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Previously on "The American West"...
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Not even 100 years old,
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America finds itself in
a crippling depression
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and on the verge of a war on two fronts.
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In Missouri, ex-Confederates
like Jesse James
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are terrorizing Northern
banks and railroads...
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C'mon, Frank.
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Forcing businesses to hire
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famed private detective Allan Pinkerton
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to take him down.
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He's ruthlessly
violent and good with a gun.
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When do I leave?
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Further west,
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George Armstrong Custer
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has confirmed rumors of gold
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in the Black Hills of South Dakota,
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setting off a massive gold rush.
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But the country's
solution to its financial crisis
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may lie in the heart of
sacred Indian territory,
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land that Lakota leaders Crazy
Horse and Sitting Bull
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aren't going to give up without a fight.
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Midway through
his second term as president,
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Ulysses S. Grant has watched the push
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to settle the West and heal the nation
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come to a halt
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as America suffers through
a brutal depression.
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If you are president during
an economic depression,
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your standing is gonna fall.
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And this was the
worst economic depression
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in American history up to that time.
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But Grant
believes he's found a solution...
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the gold in the Black
Hills of South Dakota.
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The only problem...
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it's on land that Grant surrendered
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to the Lakota Sioux nine years earlier.
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The United
States government wanted the Black Hills,
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merchants wanted the Black Hills,
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gold seekers wanted the Black Hills.
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They had a treaty. They
couldn't just take the Black Hills.
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Maintaining a
peaceful relationship with the Indians
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has been one of
Grant's proudest achievements
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since taking office,
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and he knows that going
back on his peace policy
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would only reignite the conflict.
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In a last-ditch effort
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to avoid all-out war with the Indians,
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Grant proposes a deal.
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The government offers to
buy back the Black Hills
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from the Lakota Sioux for
six million dollars...
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$100 million in today's money.
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Over 1,200 miles away from Washington...
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word of the offer soon
reaches respected leader
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Sitting Bull...
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who knows his people now
need to make a decision.
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He gathers a council of Lakota leaders,
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including the fierce
warrior Crazy Horse.
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I think Native Americans'
relationship with the land
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was very tight and had
a spiritual component
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because they believed that
they were connected
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to the land, they came from the land.
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So they had a very close relationship
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with the land,
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much more than people from outside did,
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who looked at the land in
a more superficial way.
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To the
Lakota, the Black Hills are more
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than just a place to live and hunt...
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they're essential to their culture.
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The Black Hills is important
and sacred to us
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because that's where our
creation story comes from.
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There's a place called Wood Cave there
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that many of us believe that's
where we came from.
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We value the land and the animals
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just as much as we do people.
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Gold had no meaning, no value to us.
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Of all the
places the United States
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could've wanted the Lakota to sell...
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the Black Hills were the worst place
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that they could've chosen.
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Sitting Bull famously picks
up a little pinch of dirt
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and he holds it up, and he says
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"I don't wanna sell any more land,
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not even as much as this
little pinch of dirt."
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These just came in.
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The Lakota Sioux
reject the government's offer,
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and Grant's hope for
peace is slipping away.
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Grant sympathized
with the plight of the Indians.
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But he also understood that
he was losing that battle.
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He was losing the battle with
respect to Indian policy.
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Ultimately, unless the American people
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were gonna tolerate
this, it simply wouldn't stand.
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With all due respect, sir,
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you have exhausted every
political option available
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in dealing with the Sioux.
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Our own people are starving.
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It is no longer a sustainable objective.
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It's time we start
looking at military options.
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Issue a proclamation.
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All the members of the Sioux tribe
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must report to an
appointed Indian reservation
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no later than February 1st, 1876.
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And those that don't report?
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They will be considered hostile
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and treated as such.
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After years of
trying to establish peace
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with the Indians,
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President Grant is now provoking a war.
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This was the
administration's way of defeating
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these
uncooperative... at least in their mind,
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uncooperative Indians
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and bringing them to terms.
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While the government prepares
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for conflict with the Indians,
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nearly 700 miles away
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another battle is being fought.
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Jesse James has been on a crime spree
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across Missouri and Iowa...
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Come on. Let's go, let's go.
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fighting
for the Confederate cause
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by robbing the Northern railroads
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of their funds.
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- Thank you.
- In Chicago,
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famed private detective Allan Pinkerton
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is looking to put a stop to it.
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He orders an ambitious
agent named Joseph Whicher
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to travel to Missouri
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and track down the notorious outlaw.
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Once the Pinkertons get
on your trail, man,
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they're not gonna stop
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until you are done and out of business,
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one way or the other.
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Sir, may I trouble you for a moment?
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Chicago. You're a long way from home.
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There are wanted men in your area.
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Jesse and Frank James,
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they were spotted nearby recently.
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- Is that right?
- Have you seen them?
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Afraid I can't help you.
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Jesse and his brother are dangerous men.
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I can't help ya.
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I'm staying at Goodman's boardinghouse.
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If anything occurs to
you, I want to know.
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With no
help from the local law,
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Whicher needs another way
to learn Jesse's location.
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So he employs a tactic that
the Pinkertons had perfected...
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going undercover.
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A key to the
very long, successful career
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of Jesse James is unless
you grew up with him
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or unless you
fought with him in the war,
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no one knows what he looks like.
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All the authorities have
are some eyewitness descriptions
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which aren't very good.
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He can't really be identified.
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Good day, sir. How are ya?
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I wonder if you could help me out?
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I'm a little new to the area... I
was looking for the James farmhouse?
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It was very
dangerous for Joseph Whicher,
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this Northerner from Chicago,
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to go into Clay County where
Jesse had many friends
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and try to somehow sniff
out the James Gang.
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To ex-confederates
across Missouri,
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Jesse's fight against the
North has made him a hero,
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and they'll do anything to protect him.
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Pinkerton
agent, Joseph Whicher,
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is on the hunt for Jesse James,
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hoping to end the
outlaw's reign of terror
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against the North.
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Hey. Good day, ma'am. How are ya?
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Uh, my name is Henry. I'm looking for
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- the James farmhouse.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Do you know... yeah?
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After days of
searching with no luck,
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Whicher finally lands a lead...
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the location of the farmhouse
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belonging to Jesse's mother, Zerelda.
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Thank you so much, ma'am. You
have a good day. Thank you, thank you.
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Jesse's mother, Zerelda James,
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was outspoken, dominating.
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The neighbors referred to
her as "Captain Zerelda."
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There was a very, very strong bond
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between her and her children.
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Even the sheriff warned Joseph Whicher,
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"If the James boys don't shoot ya,
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Zerelda will shoot ya."
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Yes?
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Good day, ma'am. I'm Henry Johnson.
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I saw your crops were nearly ripe.
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I was wondering if
you need an extra hand
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for the harvest.
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Come on inside and let's talk.
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I remember the days when no
self-respecting white man
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would ever ask for farmwork.
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Times sure have changed.
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Yes... they have, ma'am.
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Archie, will you fetch
me the sugar, please?
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This is Archie, my youngest.
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Hello.
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Archie, say hello to Mr. Johnson.
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- Hello.
- Thank you, dear.
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- Sugar?
- Yes, please.
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Joseph Whicher had pale skin,
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he had soft hands.
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And he was going out to the James' farm
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as some guy looking for
work as a hired hand,
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and he just did not
fit that description.
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Are you any good with a hammer?
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I have a barn out
back that needs some work.
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Sure thing, ma'am.
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Right this way.
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Seems pretty straightforward.
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I hear
you've been looking for me.
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Which is funny because
I been lookin' for you.
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I just wanna talk.
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But we don't talk to Northern spies.
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Jesse
James and his brother Frank
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have just killed top Pinkerton agent
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Joseph Whicher.
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They kill him
for a couple of reasons.
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They don't want
anybody with any knowledge
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of what Jesse looks like,
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but he wants to send a message...
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"Don't send these
Northerners from Chicago
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to intimidate me and my family.
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Stay out of my turf."
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As Jesse
James claims another victory
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in his personal war against the North...
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nearly 1,000 miles away,
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the Lakota Sioux have
been given an ultimatum
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by the U.S. government...
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move onto a reservation immediately...
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or risk war.
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Lakota leaders Sitting
Bull and Crazy Horse
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defy President Grant's
order to move onto reservations,
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knowing full well that
they'll now be considered enemies
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of the United States Government.
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In reality, they all
wanted the same thing,
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to protect their women and children.
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We never wanted to fight anyone.
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But when the government got involved
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and the army came,
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then it just became a right or wrong.
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When President Grant learns
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of hostile Indians
refusing to move onto reservations,
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he has no choice but to take action.
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He orders General William T. Sherman
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to mobilize the U.S. Army in the West,
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preparing for an
attack on the bands of Indians
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led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
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But one man won't be leading
the charge this time.
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After announcing
gold in the Black Hills,
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George Armstrong Custer
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is barred from taking
part in the upcoming battle.
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Grant
eventually came to conclude
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that Custer thought more about himself
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and the image that he
cast than about the mission
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or about the broader
outline of policy he was pursuing.
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Eventually, Grant just
threw up his hands.
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"There's nothing I can do with Custer."
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Left out of the
campaign against the Indians,
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Custer begins to set his sights
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beyond his military career.
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It is a pleasure and
a privilege as usual.
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As Grant's
disastrous second term nears its end,
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Custer sees an opening
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to advance his own political ambitions.
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Using his celebrity,
Custer begins meeting
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with influential
politicians in Washington,
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forming powerful
alliances that could help him
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achieve his new goal
of becoming president.
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A decorated war veteran like myself
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might well be able to pull
off what you're planning.
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Custer had a
following all his own.
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Members of Congress would
invite him to come speak
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and Custer would talk, and
he would persuade them.
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In some ways, he had political clout
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that Grant and Sherman didn't.
286
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Now, they both outranked
him, but Custer had a following.
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But Custer is convinced
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that if he's going to
secure a presidential nomination,
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he's still missing one thing...
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another big military victory.
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You draw a picture of me?
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Look at that.
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Frank, come here.
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Look at this.
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Do you recognize that place?
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Hey, man, I believe that is to scale.
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That is perfect.
298
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Good job, little brother.
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After killing a top agent
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from the most powerful detective agency
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in the country,
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Jesse James and his brother Frank
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go back to life as usual.
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Uh-oh.
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Why am I frownin' and you smilin'?
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I guess that is pretty accurate.
307
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Thank you.
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For Allan Pinkerton,
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the brutal murder of his top agent
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has turned his hunt for Jesse James
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into a personal mission for revenge.
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Jesse James is a symbol
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of everything the
Pinkertons are against...
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lawlessness, unredeemed
Southern insurrectionism.
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If Jesse James was still out there
316
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as a symbol that you can
get away with this stuff,
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he had to be killed.
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If we can
get to this area here,
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the mother's farmhouse...
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they all live there together...
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we'll stage the final raid.
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As a
private enforcement agency,
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the Pinkertons are able to operate
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outside the limits of the law.
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Once everything's in place, we'll
drive them from the house
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with this... a fire bomb.
327
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A gift from an old Army
friend at the Rock Island Arsenal.
328
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We flush them out,
329
00:23:18,504 --> 00:23:21,706
and we take them down, all of them.
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Shoot to kill.
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In many
cases if you look back,
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a lot of people that
implemented law and order
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were, in some cases, just as bad
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as the criminal element themselves.
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We're gonna burn that damn house down.
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Wipe it from the face of the earth.
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Do I make myself clear?
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Yes, sir.
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That defining line
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between a lawman and a criminal,
341
00:23:52,138 --> 00:23:54,005
I think is much more blurred
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00:23:54,140 --> 00:23:56,741
in the times of the James Gang.
343
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A group of Pinkerton
agents surround the James family home
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after Jesse and Frank were spotted there
345
00:24:25,738 --> 00:24:27,972
earlier in the day.
346
00:24:29,676 --> 00:24:31,709
Pinkerton
knew that the James boys
347
00:24:31,844 --> 00:24:34,745
would at some point come to that house.
348
00:24:37,750 --> 00:24:40,785
He had men ready, at least eight to ten.
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00:24:40,887 --> 00:24:44,121
Whenever they learned that
Jesse and Frank were at that farm,
350
00:24:44,223 --> 00:24:46,190
he was gonna send those men in.
351
00:24:49,095 --> 00:24:51,128
What are we waitin' for?
352
00:24:53,299 --> 00:24:56,567
Allan Pinkerton plotted to bring about
353
00:24:56,703 --> 00:24:58,269
the demise of the James brothers.
354
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His instructions were not just to attack
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or kill or capture Jesse.
356
00:25:11,384 --> 00:25:14,352
His instructions were to
burn that house to the ground.
357
00:25:21,294 --> 00:25:22,626
Archie, get back!
358
00:25:52,784 --> 00:25:55,453
A late-night attack
359
00:25:55,588 --> 00:25:57,455
ordered by Detective Allan Pinkerton
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00:25:57,624 --> 00:26:01,526
has destroyed the family
farm of Jesse James.
361
00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:09,867
But the intended targets are miles away.
362
00:26:17,143 --> 00:26:20,311
All right, boys, I want to
go over this one more time.
363
00:26:21,948 --> 00:26:23,781
We're gonna start...
364
00:26:26,286 --> 00:26:28,352
Damn it, Frank.
365
00:26:28,488 --> 00:26:30,388
What the hell took you so long?
366
00:26:42,468 --> 00:26:45,102
Them Pinkertons came by Mama's.
367
00:26:47,540 --> 00:26:50,207
She's hurt.
368
00:26:53,446 --> 00:26:55,580
Archie's dead.
369
00:27:29,716 --> 00:27:31,682
The Pinkerton
men threw this fireball
370
00:27:31,818 --> 00:27:33,618
into the James family home.
371
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:34,952
It exploded.
372
00:27:35,088 --> 00:27:37,154
It rips off part of Zerelda's arm.
373
00:27:37,290 --> 00:27:40,958
It sends a fragment into the
stomach of little Archie,
374
00:27:41,094 --> 00:27:43,060
the half brother, who's
only eight years old.
375
00:27:43,196 --> 00:27:44,729
It's a mortal wound.
376
00:27:44,831 --> 00:27:46,897
Jesse James, who
really is already angry,
377
00:27:47,066 --> 00:27:49,066
he's angrier now at the Pinkertons,
378
00:27:49,202 --> 00:27:53,571
who he sees as representing
Northern tyranny and oppressors.
379
00:27:55,875 --> 00:28:00,645
So this gives Jesse even
more cause to seek revenge.
380
00:28:04,217 --> 00:28:07,752
Five hundred miles
away in the heart of the West,
381
00:28:07,854 --> 00:28:10,588
another conflict is escalating.
382
00:28:20,433 --> 00:28:22,867
Led by their chief, Sitting Bull,
383
00:28:22,969 --> 00:28:25,870
many Lakota have
defied President Grant's order
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00:28:26,005 --> 00:28:28,639
to report to a reservation.
385
00:28:31,144 --> 00:28:33,444
Sitting Bull knows Grant
will see his actions
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00:28:33,579 --> 00:28:36,313
as a declaration of war,
387
00:28:36,449 --> 00:28:39,684
so he begins
building a unified war party,
388
00:28:39,786 --> 00:28:42,887
gathering tribes from across the West.
389
00:28:46,626 --> 00:28:48,893
At first it
was individual tribes
390
00:28:48,995 --> 00:28:51,729
that were protecting
themselves against the government.
391
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,499
But, you know, at some point
392
00:28:55,635 --> 00:28:57,675
they figure out, "Okay, we
gotta work together now."
393
00:28:59,906 --> 00:29:01,872
Nearly 4,000 warriors
394
00:29:02,008 --> 00:29:04,975
from tribes like the
Cheyenne and the Arapaho
395
00:29:05,111 --> 00:29:08,813
flock from Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska,
396
00:29:08,948 --> 00:29:11,248
and the Wyoming Territory
397
00:29:11,350 --> 00:29:14,418
to band together at the
Little Bighorn River.
398
00:29:16,222 --> 00:29:18,189
It's the largest Indian force
399
00:29:18,324 --> 00:29:20,591
the U.S. Army has ever seen.
400
00:29:26,532 --> 00:29:30,134
Our reports indicate
that around 1,000 Indian lodges
401
00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:32,403
are based here.
402
00:29:32,505 --> 00:29:34,872
We deploy Custer 1,200 men
403
00:29:35,007 --> 00:29:36,674
to track down whatever remains
404
00:29:36,843 --> 00:29:39,076
of Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull's war party.
405
00:29:39,145 --> 00:29:41,045
And if necessary, wipe them out.
406
00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:43,581
Custer?
407
00:29:43,716 --> 00:29:47,718
He has proven that he can take
on these savages and win.
408
00:29:47,854 --> 00:29:49,954
He's our best option.
409
00:29:55,561 --> 00:29:58,562
Have Custer report to General
Terry at Bismarck.
410
00:30:04,170 --> 00:30:06,330
Grant thought
Custer was a complete hothead.
411
00:30:06,339 --> 00:30:07,772
He was a loose cannon.
412
00:30:07,907 --> 00:30:10,307
He wasn't the military
guy that Grant liked,
413
00:30:10,409 --> 00:30:12,376
which was somebody who
just followed orders.
414
00:30:12,512 --> 00:30:15,713
But there's this popular outcry
415
00:30:15,848 --> 00:30:18,048
to get Grant to reinstate Custer
416
00:30:18,217 --> 00:30:20,785
for the big push into the Black Hills.
417
00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:30,594
After months of
building his political connections,
418
00:30:30,730 --> 00:30:34,899
Custer is sent west to
the Montana Territory
419
00:30:35,034 --> 00:30:38,269
to lead a regiment against one
of the largest Indian war parties
420
00:30:38,404 --> 00:30:40,805
ever assembled in the U.S.,
421
00:30:40,907 --> 00:30:44,008
giving him the
opportunity that could carry him
422
00:30:44,110 --> 00:30:46,343
all the way to the White House.
423
00:30:49,448 --> 00:30:51,315
Custer was ambitious.
424
00:30:51,450 --> 00:30:53,551
He had great dreams, he
had the American dream.
425
00:30:53,686 --> 00:30:55,586
There's been talk that
Custer hoped to get
426
00:30:55,688 --> 00:30:59,123
the Democratic nomination for president.
427
00:30:59,225 --> 00:31:02,426
He needs a big victory
to win glory once again
428
00:31:02,562 --> 00:31:05,896
and, of course, move onward and upward.
429
00:31:29,098 --> 00:31:32,935
After a botched raid
has left his young brother dead,
430
00:31:33,070 --> 00:31:36,038
Jesse James has declared a personal war
431
00:31:36,173 --> 00:31:38,106
on the Pinkertons.
432
00:31:38,175 --> 00:31:40,409
Jesse James
sees the Pinkertons
433
00:31:40,511 --> 00:31:42,144
as, like, the ultimate evil...
434
00:31:42,246 --> 00:31:45,814
guys who are breaking constitutional law
435
00:31:45,950 --> 00:31:48,283
in the interest of big business.
436
00:31:57,461 --> 00:31:59,428
As news of the
raid on the James' home
437
00:31:59,530 --> 00:32:01,597
spreads throughout Missouri,
438
00:32:01,699 --> 00:32:05,067
one man sees an
opportunity to use the tragedy
439
00:32:05,169 --> 00:32:08,537
to rally the South
together for the Confederate cause.
440
00:32:10,374 --> 00:32:12,975
I want to run this front page tomorrow.
441
00:32:15,212 --> 00:32:17,112
"Men from Missouri...
442
00:32:19,550 --> 00:32:22,317
who fought under Anderson...
443
00:32:23,921 --> 00:32:26,021
it is not because of the robberies
444
00:32:26,156 --> 00:32:27,656
for which they are accused.
445
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,895
It is because, like you,
446
00:32:33,998 --> 00:32:37,399
they fought for the South.
447
00:32:37,534 --> 00:32:39,901
Newspaper
editor John Newman Edwards
448
00:32:40,037 --> 00:32:42,371
frames the story of Pinkerton's raid
449
00:32:42,539 --> 00:32:44,773
as a direct attack on the South
450
00:32:44,908 --> 00:32:46,775
by a Northern enemy.
451
00:32:46,944 --> 00:32:48,577
The Pinkerton raid
452
00:32:48,712 --> 00:32:52,447
turns all kinds of
sympathy to the James family.
453
00:32:52,583 --> 00:32:55,450
They already had a little
sympathy from Southerners.
454
00:32:55,586 --> 00:32:58,120
But now they see an eight-year-old
boy has been killed,
455
00:32:58,222 --> 00:33:00,555
a mother has lost her child,
456
00:33:00,691 --> 00:33:04,660
so the press, including John
Newman Edwards, have a field day
457
00:33:04,795 --> 00:33:08,296
over what this Chicago
private firm has done
458
00:33:08,432 --> 00:33:11,166
here in Clay County, Missouri.
459
00:33:11,301 --> 00:33:13,902
The articles
appeal to loyal southerners
460
00:33:14,071 --> 00:33:16,304
and support for Jesse
James and his cause
461
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,074
is at an all-time high.
462
00:33:19,243 --> 00:33:20,776
To show their support,
463
00:33:20,911 --> 00:33:23,679
Missouri residents give
Edwards and his newspaper
464
00:33:23,781 --> 00:33:27,449
the names of anyone who may
have aided the Pinkertons
465
00:33:27,584 --> 00:33:29,918
for him to print in his paper.
466
00:33:30,054 --> 00:33:33,989
And it isn't long before
Jesse tracks them down.
467
00:33:34,091 --> 00:33:37,092
One man who's
revealed to have helped Pinkerton
468
00:33:37,227 --> 00:33:39,695
was Daniel Askew.
469
00:33:39,830 --> 00:33:42,964
Pinkerton had a man
there acting as a hired hand
470
00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:46,334
keeping watch on the house.
471
00:33:46,470 --> 00:33:50,038
Daniel Askew makes the
mistake of not leaving Clay County.
472
00:34:04,955 --> 00:34:07,055
Can you fetch us some
water for the dishes?
473
00:34:28,278 --> 00:34:29,978
Daniel Askew.
474
00:34:34,051 --> 00:34:35,584
Do you know who I am?
475
00:34:38,021 --> 00:34:41,590
- Yes.
- That's good.
476
00:34:47,731 --> 00:34:50,365
That seems like a nice
family you got in there.
477
00:34:51,568 --> 00:34:52,701
Please.
478
00:34:54,638 --> 00:34:55,771
Please what?
479
00:34:58,242 --> 00:34:59,641
Whatever you do,
480
00:34:59,777 --> 00:35:04,412
just please don't hurt my family.
481
00:35:04,515 --> 00:35:07,048
That'd be...
482
00:35:07,184 --> 00:35:09,785
that'd be pretty low, wouldn't it,
483
00:35:09,887 --> 00:35:11,787
murder innocent women and children?
484
00:35:13,690 --> 00:35:16,892
Yeah, I don't know if I
could stoop to something like that.
485
00:35:17,027 --> 00:35:20,562
But I guess, uh...
486
00:35:20,697 --> 00:35:22,931
you're gonna have to take me at my word.
487
00:35:34,211 --> 00:35:35,977
No one is ever brought to trial
488
00:35:36,113 --> 00:35:38,880
for the murder of Jesse's half brother,
489
00:35:38,982 --> 00:35:41,449
which, again, gives Jesse a reason
490
00:35:41,552 --> 00:35:43,418
to seek his own justice.
491
00:35:46,857 --> 00:35:49,457
If the law is not gonna
bring these guys to justice,
492
00:35:49,593 --> 00:35:51,426
then Jesse's gonna do what he can.
493
00:36:08,111 --> 00:36:09,978
Five hundred miles away,
494
00:36:10,113 --> 00:36:12,080
Allan Pinkerton is
dealing with the fallout
495
00:36:12,249 --> 00:36:15,350
from his botched raid.
496
00:36:15,452 --> 00:36:18,386
It was Allan
Pinkerton's greatest defeat,
497
00:36:18,488 --> 00:36:20,021
his greatest humiliation.
498
00:36:21,458 --> 00:36:22,791
Pinkerton's reputation
499
00:36:22,893 --> 00:36:27,329
for relentless justice is ruined.
500
00:36:27,464 --> 00:36:29,865
And he's forced to back
away from the outlaw
501
00:36:29,967 --> 00:36:34,369
he's been pursuing for the past year,
502
00:36:34,471 --> 00:36:37,973
giving up on Jesse James for good.
503
00:37:00,281 --> 00:37:02,248
General, we found them.
504
00:37:03,385 --> 00:37:04,484
Where?
505
00:37:04,619 --> 00:37:07,053
Camped along Little Bighorn.
506
00:37:08,690 --> 00:37:09,989
Good job, soldier.
507
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:12,892
Hyah!
508
00:37:15,397 --> 00:37:18,731
In hopes of
securing a presidential nomination,
509
00:37:18,867 --> 00:37:21,834
George Armstrong Custer is on a mission
510
00:37:21,970 --> 00:37:26,773
to track down and
defeat a band of Sioux Indians.
511
00:37:26,908 --> 00:37:30,610
Custer's leading one of
three columns of U.S. troops
512
00:37:30,712 --> 00:37:33,446
heading toward
battle against Sitting Bull.
513
00:37:33,581 --> 00:37:36,215
The campaign on the
Northern Plains in 1876
514
00:37:36,317 --> 00:37:37,984
is one of the largest
515
00:37:38,086 --> 00:37:42,155
the army had ever engaged
in in the Indian Wars.
516
00:37:42,257 --> 00:37:44,123
Three great columns went forward...
517
00:37:44,259 --> 00:37:46,159
one coming up from the South,
518
00:37:46,227 --> 00:37:48,161
another coming out of Montana,
519
00:37:48,296 --> 00:37:49,695
and then Custer's column
520
00:37:49,831 --> 00:37:52,398
coming from Fort Abraham Lincoln.
521
00:37:54,335 --> 00:37:56,255
Together the battalions
make up a force
522
00:37:56,337 --> 00:37:59,205
of nearly 1,500 troops...
523
00:37:59,307 --> 00:38:01,007
with one goal in mind...
524
00:38:01,109 --> 00:38:03,876
to destroy Sitting Bull's army.
525
00:38:09,184 --> 00:38:11,818
But what the commanders don't realize
526
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,953
is that Lakota chief Sitting Bull
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has gathered nearly 4,000
Indian fighters...
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including the fearless
warrior Crazy Horse.
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After hearing reports that
the U.S. Army is closing in,
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Sitting Bull calls
together other Lakota leaders
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and tells them of a
powerful vision he's had.
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There's certain ceremonies
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where you go without food and water,
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sometimes for four days.
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During those times because of
what your body's going through,
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people call it a vision
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and because Sitting Bull is the chief,
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a medicine man, and a healer,
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his vision we all agreed
and honored and respected.
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He knew they were gonna win.
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That's a powerful thing to know,
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it's a powerful faith to have.
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Where can we cross the river?
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Down south here. Up here, further north.
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How many warriors?
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I've never seen a gathering this large.
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Sitting Bull's
tribe, Crazy Horse's, too.
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Also Arapaho, Cheyenne.
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Do they know we're here?
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I don't think so.
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One hour. Get the men ready.
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I will not let Sitting Bull
slip through my fingers.
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Yes, sir.
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Instead of
waiting for the remaining
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two columns of U.S. troops to arrive,
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Custer orders his regiment
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of just under 500 men to move out.
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He leaves all his
heavy artillery behind,
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determined to get all the glory
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for defeating Sitting
Bull and his warriors.
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Custer is
a very ambitious man.
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He thinks if he goes up
there, eliminates the Indians,
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the windfall of all that
gold comes into the economy,
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everybody sees him as a great hero
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who bailed out the federal government
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and now he can position himself
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to become the commander-in-chief.
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"President
Custer"... just think about that.
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As Custer rides out,
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the Indians prepare for battle,
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determined to fight for
their people's survival.
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They're
defending their territory,
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but they're also more immediately
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defending their families.
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They're trying to protect all of them
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from the United States.
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