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* Sometimes I feel * * Like a motherless child *

* Sometimes I feel * * Like a motherless child *

* Sometimes I feel * * Like a motherless child *

* A long ways * * From home. *

Did you see the look on Falconer's face when the colonel shot him?

He was puzzled, that's for certain.

We was all puzzled.

You don't expect to see a man shot down like that just to please an indian.

I mean, he was a captain.

You'd at least think he'd get a trial before he had to be shot.

He got a trial...

the colonel's trial.

I wonder what happens in the army when the colonel goes crazy.

He had to make a show for Buffalo Hump.

He wanted to show him he had sand.

Once an indian thinks you don't have sand, he don't show no mercy.

Now that one don't show no mercy, sand or not.

I think the colonel's insane.

Killing somebody don't mean you're insane.

You can think what you like.

I think he's insane.

* Sometimes I feel *

* Like I'm almost gone *

* Sometimes I feel * * Like I'm almost gone *

* Sometimes I feel * * Like I'm almost gone *

* A long ways *

* From home *

* A long ways *

* From home * * Sometimes I feel *

* Like a motherless child * * Sometimes I feel *

* Like a motherless child * * Sometimes I feel *

* Like a motherless child *

* A long ways *

* From home. *

Shad.

What?

Would you ever get hitched?

Me?

It would depend on the gal, I guess.

What if I was the gal?

I thought you had a notion to get to California, Matty.

What would you want with me?

I'm an old berry.

My pod's drying up.

I do want to go to California.

I want to go more than anything else.

But could we both go together?

I hear the grapes are real sweet in California.

There's a lot of young scamps in this camp, Matty.

What would you want with a wooly old dog like me?

I just would, Shad.

I'd get hitched with you in a minute.

You're a fine gal, Matty.

Sure, I'd get hitched with you.

Maybe we can find a preacher up the trail.

Man: Good luck, boys.

It's a long way back.

Long way to come, to go back where you was.

If I eat another plate of beans, I'll float back to Austin.

This team would have never made it to Santa Fe, ma.

You're the one that wanted to come on this durn expedition.

They're going home, boys.

These wide open spaces don't appeal much to greenhorns.

There go the bankers and the card sharps.

And the whores.

All except the great western.

Matty's retired, ain't you heard?

Retired?

I didn't know whores retired.

Matty has.

She's Shad's woman now.

Don't you go making no suggestions, you hear?

Why? What if I do?

Well, Shad will box you.

Shad don't mind striking out.

Shadrach's an old man. I could whip him in a minute.

Maybe.

Hey, are you my friend or ain't you?

I didn't say I wasn't your friend.

I just said "maybe."

Oh, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Wallace,

do you happen to have anything for bites?

Bites?

Yeah, I was out answering the call of nature when I had the grave misfortune

of being attacked by a scorpion.

Why, I think you're cursed, Carson.

First you trip over your suitcase and get stickers in your face

and now you got a stinger in your ass.

Sir, everything in this country is sharp.

Well, let's go see Sam.

He's got a lotion that cures all ills.

Don't be picky, boys.

If you can't find no buff, bring us back a nice fat pig.

Yah!

Where'd all the buffalo go?

It wasn't but a week ago and there were thousands of them.

Well, then rains caught us and we had to wait a week to cross the Brazos.

You had to wait, but the buffalo did not.

There were thousands of them.

You'd have thought one or two would lag behind.

We done killed the last of our beeves.

We'll be eating mush all the way to Santa Fe now.

You got the best eyes... who's coming?

Three horses.

No, one buffalo, two horses.

- Bill. - What?

- Bill. - What?

Men: Indians!

Indians!

It's gotta be some kind of record...

two red indians chase a buffalo all the way through camp and nobody shoots them.

It seemed a harsh thing, colonel.

They were so tired and hungry they hardly even noticed us.

They would have noticed you if you'd have been tied to a torture post.

Shad's right about that.

At least we got us a buff.

It means a few days off the mush.

Well, let's carve him up.

Yeah.

That buff would've got clean away if you wasn't such a fine shot, Shad.

Eh.

Man: That's it for me. I'm going home.

Man #2: If you're headed back to Austin, I'm with you.

Keep it moving.

Keep it moving, come on.

Come on. Get up, get up.

Yah! Yah!

Watch out, you damn fools.

Steady. Steady on the wagon.

Johnny: It's gonna be a passel of trouble to pack this grub on our horses.

Damn it, I knew we should have used oxen instead of mules and horses.

Oxen are slow, colonel.

Colonel, look.

Now would would that be out here in the breaks?

Bes Das: Buenas noches.

What's he talking about? It ain't night.

And if there's anything good out here, I don't know what it would be.

He means Charlie Goodnight.

Who's Charlie Goodnight? Never heard of the man.

You'll find out soon enough.

Howdy. I'm Charlie Goodnight.

This is Bill and this is Bose.

Why are you trying to take wagons through this country?

It ain't meant for wagons.

Would you get down and take coffee?

We don't get many guests out here.

We can't pause. These girls were stole two weeks ago.

Their folks won't have no peace of mind till we return them.

You didn't answer me when I asked about the wagons.

Well, sir, don't you know who we are?

No. I recognize general Lloyd, though.

You should have left him. He's too drunk for travel.

We're the Texas- Santa Fe expedition.

We're on our way to New Mexico.

We mean to annex it.

We may have to hang a few mexicans, but I expect we'll soon whip them back.

No, they'll hang you... if you make it there.

And why wouldn't we make it, sir?

That's the Cap Rock.

Once you get on top of it, there's nothing.

I'm sure there's something there.

There's grass at least.

Oh, yes sir, lots of grass.

But I've been a texas ranger for over 15 years,

and I've rarely met the man who can live on grass.

And I've rarely met the horse who can travel 400 miles without water.

400...?

I was told there was a passage along the Red River.

Yes, it's shorter. But that's not the Red.

Not the Red?

No, that's the Big Wichita.

Big Wichita?

I told that fool it wasn't the Red.

It ain't sandy enough. The Red's got that bad quicksand.

I never did trust that damn pawnee.

He's got us lost and now he's gonna try to steal our horses

if we don't keep an eye on him.

Hello, Shad. You turn 100 yet?

I'm crowding it, Charlie.

- 'Morning, Miss Roberts. - 'Morning, Charlie.

Wallace, why would you walk all the way to New Mexico to get hung?

Ain't there enough hang ropes in Texas?

I ain't planning on no hanging, Charlie.

You'll all get a lot worse than hanging if Buffalo Hump catches you.

This here is the comancheria.

Comanches belong here. You don't.

I only came to get these young captives back.

And now I'm going home. And I advise you do the same.

Here's some vittles for them young'uns.

They look like they could use a bite.

Much obliged.

Set a close watch.

Don't let kicking wolf steal your horses.

You'll need to eat most of them to get to New Mexico.

Go to Boston. Go to Boston.

If I was you, I'd take the bird's advice.

Ha!

That's Charlie Goodnight.

He's salty.

I noticed.

10.

10.

Bad news, colonel.

There's no other kind out here in the wastes. What is it now?

Bes Das and Alchise are gone.

They took about 10 horses with them.

Curse those scoundrels.

Can you catch them? 'Cause if you can, I'd like to hang them from a yardarm

if I had a yardarm. Go on, get them!

Take those two young corporals with you.

That's bad, isn't it?

Yeah, that's bad.

Where are we going?

Come on.

Boys, that there is Palo Duro canyon.

Why, it goes down for nearly forever.

Enough meat there to get us to Santa Fe.

We'll let those horse thieves go.

Comanches will take care of them for us.

Woodrow, you head on back and tell colonel.

Gus and me will be looking for a way going down.

Whip up now. We gotta get to harvesting these buff.

Yah! Yah! Yah!

Come on! Get up, get up!

Yah!

Lord have mercy.

Yah!

Come on!

Colonel, colonel.

Colonel, I seen some indians.

- A bunch of comanches. - We struck a big canyon.

There's buffalo in it, hundreds of them.

Gus and Bigfoot are looking for a trail down.

Good news. Sam.

Sam, see if you can pull that toothpick out of your arm.

Then we'll go kill us some meat.

I don't know how many comanches there might be.

It's all right. We're on our way to the rescue.

It's a fine morning for a fracas. Let's kill some buffalo!

Yeah!

Wallace: We seen about 20 indians

but I doubt that's all of them. There could be 1000.

We can whip 20. I don't know about 1000.

I'd hate to pass up that meat.

This canyon's awful steep, colonel.

I wouldn't want to have to climb out of there with Buffalo Hump after me.

What do we do, sir?

We camp, set a good guard.

Maybe the red boys will have hoisted anchor by morning

and we can go kill us some buff.

Come on.

- You tell the colonel. - No, you tell him.

Go on.

Uh, colonel, colonel, colonel.

- What? - We lost...

- 20. - ...20 horses last night.

It was like they got sucked up into the air.

They didn't get sucked up into the air. Kicking wolf got them.

He could steal horses out of a store.

If I could catch that rascal, I'd tie him to a horse's tail

and let that horse kick him to death.

With a name like "kicking," won't that be appropriate?

- Colonel, look. - What?

Fire!

We'd better make it back to the last creek, boys.

Pack up!

Steady, boy.

Whoa whoa, easy, fellow.

- By god, they've closed the circle. - Backing us into the canyon.

- There's fire everywhere. - Looks like it's jump or fry.

Shadrach, can we start a backfire?

It's too late. We're trapped.

Well, that cliff ain't that sheer.

Come on, men, we'll climb down and hang on.

Maybe we won't burn.

Head for the cliff, boys. Head for the cliff.

- Come on, Beelzebub. - Go to Boston, go to Boston.

I got you. I got you.

- Easy now. - Okay.

Sam!

Oh, god. Sam's gone.

We just lost the dentist.

Better take care now not get no toothaches.

Look.

It's Buffalo Hump.

Damn, there goes our powder.

Yep, that's the end of target practice.

Buffalo Hump.

I wonder where them indians went.

If they set another fire we could get fried up

like that rabbit the colonel ate.

Don't it worry you none?

You think too much.

You think about the wrong things too.

I thought you wanted to be a ranger till you met that girl.

Now I guess you'd rather be in the dry goods business.

I wasn't thinking about no girl.

I was thinking about getting burned up.

Well, being a ranger means you can die any day.

If you don't want to risk it, you ought to quit.

Hellfire, you didn't need to shoot it.

You could have hit it over the head with your gun.

That little buck was only half growed.

I doubt it'll run more than a mile or two.

If we ease on after it we might be able to kill it yet.

I'm game.

Matilda, I'll be back in a little while.

Shadrach.

Wallace.

Where the hell are you going?

Matty, they probably just camped out

and fell asleep.

Johnny: It's hard enough to find your way on this plain in the daylight.

How could anyone do it at night?

They've only been gone one night.

Johnny: Maybe they ain't coming back.

Maybe they just left.

Colonel: Left to go where?

We're on the state plains, no place to go except to wander.

But if he ain't dead I'll shoot him...

him or Wallace, one. Why it would take two scouts to track one deer

is a conundrum.

A what?

It's a conundrum.

It's a thing that you can't figure out, like two scouts tracking one deer.

Well, two's better than one out here.

I wouldn't go off walking out here

without somebody with me who'd find the way back.

Shad ain't never been lost, night or day.

If he ain't back it's 'cause he's dead.

That humpbacked man got him, I know he did.

If he did leave,

I guess he just didn't want to take me with him.

Love's a terrible price to pay for company, ain't it, Matty?

No.

No!

No!

Matty says you two's getting hitched soon as you come across a preacher.

We're as good as hitched now.

The preacher'd just be frosting.

Risky business... retired whores, especially when you're traveling

with a rough crew like this one.

Matty retired herself, Bigfoot.

And any man that interferes with her is gonna have me to deal with.

I'm too old to be bunking in the chill by myself.

Besides, I like Matty. I always did.

I guess you'd known her a while.

Yeah.

I met Matty the first day she set foot on the Missouri shore

about 10 years ago.

I was guiding a party into Santa Fe out of St. Louis,

me and a few boys from the fur company.

And her daddy was a drunkard.

And he got drunk one night and fell in Arkansas river and drowned.

Then her mama got the chills a few days later

and Matty was orphaned out.

Now there was about 50 men in that party

and not one angel among them.

So the wagon boss set her straight a few days after her mama died

and told her to be a whore or to be left.

Those were rough times, Shad.

Yeah.

Wasn't no place for churchgoing ladies in the west then.

Just a place for whores.

Yeah.

Not many of them lasted either.

Well, Matty lasted.

Matty's got grit.

You remember that big old snapping turtle she caught?

Scared the hell out of everybody.

She's a strong woman.

So you're hitched, Shad, and that's that.

Yeah, hitched and that's that.

I aim to bide with Matty till the day I die.

- Oh, Shad. - That's my girl.

I feared you was dead.

That little deer was bigger than we thought.

It took us a little while to catch up with him.

- Where the hell have you been? - Where do you think?

Nobody told you to go chasing deer.

If I had irons, Wallace, I'd put them on you right now.

You won't be putting no chains on me, I guess.

You'll get a bullet for your insolence.

I'm the colonel here. I won't have my command ignored.

You ain't no colonel. You're nothing but a land pirate.

They run you off the sea. Now you're out here trying to pirate Santa Fe.

I took my last order from you, Cobb.

And Shadrach feels the same.

Let's see how hard you are to chain once I carve your liver.

No cutting, crazy fools.

We need every man we can get if we're to survive.

Best be saving up the fight for comanches

and not be running into each other.

Put the knife down. Put it down, big.

Put it down.

All right. All right.

But I still give the orders here.

You understand?

Well, give better ones then.

I wouldn't waste a fart on your damn orders.

What set them off?

Hunger, I figure. I'm so hungry I could stab somebody myself.

When can we eat the deer?

As soon as we cook it, Johnny.

We won't last more than another day without food, colonel.

I'm gonna take these two young corporals,

see if I can't scare up some game.

Do what you damn please, Wallace. You will anyway.

But I'll caution you on one thing...

if you get captured, keep quiet. Don't tell them our numbers.

Let them think there are 1000 men coming.

I won't be bragging on no mighty army, colonel.

Getting captured might be the only way

some of us stay alive. I'd get captured right now

if whoever caught me had some grub.

Come on, boys.

By durn, boys, it's a buck.

Now hold on, hold on. Go slow now.

You don't want to spook him.

I'll take the first shot.

If he don't drop, then you boys shoot.

Aim right behind the foreleg.

Damn. Why don't he drop?

I hit the brute solid two times.

I hit him too.

How do you know if you hit him, Woodrow?

You're as blind as a mole.

Let's go, boys. Come on.

You insolent fool, the mountains are that way.

Where there's mountains there's snow.

Where there's snow there's water.

Where you're thinking about heading there's nothing. You'll all die.

There's the South Canadian.

There'll be water in the South Canadian this time of year.

The South Canadian's at least a week's walk, Turner.

What are you planning to drink for a week?

You can yap all you want to, colonel.

We're leaving, and we're leaving now.

You're crazy.

If you don't starve, the comanches will get you.

You're a fool, Turner!

You're all fools!

Those are some fat birds.

Damn, son.

Gus, Gus, Gus.

Why don't you stop? We already got three.

Dang it, Gus, hold your fire.

You got three.

I expect you'll hoard them all.

Where did you learn to chuck rocks like that, Woodrow?

Anybody who practices can hit what they throw at, I reckon.

If you're so good at throwing rocks, you should have chucked one at that buffalo.

I ain't never seen nothing like that buffalo.

It must have been some kind of witch buffalo or something.

Mira, Mira.

Now why do you expect they ran off like that?

I expect they think we're devils.

Qu� quieren los texanos?

By god, maybe Caleb could conquer this state

if he gets here. These folks don't look like fighters.

- Agua? - S�. All� est�.

Certainly you may drink.

It's a long walk from Texas.

I'm captain Salazar.

Put down your weapons and you'll come to no harm.

Now that's a fine welcome.

Senor, it is not a welcome.

It is an arrest.

We should have never let ourselves be chained.

Bigfoot: I'd rather be chained than shot.

These soldiers ain't nothing but boys.

I expect we could whip them if we hadn't walked into a darn ambush.

Well, that captain wasn't no boy.

And he had a big pistol.

This is just a mud building.

I imagine we could dig our way out if we tried.

Dig out and go where, Woodrow?

We're chained.

We nearly starved to death getting this far.

So far we've been a disgrace in every encounter.

Gus: Well, we ain't dead.

We've still got time to learn.

I guess this is the part of New Mexico that ain't filled with gold and silver.

I told you not to expect gold and silver.

Try to sleep, Matty.

We'll have to be up and marching early.

I can't get to sleep for wondering about the boys, Shad...

Gus and Call.

They're young.

I'm scared we'll never see them again.

Now I've no doubt they'll get thirsty, but who don't out here?

Just don't worry about them, though.

They left with Bigfoot Wallace.

He's as good a plainsman as I know.

I expect he'll bring them back safe.

Bigfoot...

he's skillful,

but he ain't the best plainsman I know.

The best plainsman I know is lying right here with me.

I guess he'd sleep like that if they was about to hang him.

Well, if he's about to be hung, he might as well snooze.

Buenos dias, senores. I hope you're refreshed.

We have a long way to travel.

What's the delay? The sun's been up for an hour.

We conducted a trial. They're bringing the scoundrel in now.

Why, that's Bes Das.

What did that horse thief do?

Stole a ring from the governor's wife...

the finest silver.

That is why you made your long walk, is it not...

to steal our silver and gold?

Man: Fuego!

Well, I guess that colonel was right about there being silver out here.

He didn't mention the firing squads, though.

At least we'll get to see Santa Fe.

I heard it's a fine town.

You will never see Santa Fe.

We'll going south to catch your friends.

Then you will be marched to San Lazaro.

Where's San Lazaro?

Below El Paso del Norte. I've never been there,

but I believe it's about 500 miles.

How far?

About 500 miles.

- Dang, it's cold. - Yeah.

You boys have been living too soft a life.

This ain't cold.

If we're still in these parts in a month or two,

you'll see some cold weather make this seem like summer.

What is that, a buffalo?

That's a bear!

That ain't just a bear. That's a grizzly. Run, boys!

Run, Woodrow, run!

I can't run, not in these irons.

- Then hobble. - Come on, get!

I can't believe that bear knocked down the captain's horse.

A grizzly can knock down anything.

He's done us a fine turn.

They'd have marched us till our feet come off

if he hadn't come along and scared them.

I just hope he's content to eat that horse.

Maybe he won't track us.

Why'd he track us?

Maybe he's ate texans before.

Maybe he likes the way they taste.

Well, he's have to eat Woodrow then.

He's a texan.

Myself... I'm from Tennessee.

We'd better stop here and wait for it to clear.

We could be heading for Canada for all I know.

I think I see somebody. Something's moving over there.

Gus: Hope it ain't that grizzly.

If it was that bear, he would already have ate you.

Two of Salazar's boys.

Now what do we do?

Do we shoot them or take them with us?

They ain't armed.

I can't shoot two boys in cold blood.

And one of them gave us coffee, Big.

They ain't got any fight in them anyway.

They're just trying to get away from that bear same as us.

You ought to go on home. Go. Get.

Go on now, vamoose. We ain't got time for conversation.

Now go on, get.

Eh, hell. Then come on.

Come on.

Hope we're moving away from that bear.

It won't matter which way we're moving if he wants us.

They can track you by smell.

If he wants us, he could be 10' behind us right now.

And they move quiet, unless they're mad like that one was.

I hope he ain't back there.

My friend willy got ate by a bear up on the Trinity river.

We figured it out from the tracks.

So he got ate. So what's the story?

He got ate. That's the story.

So tell us, was he torn up bad?

Well, he was sitting there fishing.

And that bear come up behind him so quiet,

he had no notion that bear was anywhere around.

That's how quiet they are when they're stalking you.

He was mostly ate.

He even ate his belt buckle.

His belt buckle?

Yep.

He had a double eagle made into a belt buckle.

I always admired that buckle. I meant to take it.

I mean, he was dead anyway and didn't have no kin.

But that durn bear ate it while it was eating Willy.

And that was that.

I see a light up ahead.

Looks like campfires.

Yes, but whose campfires?

If it's indians, they'll scalp us.

If it's mexicans, they'll shoot us.

We'll squat here and wait for morning.

Squat here and wait for that bear, you mean.

Myself, I'd rather get shot than clawed to death.

Gus, Gus, don't you get too far ahead. You'll get lost.

Gus: Ya'll can squat here and wait for that bear to eat you, but I ain't.

Call: Shut up. They can hear you.

Gus: I was whispering.

Call: You whisper loud enough to wake the dead.

Man: Hold on. Who's there?

Bigfoot: Billy, it's us. Don't shoot.

Boys, is that you?

It's us, Bill. We're coming in.

Wait a minute now. Wait a minute.

I need to think about this.

Billy, it's us. Why would you need to think about it?

Because I've heard comanches can imitate white folks' voices.

You might be comanches.

I ain't comanche. I'm Gus McCrae.

Well, I guess you're you, Gus.

Excuse my nerves.

I'm a little jumpy.

Come on in, boys.

Buenas noches, senor.

You mean there ain't no grub at all?

No.

We ain't ate in two days.

Shad's getting poorly too.

Where's your bird, colonel?

Beelzebub?

We ate him.

Made a fine soup.

Looks like they raised the whole country.

Uh-huh.

How many of us are left?

30, now that you're back.

But numbers ain't the problem.

We're low on bullets.

We'd have to kill 10 of them with each shot.

The truth is, I haven't felt the same about this enterprise

since we made soup out of Beelzebub.

It's just like it was the first time we went out.

Nobody knows what to do.

We're worse off now than we were with major Chevalier.

I believe I'll walk on over there and have a little parlay with that general.

We still have that flag?

What do you need a flag for?

Well, we brought the damn rag.

Why not use it? It might impress him.

I got it, colonel.

Corporal Call, you tie that to your musket.

You and corporal McCrae come with me.

I need some attendants.

Now if that general has any manners at all, he'll invite us to breakfast.

Come on.

Gus, if they feed you breakfast, snatch me some bacon.

I'd sure like a bite of bacon.

Good luck to you boys.

Oh, Shad, what if they kill them? They're just boys.

Now Matty, don't you worry none.

They're waving the flag of the republic there.

They ain't gonna kill them.

Put your hat on.

They ain't gonna kill us.

There's only three of us.

They'd be behaving like cowards if they took advantage of us.

Maybe they are cowards.

Just ignore the infantry.

Ignore this rabble.

We're heading straight for the Jefe.

Congratulations, gentlemen. You too escaped the bear.

Ordinarily I would shoot you for escaping,

but no one could be blamed for running from a grizzly bear.

I guess you soldiers are acquainted.

We traveled together.

I'm colonel Cobb.

I want to see the general.

Hablas espanol?

Un poco.

I'll introduce you.

General, es colonel Cobb.

General.

Would you put that flag down?

I'm pretty sure they know who we are.

Would you gentlemen like some breakfast? We have eggs.

No, thanks. We've ate.

In that case, may i bring you some coffee?

Yeah, I'll take some.

Senora, traeles cafe por favor.

How come you said we ate?

We ain't ate nothing since them prairie chickens.

These mexicans... they got plenty.

Our men ain't got plenty. I won't sit down and feed myself with the enemy

when our men are about ready to eat their belts.

It ain't our fault they didn't get to be escorts.

Now drink that coffee and think about that food you ain't gonna eat.

Gracias.

Well, men, did they feed you?

They offered but I said no.

I won't eat with skunks when my friends are starving.

I see.

That's the noble view, corporal.

I'm better at the selfish view.

I had an excellent breakfast. The eggs were tasty.

I'd like to leave.

Oh, you can't leave.

I just surrendered to general Dimasio.

I have his word that if we lay down our arms not a man will be killed.

I expect to keep my weapons unless I'm shot.

Now that's brash, corporal.

When I give an order, I expect it to be obeyed.

You're a young man.

I won't have you dying over foolishness.

I'd rather die fighting than be put in leg irons again.

Man: Capitan!

If you are determined to die, I will oblige you myself.

I shot Billy Falconer for disobedience, and I'll do the same for you.

Give up your gun, Woodrow.

I despise you for a coward.

Capitan.

Could you put this man under heavy guard until he cools down?

He's too reckless for his own good.

Corporal McCrae, march back over to that ridge where the troop is,

tell them to lay down their guns.

Tell them they won't be hurt

and tell them they'll be fed just as soon as they surrender.

Colonel, I'll go, but they might not like the news.

We're not having an Alamo or a Goliad, not here.

Colonel Travis was a fool, though a brave fool,

but at least he had a church to fight in.

We don't have anything!

This little war is over.

Now go on.

The sooner you'll go, the sooner they'll get breakfast.

Texans.

Muchacho.

Miel.

Where are you running off to?

Why, to Santa Fe, corporal, with this fine army.

General Dimasio says that the governor wants to meet me.

I think he plans to give me a little banquet.

- Put the gun down, colonel. - No!

He's our prisoner, not yours.

Let go!

So what's the orders?

The orders are to surrender our weapons.

Caleb's a pure out skunk surrendering for us.

What do you think, Shad?

We could run for them hills, shoot our way through.

I doubt more than a few of us would make it.

We'd give them a scrap at least.

Not a one of us would make it, though they might spare Matty.

I don't want to be spared if Shad ain't.

I'm damn hungry.

I might surrender to them rascals if I can get me some bacon.

I expect they'll line us up and shoot us, but I'm for breakfast.

I hope they got a good cook.

All right, boys, there are too many of them.

Let's lay our guns down.

You're brave but foolish.

Colonel had no choice but to surrender.

Your men have no ammunition and they have no food.

If he hadn't surrendered we would have killed all of you.

I despise Caleb Cobb.

At least he won't look so pretty at the governor's banquet.

I'm afraid neither will you after we've given you 100 lashes.

If you would like to speak to your friend corporal McCrae, we'll permit it.

No, I'll talk to him later.

Corporal, there may not be no later.

I expect to live.

If Call don't live,

I'll kill that snaggle-toothed bastard that's doing the whipping.

Cambiense.

Dear Lord.

Sueltenlo.

By God, he's alive.

It's remarkable.

Few men survive that many lashes.

He'll live to bury you.

He's a strong one, this one. If he lives three days,

he will survive and walk to San Lazaro.

You don't listen.

I said he'd live to bury you.

Adelante! Adelante!

Is he dead?

No, he's alive, but he ain't out of danger.

Woodrow, you ain't gonna die.

Tomorrow the corporal walks.

This boy can't walk.

Look, I carried him of that wagon and I put him here to keep him warm.

Shadrach don't need to be walking either.

We must burn the wagon or some of us will freeze.

All men must walk now.

The corporal will walk.

Shadrach: Apaches.

The old man is correct.

We are in apache country now.

Cuidado.

This is the work of the apache war chief Gomez.

Only Gomez would treat a general like this.

Most apaches would sell a general, but he knows no law.

It ain't his law. I expect he don't mind breaking it.

I do not see your colonel anywhere.

I wonder what happened to him.

The coward... I expect he escaped.

Boys!

Colonel?

Boys?

Is that you? Is that you?

These apache devils,

they blinded me with thorns.

They hamstrung my leg.

They left me to starve.

He came at us at dawn.

We're on the edge of the Jornada del Muerto...

the Dead Man's Walk.

It's a terrible journey even for a healthy man.

Many of us will die crossing it.

Perhaps all of us will die.

We cannot take you with us.

We have to look to ourselves.

I'm only crippled.

I won't be left.

If you give me a horse and a soldier, I can make it to Santa Fe.

I can't take you with us.

And I can't send you back.

If I give you a soldier and a horse,

Gomez will find you again, and this time he'll do worse.

I'll take my chances.

But I won't.

You're a brave officer.

It's time for you to end it yourself.

I'm a seaman.

I never expected to die in the middle of a desert.

I ought to be on my ship.

What the hell am I doing here?

I know that you're a great pirate, Colonel Cobb.

You stole much treasure from the king of Spain.

Yes.

Lost it all at cards.

Give me the pistol then. You men be on your way.

Give me the pistol.

You know, those wild texas boys are all mad at me for surrendering.

I expect they'd hang me if they got the chance.

It'll amuse me to cheat them by shooting myself.

Wallace, didn't you say through the eyeball was best?

Yeah.

A bad-luck day for me.

Fresh out of eyeballs.

I guess the eyehole will have to do.

Capitan, adios.

Adios, colonel.

Ha!

Jump 'em, boys.

Grab their guns.

Colonel, you're shooting at us!

I'll take down a few.

Colonel, you're shooting at us!

Colonel!

Lie still, Shad.

You ain't hit bad, are you?

I'm killed, Matty.

No, you ain't.

You just need to rest here.

I'm gonna nurse you back. I'm gonna nurse you.

Huh-uh.

You're a fine woman, Matty, and don't you forget that.

I'm just sorry we didn't get hitched proper before I got myself killed.

Never you mind.

Was was hitched proper enough, Shad.

Never you mind.

No.

No.

Oh, Shad.

Oh, Shad.

Oh, god, why did it have to be you?

Now Matty...

No.

- Shad's gone now. - No.

It's the sad truth.

No.

No, Big, I can't. I can't bear it.

I can't. He was all I had.

Matty, it's...

it's sad, but it might be providential.

Shad was poorly.

We have to cross the big dry.

I doubt he would have made it.

He'd have died hard like some of us will.

We have no luck today.

You have plenty of luck.

If that bullet hit your neck another inch over, you'd be as dead as Shad.

Life a peculiar business, captain.

Old Shad had been shot at by some of the best marksmen in the west.

Now there he lays killed by a blind man.

I guess you knowed him a long time.

My Shad?

I knowed him since I was 14.

Ma and pa and me...

we had just started west on the Santa Fe trail.

Shad was one of our guides.

He's about the most handsome man I ever seen walk that trail.

Then ma and pa died.

And it was Shad who took care of me mostly.

If it hadn't been for him, I would have never survived.

He give me a buffalo hide or I would have froze.

Well, he was a fine shot.

And he could track most any critter.

That he could.

But that ain't why I loved him, Woodrow.

My Shad was honest.

You just don't find many honest men...

not out here on the plains.

I don't expect I'll ever be that lucky again.

Bigfoot: Captain, I'm fearful we'll all die if we have to sleep

out in the open in weather like this.

How far is it to that village?

I've never been to the village of San Saba.

I just know it's there.

Go ahead and leave me. I'm slowing you down.

Hush, Woodrow. We ain't leaving you.

How did it get to be so cold, Bill?

I've never been noplace was this cold.

My foot's paining me.

I don't know if I can keep up.

I'm with you, Johnny.

If you fall behind, I'll come get you.

Why don't you let us go, captain?

We ain't all gonna survive this.

I cannot let you go, Mr. Wallace.

I have my orders.

Foolish orders.

Your men are dying too.

I never said my orders were intelligent, Mr. Wallace.

I've been a military man for 20 years and most of my orders have been foolish.

I've almost been killed because of foolish orders.

And now I've been given an order so foolish I would laugh if it wasn't

that I was in such pain.

I cannot let you go.