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Bye.

Five minutes.

Excuse me, miss.

Pick up. Five minutes.

Miss, pick up.

Thank you.

You're

early

again, Hickok.

You're late again, Curtis.

Well, I just got some news from back east.

Bank's still holding out, huh?

Yeah. Till the war comes or hell freezes over.

What do you reckon will happen first?

Don't you dodge me with politics, Curtis. How long before this paper can

ride? Give me half an hour.

You got half that.

Just the time it'll take me to grab a bite.

Come on, boy. You got that ready over there?

Get yourself a prime oracle, mister.

Next up, we got a billion of foals starting 125, 125, 125.

We got 125.

I see 150, 150.

Looking for 200.

Bargain time, one and a half for the price of one.

I got 150, 150, 150, 150, 150, 150.

I see 200, 200, 200, 200, 225, 225.

425.

400 going once.

400 going twice.

Snow for 400.

Why in hell ain't you up here with the rest of the stock, boy?

Because this boy is free.

Just like these two gonna be.

What you've done is wrong, boy.

Stupid dude.

Don't matter anyhow.

It's only a piece of paper.

It's a long way to the state line.

He's right, you know.

It is only a piece of paper.

Just the most precious piece of paper in the world.

And I'm truly grateful to you, Mr. Dixon.

But I don't know what we're going to do now or where we're going to go.

This ought to get you down the road a ways.

You can't be giving up your last dollar for us.

It ain't the last gold piece I'll see.

I'm just sorry you're going to have to go it by yourself.

No, she won't.

Come with me.

Why should I?

My husband and I don't share the same understanding of right and wrong,

mister.

It happens a lot in marriages.

You bought these people.

But I know folks who will get them to freedom.

The cameras are coming. Get him out of here. No, we have to go now.

I ain't going.

We have to go.

Joseph, we have to go.

Joseph, we have to go.

Riding kind of high in your saddle, ain't you, kid?

Well, that new bronc you brought in here yesterday keeps bucking him off.

Just breaking down his will, that's all.

Yeah, you mean more like tenderizing your rump.

You want to break a wild animal, kid, you've got to get inside his mind.

Not on his own.

Give it a shot, T's for me. Seems I can stay in the saddle long enough to talk

to him.

I wonder how Sam and Emma are doing.

Probably hobnobbing with the governor, even as we speak.

Sam? Himself.

Now that he's territorial marshal, he's got to become a real political.

I don't know, Teaspoon.

Sam's been using that gun hand so long, he might shoot first and shake hands

later. Hell, Cody, that's what politicianing's all about.

What'll it be?

Get a sandwich.

Me and my friends are wondering where a fella like you come up with all them

marigold coins.

We figured maybe you found them in your mouse's strongbox.

That's right.

You're one of them free niggers, ain't you?

I'm talking to you, boy.

Let's see some proof you're free.

I think we've all worn out welcome.

Yo, is this personable?

I ain't saying my heart ain't full for Sam and Emma getting married.

I just don't know if my stomach can survive them moving off.

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Come on, kid.

I mean, a man's got to keep his strength up, don't he?

Enough. You eat like pig.

Get fat like house.

Louie ain't been such a barrel of monkey since the wedding.

Well, ain't the marriage so much as the moving, I think.

Excuse me.

Cody, all yours.

Thanks, kid.

You're clean.

As a temporary marshal of Sweetwater, I feel the call to duty.

Miss Helga.

Gentlemen, try and shine things up a little, will you?

Well, I'd rest that a few days.

That'll be two bucks.

Two bucks.

Spent my last two bits over there at the saloon.

Hand me my gun.

Thanks.

You know, I don't mean to tell you your business, but if you keep going around

like you did today, they're gonna hang you for sure.

I was born to hang.

I guess I'd feel the same way if I was colored.

Ain't got nothing to do with being colored.

It's got to do with being afraid.

White or colored, you show me a man that can't be broken, I'll show you the tree

they hung him from.

Unless they don't crucify him first.

That being the case, even a condemned man deserves a last meal.

You're not having any money. I guess I'm buying.

Gonna brush the hide right off that horse.

Look, Lou, I know how much you miss him, and we all do.

A woman's got a right to be happy.

I never said no different.

Nobody could be happier for her than me.

It's just... With Emma gone, I ain't got no one to talk to.

We're talking.

That's different.

What do you mean?

I mean, with Emma, I could really talk.

Bring her all my problems.

Bring them all to me.

I can't.

You wouldn't understand.

Why not?

Sometimes you're the problem.

I never thought you'd show up. Like a bad penny.

Well, throw your saddle up top, hit your horse in the back, bring your bad butt

on up here and give Sally something sugar.

Ain't got no horse, Sally.

Ain't got no saddle neither.

What? You mean to tell me you let some card shark beat you out of your horse

and your daddy's silver saddle?

I had to sell him.

Oh, that must have hurt real bad parting with your daddy's saddle.

Not as bad as it hurt the cracker I bought them slaves for.

I'll repeat, boy, you and your daddy.

Hug me.

Here.

Gold, huh?

Yeah.

Black gold.

Just like you.

Get on out of here!

Hey! Hey!

You calls that clean?

Look at it.

Look at that plate.

I want to see myself in this.

Must enjoy good scare.

And what you smile at?

You think something is funny, huh?

I thought maybe you could handle something easy like dust.

But it's too much for dummy, yeah?

He's no dummy.

Leave him alone.

Verdammt!

You're a schweiner!

That ain't no woman.

That is a force of nature.

What do you mean you can't arrest him? He whipped me, damn it.

After you drew on him.

Well, he stole his master's gold.

I was making a citizen's arrest.

Don't flatter yourself, Barnes.

There ain't a place outside of hell that would call you a citizen.

Yeah.

Young as ever to me, sir.

Boy, you like.

I love you, boy.

You shall be looking older, Noah.

Well, thanks a lot.

Are you too young? I wouldn't be looking so tired. I'm doing all right now,

Sally. You ain't got to mother me no more.

I wouldn't bust my gut trying. You was too much for me the first time. I was a

good kid. You was a good kid with a hard head.

Your head was like granite if you had it set on something or against something.

You can bet I ain't turning the clock back to them times.

Sally just pulled out on the stage, free black, riding shotgun.

Who can take the two of them easy?

And what about the gold?

About the stagecoach.

You got your bottom dollar.

Good, good, good. I got a score to settle with that young buck.

And this time I'm the one gonna be doing the whooping.

Hey, get along there, Billy.

I ain't old enough to be as tired as me.

So I am sharing the stage book with the infamous James Butler Hickok.

Well... Ooh, say, that is a recent injury, isn't it?

I know. Nobody wants to contemplate his own mortality.

Believe me, I see it all the time. But when you do, please, give me some

thought, won't you?

Murphy's undertaking enterprises.

Let us spare you the real grief.

You're an undertaker. At your service.

That's just great.

I hear the camera and a couple of...

Met that maker.

I figured you'd give him the introduction, but I see you still ain't

wearing no gun.

Yeah, well, it's more than one way to skin a cat.

You planning on taking them all down, ain't you, boy?

No wonder you look so full out.

Ain't nothing takes a man down faster than eight.

What was that?

Looked like a broken wheel.

This is all your fault. My fault?

Yeah, you got me distracted up here. I know to miss that damn pothole.

Been tickling my wheel since last December.

You passengers have to get out while I fix this bad boy.

Thank you very much.

Well, that's the first time I ever had anybody to thank me for breaking down.

You gave me some help back in Saddle Falls.

Well, you stayed downwind of his friendship and upwind of his reputation.

Oh, yes.

I've raised five children on my own.

Five, really? Five children.

Real stinkers. Every one.

Between them, they've given me 18 grandkids.

18? You don't say.

Wore me out with them, too.

Always crawling all over me. Granny this, granny that.

Oh, that's terrible.

So, you boys will go easy on old Grandma Llewellyn now, won't you? You won't have

any problem from us.

No problems at all, ma'am.

Of course, I could turn the whole crew of you across. Well, it's my knee, if I

want to.

Anytime.

Come here.

There's a mess of gold on this coach.

Enough to take a whole wagon train of runaways back to Africa.

And all I have to do is give part of it to the wagon master over in Sweetwater.

Where'd you get that kind of money, sir?

Well, some of these southerners do almost anything to get us out of the

half. They brought a big ship.

Gonna take us all the way across the ocean.

And, Noah, I'm going if I have to crawl.

What for?

This is our country much as anybody's. My daddy had a whole... Your daddy?

Your daddy?

I'm trying to teach you a lesson that your daddy learned the hard way.

We can't be free here, Noah. They ain't gonna let us.

Well, they can't stop us unless we give up.

If you had any sense in that hard head of yours, you'd let God send the

Camerons to hell his way.

Come on, Noah.

Come back home with us.

Be the black prince that you is instead of this dead nigga that they want to

make you.

Get down, everybody!

Get down! Get down! Get behind the tree!

happened down there i thought you said there's just two guns ran into a trap a

trap i thought we were the ones that were sitting she's

got

to pay the wagon master in sweetwater we can be there to collect boy we damn well

better be

She gets all the rest, and we get all the work. Oh, no, no, no.

Don't you be trying to pin this one on me.

I mean, after all, it was your idea to hire her.

Mine? That's right, yours.

You are the one that said teaspoon all over.

Well, teaspoon ain't the one that's got to do all her work. Shh!

That's right.

The main thing is we got to get ourselves out of this mess.

Now, somebody's got to fire the dear old thing.

What do you mean it'd kill her?

She probably wouldn't even know the difference.

The Overland State! Shh!

It's rolling in here like the devil's chasing it.

Now, you're saying there was ten of them? That's right.

All right.

Yet none of you have seen any of these characters.

faces were covered teaspoon and you wasn't carrying nothing valuable well i

wouldn't say that i'm in septus young in here nothing but him benjamin

this is benjamin he was sold away from his ma and

his baby sister he ran away from his new master i found him out on the road south

of saddle falls he's gonna ride on the freedom train freedom train Wagon train,

camped outside of Sweetwater.

Gonna take some of us home.

No offense, Benjamin, but wasn't them bushwhackers running a mighty big risk

coming after a little runaway slave like this?

Now, if you don't keep looking for sense in people that ain't got none, you're

gonna have a tough haul as the marshal, Teaspoon.

Guess you're right, Sally.

I'd rest that shoulder for a day before I made any more trips, Al.

The doctor.

Might I please ride into town with you? I have a client waiting for me.

It's all right by me.

See you later, folks. Gotta be going.

Well, if anybody ever tried to tell me that Wild Bill Hickok would save my life

one day... Don't believe him.

Right.

I better make tracks, too.

I can't talk you into going on with us, huh?

Rest up like the doctor told you, you hear?

Hold up a second, Doc. I'm riding with you.

Well, that's twice in one day. Being in my neighborhood's almost got you shot.

Yeah, but who's counting?

I ain't big on thank yous here, Cock.

I ain't big on your welcomes, Noah.

Watch your back.

Noah, hold up a minute.

This leg here is going to slow me down for a while.

Why don't you think about filling in for me here a while?

I'm much obliged, but... You need a fresh grub steak, don't you?

Yeah, we could use a hand breaking in the new stock.

At least the kids' rump could anyway.

Seems there's a new horse that ain't been able to break yet. Normally Ike

would do it, but he's nursing a bad leg.

You busted Broncos before?

to find out.

Boys, he's getting into the mind of a wild ass.

Understanding something free.

Mr.

Wilkes, how come Miss Sally don't meet us out here?

She doesn't know where here is.

Couldn't take the chance of slavery finding out, so we set up a meeting in

town. We'll be back in the morning.

Looks like it's going to be a bad day.

I must have died and gone to Hungry Man.

Great eats, Sally.

Well, you didn't think I was gonna be eating something you boys slopped

together, did you?

It'd be the best of both worlds having you and Noah working here with us. So

how'd the two of you meet anyway?

Noah's daddy bought me, oh, 20 years ago before Noah was even born.

His daddy bought you?

Yeah. Till 1850, it was quite a few free colors on land and the territory.

Then the legislature passed a law making it illegal.

Noah's daddy bought me.

Then he gave me my freedom.

Then he hired me to help him and his wife with the land.

She died giving birth to Noah.

Then when his daddy was killed, I became mama and daddy too.

I raised him till he was big enough to say no and I had to listen.

So, now that Ida Bell's gone, what do we got to do to get you two to sign on with

us? Ain't nothing you can do to make a mistake.

Me and some runaway slaves, we gonna ride on the freedom train.

We going back to Africa.

Back to Africa?

Hell, you even got him saying it, Sally.

You can only go back someplace you done already been, boy, and ain't none of you

runaways been anywhere near Africa.

Noah. Hey, kid.

What would you call a bunch of southern gentlemen willing to finance a ship of

colors back to Africa?

Generous, I guess.

I call them scared.

They scared of a new South full of free blacks.

Noah, that's enough.

Don't you understand?

All you're doing is running harder and faster and further than you done already

run. You're just leaving more to fighting for those of us that got the

guts for it. That's enough, Noah.

Don't you worry about it, Benjamin. It's all right.

Yo, excuse me.

Don't you ever do that again, you hear me?

Don't you stomp on nobody's dream just because it ain't yours.

You don't know the price Benjamin paid for the little freedom he knows.

But you could read it on his back.

It's written all over his body. Scar on top of scar on top of scar.

and he ain't wearing no whip, the whip done woe him.

You ain't had no irons around your ankles, and you ain't never had nobody

snatch your son out of your arm and sell it like he was one of these damn horses.

Don't you sally me!

You and your daddy, you're all so full of pride and so full of what you think

is right that you can't see what's there in your plain in the face.

Leave him on it is.

I wish I could, but you got him figured for a hero, and that's gonna get you

killed if you don't listen to the truth.

I don't want to hear this.

They strung up a blind man out there that night.

Because any man with eyes would know to get out of the way of that kind of

trouble.

All he had to do was pick you up in his arms and run.

And it wouldn't have been no shame in it. Not that night.

I remember it differently.

You're your daddy's son, and that's all right for you.

But don't you be spitting on nobody else's dream, because you're just living

for vengeance now, baby.

And the rest of us is after something that's much harder to come by and much

more worthy of the chase.

Mr. Wilkes?

Oh, my God. Mr. Wilkes.

Hand it over.

Hand over what?

What in the hell did you do that for, huh?

It was an accident.

Well, damn it, you killed her before she had a chance to tell us where the rest

of the gold is.

All I did was smack her. How'd I know she'd fall in the stall and spook the

horse?

Well, I figured she'd bring the whole payment with her.

I guess these people ain't always as stupid as I thought.

What are you gonna do now?

I'm gonna send the Freedom Train a new wagon master. Hey!

Now think about it.

We can make this accident work for us.

This way we get the gold.

And the slaves.

I like this idea.

Let's get rid of our friend here.

I thought you were right-handed.

Well, I come from a man needs two right hands.

Jimmy says you sold your horse and saddle to free some slaves.

He did, did he?

Said you didn't even know him.

Well, then I guess it must be true.

Wouldn't want to get in a round I called James Butler Hickok a liar.

Why'd you do it?

Family tradition.

Buying and freeing slaves was one of my daddy's favorite things.

Said it was better than planting devil's thorn in a cracker's backyard.

I don't know where you come from, but down my way, they'd have hung a man for

that.

Hey, dear.

I'm sorry.

I didn't know.

Yeah, why should you?

That sick ox of mine read as well as a blabbermouth. I said I'm sorry.

I don't think I'd be able to get over a thing like that.

Yeah, well, my daddy certainly did.

Damn, you ain't the strangest nigga.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean that.

Sure you did? No, I didn't. It just came out. Of course it did. Why shouldn't it?

Fine southern boy like yourself.

Hmm? I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't the second word out your mouth.

Mammy being the first.

I never had a mammy.

My mother and father were dirt farmers. They were. Yeah, they were.

I don't know what your problem is anyway. Ain't you heard?

Huh?

Niggas is in fashion.

Why, Maslow Webster didn't even put us in his dictionary. Yes, he did. See, you

got men that are niggally and men that are niggerish. So, see, saying the word

is all rage.

Now, being one, that's a horse of a different kind.

Ike, what is... Ike, Ike, slow down. I can't follow you. What's she saying?

Stagecoach Sally.

They found her in town?

Found her?

What?

She's dead.

Looks like a horse spooked somehow and stomped her.

We were talking about stagecoach Sally. I knew about horses.

She wasn't about to get stomped by no horse. No way. I'm saying that's what it

looks like. I ain't decided what it was.

How come she come here anyway?

Did she say anything to anybody?

She was bunked down across from me when I fell asleep.

I didn't hear her get up.

I remember how she talked at supper, though. Maybe she come to town because

of this freedom train business.

What about you, Benjamin?

You know anything about her being in town last night?

That's all I said. The less I knew, the safer I was.

Well, that's good advice, son.

Didn't keep her too safe, though, did it?

I'm gonna take the horse back.

Didn't ask about the horse.

Didn't say where he was going.

Well, maybe he don't know.

What are you doing?

Look, I know you two were close, but that don't give you the right to tear

her stuff up.

Why don't you let me help? I don't need it.

Then at least show some respect for the dead.

Don't you talk to me about respect.

Let her go.

Now!

You're looking in the wrong place.

Just put it in the barn.

Must be a small fortune in there.

Fortune and dreams.

You know what that wagon train is, camp boy?

I ain't no boy.

Saddle up.

Ain't nobody asking you. Those pig-headed dirt farmers don't stand on

ceremony. You're gonna need more than one gun to guard that call.

All right, please put in case you need more than two guns.

I found a payment for the wagon train master. I'm gonna make sure Sally's

dream comes true. That's right.

Take it quick, Lou.

That's my boo-

What the hell's he doing?

I don't know. Cover him.

You looking mighty self-satisfied.

Yeah, so are you.

You need your train till you find another wagon, Master.

Good luck to you people.

Charlotte's dream is right on your shoulders now.

You sure took your time riding to the rescue?

Well, better late than never, kid.

Never seen people fight like them folks did, that's for sure.

It's because they're free now.

So much to lose and so much to win.

Hey, Spoon.

Who's that?

Boys, I got to tell you, I hired us a new...

And that beautiful cook?

Who cares?

I do.

You would.

Take it easy on her, boys. She fell off a horse last week.

If she could cook with her feet, it shouldn't be a problem.

Kid!

Kid!

Careful.

You're drooling.

How about you, Noah?

You're welcome to stay with us for a while.

Well, stay for dinner anyway.

Jimmy, did you see the way she carved that roast?

Yeah.

Personally, I like the way she passed the rolls.

I'm a prisoner of love.

Go to sleep.

Thank you.