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Thank you kindly, ma'am.

Three minutes.

Hey, get away from there.

Just looking.

Well, look someplace else.

How much?

It ain't just any horse.

I never had me a better.

It's your $25, chief, at that.

Don't set your heart on it. You're probably never gonna see $25.

Hey, get out of there, boy.

He said anybody.

Did you ever fight, Buckle?

Not in a ring.

Do I have to beat him?

No, you don't have to beat him.

$30 if you're still standing after three minutes.

Sonny.

The offer is so they'll wage you, but they don't win.

Don't you understand? They don't win. He's a professional.

There's nothing here for you, Sonny.

He'll kill you.

Give the lad a chance!

it's gone

Help you, Sonny?

It's me on the sign outside.

No parents?

No.

Relatives? Friends?

Anyone to speak for you?

No.

You can read, can't you, Sonny?

Yes, sir.

I... Pony Express.

Ryder.

I, Pony Express Ryder, do hereby swear before the great and living God that

during my engagement and while I am an employee of Russell Majors and Waddell,

I will under no circumstances use profane language, that I will not

quarrel or fight with any other employee of the firm, and that in every respect I

will conduct myself honestly, be faithful to my duties, and so direct all

my acts as to win the confidence of my employers. So help me God.

Make your mark right under so help me God.

Bible for your soul, money for your pocket.

Advance and pay.

Dangerous work shouldn't be done for nothing.

My boy, you are now a Pony Express rider.

This here pony express is 2,000 miles from St. Joe, Missouri, all

the way to Sacramento, California.

100 night away stations, 500 of the best Indian ponies.

You will ride 75 miles one day, flat out.

That didn't kill the horses.

You will change miles five or six times a day.

We figure it shouldn't run any animal more than 15 miles at the most.

Half-blood, huh?

Kiowa. Kiowa.

What's this one?

Teton Lakota.

Sioux.

How about this one?

Comanche.

What about this one?

This one, you made.

Boys, I'm here to learn you my bag of tricks.

And you will learn them good.

You wearing that? Cold to my low, ain't you?

It is about right.

Got a hair trigger?

Yep. What's your name?

Jimmy. Your whole name?

Hickok.

James Butler Hickok. Well, get this, Mr. Hickok.

I don't like no hair trigger around me.

You're here for riding, not for gunfighting.

But if it's trouble you want, you'll get it, Billy.

What's your name?

Speak up.

He can hear, but he can't talk.

What's his name?

Ike McSwain.

He's real good around horses.

Is that right, Ike?

Well, I guess no matter how much you can't talk, just so long as you can

ride.

But some of you boys here won't be so lucky as I lose your hair from scarlet

fever More likely and then you don't get some of yours

You for instance

What is your name

Cody William F

Cody Billy if you like I don't like.

Think you're pretty hot stuff, don't you?

Yep.

Cow pies.

Don't need to impress me, Cody. I ain't gonna be chasing you.

Out here, you do not stand and fight.

You run like hell.

You understand?

Run like hell.

So you can cut this work?

Look to me to be my puny.

Puny, but spry.

I guess you're a dead shot, too, huh?

Hard as nails?

Need the work.

You got a rifle?

Want me to issue you one?

No, thanks.

Just as soon as I save the weight.

You don't seem quite as sick as some of these other boys.

We'll see.

Boys, you're going to be riding a thousand miles day and night.

Not even the devil himself is going to make no never mind.

You're going to tie these United States together and do yourself proud.

Please, mister.

I panned two years for them goods.

You got no right to take them.

Get him. Come on.

I do now.

Water.

Hey, kid.

Kid.

I just hit three for three.

Can you do that?

What say?

That'd cost money.

Let's see.

You ain't afraid of me.

You could get me into trouble. I don't want no trouble, and I don't want to

hurt nobody.

Ah, that's just foolin'. No, you weren't.

No, I weren't.

Why do you act like that?

I don't know.

Supplies!

Uh, give you a hand with that?

Yeah, you could.

What's that?

I think it's those tools you ordered.

I heard about them, but I never see one. What is it?

It's a pick with volley gun.

What's it do?

Plenty. Seven barrels in one, each .50 caliber, and they all fire at once.

Good grief.

It's a backup for a lone station keeper.

I'll be wanting you to hand them out down the line, Emma. Yeah, when I get

around to it.

Leave them in the crate and nail it shut before these children hurt themselves.

Take down the barn, boy.

Emma!

They're here to do a man's work.

If you coddle them, you'll do them no good.

They're just boys. Somebody's got to look out for them.

Well, I learned what I could the best I could.

I hope it's enough.

This outfit didn't hire orphans for nothing.

They're not orphans while I'm around.

You boys are in Sweetwater now, not out at the station house.

I want you to put on your town manner.

Billy. Aw, Emma.

You don't need mother in us, Emma. If you didn't act so much like you needed

mother, you'd probably get a whole lot less of it.

Well, hello, Emma. Hello, Sam.

Still at it, huh?

Just keeping order. Oh, so I see.

I'd like you to meet a friend of mine, Marshal Sam Kane.

Boys.

Good to see you, Emma.

How's things out at that station of yours?

Whole lot more peaceful than here in town.

Yeah, I guess there's something to be said for peace and quiet.

Excuse me.

That'll be enough of that.

If you can't behave, you'll have to ride on.

Marshal, there's six of us.

That won't matter to you.

You'll be the first one I drop.

Marshall, we're law-abiding citizens.

Ain't we, boys?

We ain't done nothing, nobody.

Seems

I'd

be safer out on the plains.

Emma, why don't you ask me out to your place sometime?

I could use a nice, quiet meal.

You tried that.

You got bored.

Well, let's try it again.

I think on it.

Come on, boys.

Marshal? Yeah.

The woman with the scar back there, how'd you know he was going to back

down? I figured a man carrying so many guns, he must be afraid of everything.

I know you did.

Remember my bag of tricks, kid.

Get a few mound.

First ride.

You ready?

You might have the makings.

Eddie, I know you're tired, but you gotta run now.

I gotta.

Hard week, kid?

Nothing to speak of.

You gents won't take your meals elsewhere.

He's been horse-picked.

Sit him down.

You Mustang?

Your fault. No, it ain't. That animal's no good. I bet you waited till you

turned your back.

I'm putting him down.

No, no, no.

You got my mount?

Harley?

Harley?

Hello, sonny.

What's in them bags?

Hang on, Lou.

You'll be okay, Lou.

Let me just see how bad.

What's the matter, kid?

Never seen a girl before?

The boys will see the smoke. They'll be here soon.

You're lucky. You just creased your ribs.

Might have cracked a couple, but you'll be okay.

You want to cut the small talk?

What are you doing here?

Don't you know what those men had done to you if they'd have found out you were

a girl? They didn't.

Nobody knows but you.

Listen, kid, I run away from an orphanage in St. Joe, Missouri.

I got a little brother and sister to back that.

A girl with no ma, no pa, no kin.

What's left for me?

Scrubbing floors or worse?

Well, ain't there something else you can do? Why should I?

I already showed I'm as good as you.

Hickok, Cody, any of you.

What you really in?

Louise.

Louise McLeod.

Pleased to meet you, Louise.

You met me already.

You won't fool people forever.

I don't have to.

I'm gonna save all my money, find a place of my own, get my brother and

sister out of there.

Kid, don't say nothing.

They'd get rid of me for sure.

Kid, you can't tell.

Lou, you just heal up and we'll see.

How many?

Don't know. Lou didn't see them all.

Twelve.

Maybe thirteen.

And two wagons.

Good. Wagons will slow them up.

They get everything?

Everything. And Katie.

Sorry, kid.

Nobody's ever lost a pouch before.

And I ain't gonna be the first.

Lou, you should be resting.

I'm going.

You can't, Lou. You're hurt.

Lou's got a rat. If he thinks he's fit, why can't he?

Because. Because what?

Because he'll slow us down.

You said yourself I'm not hurt that bad. I'm going.

I guess Lou's going.

Ike wants to know how we're going to go up against all those men.

It'll even the odds.

Ike, we need you to go back to Amos.

You're our best writer.

Here's what you need to do.

Okay, let's go

Well, we found them.

Buck was right.

Look at all of them.

It's the one we saw in town.

Look at all those guns.

Let's rush him.

He's even crazier than we thought.

They got buffalo guns and fresh horses.

We got little firepower and not a lot of cover. What's all that talk, Cody?

You scared?

They make cans on a fence down there, Jimmy.

So right out Right think

the odds bad enough What now kid

let me know when you're all through talking

They're starting to break camp

What would she soon say run like hell

Too late for that.

What are you doing?

You want

something, boy?

We're surrounded by these five boys.

I'll tell you what.

First, I'm gonna finish my coffee.

And then I'm gonna kill you.

I'm gonna kill all of you.

Finish his cough for hell.

We'll settle him right now.

We're going, kid.

Good job.

You're done good, Ike.

You better give up.

It's my last warning.

You hear that?

His last warning.

You might want to brace that gun, Jimmy.

Okay.

I guess he finished his coffee.

All right.

Get a rope.

Please, boys, please.

You just can't let him do that.

Wait a minute, Jimmy. I can hang nobody.

Why not?

We'll give him to the law.

Out here, we're the law.

A man like that, you never leave him standing.

Never.

It ain't him I'm worried about.

You ain't running things, kid.

We hang them, we're no better than they are.

This is a mistake.

Thank you, boys.

You won't regret it.

Hell.

I regret it already.

Move it back, boys. Let's go.

Move!

It's everything, Buck.

See ya.

I dealt with the law before, Sonny.

I can't be hung.

I'll be back.

You ain't seen the last of me.

Good boy, I'm gonna call a lot of things in my life Emma, but never good

Surrounded

by five boys

Even Teaspoon would say we done a man's work today.

Mm-hmm.

Deputy!

This fool knocked the bucket over. Can you get me some water?

Get the gun!

Must know about a lot of things, T-Spoon.

Most what I need.

Well, what about women?

Kid, you come to the right place.

I expect I got more expertise than most.

How come?

I've been married.

Yes, sir.

Three times white women, three times Indians.

So then you must have learned a whole lot.

Kid, when it comes to human beings, fair as a heart and such, the world is kind

of like a wheel divided up into three equal parts. Each part wants a part that

don't want it.

One of these parts should desire the other, and it's mutual.

That's what's called a freak of nature.

Some people get married and they call it love.

But it weren't really who they thought it was in the first place.

So, years pass by and you find out you done married up to a stranger. So, the

question is, if they's married to a stranger, who's they with all that time

for? See what I'm getting at?

It's very confusing.

I dare say.

I dare say it is, kid.

Hey, you're up, kid.

I tell you, G-Spoon, this job ain't easy.

Hello again, Sonny.

How did you... Our lawman turned his back. You see, I told you I couldn't be

hung. Thank you, Sonny.

Thank you.

We could have finished you.

But you didn't.

Your friend was great.

It's a hard lesson, boy.

The last one you're gonna learn.

Get off that horse.

Katie, get up.

You'll be okay if you get up.

Get up.

Get up.

Please.

Katie.

Don't do that yet, kid.

Marshall. Is your leg broke?

No, she's got a bullet in her.

Well, let's dig her out.

You hear it yourself.

I've had worse.

I was tracking those two you shot.

It was you, wasn't it?

They gave me no way out.

You did what needed doing.

Here, put some pressure there.

I know what those men were.

But it just don't seem right.

Go easy on yourself, kid.

Out here, you gotta grow up fast or not at all.

Give me one of them burning sticks.

All right, now when I tell you, you put the burn in right there, okay?

Now.

Thank you, Sam.

We'll be all right now.

Yeah, I know you will, kid.

I know you will.

Yes? Yes, Lou?

Thank you for keeping my secret.

I didn't promise.

No, but... You could have said something and you didn't.

You got a right to make your own way.

I won't tell.

I give you my word.

It's gonna take some getting used to now that you're a girl.

I've always been a girl, kid.

Anybody want an onion?

Good for the blood.

All right, stop talking behind my back.

I want to congratulate you boys.

For what?

For sticking together, staying alive.

And that ain't nothing but dumb luck, so don't go getting smuggled.

Do you like us, Teaspoon?

Can't say.

I ain't paid to like you.

Besides, this here Pony Express is jobbing up, and it ain't nothing but...

Sweat and trouble.

That's right.

This is a good onion.

You're up, kid.

Come on, let's go get him, kid.

Thank you.