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Some people hear their own inner voices

with great clearness

and they live by what they hear

Such people become crazy

or they become legend

Tristan Ludlow was born in the Moon of the Falling Leaves

It was a terrible winter

His mother almost died bringing him into this world

His father, the Colonel, brought him to me

I wrapped him in a bearskin and held him all that night

As he grew into a man

I taught him the great joy of the kill

when the hunter cuts out its warm heart

and holds it in his hands

setting its spirit free

Colonel Ludlow had three sons

but Tristan was his favorite

I had had sons too

But they were gone now

forever

It was a very bad time

The Colonel had tried to help the People

The Colonel had tried to help the People

but it was no use

So he decided to go his own way

He wanted to lose the madness over the mountains, he said

and begin again

"Lose the madness, '"he said

And so we lived for many years

and the boys grew strong

Alfred was the older brother

old even for his years

Samuel was the youngest

There was nothing these brothers would not do for him

They watched over him like a treasure

One year...

I am an old man and cannot remember the year

But it was the Moon of the Red Grass

when Isabel Ludlow, their mother

went away for the winter

She said the winters were too cruel for her

She said she was afraid of the bears

She was a strange woman anyway

That spring, though, she did not return

And, after that, she did not come much to see us

Alfred wrote her many letters

but Tristan refused to speak of her

His world was here with me

Every warrior hopes a good death will find him

but Tristan couldn't wait

He went looking for his

Tristan!

Here

- Was it a bear? - Yes, sir

- Was it a bear? - Yes, sir

- Can you breathe? - Yes

Take your hand away Take it away

You're a stupid, half-brained jackass

- Yes, sir - One Stab put you up to this?

You deserve to be dead

God knows how you've lived so long

It'll be all right, son

I have these letters

many letters

Read them

They are from all of them

Ludlow

Isabel

Samuel

the whole family

the whole story

It is all written here

April 13, 1913

Dear Isabel:

I am not fool enough to try to reorder a life already lived

but I fear I have not done well raising our sons alone in this wild place

What did I know of children?

I was trained to lead men

This is infinitely harder

Dear William:

You take too much responsibility on yourself, as always

Our sons are finding their own paths

They are willful, certainly, but then

who are you and I to complain of willfulness?

As for Samuel, I have big news

At a Harvard tea for Amy Lowell

he met and instantly loved Miss Susannah Finncannon

I know it will surprise you greatly

but they are engaged

He will bring her to Montana this summer to meet his brothers

and you

So, William, please behave yourself

and be as charming as only you can be

There he is

- How the hell are you? - Good And you?

- Samuel Good to see you, boy - Father, how are you?

- Good to see you - Hello

This is my fiancée, Susannah

- Hello - Miss Finncannon

- Nice to meet you - It's an honor

- This is Alfred - How do you do?

- Here's your dog, miss - Thank you

- It's a horse - That's a strange-looking animal

This is Finn He's a champion

You like exotic-looking dogs then, Miss Finncannon?

Very much, Mr. Ludlow

- Please call me Susannah - All right

- He's just plain old Alfred - Shut up

- Where's Tristan? - He's off somewhere You know him

He'll welcome you home tonight or I'll know the reason why

Miss Finncannon, please Did you have a good journey?

She is such a lovely creature

But I fear the loss of her parents

has given her a certain fragility

I think she feels very alone in the world

But she has found a new family now, hasn't she?

The German military is ready to use chaos in Croatia

as a justification for actions that could plunge the entire civilized world into...

The word "civilized" has no place in discussing the affairs of this world

Mother told us of your sympathy for the social reformers

You make it sound like a disease

No, I'm in agreement

You mother told me all about One Stab She says he was a great warrior

Yes

He has a bag of scalps to prove it

But don't worry

He's devoted to Father now

Rather, they're devoted to each other

Can he speak English?

Stab, speak English?

He wouldn't lower himself to speak English

But watch out because he understands it perfectly well

There's Tristan

- Don't they feed you? - Not much

- You smell - Miss me, did you?

- Still hung over? - Still drunk

Isn't she amazing?

So this is Tristan

And does he speak English?

For God's sake

Miss Finncannon, it's a pleasure to meet you

I hope you and Ugly here

find every happiness together

Don't mind my brother Your dog has more breeding than he has

This is Mother's room

It's lovely

- It's a pleasure to meet you, Pet - And you, miss

Thank you

- Which one? - It's this one

Angelica Susannah

Hello

You must be Isabel Two

I've already met your mother and father

- How old are you? - Thirteen

When I was 13, I was sent away

to boarding school

I hated it

May I help you?

You're going to marry Samuel

That's right, I am

I'm going to marry Tristan

We'll be sisters

I see you two have met

Isabel Two is letting me help

Would you like a rest? You must be exhausted

No, not at all This is so refreshing

all this grandeur, this unexpected

gift from God

It doesn't seem like much of a gift in a hard winter, I assure you

Where's Samuel?

Inside I could tell your father wanted him all to himself

- You're very generous - No, just happy

Stop mooning over her and come in here

Samuel wants to know about those calves from Cheyenne

Get in here

Please excuse my father

It makes him feel young and powerful to treat us like we're idiot children

For all His countless blessings, may God's holy name be praised Amen

Tell Father what you were saying about Vienna

- What's that? - It's the Kaiser

He won't stop them from annihilating Serbia

Let's not talk about war, please

Susannah hears that England's mobilizing

We're stuck out here while all this is going on

- Thank God - You wouldn't want us to evade a duty

- Wouldn't I? - Father, with respect...

Please excuse me for being late

I packed so carefully, I couldn't find anything

Thank you

Would you like some...

As evening fell a maiden stood

At the edge of a wood

In her hands lay the reins

Of a stallion

And n'er I'd seen

A girl as fair

Heard a gentler voice anywhere

Whispered, alas

She belonged

Belonged to another

Another, forever

Yes, she belonged to

The twilight and mist

Dear Isabel:

How strange to have a cultivated woman in the house again

and how intoxicating

To have all three of my sons under my roof again

fills me with such a deep, quiet satisfaction

that I thank God

There's a friend of yours

A dollar says he brings her back

Whoa

Easy

You got it

Nice work

You guys look like ice cream cones

I know you would have

Ready Here we go

Go easy on him, Susannah

Alfred, you take over

I must talk to Tristan

You've disgraced the Colonel's name

- Nice shiner - I hit her back

She's got me spinning

She's got me spinning

I'll bet

She's got these ideas and theories, and she's so...

What?

Nothing How'd you break the mare?

She's what?

She's sort of passionate

- She a virgin? - Good Lord, Tristan

- You brought it up - Of course she is

Are you?

- Yes, I am - Going to wait till you're married?

See, she says...

Susannah thinks that...

We're not gonna wait

And you're afraid you won't meet her expectations?

I guess I am

Sort of I don't know Should I be?

Samuel, God bless you

You are good at everything you try

I'm sure it will be the same with fucking

Tristan, really

- She's my future wife - You're not going to fuck her?

I'm planning to be with her

I recommend fucking

- You're impossible - You brought it up

My point!

Good morning, Colonel Ludlow

Tristan's hunting He didn't do it

You don't have to worry about Tristan

Meet John T and James O'Banion They own the mercantile store

- Morning, James, John T, Sheriff - Morning, Alfred

We're looking for a man we heard might be in this part of the country

Name is Tom Cullen Here's a likeness

What did this fella do?

Do you recognize him?

- Yeah, I recognize him - We got him

This fellow passed by here

maybe four or five years ago

Did some work here on his way to San Francisco

He was hoping to book passage to Australia

Or Hong Kong I can't remember

- Can you remember? - Hong Kong

- What is he wanted for? - He...

That would be of a private nature

"Private nature"? It's a public office you hold, Sheriff

Gentlemen

"There came a low hiss, a horrid sound

that made Rikki Tikki Tavi jump back two clear feet

And then out of the grass

rose up the head and spread hood of Nag

the big black cobra"

I can read another story

The Germans broke through at Armentieres

The British are trapped in the Belgian lowlands

- This paper is a week old! - Calm down

With my fluent German, I could become an officer

And lead other boys to the slaughter and be slaughtered yourself

The men who served under you worshipped you

They were all damn fools

This is a turning point in history

- How can we... - What?

You can't expect us not to be part of this

- You taught us... - To think for yourselves

- And to defend what's ours - Yes, what is ours!

We've already lost two cousins

Who we've never met! Don't talk at me as though I've never seen a war!

Not a war like this

They said that about the War of Secession and the Indian wars

They say it to sell newspapers

These are not the Indian wars We're fighting against naked aggression!

There will be no more talk of wars in this house! Damn it!

I'm sorry, Susannah

I'm going to Canada to enlist

I'm going with him

I'm sorry, my love

I meant to speak to you tonight

I know you'll understand It's the only honorable thing to do

What's that?

It's a book my father wrote

to try to convince the government to alter their policies

towards the Indians in the Dakotas

Samuel won't change his mind

Change it for him

What happened between them?

Father says she never liked it here

I think they loved mostly the idea of each other

Don't let him go

I'll take care of him

October 14, 1914

My dear Isabel:

Today our sons are leaving home

to defend an England they have never seen

I am unable to stop them

I have tried to shelter our sons from all the madness

and now they go to seek it

Be careful

You don't have to go

Good-bye

Don't worry, Father

Take care

I'll bring you the Kaiser's helmet

Bring yourself back That would please me more

Yes, sir

- Take care of Samuel - I will

Colonel Ludlow told me:

"Ride with them to Calgary

Bring back the horses '"

"Damn fools, '"he called them

The Colonel would not have his sons

ride off to war on old nags

damn fools or not

Let's join them

Bring your plate

He'll be back

May we join you? Sit down

Feeling lonely in there

Sit here

What's her name, Two?

Lady Tristan's Lady

In the story, Tristan's lady was Isolde

- Do you know who Isolde was? - No

Your daughter needs an education

She can read and write, Colonel School might be awkward for her

- I'll teach her myself - May I help?

Yeah I'll teach her history and mathematics

With your permission, Decker, and yours, Pet

What do you think?

What will she do with all this education?

She'll live a richer, fuller life, of course

She's a half-breed

Not in this house

- Tristan calls me a half-breed - Tristan calls you a half-breed?

He says I'm half gopher and half hawk

- After her chores - Yeah

- To us all - To you, sir

- And miss - And to the boys

And the boys

Get back to your unit

Those boys are boring

I'd rather have you watching my back

Now, mate

February 3, 1915

Dear Susannah:

The horror of this place is indescribable

Nothing is as I thought it would be

Keep your distance! Keep your spacing!

Tonight, as I prayed for the souls of those who've died so terribly

yet so bravely

I admit that I also prayed for personal glory

Is that wrong to want to distinguish myself gloriously

in combat as my father did?

Tristan and Alfred watch over me so carefully

I may never get the opportunity

Charge!

Alfred! Are you all right?

Goddamn it!

- Are you hit? - It's just a scratch

Susannah, I see now

not that my father was right, but that I was naive

- Let me up, damn it! - Stay down!

Fall back!

Still, we place our bodies in God's keeping

We go into battle honorably

full of confidence

with His name on our lips

- We're pinned here - We'll wait

- Give him a hand - Help him down

Goddamn

Susannah: I try to guard against despair

but there are moments when it seems that all human decency is broken down

Alfred will recover from his wounds

but he and Tristan seem to have drifted apart, or worse

I cannot understand it

I miss you more than you can imagine

You are all that is clean and cool and pure

I close my eyes and fix my thoughts on you

I now regret that we listened to everyone and agreed to wait to marry

Even more, I regret that I left before we could be together

as we planned, my beloved

Please stay on at the ranch and wait for me

Don't let Father worry

I know God's mercy will protect me

aided considerably by Tristan

who seems to be in France less to fight the Germans

than to act as a nursemaid to me

Be well, my love

Your own, Samuel

Captain needs me to translate this before tonight's reconnaissance

- Alfred will want to see you - I'll be there

- Yeah? - Go on

Where's Samuel?

He's translating He'll be here

Boy, that's a good one

- Vino? - Put that away

- They said you'll get a medal - Yes

- They're sending me home - I'm glad for you

I'm an officer I belong with my men

Horseshit

What's left of them

MacKenzie was just brought in His leg's turned bad

- He said... - What?

- He said... - What?

What is it?

He said your brother volunteered to take his place

on the reconnaissance with the Capitan

Goddamn it! I told you to stay with him!

- I'm here! - Where? I can't see

I can't move!

I'm coming!

I got you now

I got you You're doing good

We're going home

God, no!

Goddamn you, God!

Tristan, it's me

March 20, 1915

Dear Father and Susannah:

I am being discharged from the Army, but I cannot come home yet

I will write to Grandfather Ludlow in Cornwall

and ask him to let me join him and go to sea

As for our beloved Samuel

all I can send home is his heart

Alfred will bring it back

He should be buried up in the box canyon

where he used to draw the birds

Your son, Tristan

He certainly was the best of all of us, wasn't he?

He certainly was the best of all of us, wasn't he?

Good night

What you saw before Samuel left...

Please, don't...

No, I want to

It is Samuel I loved

All right

Tristan will be back someday

Your father will be pleased

Susannah was to return to Boston on the morning train

but a norther blew for three days

and drifted over the tracks

The Colonel insisted she stay on until spring

The house was too empty, he said

This was still her home, he told her

He should have let her go

But how could he have known what would happen?

She was not to blame

She was like the water that freezes in the rock

and splits it apart

It was no more her fault than it is the fault of the water

when the rock shatters

You know how much l...

You know how much I loved Samuel

And I think you know...

Out of respect for him, I wanted to say it in this place

I think you know that

I'm in love with you

From the first moment I saw you

like in a novel

That's my mother's overblown romantic imagination coming out in me

You're not making this very easy for me

Sorry

Is there any hope that you could learn to love me?

Not the way you love Samuel, of course

but enough to...

We could make a life together

A happy life

I don't think so

Sounds like you're not sure, though Maybe there's a chance?

- What? - I can only cause you pain, Alfred

Why don't you let me be the judge of that?

I didn't break it, but I can fix it

I can put the damn wheel back on and take it off myself

Go take a nap

- What? - Look!

I'm going into town if...

Welcome home, son

I couldn't save him

Of course you couldn't

It's all right

Have a nice ride today?

Excuse me, Father

Tristan, please

When are you planning to be married?

Good morning

Damn you

You will marry her

- Make an honest woman of her? - Yes!

God damn you to hell

Yes, I will marry her, if she'll have me

If she'll have you?

Do you love her?

Or did you seduce her just to spite me?

That's not what I did

- What about Samuel? - What?

You tell me about Samuel

We all loved Samuel Samuel is dead What?

How convenient for you

Because you love her, I will forgive you for that

Once You say that again, and we're not brothers

Once!

You know you can't make her happy

I'm gonna try

You will fail

I'll be leaving today

I wish you both all the best

- Good-bye, son - Wish me luck

Good luck

September 7, 1915

Dearest Mother:

I think I may have found my place in this world

Helena is a city turned modern overnight

bursting with all the energy and vitality

of our times

I feel alive here

There is much opportunity for anyone

willing to dedicate himself to his labors

Already, I have acquired a reputation for honesty and fair dealing

and I am pleased to call some of Helena's most influential citizens

my friends

They are determined to see this city grow, as am I

We're proud of you

Mother, thank you for your kind letter

You knew my hopes

That you understand my disappointment is a great comfort to me

Every night I pray for the grace to forgive Tristan

I know you understand

Your loving son, Alfred

Quit it!

Quit it!

Goddamn it!

If we have a boy, I'd like to call him Samuel

And if it's a girl, Isabel

I'll still love you

You'll tolerate me because of how much I love you

Nothing

I heard from your mother

She says Alfred has hooked up with those damn O'Banion brothers

- He's doing well - Alfred's gonna do well wherever he is

- Except here with us - That's my fault

- I didn't say that - Couldn't save Samuel either, could I?

Don't you dare say that That was in God's hands

Was it?

Colonel! Lost a couple calves near Camas Canyon

- Might be a grizzly - My grizzly?

- You take him, Tristan - Damn right I will

I don't know why Tristan did not kill that damn old bear

The Old Ones say:

"When a man and an animal

have spilled each other's blood

they become one '"

I said four beers, Mr. Sachtleben

I said four beers, Mr. Sachtleben

And I said no Indians

- He's quite civilized, I assure you - Yeah?

- Give him a beer - Stay out of it

- My father said four - He heard me

We're about to reach an understanding

Just give him a goddamn beer!

Stay out of it!

Damn you You're a damn fool

You're spoiling for a fight with a man who outweighs you

As we speak, he's searching for some kind of a weapon

Isn't that right?

To split your stupid skull and kill you and good riddance

Leave it!

- Yes, sir? - I want four beers, now

The lousy owner says he doesn't want to serve Indians

Get back

Do you see this man?

Do you? His name is One Stab

He's a venerated elder of the Cree and has counted coup on hundreds of his enemies

He is our friend He's thirsty

I think it was the bear's voice he heard deep inside him

growling low of dark, secret places

Were you going to say good-bye?

How long will you be gone?

Not long A few months

I can make it better for you

If we'd had a child

or if I were pregnant, would you still go?

Yes

Just give me a chance

Don't do that

Look at me

Please, look at me

I'll wait for you

However long it takes

I'll wait for you forever

Will he come back?

I don't know I don't know

Stab says yes

April 20, 1918

Dear Tristan:

It has been months now, and still no word

The only sign that you are alive

is a tattered parcel that arrived today from New Guinea

covered with strange writing

and containing what appears to be a native bracelet

Meant for me, I presume

But perhaps not

Do you still care to know what is happening here?

Cattle prices continue to fall

and winter seems never ending

Why don't you write?

Are you never coming back and afraid to tell me?

Alfred continues to do well

His business has expanded to include financial concerns in Chicago

and Washington

I don't pretend to understand

He wants us to send Isabel Two to boarding school in Chicago

but she adamantly refuses to leave the ranch

I think she, too, is waiting for you

I have nowhere to send this letter

and no reason to believe you wish to receive it

I write it only for myself

I will hide it away with all the things left unsaid and undone

between us

December 12, 1919

Dear Susannah:

I have become a hunter

Tell Stab there are creatures here that cannot even be found in books

I have killed them all

All we had is dead

As I am dead

Marry another

Colonel, it looks like we've got company

- I have come to ask for your blessing - My blessing?

You see, these gentlemen and...

And a great many others, I might add

They're urging me to run for office

- What office? - The United States Congress

That's how highly we think of your son

And what do you gentlemen hope to get out of this?

I beg your pardon?

I've spoken plain English, sir What do you want for yourselves?

Father, I don't think that these gentlemen...

Didn't you ask that question or do you believe these gentlemen

back you out of patriotic duty and your inestimable worth?

You forget yourself, Father I am no longer a child

Colonel, the Congress...

Congress is government, sir I worked for the government once

The issues that we...

Indians! Indians were the issue in those days

There is nothing so grotesque

as the meeting of a child with a bullet

or an entire village slaughtered while sleeping

That was the government's resolution of that particular issue

I've seen nothing since then to persuade me it's gained

in wisdom, common sense or humanity

Gentlemen, my father, for whom I have the deepest respect

says that the government has neither wisdom nor humanity

I will then consider it my absolute duty as my father's son

to bring both wisdom and humanity to the United States Congress

I thank you for your blessing Gentlemen

- Gentlemen, wait for me in the cars - Yes Certainly

Are you all right? What's wrong?

I don't know what to say Tristan's always been wild

- You love him for that - Do I?

I suppose I do

He does love you

She's to be your brother's wife

Yes, though you better remind him of that fact

He's not here to defend himself

No, but I see you are here to defend him and what is his

even though he's abandoned her and you

I won't even speak of who else he abandoned

Damn you, boy

Don't you blame my son for Samuel's death!

Samuel chose to be a soldier, and soldiers die

sent to their slaughter by men in government

Parasites like you!

Damn and blast you!

Damn you And damn you too!

Shut your mouth Leave her out of this!

Get out of my house and get off my land

Why? Because I want to serve my country as you did?

Or because, like you, I love a woman who doesn't love me?

He used her and deserted her, your darling Tristan

Alfred, don't Please

I loved her!

I love her still

He stole her from me If you want to know the truth

he stole her from Samuel before the war

God help me, I'll kill you

Here Read your darling Tristan's letter

You deserve to be happy

Late that night we found the Colonel on the floor

beside a cold fire

He could not move

His hair turned white overnight

and he became an old man

And after that, Tristan sent no more letters

As the years passed by

we would hear that someone had seen him on a ship

going up some river no white man had gone up before

Stories came to us

Strange stories

And then, for years, there was nothing

He was lost to us

That was all we knew

But every year, in the Moon of the Falling Leaves

But every year, in the Moon of the Falling Leaves

I would dream that the bear's voice inside him had grown silent

and that Tristan might again come to live in the world

But then the winter would come

And then another spring

And still he stayed away

What the hell is he doing?

She's a mean old bitch, but she's yours

Welcome home

Old man! Where's Father?

He had a stroke some years ago

He can't talk now

Oh, Father

He wants to celebrate

I'm happy too

Father, this is for you

"Colonel William Ludlow, from his son Tristan"

I didn't know

These are boars' tusks, made by a Javanese warrior

He, too, was a great man

I have other things for Mother and Little Izzy and Susannah

What is it?

Alfred and Miss Susannah

were married several years ago

Your brother's a congressman now

They have a big, new place in Helena

It's as it should be

Cattle prices dropped after the war ended

The Colonel ain't seem to care

He lost just about everything he had

We'll make it back

on horses or something else if we have to

We'll make it back

He's saying that your brother voted for the Volstead Act

Did he? You suggesting I become a bootlegger?

Good money in bootlegging, if you know what you're doing

Screw the government

Screw them

Screw them! Screw the government

Forever turned out to be too long

I know

Here

I don't want it

They told me that this was magic

that whoever wore it would be protected

Keep it

Don't you want to see Alfred?

It's probably better that I don't

Tell him hello

and congratulations

He likes you

Welcome home

Isabel?

I want you to have him

I want you to have him

I have something for you too

I brought it back

It's from lerapetra

- That's in... - Crete

- Yeah - I know where it is

Your father taught me European history

A little girl That's me, right?

Thank you

Okay, we'll see you in a few days

Don't wait on me I'll be fine

It was then that Tristan came into the quiet heart

of his life

The bear inside him was sleeping

It is hard to tell of happiness

Time goes by

and we feel safe too soon

- I heard the oddest news - Yes?

- I heard the oddest news - Yes?

Yes

Tristan

is back

Yes, I know

You know?

How do you know?

I saw him

He had the audacity to come here just to see you?

He wanted to see you, but thought you'd get upset

He might be right

What did he...

What did he say?

He said to say hello

and congratulations

Silly me

He told you the news?

What do you think?

Come on It's perfectly absurd

Marrying Isabel Two

God, she's practically our sister

She can't be more than, what, 19?

Twenty

I can't imagine what the hell Decker is thinking of

to allow this

Perhaps he's thinking of his daughter's happiness

Happiness? With Tristan?

You, of all people, should know how impossible that is

I'm not Isabel Two

June 2, 1921

Dear Tristan:

I was so pleased to hear of your coming marriage

Your father must be very happy

Isabel Two is like a daughter to him

as she was named after your own mother

It seems as though it was always meant to be, doesn't it?

Damnation

Samuel Decker Ludlow

Dearest Tristan:

Alfred and I were delighted to hear of your son's birth

We hoped for a child of our own, but of that I despair

I know Alfred thinks of you often

I look forward to the day when we all might see one another again

Your son bears a proud and noble name

I know he will live up to it

Please give my love to Isabel Two

and to your father and everyone else

Yours always, Susannah

Evening, gentlemen

Been meaning to talk to you about one or two things

By all means

As you know perfectly well

we handle the liquor around here

Now, you've been a small-time operator

An amateur, frankly

Lately, your shipments have been getting a little fat

and my patience has been getting a little thin

So the next time you get in our way

will be the last time

Excuse me I appreciate it

Perhaps you're wondering why you're not dead already

Because your brother is Congressman Ludlow

And that's it That's all

Kenneth Thomas

Can't you just say hello?

- Hello, Alfred - Hello, Tristan

- Who's this young man? - This is Samuel

She's beautiful

Let me see

- Who is this lady? - I'm your Aunt Susannah

I used to know your Uncle Samuel who died in the war

- You look like him - That's what Grandpa says

He was very brave and very good

Grandpa says that too

Grandpa says I can have Uncle Samuel's gun when I'm bigger

Would you come and see it?

I'd love to

Sometime

- He's a fine boy - He is

- How is Father? Well? - As well as can be expected

- I wish... - Pardon the intrusion

Excuse me We're ready for your speech now

I'll be there in a minute

Thank you

- We'll meet again soon? - I'd like that

Watch this

Go and get Tynert

I think you missed a bump, Stab

Jesus!

Sir, we have information that you're transporting goods

in violation of the Volstead Act

If you mean a case of Irish whiskey for my father, I am

Give it up

He'll be disappointed

Hold him down

Let's get out of here

- There's an envelope in his pocket - Now

My brother told you to stay out of our way

Put him in the car

- I don't want to see him - Father...

I don't want to see him

I'm so very sorry

Father won't see me, even now?

He blames the government for Isabel's...

There's something we have to talk about

The officer you beat almost died

Now, everyone understands

but you'll have to plead guilty

serve 30 days

And the one who shot his gun?

He was

reprimanded

- The O'Banions? - Nothing

You have to let it go

It was a terrible, tragic accident

Listen to me

You let this go now

You got in over your head

I'll need a minute

I'm so sorry

We all loved her

How are you?

I'm fine

We never get to see you

I gave a speech the other day

- You did? - Yes

My first public engagement

It was on the responsibilities of women in...

It's good to see you

I'm sorry

I still sometimes dream

that I'm the mother of your children

I wanted her to die

Maybe I even wanted Samuel to die

You had nothing to do with Samuel's death

And you had nothing to do with Isabel's death

Didn't I?

Go home

Go home to Alfred

Where were you?

I just went out for a walk

I needed a walk What are you doing home?

Your doctor rang, said you missed your appointment

I called home You weren't here l...

I feel very tired

I'm going to bed

You have won her I am bringing her home

Alfred

I followed all the rules:

Man's and God's

And you...

You followed none of them

And they all loved you more

Samuel, Father

and even my own wife

I'd like a moment alone with her

When Samuel died...

When Samuel died, I cursed God

And I damn everybody around me as well as myself

You are not damned

I won't allow that

You're not damned!

Samuel, this is a gentleman's gun

It's smaller, but it's just as powerful

That's what you want when you grow up, isn't it? A gun

Samuel, come here!

Run along now Go with Pet Get him in the house

He's a fine boy

You know we're not here to arrest you

You take me to the woods I don't want my boy to see

I don't want my boy to see

Let's get on with it

- Father - Colonel Ludlow, sir

What's going on here?

What's going on here?

You don't have to be a genius to know they'll come after you for this

Yeah

Yeah?

I want to ask you to watch over my children

Watch over Samuel

Brother, it would be an honor

How much I wanted to take scalps

but it was not my kill

That night, we buried the bodies

and dumped the car in a deep pool in the upper Missouri

I remember when he was a boy

I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man

I was wrong about that

I was wrong about many things

It was those who loved him most who died young

He was a rock they broke themselves against

however much he tried to protect them

But he had his honor

and a long life

and he saw his children grow

and raise their own families

Tristan died in 1963

in the Moon of the Popping Trees

He was last seen up in the north country

where the hunting was still good

His grave is unmarked

but it does not matter

He had always lived in the borderland anyway:

Somewhere between this world and the other

It was a good death

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