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Brock's back from Salem says they ain't talking anything but war. Brock says they wanted him to join a committee of public safety.

Says he, what's this here committee supposed to do?

And says they, hunt down Tories and tar and feather them?

Says he, when it comes to fighting a war, Asa Brock will do it with a rifle gun in hand and not with a tar bucket and a feather bolster.

Your husband shows good sense.

Oh, I guess Aces alright.

He says we better get fixed to move into the fort for autumn.

Says he, that's when pesky varmints like best to do their raiding in Scopon.

Brock says the English is higher than Engines right and left to do their fighting for him.

Says he, they've been raiding up north already.

Passes the southern nations are friendly. They'll keep peace no matter what happens up north.

Friendly. You can't trust none of them red devils.

Dead, your boon was a man. Yes, a big man.

With an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was a man.

Dead, your boon was a man. Yes, a big man.

Can be fun for America to make all Americans free.

From the coons in cap, from the top of old man to the heel of his raw bite shoe.

The rindiness, the wariness, the fightiness, and the frontier ever knew.

What a boon, what a doer, what a dream come true, what a sweet one, what a dream come true or was he?

Hartman's

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No.

Oh, ma.

No.

No.

No.

Now then.

What's this?

What's that?

Sniff.

Phew!

I ain't the way an old raccoon feels about it.

To an old he raccoon, that's just about to find a smell he could hope to smell.

Paul, that's mommy's friends for a few.

Shh.

A raccoon might hear you.

They might hear you. Wait till my ears. You've been using her perfume as bait.

Israel.

You won't learn to be a good trapper, don't you?

Good.

Now what's the first thing you've got to learn?

How to be quiet.

And after you learn how to be quiet?

How's your mom going to know we've been using her French scent to trap raccoon?

One thing for sure they're not going to tell her.

Daddy!

The trouble with the cat might be a war party.

Who do you stay here with me?

Paul, wait for me!

Don't worry, Israel. We'll catch up.

Let me know if there's anything to catch up to.

You said still, Hilda.

So, we're now.

I don't know where they come from.

Like a bad dream they was.

Or painted and grinning like Satan himself.

Paul!

It's back up.

They took her, Paul. We tried to fight back.

They just come.

They just come right out of nowhere.

Who were they?

I don't know. Just engines.

Ugly as painted things they ever seen.

They didn't even bother with us. They just took Ma.

What happened?

Where's Ma?

Where's Ma?

She's gone.

As far as we know she ain't hurt.

But she's gone.

They took her.

You gotta get her back, Paul. You gotta.

We're going to leave any time down or you just give us the word.

I don't know who it was.

Daniel, they left no sign. Nothing.

Is it? You run down. You add and jake.

But you're most likely flying cliver in the mose over the legs.

Tell them he's at the fort.

Since the nanos none of you are going anyplace.

It's plain they were only after Becky.

Well, but then.

You'll stand peed in after she'll be the first one.

It's best I go alone.

Daniel, ten against one is long odds.

Ten against two makes more sense.

All right, Mingo.

The rest of you spread the word and keep your eyes open.

You'll be forgetting a rage all alone to Kentucky.

Daniel, I'd be proud to mind your youngings while you're gone.

But I want to go after you, Ma, with you.

Sure you would, son.

But your legs are a match short to keep up with me and Mingo.

And that means it'll take just that much longer to get you them all back.

You understand?

I'd get you a ride, Pa, only.

Only one.

Just bring her back, Pa. Please bring her back.

You mind what Miss Brock says?

Well, what are you just staring in there for?

Let's get this place cleaned up and put back together.

I'm afraid that'll only make it worse, Mr. Stoon.

That strong man couldn't break that high.

Oh, that doesn't mean I'm going to start trying your miserable pain at ease.

You're no Indian.

In the end of his nature, a man is all things, ma'am.

The color of his skin has little to do with it.

Allow me Captain William Butter of his majesty's loyal New York Rangers.

His majesty?

Since when does a loyal officer of the crown wear paint and buckskin instead of a uniform?

Circumstance decrees rank, ma'am. Not brass buttons and golden epilots.

And my Seneca's prefer their leaders to adopt their habits and dress.

This isn't Seneca Country.

On the contrary, where a Seneca walks is Seneca Country.

A very proud race.

You call it proud to wreck a cabin and steal a woman.

I consider it quite a feat.

To travel 200 miles through more or less hostile territory without detection.

And successfully take captive the wife of Daniel Boone.

Indeed ma'am. A most noteworthy feat.

All that distance just to take me? Why?

Your husband, Mrs. Boone, exercises considerable influence along the frontier.

With you in our hands, he might be persuaded to use that influence more judiciously.

When he catches up with you, Captain Butler,

Dan's more likely to use his influence to find you a nice quiet grave.

With you in my hands? Hardly, Mrs. Boone.

Noah, y'all, hou, hey. I'd advise you not to resist.

Against these graves, it would be futile and possibly fatal.

I get my hands on a gun. It's welding, say to'em.

Take your hands off of me, you're painted even.

I can walk over home.

A little more cheese for the trap, Mr. Boone.

I've never been to a medical medicine bag.

Long, long away from home.

They've never raided this far south before.

The Seneca may be many things, but they know fools, Daniel.

They never leave a trail this plain, unless they...

It's a trap and you know it.

I know it's a god-backy.

So this is Mrs. Daniel Boone.

As I promised, Gwynest-a-mon-coure, first-a-watch-here-out of the Seneca Nation.

I'm surprised. I thought Daniel had better judgment.

You know my husband?

I knew him. There's a difference.

Then he preferred his food well-seasoned, and his woman with flesh instead of bones.

Esther Moncure, I remember now Daniel did mention you.

Something about an overfed Indian woman with primitive manners.

Skin and bones and a shark tongue. Poor Daniel.

Y'all know how they...

I don't think any man will risk his life to rescue that.

When honor is lost, it is a relief to die.

That's what a sure retreat from the infamy.

He'll come Esther, if for no other reason his honor will force him to.

As usual, Captain, you're right. He's probably out there right now.

He'll come in soon, perhaps to try to rescue his woman, perhaps to try to ransom her.

But most certainly to try to kill the man that took her.

Fair warning, Captain.

At the end of the trail, Daniel.

You know whose village that is.

The totem of the turtle clan and the oachira the Seneca calls sacred.

Even the Cherokee know of Esther Moncure.

Yeah, I might have known Esther be behind this.

It's where mind works.

How do we go about changing our mind?

We don't.

These two ways you don't.

Esther's got at least 500 warriors in her clan.

Now Daniel, we've come this far together. We'll go back together.

Y'all are different, Mango.

Somebody's got to get back and warn the settlers in Kentucky.

So getting Rebecca back is my job.

You better get started.

It'll be dark soon.

That'll be your best chance.

Happiness, a long life.

And the success of our plans.

And all the emphasis on the latter.

Correct, Captain Butler.

I would take to match swords with you, Esther.

You have a disconcerting way of getting directly to the point.

Every mind has its choice. Truth or peace.

Then to truth.

The success of our plans.

Be so woke.

Boom.

My bead like to tell you that a man was six inches of steel at his back can be some uncomfortable.

How did you get past my warriors?

A little tippy towing.

A little meat for the pot, Esther.

I always did hate people who dropped in unexpected with a handful of grabs and a mouth full of thank yous and precious little elves.

Unexpected. Not you, Daniel. I should have known better.

A chisney atate.

Rangers uniform. Candles.

All it's like in his 30 pieces of silver and a picture of old King George.

Allow me. Daniel, this is William Butler of Schoheri.

Oh, I know the Schoheri butlers.

They like to put on war paint and take scalps with the Mohawks.

And kidnap women. White women.

Why my woman, Butler?

Experience, everyone. Nothing personal, of course.

I'm listening.

White Johnston has called a most important council of all the tribes at Sandusky.

The southern nations are sending their chiefs.

We want you to attend and urge them to accept war belts from the royal commissioners.

Why me?

Simple.

Because they'll listen to you.

No other white man has your prestige among the tribes.

Why should I help the tribes against my own people?

Because we hold your wife, Mr. Boone.

We?

How do you come into this, Esther?

Well, aren't we all his majesty's most loyal and faithful allies?

Would you like a drink, Daniel?

Looks like I'm going to need it.

I take it that if I go along, Rebecca will be sent to Kentucky.

Not exactly.

Your wife will be taken to Quebec and held as an honored hostage

against your future behavior.

If I decide not to go along...

Then one of my new warriors will get a new wife.

A white one.

Well, heaven helped the buck to guess her.

Rebecca's got a terrible temper.

Thanks for the drink.

You mean you refuse our offer?

Great soul, bummer.

Don't worry about it. It was a good try.

You may have done me a favor.

I'm sorry.

That's not anything.

You didn't really think I'd let you walk out of my village, did you, Daniel?

Nope.

You just thought I'd give it a try?

You always did have a streak of the cat amount in you, Daniel.

A most untrustworthy characteristic.

That, your ability to bluff right into sunshine.

But this time your bluff won't work.

You're going to have to prove your words.

There's your woman, Daniel. It's not just she is.

Tell her what you told us, if you can.

What tastes your car?

I don't know what you're saying, but if it's what I think it is,

you pick them up yourself.

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

I don't know what you're saying.

I don't know what you're saying, I don't know.

Oh, get your dummy hands off of me!

I told you, Rebecca has a terrible temper.

Well, it's about time you showed up.

Yes, sir. She might be a little on the skinny side, but she's as tough as wine leather.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

This is as tough as wine leather.

Wouldn't surprise me to see her end up boss of the whole roost.

What are you talking about?

And she's a good worker.

Or a passable cook, too.

Daniel!

What he's saying, dear, is that he has absolutely no intention of removing you from Seneca Hospitality.

Tell her, Dan, tell her you're taking me home.

I don't know.

Well, I just asking too much, Becky. You're just not worth the price.

It's like I said, dear.

Daniel's taste runs to finer things.

Go noir hondo.

Oh, Daniel, wait till I get you home.

Very convincing, Daniel.

But not so convincing that my warriors

are going to turn their backs on you.

Try to escape with her.

Try to escape to where, Esther.

You expect me to outrun your Seneca bucks

for 200 miles with a woman to hold me back?

If she means so little to you,

why did you bother to come after her?

Because she's my woman,

and you took her.

And what's more, you tore up my cabin.

A man's got to protect his property, right, Stony?

Then that's how she means to you, property.

I'll ask any reasonable ransom when I'll pay it.

But like I said, your price is way too high.

There'll be no bargaining, boo.

The price stands as quoted.

Tomorrow I turn your wife over to the women for purification.

You still have time to change your mind about that, Lizzo.

Time won't change my mind, Esther.

Something else might.

It's one of your own Seneca laws.

A man loses a woman.

He has a right to claim another.

No man mocks me, Daniel Boone.

Be very, very careful.

It's one of your own laws.

And you are a single.

And you are the biggest liar in a country that breeds nothing but liars.

True.

But this time you aren't sure, are you?

What makes you think I'd consider a white man?

Any white man?

Why not? You're half white.

I'm Queen Esther.

First I would chair of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation.

Your Esther Mancour, and you were raised as a white woman

by your father in Quebec.

Look at your longhouse, Esther.

Outside is pure Indian.

Inside it's as white as an Albany merchant's townhouse.

I hate all white men.

Why are you doing business with Butler and the British?

Because they have promised that when the rebellion is put down,

no white man will be allowed west of the Alleganies.

We'll have our land back.

We'll build an Indian nation strong enough to keep even the British out

if they go back on their word.

You believe that?

I've got to.

If life is to have any meaning for me at all,

it isn't easy to live on the edge of two worlds.

Trouble is, I don't think you're sure you settled for the right one.

Might be, I can help you make up your mind.

Daniel.

Don't make a fool of me.

No one can make a fool of you, Esther.

Come on, Butler.

Been expecting you.

The story's about you.

Don't really do justice for me.

Any man who can do it,

will be a good one.

No one can make a fool of you, Esther.

Come on, Butler.

Been expecting you.

The story's about you.

Don't really do justice for me.

Don't really do justice for me.

Any man who can fool Esther Monquor has to be an agent.

But I don't fool you.

Well, let's just say we understand each other.

Now, what is it you really want?

500 centa-co warriors.

I see.

You're meddling in dangerous matters, Borne.

You're the one who's born of taking risk, Captain.

Take you, for example.

You take risk as a soldier of wine.

Loyalty to the king.

Not the William Butler I've heard of.

He wouldn't risk getting shot or worse for a handful of empty words,

a few empty titles.

Well, naturally, they will be honest and preferments when the rebellion is put down.

The crown is not ungrateful to loyal subjects.

How grateful?

Money? Land?

A thousand acres of rich butthland when the war is over.

That makes good sense.

And how grateful would the crown be for 500 centa-co warriors?

What are you suggesting?

Esther Monquor controls 500 centa-co warriors.

And I've got a hunch I might end up controlling Esther.

How would you like 500 centa-co braves against you instead of for you?

They're on the market, Captain.

Make your bed.

I'll, uh, have to think about that.

Think hard and fast, Butler.

I'm not a patient man.

Only one thing missing.

What's that?

Throwned for the queen.

Do you like it?

All I can say is that any woman in Kentucky would give her a right arm for one like it.

If I'm to be quoted, I felt I should dress for the occasion.

A chisnea tete.

Listen, I rustle.

I'd forgotten how lovely it feels to rustle when I move.

And I'd be you forgotten how it feels to be a lady.

Could I be a lady?

A fine lady?

An acceptable lady?

Could I go to a barlin' and not hear whispers about presumptuous half-breed savages?

You're already a queen, Esther.

Being a lady is almost the same thing.

Daniel, could you kiss such a lady?

My regrets for the intrusion, Esther. I didn't know you were engaged.

Come on in, Captain. Join the party.

For this occasion, only my best medera would do.

Perhaps a toast is an owner, Boone. My compliments.

You are quick to seize your opportunities.

Like I said, I'm not a patient man.

What is that supposed to mean?

I was merely congratulating Boone on being captive to so beautiful a captor.

Well, Captain, perhaps the roles are we best.

Perhaps it is I who am the captain.

To Queen Esther and her new consort.

You are a good one.

You are a good one.

There wasn't any other way I had to make them think I didn't care.

Believe me, there wasn't any other way.

Were you gonna take?

Get that up and you can tell them yourself.

It's the first chance I've had to reach you.

Oh, dear.

I knew it had to be alive.

I knew you had to be pretending.

It was just that woman.

Oh, Dan, get us out of here.

I don't care how hopeless it is, just get us home.

We might make it.

Wouldn't be easy, but we just might make it.

Well, then, what is it?

Esther's joined up with the British.

She has 500 warriors behind her.

A war party that size could wipe out every settlement from Fort Pitt to the Georgia grants.

What could you do?

I've known Esther for a long time.

Since the French Wars.

She likes me, and not as much as she likes any white man.

I've been playing up to her.

Who do you mean you?

Well, I mean, whatever it takes to change your mind about the British.

Are you telling me or asking my permission?

Well, it's more than that.

Esther's turning you over to the old woman tomorrow for purification.

You'll make a Seneca woman out of you so you can marry one of their men.

It isn't pleasant, Becky.

It'll last three days.

But in that time, I think I'll be able to find a way to break up Esther's British alliance.

And you want me to give you those three days?

What do you think of?

About Israel and Maima.

I'll offer little B for them if things go wrong and they have to grow up without us.

And I'm thinking about all those other families on the border.

Where cabins are built, land cleared, children.

And I'm thinking if we have a chance to get away, we should go right now for Israel and Maima's fate.

And I'm thinking about 500 hated savages, turn loose on all those other families.

I guess we have to stay.

Good day, and I'm afraid.

So terribly afraid.

This must be delivered to Colonel Sergai Johnston at Niagara.

I must have his reply no later than tomorrow night.

Tell him that.

The 30 pieces of silver you asked for, Boone.

But I vow you'll never live to enjoy.

I'll never live to.

I'll never live to.

I'll never live to.

I'll never live to.

I'll never live to.

I'll never live to.

I'll never live to.

Are you sure she means nothing to you?

I don't like to see anyone suffering.

I'm glad you said that.

I would not like you to lie to me.

The whole world is full of lies.

You can't help telling some.

You can't help believing some.

For a man without a car in the world, you seem to be carrying quite a load.

You've got anything to say, Seth?

Not I, Boone.

Superintendent of Indian Affairs just got back by messenger for Niagara.

He's made a generous offer, a most generous offer for your services.

King's Commission with rank and pay of Captain Ranges.

What else?

Honors, deferments, and titles appropriate to your rank when the rebellion is crushed.

Meaning land.

Every loyalist will receive a land grant when the war is over.

Where is his majesty going to get all this land?

There's not that much fertile land in the whole thirteen colonies.

The king's grants extend to the Mississippi River.

And send you in land.

Do you suppose the British lion will permit a few paltry savages to stand in the way of just rewards for honest people?

Honest people.

I suppose it's all in how you look at it.

Do you accept the offer?

Your fool not to under the circumstances.

Then I suggest you press on and you're a courting investor.

We should all feel more comfortable when the loyalty of her five hundred warriors is assured.

I was just thinking the same thing.

What the devil does sir guy mean by that kind of offer?

What does he expect to get the land?

All the land west of the mountains clear to the Mississippi.

That land belongs to us.

I mentioned that to Captain Butler and he said he didn't suppose the British lion would let a few paltry savages stand in the way of the just rewards for honest people.

His words Esther not mine.

You sent for me?

What's the meaning of this Butler?

What about it?

It merely offers a commission in the royal service to Mr. Boone.

And the land. The ten thousand acres that go along with such a commission where were you going to get the land?

We will naturally appropriate lands belonging to rebels against the king.

The rebels aren't holding that much land.

Perhaps you were going to take it from a few paltry savages west of the mountains.

Your words Mr. Butler deny them if you can.

I can't deny them, I do. I never said such a thing. Whoever told you otherwise is the liar, not I.

Boone?

Which of us do you want to believe Esther?

Esther don't you see what he's doing?

What he's been doing all along. Pretending not to care what happens to his wife. Pretending to court you.

And all the time trying to divide you from your loyalty and allegiance to the crown.

Tell him that he lies.

I can't do that. It's true.

One wife is all I need or want.

Why did you like to me?

To save my friends from your cynicus and to keep you out of a war that's none of your concern.

That's the truth.

You have to decide for yourself, whichever is the liar.

No. I won't decide. You will.

You both will. With your lives.

Why, Tisai.

Daniel.

For a man who faces what you face tomorrow, you sleep well.

I'm going to need all the strength I can get.

Yes, you will.

What do you plan, Esther?

You and Butler will run a race. A race for your lives.

Daniel, why did you do it?

Save my wife. Save my friends. Including you.

Friend. Like all white men.

I learned a long time ago in Quebec.

All of the flying young men.

I gave my heart to them.

And in one night I heard two of them talking about me.

Mancour's half-breed daughter. Mancour's savage.

That's what they called me.

And they laughed.

How they laughed.

I have put men to death for less than that.

I've sent them into fire.

But nothing I have ever done to them.

Was half as cruel as the life to those young white men.

And now you have made a full of me too.

And I have come to hear your life too.

Who wasn't that way with us?

And you didn't come to hear me laugh.

You came to hear what isn't true.

No matter what you plan tomorrow, it's important for you to know that.

I was thinking of you.

As well as my family and my people.

And your people.

You're taking them into a war with a king who carries nothing about you.

And who's already planning to rob you as soon as the fighting's ended.

And what difference does it make?

Everyone lies to us.

We're a dying people.

We started to die when the first white man came into our country.

But I promise you this.

We will not die easily.

I know that.

In the end you'll be wiped out.

I'm not a root and branch.

My woman and child.

The world will never even know there was a cynic in nation.

And that isn't being brave, Esther.

It's the cowardice of despair.

It takes more courage to live at peace.

And to die fighting someone else's war.

My warriors will not go to war as a king.

As for the rest.

We'll see what happens tomorrow.

For you are most special entertainment.

The oldest of the cynica games. The race for life.

When the first gun is fired, you will start running the course marked by the lances around the first of life.

Try and leave the course. And you will die.

When the second gun is fired, the best of my runners will follow after you.

They will try to overtake you and kill you. But they must run the same course.

That's why we call it a game.

If they fail and if you survive the course and return here, you will then entertain us with the knives and tomhocks.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

The game will end when one or the other is dead.

Daniel, take your woman and go.

Fortune seems blind to those upon whom she bestows no favors.

Count your blessings, Rebecca Bow.

I almost feel sorry for her.

She's a queen, Becky. Whatever else you might be, she's still a queen.

We better get out of here before she remembers she's a woman.

Here is your witness.

He bought some at a grocery shop grocer.

You'll be happy for two weeks.

You'll have to sleep sometime.

Up you go.

Up you go.

Oh, Lord, it's a miracle.

I knew Polly would bring you back.

I was even going to fetch you myself.

Becky, I have to hold you over my knee.

I'm walking in here and all fit out like some savage.

What are you doing in them even skins?

This? Oh, this is my wedding dress.

Wedding?

Well, you don't think I'd go through those cynic of purification rights for any other reason, do you?

Oh, and your father was going to give me away, weren't you?

Give you away.

You explain it.

Huh?

Time for bed.

Well, the cynicists had Becky and they decided that she should get married and I decided to go along with them.

Well, I mean, there wasn't any other way to go about it.

Rebecca, come back. Becky.

It's nice to have you with us, Miss Brock.

Yes, Miss Brock.

Daniel Moom was a man, he's a big man, with an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was he.

From the goons in cap of the talkable land to the deal of his raw hide shoe,

the ripman is corn, his fight, and his plan, the frontier ever knew.

Daniel Moom was a man, he's a big man, and he fought for America to make all Americans free.

What a boom, what a doer, what a dream come a truer, what a boom, what a dream come a truer, what a she.