 1246 01:35:14,459 --> 01:35:17,128 He wouldn't pick you off in the fog, Buster. 1247 01:35:17,296 --> 01:35:19,964 No, I... I know it. 1248 01:35:20,090 --> 01:35:22,800 I ain't seen a thing till you come by. 1249 01:35:22,968 --> 01:35:24,802 I'll be back at midnight. 1250 01:35:24,970 --> 01:35:27,179 Get Groot to fix you some food. 1251 01:35:27,306 --> 01:35:29,473 We're starting in the morning. 1252 01:35:49,286 --> 01:35:52,538 And that's the story. Now you know more about him. 1253 01:35:52,664 --> 01:35:54,665 Yeah. 1254 01:35:54,833 --> 01:35:57,084 What would you do if you were me? 1255 01:35:57,210 --> 01:35:59,503 If I was you? 1256 01:35:59,630 --> 01:36:02,173 Ain't that just like a woman? I ain't you. 1257 01:36:02,299 --> 01:36:05,801 How far do you think you'd get with a puss like mine? 1258 01:36:05,928 --> 01:36:09,138 I'd like to talk to him if he'll talk to me. 1259 01:36:09,264 --> 01:36:11,933 We ain't gonna be here but a few more hours. 1260 01:36:12,059 --> 01:36:16,062 Morning at the latest, we'll be gone. -I know. I still want to talk to him. 1261 01:36:16,188 --> 01:36:20,316 That's the way you want it, huh? -That's the way I want it. 1262 01:36:20,442 --> 01:36:23,945 All right. I'll go see where he's at. 1263 01:36:46,051 --> 01:36:47,718 Matthew? 1264 01:36:47,844 --> 01:36:50,221 Matthew Garth? 1265 01:36:50,347 --> 01:36:52,390 Over here. 1266 01:36:57,145 --> 01:37:00,690 Groot said I'd find you here. I wanted to talk to you. 1267 01:37:00,816 --> 01:37:02,733 Is it all right? I wanted to... 1268 01:37:04,319 --> 01:37:07,655 You're shaking. You thought I was Dunson. 1269 01:37:07,781 --> 01:37:10,282 Yeah. Hey, how did you know... 1270 01:37:10,409 --> 01:37:12,952 I know a little bit about it. Groot told me. 1271 01:37:13,078 --> 01:37:17,206 But it's funny... I didn't imagine you being scared. It doesn't seem to fit. 1272 01:37:17,332 --> 01:37:19,417 It fits. -I guess it does. 1273 01:37:19,584 --> 01:37:22,169 It makes things clear. It helps. -Helps what? 1274 01:37:22,295 --> 01:37:24,547 I know how you feel. I'm scared too. 1275 01:37:24,673 --> 01:37:27,925 That's why I'm talking. It's the best thing when you feel that way. 1276 01:37:28,093 --> 01:37:30,428 Just talk and keep on talking. Really, it is. 1277 01:37:30,595 --> 01:37:34,348 I talk to myself even if I have to sit in front of a mirror. 1278 01:37:34,474 --> 01:37:36,684 I can just see myself... -You don't have to. 1279 01:37:36,810 --> 01:37:39,770 You can talk to me. I'm right here, and if it'd help... 1280 01:37:39,938 --> 01:37:42,481 Please, you can tell me to mind my own business... 1281 01:37:42,607 --> 01:37:44,984 And if it would help any, you can hit me... 1282 01:37:45,110 --> 01:37:47,069 Like I did you, right across the mouth... 1283 01:37:47,195 --> 01:37:51,157 But it'd be good to talk, and I'd like to talk, so there's no... 1284 01:38:00,709 --> 01:38:03,961 Please, I'd really like to talk to you. 1285 01:38:17,142 --> 01:38:19,852 I'd like it better than talking to a mirror. 1286 01:38:25,484 --> 01:38:29,695 I want to know more about him. Why does he think that way? 1287 01:38:30,989 --> 01:38:33,657 Because he got to a place where... 1288 01:38:33,784 --> 01:38:36,535 You see, he'd taken empty land used for nothing... 1289 01:38:36,661 --> 01:38:39,330 Made it the biggest ranch in the state of Texas. 1290 01:38:39,456 --> 01:38:41,332 Fought to keep it. 1291 01:38:41,458 --> 01:38:44,627 A flat-nosed bull and one cow... That's all he started with. 1292 01:38:44,753 --> 01:38:46,962 And, well... -Well what? 1293 01:38:47,089 --> 01:38:51,467 After he'd gotten what he'd been after for so long, it wasn't worth anything. 1294 01:38:51,593 --> 01:38:54,386 It wasn't worth it. 1295 01:38:54,513 --> 01:38:57,348 So he started this drive. 1296 01:38:57,474 --> 01:39:00,392 Everyone said: "You can't make it. You'll never get there." 1297 01:39:00,519 --> 01:39:02,853 He was the only one believed we could. 1298 01:39:02,979 --> 01:39:05,064 He had to believe. 1299 01:39:09,236 --> 01:39:12,029 So he started thinking one way � his way. 1300 01:39:12,197 --> 01:39:15,199 He told the men what to do and made 'em do it. 1301 01:39:15,325 --> 01:39:18,536 Otherwise we wouldn't have got as far as we did. 1302 01:39:18,662 --> 01:39:22,706 He started 'em for Missouri, and all he knew was he had to get there. 1303 01:39:24,626 --> 01:39:28,254 And I took his herd away from him. -You love him, don't you? 1304 01:39:29,214 --> 01:39:31,423 And he must love you. 1305 01:39:31,550 --> 01:39:33,551 That wouldn't be hard. 1306 01:39:37,139 --> 01:39:39,598 Did you like that? 1307 01:39:39,724 --> 01:39:43,227 I've always been kind of slow making up my mind. 1308 01:39:43,353 --> 01:39:45,396 Maybe I can help. 1309 01:39:52,696 --> 01:39:55,739 I don't need any more help, but will you do that again? 1310 01:40:01,204 --> 01:40:03,414 That was sure good. -Yeah. 1311 01:40:03,582 --> 01:40:07,084 Anybody can fix good vittles if they have something to cook. 1312 01:40:07,210 --> 01:40:09,211 I'm so hungry, I could eat anything. 1313 01:40:09,337 --> 01:40:11,922 Why don't you eat, then? -Quo's out gathering wood. 1314 01:40:12,090 --> 01:40:14,884 I sent him out afore I thought about eating. Hi, Cherry. 1315 01:40:15,010 --> 01:40:17,720 It's raining hard in the hills. The river's rising. 1316 01:40:17,846 --> 01:40:20,347 If it gets worse, we'll have a bad time crossing. 1317 01:40:20,473 --> 01:40:23,934 Don't want to get stuck on this side. -That's what I was thinking. 1318 01:40:24,060 --> 01:40:26,061 Somebody ought to tell Matt. -I'll tell him. 1319 01:40:26,188 --> 01:40:30,024 Hey, Matt, Cherry was just saying it's raining hard... -Yeah, I heard. 1320 01:40:30,150 --> 01:40:33,569 I was figuring that way myself. 1321 01:40:33,695 --> 01:40:35,196 We're leaving now. 1322 01:40:35,322 --> 01:40:37,281 Let's get started. We're crossing tonight. 1323 01:40:37,407 --> 01:40:41,076 Cherry, take the point. Buster, start the bunch down on the flats first. 1324 01:40:41,203 --> 01:40:43,704 Get going as soon as you can, Groot. -Anything else? 1325 01:40:48,668 --> 01:40:52,463 We can't take her with us, can we? -Well, we could, uh... 1326 01:40:52,631 --> 01:40:54,215 What? 1327 01:40:54,341 --> 01:40:57,551 No. No, I don't suppose we could. 1328 01:41:01,890 --> 01:41:04,266 Where have you been? It took you long enough! 1329 01:41:04,392 --> 01:41:06,936 Now we're moving, and I ain't had nothing to eat! 1330 01:41:07,062 --> 01:41:08,896 Come on, start packing. 1331 01:41:12,025 --> 01:41:15,069 In the meantime, Tom had found men and ammunition... 1332 01:41:15,195 --> 01:41:16,946 And started after us. 1333 01:41:17,072 --> 01:41:19,406 I don't exactly blame Tom myself. 1334 01:41:19,532 --> 01:41:21,659 He'd been 14 years gettin' him somethin'... 1335 01:41:21,826 --> 01:41:24,328 And figured somebody'd taken it away from him. 1336 01:41:24,454 --> 01:41:26,997 Maybe you'd have thought the same as him. 1337 01:41:35,215 --> 01:41:38,842 Will there be anything else, ma'am? -Thanks, Andy. That's all. 1338 01:41:45,976 --> 01:41:48,394 Hey, we've got visitors. 1339 01:41:50,563 --> 01:41:52,690 Hiya, stranger. Where are you from? 1340 01:41:52,816 --> 01:41:55,276 Texas. -What can we do for you? 1341 01:41:55,402 --> 01:41:57,945 A trail herd through here a while back. -That's right. 1342 01:41:58,071 --> 01:41:59,780 When? -Over a week ago. 1343 01:41:59,906 --> 01:42:01,782 They helped us out when Indians hit us. 1344 01:42:01,908 --> 01:42:04,410 We've been patching up wounded and damage before moving on. 1345 01:42:04,536 --> 01:42:06,412 How far ahead are they? 1346 01:42:06,538 --> 01:42:09,206 They're gone eight days now. Nine tomorrow morning. 1347 01:42:09,374 --> 01:42:14,295 We're about ready to eat, mister. You and your men can split around. 1348 01:42:14,421 --> 01:42:16,672 We'll feed you. -Thanks. I... 1349 01:42:16,798 --> 01:42:19,675 I'll take care of Mr. Dunson. 1350 01:42:21,720 --> 01:42:25,055 You two boys follow me. -A couple of you come with me. 1351 01:42:25,181 --> 01:42:28,017 Two of you follow me. -One of you come with us. 1352 01:42:35,442 --> 01:42:37,568 How did you know my name? 1353 01:42:37,694 --> 01:42:40,112 We can talk about that later. 1354 01:42:40,238 --> 01:42:42,156 Sit down. 1355 01:42:48,079 --> 01:42:50,497 I believe it's your beef we're eating. 1356 01:42:50,623 --> 01:42:52,291 Who told you that? 1357 01:42:52,417 --> 01:42:55,919 The man you promised to kill. -Did he tell you that too? 1358 01:42:57,005 --> 01:42:59,089 You're tired, aren't you? 1359 01:42:59,215 --> 01:43:01,633 Tired, hungry, and just a little bit irritable. 1360 01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:04,094 You'll feel better after you eat. 1361 01:43:04,262 --> 01:43:06,597 We'll talk then. 1362 01:43:06,723 --> 01:43:09,099 How'd you get that away from him? 1363 01:43:09,225 --> 01:43:11,101 I stole it. 1364 01:43:33,083 --> 01:43:35,584 So you stole that bracelet. 1365 01:43:35,710 --> 01:43:39,088 How did you get it? -Would you really like to know? 1366 01:43:39,214 --> 01:43:41,965 How did you get it? -I got it in the rain... 1367 01:43:43,259 --> 01:43:47,971 Eight days ago, before he took your herd across that river and left. 1368 01:43:48,139 --> 01:43:51,642 I'm wondering whether to believe you. -I don't care whether you do or not. 1369 01:43:51,810 --> 01:43:53,060 I believe that. 1370 01:43:53,186 --> 01:43:55,020 Want to hear more? -Go ahead. 1371 01:43:55,146 --> 01:43:57,064 It was raining. 1372 01:43:57,190 --> 01:43:59,983 If it hadn't rained, I wouldn't be here talking to you. 1373 01:44:00,110 --> 01:44:02,861 He wouldn't be where you could find him to kill him. 1374 01:44:03,863 --> 01:44:07,449 You still intend to kill him, don't you? -Nothing you can say or do... 1375 01:44:07,575 --> 01:44:09,827 I didn't say anything. 1376 01:44:10,995 --> 01:44:12,996 I'll get you another drink. 1377 01:44:16,459 --> 01:44:18,585 So he went off and left you. 1378 01:44:20,296 --> 01:44:22,297 I didn't give him that much credit. 1379 01:44:25,343 --> 01:44:28,554 You in love with him? -I thought you'd ask that. 1380 01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:31,682 Can a woman love a man who'd go off and leave her? 1381 01:44:31,850 --> 01:44:34,268 Well, she... She shouldn't. 1382 01:44:34,394 --> 01:44:37,271 I wanted to go with him, but he had work to do. 1383 01:44:37,397 --> 01:44:40,899 He had to get your cattle to market. Said I wasn't strong enough to go... 1384 01:44:41,025 --> 01:44:43,986 And nothing I could do or say would make him change his mind. 1385 01:44:45,738 --> 01:44:47,948 But I wanted to go with him. 1386 01:44:49,242 --> 01:44:51,535 I wanted him so much that... 1387 01:44:51,703 --> 01:44:54,204 That you felt... 1388 01:44:54,330 --> 01:44:56,415 Like you had knives sticking in you. 1389 01:44:58,918 --> 01:45:01,170 How did you know that? 1390 01:45:02,922 --> 01:45:05,883 I suppose other people have felt that way before. 1391 01:45:06,050 --> 01:45:09,178 They have. -Now, will you tell me something? 1392 01:45:09,304 --> 01:45:11,889 What? -Why do you want to kill him? 1393 01:45:12,015 --> 01:45:14,266 Because he's a thief. -You think he thinks that? 1394 01:45:14,392 --> 01:45:17,644 He should! I picked him up in the brush leading a cow. 1395 01:45:17,770 --> 01:45:20,230 That's 14 years ago. Taught him all I could. 1396 01:45:20,356 --> 01:45:23,108 He knew what I was planning, saw what I was building. 1397 01:45:23,234 --> 01:45:26,528 He knew that someday it'd all be his. 1398 01:45:26,654 --> 01:45:29,823 His land, his cattle, the whole thing. 1399 01:45:29,949 --> 01:45:33,535 Even talked of a woman, as men will talk. 1400 01:45:33,661 --> 01:45:36,455 A strong woman who could bear him sons. 1401 01:45:36,581 --> 01:45:38,707 A woman like you. 1402 01:45:38,833 --> 01:45:42,127 Why did you want him to have a son? -Because I'd built something... 1403 01:45:42,253 --> 01:45:45,255 Built it with my own hands... And I can't live forever. 1404 01:45:46,257 --> 01:45:48,550 Can't live to see it grow. 1405 01:45:48,676 --> 01:45:50,677 I thought I had a son. 1406 01:45:51,888 --> 01:45:55,557 But I haven't. And I want one. 1407 01:45:55,683 --> 01:45:57,684 I'm sorry for you, Mr. Dunson. 1408 01:45:59,354 --> 01:46:01,647 Very sorry. 1409 01:46:01,773 --> 01:46:03,273 Stand up. -Hmm? 1410 01:46:03,399 --> 01:46:06,193 Stand up and turn around. -Don't tell me what to do. 1411 01:46:06,319 --> 01:46:08,028 I'll... 1412 01:46:09,697 --> 01:46:11,281 All right. 1413 01:46:21,084 --> 01:46:23,418 Well, Miss... 1414 01:46:23,545 --> 01:46:27,089 I don't even know your name. -Millay. Tess Millay. 1415 01:46:27,215 --> 01:46:30,384 Well, Miss Millay, what would you say if... 1416 01:46:30,510 --> 01:46:33,512 If I offered you half of everything I own for a son? 1417 01:46:33,638 --> 01:46:36,848 Your son? -You can have a son, can't you? 1418 01:46:36,975 --> 01:46:40,394 By Dunson, out of Millay. 1419 01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:43,480 Half of everything you've got. -That's right. 1420 01:46:48,987 --> 01:46:52,155 I'll have your son, Mr. Dunson, if you'll stop now. 1421 01:46:52,323 --> 01:46:56,702 Stop now and go back where you came from, I'll have your son. -I thought so. 1422 01:46:56,828 --> 01:46:59,496 When did you... Did you really hurt that arm? 1423 01:46:59,622 --> 01:47:02,165 I hurt it. It's almost well. 1424 01:47:02,333 --> 01:47:05,294 You can take that gun out of the sling now. 1425 01:47:09,465 --> 01:47:11,758 Wouldn't have done you any good. 1426 01:47:13,928 --> 01:47:16,847 When did you fall in love with him? -I fell in... 1427 01:47:18,016 --> 01:47:21,351 It was... It was under a wagon. 1428 01:47:21,519 --> 01:47:23,353 Six inches of mud. 1429 01:47:23,521 --> 01:47:25,522 When did you... -What? 1430 01:47:25,648 --> 01:47:26,898 Fall in love with her? 1431 01:47:27,025 --> 01:47:29,610 Who? -The girl you told me about. 1432 01:47:29,736 --> 01:47:32,613 The one you left, walked out on. -Did he tell you... 1433 01:47:32,739 --> 01:47:34,573 No, you told me. 1434 01:47:34,699 --> 01:47:36,992 You knew how I felt when he left me. 1435 01:47:37,118 --> 01:47:40,996 She must've felt the same way when you left her. That's right, isn't it? 1436 01:47:41,122 --> 01:47:43,498 Well, can't you remember? 1437 01:47:45,501 --> 01:47:47,169 I can remember. 1438 01:47:47,295 --> 01:47:50,088 Oh, I... I hope so... 1439 01:47:50,214 --> 01:47:53,925 Because I want you to think about her while I ask you something. 1440 01:47:54,052 --> 01:47:56,428 I want you to think hard. -What? 1441 01:47:56,554 --> 01:47:59,598 I want to go on with you. -That won't do any good. 1442 01:47:59,724 --> 01:48:03,393 Nothing you can say or do... -You told me, but I want to go. 1443 01:48:03,519 --> 01:48:05,187 Please. 1444 01:48:07,857 --> 01:48:10,692 All right. -Thanks. 1445 01:48:12,612 --> 01:48:14,905 Thanks a lot. 1446 01:48:15,031 --> 01:48:17,240 Why don't you use it? -Hmm? 1447 01:48:17,408 --> 01:48:19,951 Oh, you mean... 1448 01:48:20,078 --> 01:48:22,371 Would there be any use going if I did? 1449 01:48:27,502 --> 01:48:29,628 We'll start early. 1450 01:48:29,754 --> 01:48:31,672 I'll be ready. 1451 01:48:34,967 --> 01:48:37,886 A hundred days and we hadn't seen nothin' human... 1452 01:48:38,012 --> 01:48:40,430 Or signs of nothin' for two weeks... 1453 01:48:40,598 --> 01:48:43,975 And everybody was beginnin' to believe there weren't no railroad. 1454 01:48:44,102 --> 01:48:46,269 I been thinking that Abilene just ain't. 1455 01:48:46,396 --> 01:48:48,188 We probably missed it. 1456 01:48:48,314 --> 01:48:50,440 We'll probably keep going clear to Canada. 1457 01:48:50,608 --> 01:48:54,194 We'll be driving the herd up and down icebergs yet. 1458 01:48:54,320 --> 01:48:59,241 We'll find it. -If we do, it'll be awful tough if the railroad ain't there. 1459 01:48:59,367 --> 01:49:02,411 It's gotta be there. -But if it ain't? 1460 01:49:02,537 --> 01:49:04,746 We'll keep driving till we find it. 1461 01:49:04,872 --> 01:49:07,582 Or until Dunson finds us. 1462 01:49:07,709 --> 01:49:09,668 Hey, hold it a minute. 1463 01:49:09,794 --> 01:49:11,586 What was that? 1464 01:49:11,713 --> 01:49:13,588 You hear something? -I didn't hear noth... 1465 01:49:13,715 --> 01:49:16,758 I heard it, but it was nothing I heard before. 1466 01:49:16,884 --> 01:49:19,302 They're yelling down on the point. 1467 01:49:47,415 --> 01:49:49,666 We made it! 1468 01:50:15,610 --> 01:50:18,153 Hi. -Howdy, howdy, howdy. 1469 01:50:18,279 --> 01:50:22,032 We're looking for Abilene. -Mister, I sure am glad to see you! 1470 01:50:22,200 --> 01:50:24,701 You go to Abilene? -You're a sight to behold! 1471 01:50:24,827 --> 01:50:28,330 If you'd tell us where Abilene would be, we'll get out of your way. 1472 01:50:28,456 --> 01:50:30,999 Mister, let me sit here and feast my eyes. 1473 01:50:31,125 --> 01:50:35,003 If you knew how much we been waiting for cattle and how welcome you are... 1474 01:50:35,129 --> 01:50:37,464 You can sit on them tracks till kingdom come. 1475 01:50:37,590 --> 01:50:40,717 All we want to do is get to Abilene. -Don't rush me. 1476 01:50:40,885 --> 01:50:44,888 But if you want, you can take the shortcut there about 12 miles. 1477 01:50:45,056 --> 01:50:47,557 Or you can follow the track. It's a little longer. 1478 01:50:47,683 --> 01:50:51,061 We'll take the shortcut. -I'll wait all day for you to cross. 1479 01:50:51,229 --> 01:50:53,063 Take your time! -See you in Abilene! 1480 01:50:53,189 --> 01:50:56,316 Mister, can you blow that whistle one more time? -Sure can! 1481 01:51:13,584 --> 01:51:17,420 That 12 miles didn't take long. 1482 01:51:17,547 --> 01:51:21,550 Funny how different you feel when you know you're goin' somewheres. 1483 01:51:29,851 --> 01:51:32,018 There she is, Matt. -Yeah. 1484 01:51:32,144 --> 01:51:34,938 There was times I thought we was never gonna make it. 1485 01:51:36,774 --> 01:51:40,277 Hey, it looks like they're as glad to see us as we are them! 1486 01:51:46,242 --> 01:51:47,742 Howdy do. -Hi! 1487 01:51:47,869 --> 01:51:49,911 Welcome to Abilene. Who's in charge? -I am. 1488 01:51:50,037 --> 01:51:52,747 My name's Melville. -Matthew Garth. 1489 01:51:52,874 --> 01:51:55,292 We sure are glad to see you, Mr. Garth. 1490 01:51:55,418 --> 01:51:59,087 And that goes for all of us. Man, don't stop 'em. 1491 01:51:59,213 --> 01:52:02,966 Keep 'em coming. Everything's ready and waiting for you. 1492 01:52:03,092 --> 01:52:06,636 Engineer told us you were coming. -He gave us a fine welcome. 1493 01:52:06,804 --> 01:52:08,972 What's the best way to the stockyard? 1494 01:52:09,098 --> 01:52:11,641 Drive 'em straight through town. -They're not exactly housebroke. 1495 01:52:11,767 --> 01:52:14,477 That's all right. 1496 01:52:14,604 --> 01:52:16,855 We been waiting a long time for this. 1497 01:52:16,981 --> 01:52:19,274 You just drive them straight down that main street... 1498 01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:21,651 And let the folks have a look at 'em. 1499 01:52:21,819 --> 01:52:25,363 We'd like to ride along with you. -Sure. Come on. Keep 'em coming. 1500 01:53:23,047 --> 01:53:24,965 Come on in, boys. 1501 01:53:29,220 --> 01:53:31,888 What's the matter? -The roof is funny. 1502 01:53:32,056 --> 01:53:34,391 We haven't been under one in three months. 1503 01:53:34,558 --> 01:53:37,310 Sit down. Let's talk a little business. 1504 01:53:38,729 --> 01:53:40,397 Mr. Garth, I'm... 1505 01:53:40,523 --> 01:53:42,691 Say, what is your first name? -Matthew. 1506 01:53:42,817 --> 01:53:48,238 Matt, I'm the Greenwood Trading Company of Illinois. I'd like to buy your beef. 1507 01:53:48,406 --> 01:53:50,740 That's why we came. 1508 01:53:50,866 --> 01:53:53,201 How many you got? -I don't know exactly. 1509 01:53:53,327 --> 01:53:55,745 We started out with well over 9.000. 1510 01:53:55,871 --> 01:53:59,040 Man alive! -We've lost 600 or 700 on the way. 1511 01:53:59,166 --> 01:54:02,210 We won't have 'em all in here till 8:00 or 9:00 tonight. 1512 01:54:02,336 --> 01:54:04,421 We haven't got corrals for half that number. 1513 01:54:04,588 --> 01:54:06,631 We could leave them right in the streets. 1514 01:54:06,757 --> 01:54:08,466 They're tired. They should stay put. 1515 01:54:08,592 --> 01:54:11,428 Sure. That'll be all right. What's your price? 1516 01:54:13,431 --> 01:54:17,392 Well, uh, I'm kinda new at this. 1517 01:54:17,518 --> 01:54:19,561 Would you make me an offer? 1518 01:54:20,938 --> 01:54:22,522 All right. Twenty dollars. 1519 01:54:22,648 --> 01:54:25,442 You... A head? 1520 01:54:28,112 --> 01:54:30,280 Twenty dollars a head. 1521 01:54:30,406 --> 01:54:31,906 Well, uh... 1522 01:54:32,033 --> 01:54:36,202 Oh, how can a man deal with someone who's done what you've done? 1523 01:54:36,328 --> 01:54:38,621 I'll give you top price that anyone else offers... 1524 01:54:38,789 --> 01:54:41,666 For a lot of 500, and I'll take the whole herd. 1525 01:54:44,045 --> 01:54:46,963 Looks like you're gonna buy yourself a lot of beef. 1526 01:54:47,131 --> 01:54:50,467 If that engineer was here, I'd get him to blow his whistle again! 1527 01:54:50,593 --> 01:54:53,470 I'll draw up a contract and have it ready tonight. 1528 01:54:53,596 --> 01:54:57,098 Buster and I'll ask around and find out what you're gonna have to pay. 1529 01:54:57,224 --> 01:55:00,018 We'll be back in a couple of hours. -Need anything else? 1530 01:55:00,144 --> 01:55:04,022 Some cash? -I sure could use some. I'd like to pay off the men. 1531 01:55:04,148 --> 01:55:06,691 All right. It'll be waiting for you tonight. 1532 01:55:06,817 --> 01:55:08,693 All right. Thanks, Mr. Melville. 1533 01:55:08,819 --> 01:55:10,904 So long. -So long. 1534 01:55:27,922 --> 01:55:32,342 They crossed here, all right. Not over four or five hours ahead. 1535 01:55:34,053 --> 01:55:38,139 That night ended a day when history was written in Abilene. 1536 01:55:38,265 --> 01:55:41,559 August 14, 1865. was the date. 1537 01:55:41,685 --> 01:55:44,896 That was the end of the first drive on the Chisholm Trail. 1538 01:55:45,022 --> 01:55:48,441 It was just the first of thousands of such drives... 1539 01:55:48,567 --> 01:55:50,944 Bringin' beef to the world. 1540 01:55:52,988 --> 01:55:54,781 Here you are, Matt. 1541 01:55:54,907 --> 01:55:56,866 You'll have to sign this. 1542 01:55:57,034 --> 01:55:59,828 Here's a check to Thomas Dunson for 50.000 $. 1543 01:55:59,954 --> 01:56:03,456 The rest will be paid when the tally's finished at 21 $ a head. 1544 01:56:03,582 --> 01:56:08,044 You see I've taken a credit here for the money you wanted to pay off your men. 1545 01:56:08,212 --> 01:56:10,046 I suppose... 1546 01:56:10,214 --> 01:56:13,174 I suppose they'll be celebrating. -They've got a right to. 1547 01:56:13,300 --> 01:56:14,843 Of course they have. 1548 01:56:14,969 --> 01:56:19,347 There's three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon: 1549 01:56:19,473 --> 01:56:22,225 When he marries, when his children come... 1550 01:56:22,351 --> 01:56:26,396 And... And when he finishes a job he had to be craza to start. 1551 01:56:27,982 --> 01:56:31,985 When do you expect to be leaving? -I don't exactly know. 1552 01:56:32,111 --> 01:56:35,572 You're gonna wait for Dunson, huh? 1553 01:56:35,739 --> 01:56:38,408 I've been talking to some of your men. 1554 01:56:38,576 --> 01:56:40,368 Isn't that check... 1555 01:56:40,494 --> 01:56:43,580 And the fact you got here gonna make any difference? 1556 01:56:45,374 --> 01:56:47,000 I don't think so. 1557 01:56:47,126 --> 01:56:49,669 I suppose I'm craza... -You want me to run away? 1558 01:56:49,795 --> 01:56:52,088 No. 1559 01:56:52,256 --> 01:56:54,215 Of course not. 1560 01:56:57,845 --> 01:57:00,763 Couldn't... Couldn't I talk to him? 1561 01:57:01,599 --> 01:57:04,559 I'd still have to talk to him after that. 1562 01:57:06,437 --> 01:57:08,563 Good night, Mr. Melville. 1563 01:57:10,357 --> 01:57:12,942 Get a good night's sleep. -Yeah, I could use some. 1564 01:57:13,110 --> 01:57:14,944 Good night. 1565 01:57:20,659 --> 01:57:23,286 Evening, Mr. Melville. -Evening. 1566 01:57:28,250 --> 01:57:31,419 Well, work's not done yet, huh? 1567 01:57:31,545 --> 01:57:33,129 No, sir. 1568 01:57:33,297 --> 01:57:37,634 Well, you fellas see you get 'er done. I like that boy too. 1569 01:57:42,223 --> 01:57:44,432 And I'll buy the drinks when it's over. 1570 01:58:16,799 --> 01:58:20,843 He's... He's camped two or three miles outside of town. 1571 01:58:20,970 --> 01:58:23,096 He says he'll be here just after sunup. 1572 01:58:23,222 --> 01:58:25,890 He says he's going to kill you. 1573 01:58:31,689 --> 01:58:34,065 What's the matter? Is something... 1574 01:58:34,191 --> 01:58:36,901 Oh, I must look like I'm in mourning. 1575 01:58:37,027 --> 01:58:40,029 I didn't mean it that way, or I wouldn't have... 1576 01:58:40,781 --> 01:58:43,199 No... No, Matthew. 1577 01:58:43,367 --> 01:58:46,995 I know you've only a few hours, but listen for just a minute... 1578 01:58:47,121 --> 01:58:50,540 And then I won't talk about it anymore... Just a minute. 1579 01:58:50,708 --> 01:58:53,084 He hasn't changed his mind, Matthew. 1580 01:58:53,210 --> 01:58:56,296 I didn't think he would. -We saw the railroad, and I thought... 1581 01:58:56,422 --> 01:58:59,090 It might make a difference, but it didn't... Nothing would. 1582 01:58:59,216 --> 01:59:01,050 He's like something you can't move. 1583 01:59:01,218 --> 01:59:04,304 Even I've gotten to believe it's got to happen... Your meeting. 1584 01:59:04,430 --> 01:59:08,266 I was gonna ask you to run, but... No, I'm not, I'm not. 1585 01:59:08,392 --> 01:59:11,311 It wouldn't do any good. You're too much like him. 1586 01:59:11,437 --> 01:59:13,563 Oh, stop me, Matthew, stop me. 1587 01:59:17,735 --> 01:59:19,527 God bless you, Matthew. 1588 01:59:53,979 --> 01:59:55,980 Morning. -Morning, Matt. 1589 01:59:58,442 --> 02:00:00,360 Got a match, Walt? 1590 02:00:32,559 --> 02:00:35,269 I told you all where you stand in this. 1591 02:00:37,189 --> 02:00:39,190 See that you remember it. 1592 02:01:13,684 --> 02:01:15,685 He's got plenty with him. -How many? 1593 02:01:15,811 --> 02:01:17,895 Oh, 10 or 12. I'll be telling Matt. 1594 02:01:18,021 --> 02:01:19,689 All right. 1595 02:01:34,288 --> 02:01:36,372 He's coming in now. 1596 02:01:36,498 --> 02:01:38,708 He's got about 10 with him. 1597 02:02:59,831 --> 02:03:03,543 You know that young man isn't going to use his gun, don't you? 1598 02:03:03,669 --> 02:03:05,461 Yeah. 1599 02:03:06,630 --> 02:03:08,673 But I haven't any such notions. 1600 02:03:12,219 --> 02:03:14,512 Mr. Dunson... 1601 02:03:14,638 --> 02:03:16,931 Mr. Dunson, I'll say it just one more time! 1602 02:03:42,874 --> 02:03:45,710 Won't anything make a man out of you? 1603 02:03:45,877 --> 02:03:48,879 You once told me never to take your gun away from you. 1604 02:03:49,715 --> 02:03:53,259 You yellow-bellied, chicken-livered... 1605 02:04:07,566 --> 02:04:11,819 For 14 years I've been scared, but it's gonna be all right! 1606 02:04:14,781 --> 02:04:17,325 Get up. Come on, get up. 1607 02:04:35,594 --> 02:04:38,596 Stop it! You fools, stop it. 1608 02:04:38,722 --> 02:04:41,390 Stop making a holy... Stop it, I said! 1609 02:04:41,516 --> 02:04:43,476 I'm good and mad, and who wouldn't be? 1610 02:04:43,602 --> 02:04:45,603 You, Dunson, pretending you're gonna kill him. 1611 02:04:45,729 --> 02:04:49,357 It's the last thing in the world... Stay still! I'm mad, I told you! 1612 02:04:49,483 --> 02:04:50,524 And you, Matthew Garth... 1613 02:04:50,651 --> 02:04:53,611 Getting your face all beat up and all bloody! 1614 02:04:53,779 --> 02:04:56,030 You ought to see how silly you look... 1615 02:04:56,156 --> 02:04:59,033 Like... Like something the cat dragged... Stay still! 1616 02:04:59,159 --> 02:05:02,411 What a fool I've been, expecting trouble for days... 1617 02:05:02,537 --> 02:05:05,790 When anybody with half a mind would know you two love each other. 1618 02:05:05,957 --> 02:05:08,542 It took somebody else to shoot you. Are you hurt? 1619 02:05:08,669 --> 02:05:11,796 No, just nicked the... -Then stay still! 1620 02:05:11,963 --> 02:05:14,256 No, don't stay still. I changed my mind. 1621 02:05:14,383 --> 02:05:16,258 Go ahead, beat each other craza. 1622 02:05:16,385 --> 02:05:18,636 Maybe it'll put some sense in both of you. 1623 02:05:18,804 --> 02:05:20,680 Go ahead! Do it! Use this. 1624 02:05:20,806 --> 02:05:23,224 No, you can't. It's his. 1625 02:05:27,979 --> 02:05:30,147 You better marry that girl, Matt. 1626 02:05:30,273 --> 02:05:32,316 Yeah, I think I'd... 1627 02:05:32,442 --> 02:05:35,319 When are you gonna stop telling people what to do? 1628 02:05:38,156 --> 02:05:41,200 Right now. At least, as soon as... 1629 02:05:41,326 --> 02:05:42,743 When? 1630 02:05:42,869 --> 02:05:46,163 As soon as I tell you one thing more. -What? 1631 02:05:46,289 --> 02:05:49,792 When we get back to the ranch, I want you to change the brand. 1632 02:05:49,918 --> 02:05:51,669 It'll be like this. 1633 02:05:52,671 --> 02:05:55,589 Red River D... 1634 02:05:55,716 --> 02:05:58,134 And we'll add an M to it. 1635 02:05:59,177 --> 02:06:01,178 You don't mind that, do you? 1636 02:06:02,347 --> 02:06:04,473 No. 1637 02:06:07,185 --> 02:06:08,894 You've earned it.