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Lord, this here's Charlie.

He got stomped in a stampede started by the thunder and lightning you set on us.

We ain't blaming you, Lord.

I reckon Charlie ain't either.

Just telling you how it was.

We never knew who he was nor where he come from.

We never asked.

He was a good hand on the trail and he done his share of chores around the camp.

He earned his 30-month in keep and never caused any trouble.

May he rest in peace.

Amen.

Frazzles, how does a man get out of this kind of life?

Well, let's see now.

A fella could always marry the boss's daughter if he had any.

Find a lonesome widow with a bit put by.

Rob a train or a bank or something.

Can't you think of any honest way to make a living?

Sam, you know I ain't honest.

You know how I rid with them Dalton boys.

Yeah, you mentioned it a couple times.

Rat Dalton himself said that I was the destroyer and winner of Prairie.

He never said truer words neither.

If you're all so fired and set on being honest, you can work another 10 years like Rance did

and save you money.

Did Rance save money?

$4,000.

Most every cent he made in the past 10 years.

Next year you'll still be eating Salaratus biscuits and trail dust.

Rance, he'll have his own spread.

Ten years?

Brazos notions are a lot quicker.

You marry a widower or you rob a bank or something.

Better stick to marrying.

Robbing banks ain't healthy.

There's some who do all right.

You just look at Bill Doolin and his boys.

Well you're not taking Brazos and his life serious, are you?

Well it seems to me anything is better than what happened to old Charlie.

It ain't fair.

It ain't fair for a man to be born with nothing and never get nothing and die like nothing.

Outlaws running from the hanged row.

The hanged row.

Outlaws running from the guns.

The guns.

Outlaws.

Paying to the back trails hiding from the sun.

Sun.

Away from the sun.

But there's no use hiding when the law starts riding.

And there's no use running when the law starts gunning for the outlaws.

The outlaws.

Oklahoma Territory.

A new wild country.

Founded overnight by tens of thousands in the great land rush of 1889.

And with the homesteaders came the outlaws.

Land grabbers, train robbers, murderers.

President Grover Cleveland took action.

Appointed Frank Kane Chief United States Marshal.

We were his deputies.

This is our story.

This is the way it happened.

Well I take it you didn't get him.

Tech and I rambled around for two days trying to pick up his trail.

But we couldn't do any good.

For a bank clerk he's sure slippery Mr. Kane.

It's like he went straight up in the air.

Yeah.

Well you two stay here and gush until we get a lead.

We'll pick him up sooner or later.

But most likely not until he goes through that money.

That's it Mr. Toiley.

We only lost 40 head on the trail.

We come in with 825.

Here's your tally book.

Got a hand or two here Ryan?

Good job just like always.

I got another herd in two months.

Well sir, I guess I won't be bossing herd for you anymore Mr. Toiley.

This last drive's wages gives me enough to buy those two sections I optioned.

The barlow place?

Right.

That's a mighty sweet piece of land.

You sure you got enough money to stock it?

I got $4,000 in the savings bank.

That's a lot of money to come by on trail boss wages.

Good luck boy.

Thanks.

Well I guess everything's all set here.

The boys been paid off?

Yes sir this morning.

They're getting drunk now.

They'll be in jail by tonight.

Hey Miss Hender.

Whiskey.

Likewise.

Make it three.

Boy that's rank.

Snake pies.

It's made out of barbed wire and sheep dip.

Let's have another.

Well, welcome to town boys.

Hey, hey, hey.

Is there a holiday or something?

Bank's closed.

Well it's closed all right.

Bidiker the cashier.

He skedaddled with the bank funds.

Wait a minute.

Bidiker, I don't know him.

Well nobody else does either.

Not well enough anyhow.

Oh I guess they'll catch up with him someday.

Wait a minute.

Where did I go for my money?

Mister, you don't go any place for it.

It's gone.

Along with Bidiker.

All right Rance, quiet now, steady.

Make them open the bank Will.

It's no use Rance.

But they got my money in there.

Four thousand dollars Will.

Four thousand dollars.

There isn't any money.

Bank's busted.

Busted.

Look, a lot of people lost their money.

We're after the guy that did it.

But I got to be square with you Rance.

There's not much chance you'll,

you'll ever see that money again.

Now, now you take Chicago.

They got buildings in Chicago that's ten stories high.

Ten stories.

Well how in the world are they keeping from falling down?

How do I know?

It's just there that's all.

Sure is a wonder though.

You should see the women.

It'll do your heart good just to smell those women.

Hey Sam, Sam.

Hey, drag off a chair and meet the ladies.

Ladies, this is Sam Yates.

Billy, give me some money will ya?

Sam, I just gave you ten dollars a little while ago.

It's gone.

Give me some more.

Oh, I would if I could,

but I ain't got my fifty cents left in my pocket.

How about you brothers?

Oh, yeah.

Let's see Sam.

Here, some please.

Hey.

What do you want with me?

You left money with me.

I don't have your money.

Take it.

You boys properly rested yet?

Hey fella.

All right, you boys are going out.

You bless them all with you.

Will ya?

Well, are the beds okay boys?

Well, you boys are in for breach of peace.

You likewise did considerable damage in the Eidelauer Saloon.

If I take you before the U.S. Commission, it'll cost you thirty days.

If you pay the damages, the Eidelauer people will drop the charges.

Now what do you say?

Uh, Marshal, we're a plum clean busted.

Will?

Yes, sir.

Guess you better take them down.

Doggone it.

I sure wish old Rance was here to get us out of this one.

Marshal Cain, what are the damages?

Thirty dollars.

If I loan you boys the thirty dollars, will you pay it back?

Well, we appreciate it, Deputy, but I don't know when we're going to get our hands on that kind of money.

Well, next time you're in town.

That all right with you, Mr. Cain?

Oh, it's okay with you.

It don't hurt me.

All right, boys, you can go.

But don't get in any more trouble.

No, sir.

No, sir.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you very much, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Want to give me the thirty or take it to the saloon keeper?

Oh, um...

Uh...

You, uh...

You think maybe I could have an advance on my wages, Mr. Cain?

I'll pay it back two dollars a month for the next year.

Pat?

Well, he was just passing through in a smelty coffee.

Yeah, what can you say, it's boiling over.

Whew.

What are you doing here, Rance?

We thought you'd be off buying your spread by now.

We was hoping that we could go to work for you on your new spread.

Now, we know you're just starting out and everything, but, uh...

Rance, you feel all right?

They stole my money.

You mean the money you was saving for your old spread?

I worked ten years for that money.

I saved it out of trail boss wages.

I spent six dollars and sixty cents a month on myself.

About as little as a man can spend and keep a shirt on his back.

I never went to town on payday.

I never got happy drunk, I never bought no drinks for a woman.

I was saving all them things for later.

What are you going to do, Rance?

Somebody got four thousand dollars of my money.

I'm going to get it back.

It's a side of money.

How are you going to do it?

I'm going to take it.

Well, that's our train.

Go on.

Sit down, boy, sit down.

Who are you going to take it from, Rance?

You better get. Come on, Billy.

No, wait a minute.

We got time.

I don't do it, Rance.

I'll tell you how old Bill Doolin would have done it.

He'd get himself three or four good men.

And then he'd set himself down where the express has got to stop the water.

Pretty soon the old train pops in.

Nobody noticing.

And hands up!

How much you figure to get on a job like that?

Billy, let's get out of here.

No!

Doolin's got thirty-six thousand dollars.

For this one wee old train job.

Thirty-six thousand dollars.

I just want the four thousand they owe me.

If I don't get it right off, they're going to sell my spread to somebody else.

I'm going to do it.

You mean really do it?

It's your idea.

It's taken such an awful chance.

Chance?

You take chances every day.

Maybe a horse spooks and breaks your neck.

There's a hundred different ways a man can get killed, trailed and heard for thirty a month and found.

Why not one chance for a real stake?

One chance to get everything you ever wanted.

Well, that's true enough, but we'll have to do a lot of planning.

Are you with me, Brazos, or not?

Sure I'm with you.

Sam?

No, sir.

You count Billy and me out.

Now listen, Sam.

Old Rance always knowed what he was doing.

All we have to do is follow him.

This is quick and it's clean.

It beats trail herding a thousand ways to Sunday.

So nobody's counting me out.

Well...

I want to send a message.

Oh, sorry, we don't send private messages, mister.

I'm sorry.

What the...

Well, what did you do that for?

Come on, let's move.

Stretching your legs, gentlemen?

That's right, stretching our legs.

Now you stretch your arms.

You, get up in that engine and be ready to go when I tell you.

Billy, go with him.

Here, here, come on.

You, you break this train right behind the express car.

Do like he says.

I'll remember you if we ever meet again.

Go ahead.

Now get up on that platform and don't make no noise about it.

What are you going to do?

You're going to bore your engine for a spell.

How'd it go?

Slick as a whistle.

Watch him.

Right.

Get over here.

Get over.

Get.

Tell whoever's in there to open up.

Harry?

Pete, open up, will you?

What's wrong, Pete?

Just open up and I'll tell you.

Hold your horses, Pete.

I'll have her open in a minute.

Come on, move, can't you?

Harry!

You killed him!

Open that safe.

I can't open no safe.

Harry was the only one that knows how.

They got my $4,000 in there.

They stole it and I'm going to get it back.

I don't know anything about any $4,000.

And I don't know how to open that safe.

Open it.

I don't know how to open it.

Open it!

Open it!

Open it!

No, no, no, no.

It ain't no use, Pete.

It ain't no use.

Get the dynamite from Sam.

We'll blow it.

I don't think...

All right, Grants.

I'll do it, Grants.

I'll do it.

What's all the shooting about?

You get Billy and let's get out of here.

What are you talking about?

Grants!

Grants, he's gone plain crazy.

He's like he killed two men already.

We started this and we're going to see it through.

And we sure can't run out on Rants.

Come on, let's go.

Jump!

Get out of the way, Breton.

Sam!

Sam, there's a hurt man in there with them charges.

Here.

Come on.

Come on, Sam.

Get in there.

There's an open...

When it hits the wagon, we don't want the horse to suffer.

How much was in there?

22,000.

It's all there.

Just what did they get?

Dust and silver that wasn't in the safe.

What do you make of it, Will?

Not good.

Looks like some ambitious beginners trying to hand a train robbery.

Why do you say that?

I don't know.

The way they killed the only man that could have opened that safe.

And the mess they made trying to blow it open.

It's a bot's job all the way around, Marshal.

Mr. Kane, can you come out here a moment?

Yeah.

Mr. Yusof and Marshal Kane, what did you just tell me?

Well, this is their wagon, all right.

I guess they figured they didn't need it when they didn't get the safe open.

Where's the horse?

It's over there.

I heard one of them, a big one, tell somebody else to turn it loose so it wouldn't suffer.

Turned a heart, it wasn't he?

Killed a man but wouldn't let a horse stand on the shafts.

Well, there must have been somebody in that outfit that saw it.

I'd have been in there when the dynamite blew.

This is one of Charlie Greb's mags.

Why, that's my horse.

Where did you find her?

Who took her out, Charlie?

The trail boss from the Sorley Ranch.

Rance Hollister?

Aye, a real nice lad.

And a steady sort, too.

Is that how you got the horse? Anything happen to Rance?

Not yet.

Why, he's about the steadiest man I know.

Well, he took it pretty hard from the bank, closed.

It looks like that's what set him off.

Yeah.

Must have drove him crazy losing all that money.

He was going to buy the Barlow place 20 miles south of here.

Never saw a man with such a hanker for his own spread.

Barlow place.

You figure he might try to hole up there, Uncle Willie?

No.

Don't think they're going to hole up anywhere for a while.

As long as there's sound and got good horses on them, they're going to keep running.

Running, running.

Four, five, six.

Ah, what else, boys?

Oh, let's see.

Oh, give us about 10 pounds of them beans there.

Oh, that's a good deal.

That's a good deal.

That's a good deal.

That's a good deal.

That's a good deal.

That's a good deal.

That's a good deal.

Give us about 10 pounds of them beans there.

10 pounds of beans.

Beans.

Beans, beans, beans.

Beans, beans, beans.

Now, just a minute, mister.

If you want something, I'll get it out for you.

Come in here, pick it up, anything you want.

What's the matter with you?

Rat!

Rat, please, no more killing.

Let's get out of here.

Stop them men!

Stop them!

Release!

It was Martin and Jane Roberts.

It was Martin and Jane Roberts.

They called him Rat.

Let me see now.

I saw it in the paper.

Let's see right here.

Here it is right here.

Witnesses, actually describes all four outlaws.

Ranch, Hawthorn, Ranch, see that's his name, Ranch, what he called him.

Description, age 25, 6 feet 3, weighs 190 pounds, blond hair.

That's him, blond hair.

We got to get a wire off to the US Marshal.

What do you think?

Damn, that hole's big enough to drive a steam engine through.

That boy needs a doctor.

Bad.

Did you talk to Ranch?

Ranch won't even talk about Billy, he's over there figuring out another job.

Another job?

I think we all ought to clear out and let him go alone.

No, we can't do that.

Damn, he's going sour.

He's sick in the head.

That's why we can't.

Can't leave him anymore if he was the one with the bullet hole in him.

Ranch, we got to do something about Billy.

You know anything about Doctor and Ranch?

I'm sure you do.

I've seen you talk to critters as good as any vet.

Yeah, Ranch's pretty good.

Yeah, I always said Ranch's as good as any vet, didn't I Sam?

I always said that.

Ain't nothing serious, it's just a scratch.

You can put a bandage on it and I'll be all right tomorrow.

No.

What are you doing?

He ain't fit to travel.

I don't want to leave him, he's suffered too much.

Well, we ain't going to leave him.

Well, ain't good Sam, I don't want to die.

You ain't going to die, Billy.

Howdy boys.

You better put out that fire.

Makes finding him right easy.

Who are you?

Squire's the name, Jethro Squires.

My, my.

You've been some shot up, ain't you sonny?

This boy needs doctoring.

What are you after mister?

After?

Well, I never ain't after a thing.

Don't you go and shoot.

Says he aims to help, Ranch.

We need help.

Bless you boy.

Maybe he's trying to get us into a trap.

Why ain't he even carrying a gun?

Billy needs help.

Bad enough for us to listen to him anyway.

What's your proposition?

Well, I can take you where you can get doctoring for the boy

and lay low till he's ready to move on.

There'll be a small charge, of course.

It's all right, but you have to move fast.

Once inside, go upstairs and nobody will see you.

Come on, come on boys, hurry it up.

Stupid!

Come on, Susan, show him upstairs to the room.

Hurry it up.

Come on, I'll be up in a minute.

Suzy, Suzy, where's Suzy?

I need Suzy to help me with the chore.

Suzy, Suzy.

You just go on up there.

Get up.

How is it?

They seem better and they seem worse.

Suzy, go out to the woodshed and get me a good big bunch of cobwebs.

I'm going to have to get that slug out of him.

Don't you mind, kid.

I've taken out more lead than you have years.

You go downstairs and tell the professor I want some loud music.

And tell him I mean loud.

How do you feel?

Fine.

She's fine.

That's good.

Now we've got to saddle up and get a couple of days.

It's awful expensive staying here.

That Mrs. Starr she wants, $40 a day.

He ain't got it.

What's the matter, Billy?

I can't ride anymore.

I feel terrible.

That won't be too bad.

Rance says he knows a place where he's going to buy a spread not too far and it's good and quiet.

We can lay up there till you get better.

And then we can move on.

Where are we going to go?

I don't know, Billy.

We just got to keep moving.

I used to think being on the dodge is going to be fun.

It ain't no fun at all, Sam.

It ain't no fun at all.

They're worth $5,000 dead or alive.

$5,000.

That's nice wages for a night's work.

They're at Ruby Starr's.

Sure feels good to have a smell of quiet.

You know, it was always this way when I was riding with them Daltons.

Why, we'd pull us a job and then after all the shooting and the riding and the yelling was over,

it was like a drink of cool water.

Feed to a quiet again.

Yeah.

You know, it's funny, Ruby.

Life sure is funny.

Where's Quarres?

How should I know? I ain't watching him.

Where is he?

Like I just said, I don't know.

Let's get the horses.

Wait a minute, Rance.

Get the horses.

Sam.

Sam, get light.

We got to go before sunup.

No, we can't move him.

It'll kill him.

That's Quarres.

He's in with the rest of them.

He's trying to keep me from getting my money.

He's going to get the law on us.

I'm on his horse.

You owe me some money, mister.

$40, that's what you owe me.

You're a bunch of cheating, thieving, murdering dogs.

I hope they catch you.

I hope they hang you good.

Listen.

A lot of riders coming this way fast.

Sam, get Billy behind this rock.

They lost their horses.

Let's get.

Come on, boys.

Come on.

Come on.

If you want me, come and get me.

I'm the original curly wolf and I die hard.

I ain't been curried.

I ain't been broke.

Take your knee.

I'm the original bad wind of the prairie and I...

When did this happen?

This morning.

I was with the posse.

Is this the only man killed?

Only one of them.

We had a man shot dead.

And the rest of the gang, which way they head?

Southerly.

All right, let's go, Hector.

There's a reward, ain't there?

You get in touch with Guthrie, he'll take care of you.

Yeah, that's right.

Just Guthrie.

Storekeeper said Southerly.

Could mean they're heading for Texas, maybe the Mexican border.

I don't think so.

I think Rance is heading for home now.

Home?

You mean the ranch south of Guthrie?

Yeah.

He's got one man dead.

He's got another one pretty badly shot up.

I'll bet he'll go to ground if that ranch he worked 10 years to get.

I remember when old Charlie got killed in a stampede.

I thought anything could be burned to die like that.

Oh, hush, will you?

But this is worse, Sam.

To die like I am is worse.

You ain't gonna die.

I thought...

I thought being an outlaw...

was gonna be fun.

But it ain't no fun, Sam.

It's dirty and it's hard.

And it's mean.

Look, you're just talking to yourself and no fever is all you're doing.

Killing ain't no fun.

You stopped here to put the hurt man on a trappy drag.

Don't slow him down, Uncle Willie.

We ought to catch him by dusk now.

What's the matter with you?

You gotta rest.

Well, that's it.

Just over the ridge, Sam, is the prettiest valley in the world.

I ain't got another step in me.

You'll have to go along.

Sam, listen to me.

It's just a step.

It's just to the top of that hill.

And from there on, it's all downgrade.

And just wait till you see it, Sam.

Officer!

This is Marshal Foreman!

I'm asking you to give up!

Well, Rance, you gonna give it up?

No.

Don't shoot! I'm coming up!

Sam!

All right, go ahead.

It don't matter anyway.

I'd appreciate some help for Billy.

He's about hurt.

Billy's dead.

Rance!

Two sections.

You never seen such grass.

Sweet water the whole year round.

Didn't I tell you, Sam?

You ever seen the like?

That's ours.

Yours.

Billy's.

Rance's.

We'll stock it.

In five years, we'll have the best herd in Oklahoma.

It's the prettiest valley in the world.

Everything we ever wanted.

Everly.

Lord.

This, uh, here's Rance Hollister and Billy...

William Putin.

Them and Brazos and me, we robbed a train and...

This is what it's brought us to.

Billy and Brazos, they done it for fun.

I guess.

At least they thought it was gonna be, but it wasn't.

And Rance, he done it cause the money for his land was took from him and...

He wanted that land so bad that the one would like to broke him.

And me...

Well, I told myself I'd go along and see the others got to it all right, but...

Lord, I guess you know.

And deep down, I thought it was a lot of money.

I don't guess that any one of us meant to hurt anybody.

So if you could bear that in mind when you...

Tally the book, I'd be awfully grateful.

Amen.

I've been thinking that...

All we ever got out of this was a hundred and twenty dollars.

Think of that, Mr. Foreman, one hundred and twenty dollars.

What's so remarkable about that?

Well, don't you see, Mr. Foreman, that breaks down to...

Thirty a piece for the four of us.

That's wages, Mr. Foreman, thirty a month.

It's a hard way to make a living.

You may be cash on the trigger

Oh, you may be lightning on the draw

And sooner or later you figure to tango with the law

You're playing in a losing game

In the end, it'll always be the same

You'll be outlaws running from the hanged rope

Outlaws running from the gun

Outlaws saying to the blackmail

Hiding from the sun

The sun, away from the sun

But there's no use in hiding

When the law starts to frighten

And there's no use in running

When the law starts coming for the outlaws