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Ma'am.

You folks just come across from Kansas?

Figure we did.

Cimarron up ahead?

Cimarron ahead.

This is where we collect.

Collect?

That's right, corncob.

$50 toll if you're longing to take the wagon across our land here.

Well, now how's... how's this land come to be yours?

We was here first.

Opened the strip for folks like you.

$10 for the animals, you and the missus pass free.

I ain't got no $60.

That's so?

See what you can find.

Nothing?

All clothes and barley.

Kerny boy...

you can get Mr. Corncob here to cooperate, huh?

Oh, no, no, stop it!

- Please, stop it, stop it! - Get off me.

Stop it, please stop it!

All right, hold it.

You seen enough, missus?

Kerny here is about the best box fighter in the strip.

Yeah.

That'll be $80 now, ma'am.

60 for toll and 20 for Kerny winning the fight.

Hold it!

That's enough.

Unbuckle and mind your manners.

Take him!

And you sit tight, mister.

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Francis.

Take those bodies down to the undertaker.

You can camp down by the river,

which is that side of town.

You'll get a good night's rest there.

The circuit judge will be holding court tomorrow morning

at the Wayfarer's Inn.

I'd like you to be there at 10:00.

You can swear out your complaint and then testify.

10:00.

Much obliged, Marshal.

Jim!

Jim, I think you ought to come and have a look at this.

Over at the depot.

Hiyah, hiyah, hiyah, hiyah, hiyah, hiyah, hiyah, hiyah!

Harvey!

The 6:15 freight left this off.

There's some kind of mix-up on who it's consigned to.

1,100 cases of dynamite.

I haven't been able to put my hands on the manifest yet, Marshal.

But don't worry, I'll wire the Kansas City office

the first thing tomorrow morning, get it straightened out.

Mac, you stay here and keep an eye on that car.

Harvey, you send that wire now.

Now?

Well, Rugel's already closed his cage and went home.

It's after 5:00.

I said now.

You don't leave the makings of a disaster sitting right in the middle of this town.

Now ain't that a sweat.

Got a whole boxcar full of firecrackers.

No telling who's liable to get a match.

I guarantee you one thing.

It won't be you.

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Ready.

All right, you stand back.

Uh, be careful, the biscuits are very hot.

It's a waste of breath to try to be nice to this one.

I know, he gives me the shivers even on a hot day like today.

Francis, you take over.

I'm gonna see about that dynamite.

- Jim, what about dinner? - What about mine?

In just a minute, Francis.

I've only got two hands!

Sorry, it's just an uncomfortably hot day.

Marshal, old dang fool stunt.

- I ought to bust some heads. - What do you got?

The mystery cleared.

- That dynamite belongs to us. - Oh, come on, Harvey.

- It's too hot for jokes. - No, no joke... look.

Railroad Company Construction Department.

So they left it right here in the middle of town?

Yeah, but I'll blister some ears when they hear, you can beat.

Well, there's enough dynamite in that train

to level the whole of Cimarron.

I want them to move it right now, do you hear me?!

Right now!

Hey!

I'm leaving and I'm celebrating!

Look out!

Get out of here, hey, get out of here!

Hiyah, get out!

Get out of here you darn fool!

Oh, that dang fool!

Last look, everybody, because I'm leaving here tomorrow.

This dustbowl!

You sad cases, I beat you out of a job!

Yes, sir, I beat ya, I got a job!

Wake up, you out-of-work cowboys!

Yee-ha!

Oh, Mobeetie's got a job!

Yee-ha!

Ha!

I'm a rich back-stomper and the drinks are on me!

What's the meaning of this?

Howdy, ma'am.

Put away them coffee pots, I'm buying the hard stuff.

Mobeetie's got a job!

I said set 'em up, bartender!

The hard drinks are on me.

Francis, get that animal out of here.

Mobeetie, you're under arrest.

- That stings! - Hold still.

You ain't got no right to lock me up in no jail

just 'cause I went out and shot up the town a little.

Just about blew it off the map.

Shooting a gun around a car full of dynamite.

Dynamite?

Right in front of the depot, signs written all over it.

Now, how drunk are you anyhow?

I had one drink.

Maybe two... but I ain't drunk.

You crash through windows all the time?

The window...

Oh, well, uh, you see,

a long time ago, before you owned this place,

my buddy, Old Bear, he did it.

So?

Well, what any cowboy does

Mobeetie does and he does better.

I'm a-leaving tomorrow and it was my last chance.

I'm going down to Mexico with old man Hazlett

and pick up a herd and drive 'em north.

Is that so?

I hadn't heard that he resigned you on to that outfit.

Dutton quit, so old man Hazlett, he picked me out of a whole bunch.

And don't tell me that ain't no reason for celebration.

I'm gonna buy you a drink, Crown.

Mobeetie, I think maybe you better sleep it off awhile.

Come on.

You ain't sore, are you?

No, furious.

As long as you ain't sore.

Come on.

So you got yourself a job, huh?

Well, that's good news.

It's been a long, dry year

and I'm finally getting out of here.

And I'm going out where a man can breathe, and more.

Hit the jackpot.

Makebate.

Oh, sure, there was a blizzard back in '84

but the northwest is coming back.

Yes, siree, Bob, and I'm gonna be right in the middle of her.

You bet.

You betcha!

You betcha, you betcha.

I'm gonna take off like a prairie fire.

That's what I'm gonna do.

Hey.

Hey, I know you.

You, hey.

You used to work for the Hazlett spread, didn't you, a couple of years back?

Your name is, uh... Stegman.

Burke Stegman, right?

My name is Mobeetie.

You remember me?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

You was a fetch-and-carry boy for Cookie, right?

Well, yeah, back when I was a boy.

But I've been a-working for them right on up through the last year.

I'm going to Wyoming with them.

Old man Hazlett hired me hisself, he did, out of a herd of 50.

You know, the Hazlett spread is the top outfit,

and we're going down to Mexico

and we're gonna get some horses that can stomp

and some beef that can bellow.

Put a clamp on that tongue...

or I'll nail it to the ceiling.

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Why is this train load of dynamite still here?

There's a mix-up in Kansas City or something.

Uh, Harvey's waiting for a wire right now.

I'll tell you what.

You ride on down to the river and find that farmer and his wife.

Make sure they get to court on time.

If there's anything Judge Quayle hates,

it's being kept waiting on a hot day.

Harvey?

Harvey: Right away.

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Marshal.

The flypaper is beginning to get sticky.

Listen to this.

"One car load of dynamite, special shipment.

Cimarron, NM."

I don't know how people can be so careless.

NM, that's Cimarron, New Mexico.

This here is IT, Indian Territory.

That freight agent up the line

ain't never gonna read his destinations right.

But don't you worry.

I'll see that the next freight to New Mexico picks it up

first thing day after tomorrow.

Casey is checking with St. Louis.

Happens all the time.

Blankets, liver extract.

They're waiting for it in NM and it's sitting here in IT.

It just goes to show you.

This lecture I heard in Kansas City last month

on the powers of concentration by this Dr. Cortright...

Well, now, the human mind has to be focused.

Man has to develop his...

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Ahh!

Get out of here!

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Did you see it? The smoke.

Crown, where you going?

Crown?!

Is it still burning?

How soon can you get an engine here?

Engine?

I want you to move this car as soon as possible,

at least five miles out of town.

I don't understand.

I thought dynamite's suppose to be fairly safe,

lest you set afire or put a bullet in it.

That's the beauty of it... Ain't skittish.

If it's good stuff, Harvey.

But the smoke that you saw means it's old and unstable.

Those are drops of pure nitro forming.

- Nitro. - Get the engine.

Yes, sir!

Willy.

Yeah, Marshal.

I need your help.

We gotta keep the people away from this area

at least until this car's been moved.

Something wrong?

No, don't panic or anything, just being cautious.

I was putting these supplies together...

People first, supplies later.

You take that side of the street.

Oh...

Crown, how about it?!

I'm pawing to jest!

I'm gonna lower my head, sharpen my horns

and fight my way out of here!

Crown!

This way.

Sit down.

Now then, Judge Quayle will be here any time now.

Ms. Coopersmith and I are the partners in this establishment,

are going to press charges against you

for breaking our front window.

It's my duty to inform you that you're entitled to engage counsel.

For all the good it'll do you.

Huh?

Hire a lawyer.

Oh, well, there's no need for all that ruckus.

Shoot, I'll pay the damages.

There, I told you.

- You'll pay. - Of course I'll pay.

Very well, here's the bill.

$28.50.

A window costs that much?

What did you think?

Well, I never figured.

Well, that's all right.

I'll send it back from Wyoming as soon as I draw my wages.

Wyoming?

That's what I said, Wyoming.

Listen to him.

Sitting there with a cowbell around his neck

and asking us to trust him to send money from Wyoming.

You calling me a liar?

You think I'm a fool?

Now, there's no reason why we can't discuss this calmly.

Listen, if I tell you I'll send money back from Wyoming

or a 10 buck tour of China Town, you'll get your money.

At which time I'll drop the charges and not before.

Why, you...

Now sit down!

Sit... both of you sit down.

Sit down.

Now, may I say something without offending you?

MacGregor and I would be only too happy to trust you, but...

well, you're not the most assuring person in the world.

As MacGregor pointed out, that cowbell

and you calling yourself Mobeetie.

Why can't you use your real name like everybody else?

People will think that you're not responsible,

that you're ashamed of your name, that you're just a nobody.

A nobody.

Me?

You.

Well, you don't have to worry about old Mobeetie.

Look, I can ride faster, rope slicker, brand cleaner

and howl louder than

- any cowboy in the whole territory. - Any cowboy in the whole territory.

How come you think Hazlett hired me on this drive?

There was just ten of us picked out of maybe 100 cowboys

hanging around out of work, and I was one picked.

I'm gonna take Wyoming like a double-barreled twister.

$28.50.

In six months when I come back, I'll have a deed in my back pocket

to a thousand acres of prime timberland.

What do you think about that?

And I'll be the king of Prussia.

Judge Quayle get here yet?

- He's just finishing up breakfast. - Oh, fine.

Crown, will you tell this corn plaster

that when I say I'll pay for his blasted window, I'll pay.

Look, you got to let me go, I'm suppose to...

Settle it one way or the other, will ya, Mac?

And then get over there and help Willy.

He's clearing out that depot area all the way back to the emporium.

Crown?

Crown, come back here!

Listen, you know me.

Tell 'em when I say something I mean it!

Crown?!

All right, Mobeetie.

I'll except your promise.

Well, I'll guarantee it if you wish.

- You'll guarantee? - Yes, you won't have to risk a penny.

Oh, no, lass.

We're partners, all the way.

You can be thankful there's a little compassion in this world.

I'm free to go?

Don't forget the bill.

- Come on, Mac, get going. - Right.

Sure is a scorcher.

You ought to do something about that jail.

You know, I've known hogs that was cooler in a smokehouse.

Take care of yourself.

I'm gonna miss you, Ms. Coopersmith, and that's a fact.

And have a good trip.

Well, if I don't, you can't say I didn't try.

Tell me something.

Why was he so hurt?

- Who? - Mobeetie.

Has Francis come back with those witnesses yet?

No.

All I did was suggest that he take off his cowbell

and use his real name.

He doesn't got a real name?

He hasn't?

That cowbell is more a part of him than his own skin.

When he was just a little tot, he wandered out of nowhere.

Nobody knows where he came from.

The cowboys, they picked him up like he was a stray cat

and hung a cowbell around his neck so he wouldn't get lost.

When he grew too old to be treated like a pet and too troublesome...

well, the old man kicked him out like he was stray cat.

At least Hazlett is taking him back.

- That's something. - I'd say that's just about everything.

Let's go.

Come on, move it.

Francis: Marshal.

- They're gone. - Who's gone?

Your witnesses.

They pulled out last night, they've gone back to Kansas.

Up front, over here.

Come on.

Remove your hat.

Open it up, Cooper.

Circuit Court United States Federal Territory town of Cimarron

Judge Lucius B. Quayle presiding now in session.

Case of Territory vs. Burke Stegman.

- Is that you? - That's me.

Charged with attempted robbery, assault, battery.

How do you plead?

On your feet.

Not guilty.

Mr. Stegman, the law allows you a choice.

Trial by jury or decision of the judge.

What do you pick?

Decision of the judge.

It's a good choice.

It saves us all from roasting here an extra hour.

Crown, present your case.

Your Honor, it's gonna be difficult.

My deputy just reported to me that my witnesses are gone.

They pulled out, they headed back to Kansas.

You're not asking for a delay.

Your Honor, if I might just have your ear for a moment.

I can't stay over, Jim.

You know that I've got a big calendar at Carsteer

starting the day after tomorrow.

Do you know what I've got sitting here?

Off the record, what's the substance of your case?

I take your word for it.

Then nail him!

The law requires evidence.

Your Honor, I've got a car load of dynamite sitting out in front of a depot

just down the street.

I've done all I can do to move it out of town

without keeping my eye open for some trigger-happy cowboy

to come along and blow it up.

Now, you can't turn this one loose.

The... specifications state

that the accused and two others

stopped a farmer and his wife out on the north road...

Hey, wait a minute.

Stand up when you talk to the judge.

You got that wrong, Judge.

They stopped us.

You had him covered, pounding the man into the ground.

That was Kerny.

They asked how far it was to Cimarron.

We got to talking.

And this farmer wanted to fight Kerny... You see, Kerny was a boxer.

A boxer?

Ask anybody.

Alberleen, Kansas City, St. Louis.

Why did you resist arrest?

Ask the marshal.

You tell it.

Because of what I've seen of peace officers.

Taking custody of people in the name of the law

and right there, without asking any questions,

stringing them up to a tree and letting them kick.

No trial or nothing.

Crown.

What do you want me to do, turn my back

while you take him out in the alley and beat his head in?

I don't run that kind and you know it.

Neither do I.

I'm sorry.

Dismissed.

Let's go.

You didn't get the mud off your boots.

You've been down the river?

There a law against that, Marshal?

You both better get out of town.

I ain't no cutback scissor bell for you to pull down.

I'm gonna get my, Crown.

And I'm gonna have your head on the end of a pick.

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Here!

Come here, get away from here!

Hey, come here!

I'll skin ya alive... Get over there!

Now, what's the matter with you?

Can't you read?

Go, go on, get off with ya!

Go on, be off!

Harvey!

- Where's that engine? - Just got a wire.

- It'll be noon the earliest. - Noon?

What about the one up in Hardesty?

That's only an hour away.

No good.

The engineer keeled over... Heatstroke.

But they're rerouting another one from some bridge construction.

There's still people coming into this area.

Mac, get 'em out of here.

- Have those kids help you. - Right.

Right, you men come with me.

Well, come on, I have some instructions for you.

- You're not kids forever. - Francis.

Get Mr. Cook, have him bring a couple of harnesses for a wagon team.

Horses, why didn't I think of that?

How far away is that north sighting?

About three miles or so.

Is that far enough?

And how long will that main line be clear?

The 204 comes through at 11:40.

Wire the dispatcher.

Tell him to hold onto that 204 until he hears from us.

Right away.

Mr. Hazlett!

Mr. Hazlett!

So they left an hour ago, did they?

Much obliged.

Jim.

Old man Willoughby says he's too hot to move anywhere.

And if he gets blown up, he holds you personally responsible.

Also, the doctor gave orders that the Collin's child stay in bed

or she might not make it through the day.

All right.

Well, get as many as you can.

No telling what'll happen when we start hauling that car.

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You better ride on out of here.

I'm suppose to tell folks to go on up into town

on past the emporium on account of dynamite.

Marshal said it might go off and take this end of town.

Looks like they're gonna move it.

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I'll need a sledgehammer.

Something heavy.

Yeah, this'll be better.

For what?

I want that dynamite to stay right where it is.

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Here I am now, Mr. Hazlett.

I didn't realize you was pulling out so early.

I had a little business to line up in town and got held up.

But I'm here now and raring to go.

You're too late, your place is filled.

Hold on, Mr. Hazlett.

Listen, I'm good.

I'm part Indian, you know.

I ride like a Comanche and rope like the feller in the wild west show.

You're too late!

Mobeetie, you've got no sense.

You mean what happened in Cimarron?

Well, I was just celebrating a little, that's all.

Go on back, I can't use you.

Now, hold on, Mr. Hazlett.

Listen, I don't eat much and I work like a plough mule.

It takes a lean hound for the long race.

How many times do I have to say no?!

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I need that job.

Mr. Hazlett, I sit in a saddle like a snapping turtle

and I know cows like a dog knows fleas.

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Marshal!

Marshal!

Get on up here quick.

Careful, it's still hot.

Why, that's from my shop.

Can you fix it?

No, but we can put in a new switch.

Oh, it'll take a week to get a new switch.

Kansas City has to requisition St. Louis and...

I don't see it.

Who would've...

I've got a pretty good idea.

Now you round up as many men as you can and wagons.

Wagons?

We're gonna unload that dynamite and move it out.

Jim.

With all the blaggards loose in this town you'd best leave it.

We've already had on near accident.

Somebody has locked that car in there.

They want it there.

Now, where do you suppose?

- I don't know. - Well, neither do I.

And I'm not gonna wait to find out.

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Come on.

Well, what are you doing here?

That's a good question.

I thought you were going off with Hazlett.

How about that, Crown?

Well, are you gonna get to the point?

You kept me roasting in that jail cell this morning.

By the time I got out to the ranch, they had rode off without me.

My job was gone.

Gone, you hear?

Well, that's you, Crown, the big law hound.

Never lets go!

Can't hang a man one way, just string him up another.

You didn't tell me that you had to be there that early in the morning.

I would've taken the trouble to make sure you got there.

Sure.

Marshal... Marshal!

No luck.

I can't find another soul to help.

Some of them are scared of the dynamite,

other ones are taking their families out of town.

What are you looking?

The railroad pays premium wages.

$20.

Work straight through 'til the job is done.

For what?

Loading that dynamite into this wagon.

I don't do common labor.

Now, if you've got some wild horses to break

or some calves to brand, that's something else.

What about our window?

How are you gonna pay for that?

I said I'll pay, I'll pay.

Oh, no, you don't slicker me into breaking my back in this heat.

No, sir.

I say you grab that lazy good-for-nothing off that horse

make him lend a hand.

I don't push a man to risk his neck.

You saying I'm scared?

I say it.

All you're good for is making noise!

$20 until the job is done.

That's what I said, $20.

Are you sure you can manage it?

These things weigh 50 pounds, you know.

Set 'em down nice and easy.

Well, you're moving like an old dog through a briar patch.

You ain't never gonna get to finish this way.

Now hold it!

If you're gonna do this, you're gonna do it my way.

Nice and easy, with your eyes open.

Do you understand?

Well, what do you think I am,

some kind of a halfwit saloon swamper or something.

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Watch out!

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Good going, Francis.

You just take it easy, Mr. Cook.

You'll be all right.

Mac, get him inside.

I've got him.

All right, everybody, let's get back to work.

We've got a long way to go.

Well, you heard the marshal, get busy.

Clean that mess up.

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- Well, how is he? - He's all right.

Looks like a heatstroke.

He said for us to watch out.

Came on him without any warning at all.

Let's take a break.

Well, we can find more men.

We can load a second wagon while this one's on its way to the sheds.

I'll be back in five minutes.

To be honest with you,

I've been thinking about going up to Oregon or some place.

Slow death around here.

Might make a dollar or two breaking wild horses.

On whose land and whose corral?

To tell you the truth, old Christie and me been kinda thinking about hitting that

Cimarron stage, you know, get ourselves a little stake.

Shotgun guards on every coach and old hands at it.

Too risky.

You got a better idea?

Money thinks I'm dead.

Crowns got some men moving the dynamite,

three, four of them in a wagon.

- People still moving out? - Like brushfire.

Crown can load all the wagons he wants.

Long before he's through, this town'll be ours.

What does that mean?

A man can make an awful lot of money in an empty town.

Where?

Four doors down, across the street.

But... that's the bank.

Yeah.

Cimarron branch of the western reserve.

You must be crazy.

Guess so.

What about Crown?

- Crown dies. - What?

Must be 20,000 of those cash boxes even if we don't get in the vault, right?

Easy.

You kill Crown?

How?

We'll be back at the camp... if you change your mind.

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Hi, Marshal.

When will it be safe to come back?

Late tomorrow afternoon.

It could be sooner if you stay behind and help.

I'd love to, Marshal, if it wasn't for my brood.

Keep an eye on the shop if you don't mind.

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Well, I brought you a couple more hands.

Well, you've come to the right place, you stump-kickers.

If we don't blow you to bits, we'll make men out of you.

Now the idea is

that you pick them up over there and you set 'em over here.

One side, I'll show 'em.

Fisheyes, I'm gonna climb all over you like lightning on chicken coop.

You and Francis take your break, into the shade.

Five minutes.

Well, you heard me.

Crown's orders, and I'm his deputy.

Now, I don't have to tell you this is ticklish business, lads.

We've got to treat this stuff as if it were pure nitroglycerin.

However, while caution is the road, your greatest enemy is fear.

You've got to handle the material as tenderly as a newborn babe,

yet with complete confidence and muscular relaxation.

Here, MacGregor, show 'em how.

Look out, MacGregor, you dropped the baby!

You addlepated jailbird!

You could've set off the whole kit and caboodle!

Ha!

I was just trying to show 'em

a little confidence and muscular relaxation.

Hup, look out, I got another one.

Oh, ho, ho, run for sure!

Get him!

Mobeetie, cut it out, you dang fool.

You put it down!

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- Mac! - Mac, Mac?

Uh-huh.

You get him down to the inn and I'll go get the doc.

Boys, give me a hand.

You too.

Easy now.

Gently.

Yeah, let me through, let...

Stand back, stand back.

Some fresh air for the patient.

He may have a concussion.

Now, look, Crown, that stuff I was horsing around with

and I thought it was safe for sure.

When that fell off the wagon and split open, not a stick of it blew off.

Everybody saw that.

You don't horse around with dynamite!

Francis, Harvey, get back to work!

Load up that wagon.

I'll go with you.

No, not you, you're finished.

Now clear out.

Now hold on a minute, Crown.

I've given you every chance I can.

You come up with the most darn fool stunts I ever come across.

But that's what I'm trying to tell you about.

I don't got time to argue with you.

Now you clear out.

You go to Wyoming or some other place but you don't come back here.

Well, don't just stand around, get back to work.

Well...

what do you got to say for yourself, MacGregor?

Oh, somebody tell Jim

there's a freight car full of dynamite.

It's all right, I know.

Do you remember what happened this afternoon?

I...

Have I been shot?

No, you're gonna be all right.

Oh, no, not for a few days.

He has been shook up pretty bad.

Now tell me... does it hurt?

How's he doing?

I told you to clear out!

Jim.

Must you be so hard on him?

Dulcey, I've lost one man because of a heatstroke

and another one because of some crazy horse play

and I've still got a thousand cases of unstable dynamite

sitting right in the middle of town.

I'm gonna be out getting some replacements.

Jim, I'm sorry, I...

MacGregor, he's all right, ain't he?

Yeah, he's all right.

Mobeetie...

Don't look sorry on me, I don't need it.

Now, I can't help it.

You know, I'm not very happy about what happened

and I don't think you are either.

What do you care?

- I'm just so much dirt, ain't I? - No, I didn't say that.

You said I was a nobody, ain't that so?

No, that ain't so.

I said that you make people think that you're a nobody.

Especially doing what you just did.

Now, it's very dangerous to play jokes with dynamite.

Now, if you want to be somebody, be reliable.

Get some stick-to-itiveness.

Stick-to-itiveness.

Well, I don't know what that means.

But you're gonna hear from me one of these days.

You and Crown.

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Okay, easy does it.

I don't know, I just don't know.

I'd feel a lot better if it wasn't for Crown.

I told ya.

Crown's gonna die.

You know, you keep saying that but you never get around to saying how.

You know you ain't gonna take Crown.

- Nobody here is. - Shh, shh.

What's the matter, ain't you never seen a cow folk before?

Never such a sorry one up so close, no.

Why don't you go back and work for the marshal, huh?

I ain't bothering you.

It so happens you are.

Being that you're upwind.

Don't pay no attention to Colly.

He's full of saddle burrs this evening.

Mobeetie, you stopped loading that dynamite.

How come?

It didn't blow up, did it?

One stick.

One measly two cent stick is all, and then he "throwed" me out.

"Throwed" you out.

First he roped me in,

and then he blamed me for getting caught.

Said I was too scared to handle that dynamite

and he kept at and he kept at it until I signed up.

Then the first thing that went wrong...

"blewy"... "Mobeetie, you're no good, clear out.

You never was no good and you never will be."

Why didn't you kill him?

Kill him?

That's what I'd have done.

Now that's funny, him going after Crown.

He can beat him to death with his cowbell.

You saying I can't?

You wouldn't.

Not if you were lassoed to a post with rawhide,

blindfolded and fast asleep.

You calling me yellow?

All right, all right, that's enough, settle down.

You got no call to make small on Mobeetie like that.

Any one of us would wanna take Crown out but it ain't that easy.

That's the truth of it.

Every last man here wants to see him dead.

Matter of fact, we was about to draw lots on him when you came up.

Draw lots?

See who gets to kill him.

How can you do that?

Cuts down the risk.

One man takes it on for all.

You want in?

I don't know.

You think it over.

Hey...

what's all this noise about drawing lots?

You'll see.

Colly... fix it up the way we did to that hayshaker in Alberleen, huh?

Yeah.

What are you talking about?

There's only an "X" mark on it and he gets it.

Hey, I told you he was just making a lot of noise.

- Gather around, boys. - Whee!

All right, let's dip in.

Mobeetie, how about it?

How's it work?

One of these has an "X" mark on it.

The man that draws that gets Crown.

This extra one's for you Mobeetie,

unless you want us to do your fighting for you.

Do you wanna see Crown dead or don't ya?

Go ahead, throw it in!

- Underestimated you, boy. - So did Crown.

Pick.

Man who draws a lot and doesn't go through with it

will answer to all of us.

All right.

- Blank. - Me too.

I got it.

I got it.

Luck of the draw.

You know what we got here?

Bull moose crossed on wolf, ain't that right?

- Yeah. - Oh, that's right.

That's right, that's right, yeah.

Now I'm gonna tell you something.

That Crown with that big silver band around that big black hat

and that big shiny star on his chest,

he ain't nothing but a man.

That's all!

He's just another man!

I'm gonna cook him!

I'm gonna tear him up and feed him to the sock busters!

I'm gonna pull him out in the street

where everybody can see and shoot him down

and they'll tell about it for 100 years!

That's the way I'm gonna do it!

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Okay, Marshal, your turn for breakfast.

Well, it's about time.

We'll take a 30-minute break.

You boys keep things moving.

Right.

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All right there, let's have it.

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Dulcey, the second shift is ready.

Soon as you wash up.

Mac, the doc told you to stay put.

Ah, with the aroma of Dulcey's coffee driving me insane.

Nonsense, man.

Oh, MacGregor, now be careful.

Ah, I'm fine.

- I'm perfectly all right, lass. - Well, you don't look it.

Dulcey, you better feed him or you'll never hear the last of it.

Ah...

Colly.

Good on a hard day's work...

All right, go ahead, he's in there.

I can't do it in there.

It's as good a place as any.

Now go on.

Tell him you wanna help with the dynamite

and then kinda hang around.

He won't let me do that now, I told ya.

Well, you hang around anyhow.

Now sooner or later, he won't be looking.

You expect me to back-shoot him.

Back shoot?

How do you think Crown killed Kerny and Foss yesterday.

Those two fellas riding with me.

Foss?

Used to work with us at Hazlett's spread.

Crown killed him.

Shot him in the back.

Now no sense in being choosey how we take Crown out.

His game is as good as anybody, right?

Right?!

Right.

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Y'all look all played out.

I'm willing to help if you still want me to.

I promise not to horse around no more.

You think now you've learned how to be careful?

Have some breakfast.

Uh, here, sit here.

Sit down, make yourself comfortable.

Um, we've got plenty of food.

Plenty.

He's doing fine.

Hey, why don't we just put a bullet in that freight car,

blow up the whole end of town?

That'll keep Crown plenty busy.

No.

That dynamite's what's keeping this town empty.

Now you stay here, back Mobeetie up.

Let's get these horses outside, huh?

You're kind of quiet this morning.

It's been a long night.

How come you're not hungry?

Oh, I'm hungry all right.

Yes, sir, I'm hungry.

What's the matter, Mobeetie?

It's hot.

Is that all?

Are you sure?

Yeah, I'm sure.

Stay put, everybody.

I'll be right back.

You hold onto Mobeetie.

Even if you have to hang him up by his thumbs.

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See if you can reach inside there.

The way to reach is up.

All of you.

Crown.

Hey, hey, wait a minute.

Get out of my way!

Watch him, Francis.

Where's my rifle?

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Jim, Jim!

I saw him!

Francis, I'm getting mad, I can't...

I can't hardly stand it no more.

Listen, boy, you blink your eyes one time and I'm gonna jump you.

I gotta get out of here.

I gotta get that Crown!

Why?

Sit down.

Crown!

Crown!

Crown!

Keep going.

Mobeetie: Crown!

Mobeetie, what's the matter with you?

Stay put, Crown,

or I'm gonna start firing into them cases of dynamite.

You stump-kickers better get out of the way.

Go on, boys, back off.

Mobeetie, what's on your mind?

That lady friend of yours thinks I'm a nobody.

Well, I'm gonna be somebody and I'm gonna kill you.

Is that the only way you know to be a somebody?

That suits me just fine.

You think I'm afraid?

I'll show you.

I know you're not afraid.

And if you're not stupid, you'll hand over your gun.

Hold on right there.

Do you mind if I move aside

so that you won't blow up the whole town if you miss?

The only one I'm gonna hit, Crown, is you.

I'm gonna let you take two more steps

then I'm gonna draw.

You and me.

And there's plenty of witnesses around to tell how it was later without lying.

All right, Crown, I'm gonna take you.

I'm not gonna draw on you or with you.

Now, if you're gonna kill me,

you're gonna have to shoot me unarmed

in cold blood or not at all.

You stay put, Crown!

Put that gun belt on.

Put it on!

We drew lots on you and I won.

Drew lots?

Well, who drew lots on me?

Stegman and his boys?

You say I ain't got no stick-to-itiveness.

I'm gonna show you right now.

There.

There's Francis' gun.

Now pick it up, pick it up!

Mobeetie, don't you know what's going on?

One more step, Crown.

You ain't dealing with no scared cat.

Stegman set you up to decoy me.

One more step, Crown, and you're a dead man.

That's what he did

so he and his boys could clean out the town.

I caught 'em right there at the bank.

Now didn't you hear the shooting?

What if I did?

You build me up to carry that dynamite in that heat

and then you booted me out.

So now I'm gonna...

Go on, Mobeetie, shoot!

Shoot!

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It's all over, Marshal, he's finished.

Come on, get moving, get!

Jim, I found one of them.

Did you get the other?

Lock him up.

Come on, move!

All right, go ahead, Crown.

Say it, let's get it over with.

Well, you did prove you are a somebody.

Now what am I gonna do with you?

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Crown?

Where are you, Crown?

Lookee here.

I went out to camp to pack up my gear and look what I found.

That Burke and his boys, they slickered me for sure.

They said only one lot had an "X."

They all did.

Mobeetie, it's about time you learn

not to play another man's game.

You got that Colly locked in that jailhouse?

Yup.

I'm gonna take him out and stretch him on an anthill

and pour sour molasses on him.

I'll take care of him.

Hey, 10, 11, 12-and-a-half.

Harvey wanted me to give you that.

From the railroad?

12-and-a-half dollars.

That ain't 20, is it?

That's all the work you did.

Better than nothing.

Well, it'll come in handy.

I'm leaving this town, with or without the Hazlett job.

Railroad wants you to sign this receipt.

Is your leg well enough to travel?

Oh, yes, ma'am.

It's just a little scratch.

A little sore, that's all.

There ain't nothing gonna keep me in this town.

Except me.

You haven't paid for the window.

$28.50.

I told you I'd send it.

Hmm.

Out of wages for a job you no longer have?

Would you settle for $5?

$7.50.

Nothing doing.

I tell you what, wanna draw lots?

Double or nothing.

Well, see, you take two pieces of paper...

one of 'em has got an "X" on it.

Then you pick.

You draw the blank,

I work and pay you double for the window.

You draw the "X," I pay nothing

and ride out of town free and clear.

What about it?

Seems fair enough to me.

I, uh...

I'm always open to a sporting proposition.

High card.

Now, if you draw a high card, you walk away free and clear.

If MacGregor does, you pay double.

What's wrong with drawing lots?

Do you want me to tell her?

All right, then draw.

Queen.

Ace... ace!

Ace!

The luck of the man.

Don't complain, it was a fair draw.

Yes, it was.

And now as I said, I'm leaving.

I'm riding out of here free and clear.

But not to Wyoming.

You were right about that, Crown.

It'll be ten years before they're ready for me.

Listen to that, as if they're developing the whole state

to suit his pleasure.

I'm just being practical.

I'm going to Colorado instead.

I'm gonna stake out a claim and dig silver out of the ground.

I hear silver is played out there.

Not if you know how to blast for it.

Working with dynamite here gave me the idea.

There's a future in Colorado for a man that can handle dynamite.

Boy howdy.

Take care, you hear.

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