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♪♪

I don't want them turning on me.

I mean, I done more than I should for you out of just plain good nature.

You're getting fatter on your good nature.

What's he up to?

Can I help myself?

That's Michael.

Our name's Varner.

We're from Illinois.

Where are you from?

Out beyond.

It's a fearsome country.

I can see you've been through great hardship.

Oh, no, I was making out pretty good.

We plan to settle here and farm,

When they open the outlet.

What do you do?

I hunt.

Well, now.

That's what my husband's doing this very minute.

He says the hunting's fine hereabouts.

I'm afraid it's all played out.

Why, he brings in jackrabbits and prairie chickens every day.

That's part meat.

Swede.

All right.

Let's find out.

♪♪

But of course, John's an uncommonly fine hunter.

You sold out, Sam.

Pack horse... dogs... traps.

Might as well.

You can pay us the money then.

You divvy it up, Brom.

Come to five dollars apiece.

Why...

Steady now, there's the mother and there's the child.

This ain't no place to tussle.

You sat down here on purpose.

Yes, ma'am.

Any other place and they'd like to tear me apart

before I could open my mouth.

You mean we wore ourselves out all spring for five dollars?

Well, now how could I have knowed they'd take off the bounty

while we were gone?

We're not the only ones had to sell out.

Before I'd sell out for this kind of money,

I'd feed the horse to them dogs.

Put them dogs in them traps and shove 'em in the river.

That makes good sense.

That makes real good sense.

You know it ain't fair.

Well, now why didn't I think of that?

Just run up to somebody, say, "It ain't fair,"

and they'll fill our pockets with money.

You mocking me, Sam?

That's a fact, Brom.

Come on, leave it be, Brom.

Whoa!

I oughta cut your throat.

You take 'em.

Wolf pelts.

You tack 'em on the wall and you point to 'em, talk about 'em.

These are the last three.

We killed 'em all.

There ain't no more.

Guess I'll just have to find something else.

♪♪

Miss Weatherby, I'm half persuaded to get married myself,

if I could find someone as lovely as you.

Why thank you, Marshal.

Aaron, you picked yourself a pretty girl.

Thank you, sir.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Howdy.

Howdy, everybody.

Well, you said come one, come all, so I... Take off your hats.

You and your friends are welcome, Mr. Miller.

Some of my boys are fetching a buckboard full of beer

and Lord knows what all.

Oh, this is Dub Lewis.

Best fiddler in the territory.

We're going to have a real do.

Whip her up, Dub.

Here!

Now put that down!

How did they get in here?

Jess, throw that trash out.

Come on, boys.

Keep your hands off these boys.

Keep your hands off.

I'm reminded of that old saying.

The devil and idle hands.

They're no more trouble than a tub full of eels.

Sam, you was flying.

I could have told you, Sam.

We ain't good enough no more.

Sam, Sam.

Did you ever see a woman built that way?

Not when I was sober.

Everybody fill your glasses.

Let's make a toast to the newlyweds.

To the newlyweds.

Marshal!

Marshal Crown, those wild men have broke my window!

Miller, come with me.

I might need some help.

Yah!

Beer!

Look at that beer!

How about some of that beer?

Give me some.

I'll take it in my hat.

What in tarnation's come over you, Bill?

I'm Sam Gallatin!

I'm a poor, dumb mule.

I'm a sore-backed horse.

I'm a... a toothless dog looking for a home.

I'm all bottled up and I'm gonna pull the cork!

Daly, let me borrow your gun.

Hold it!

Hold it.

I want to tell you a little story.

I rode into town today.

Being overtook by drunkenness, I'd fallen off my horse.

That animal left me and went away

and I decided that I was gonna stay in this here town

and as I was lying there, middle of the street, 64 farmers,

16 cowboys, two squaws and a mangy hound all stepped right over me.

I kicked the hound hoping at least he'd pay me some mind,

but he wouldn't even bite me.

That there didn't bother me.

But then this here old bull flea sat up on my wrist.

He took one look at me, one look at that mangy hound dog,

spit once and he hopped off over to the hound,

taking the rest of my fleas with him.

I said to myself, "Sam, what's become of you?

I can understand you being took by the cattlemen.

I understand you being swindled by the merchants.

I can even understand the dog being too choosy to bite you.

But when I lose my fleas, I can't get no lower without digging a hole."

I tell you, I was walking pretty small

and I come on some fellas hanging around

outside that there farmer's wedding.

They were old rovers, buffalo hunters like myself,

I feared to go in.

And then I seen this here wagon, some of you trotting along behind it.

Turkey Bill, Charlie.

Some of you travelers.

Begging.

Begging the cattlemen.

Wasn't it the cattlemen who come whining and begging to us?

Saying, "Oh boys, the wolves

are eating us out of house and home

and we'll pay you to kill them for us."

And that's what we did, didn't we?

And where was the farmers when it was worth your hair

to stand up here on the Cimarron?

Back east, that's right, they were back east,

shaking in their boots, afraid of their own shadows, while we were here.

We were standing here.

We walked this land like kings

and now you got your tails between your legs, begging.

Boys, that was never our way.

That's right.

Where we wanted to go, we went

and what we wanted to take, we took.

And I say we take it now.

Free beer!

Come and get it!

All right, now everybody break it up.

Come on, it's over.

Break it up.

Go on!

Tell me again.

I like that part best about them being less trouble than a tub full of eels.

Aye, I may have misjudged a trifle.

Yeah.

Where are you going with that?

Gonna get a picture of Sam Gallatin.

Marshal wouldn't even put him in a cell without a bath.

A bath?

May be the first one he's ever had.

Historical occasion.

Well, I think it's indecent.

No, you don't... The job's half-done.

I'm gonna pull up lame.

You're going to need some money.

I got money.

Mm-hmm.

Just enough to pay for the damage you've done.

It was worth it.

I can get you a job.

It pays pretty well.

Doing what?

Riding scout for the Army.

Out at Fort Supply.

No, they'd never take me on.

They would if I asked them to.

And you'd ask?

Sure.

Why?

You don't know me from a kick in the head.

Well, now maybe it's because I feel sorry for you.

Oh no, oh no.

You're thinking ahead to something entirely different.

You're almost clean.

It's a step in the right direction.

Almost clean?

I feel skinned.

What about that job?

That there Fort Supply's a fair distance from here, ain't it?

Mm-hmm.

Fair.

You wouldn't be trying to get me out of town now, would you?

You think about that job.

Yeah.

I have.

More people than fleas in this here town!

Morning, ma'am.

Crown!

Crown!

Marshal Crown!

Crown!

I'm gonna pull this place down over your ears.

I'm gonna dance on your grave.

The man's incorrigible.

He's gonna be a real joy to have around.

Come drifting in here, squatting.

We've been losing two or three head a week,

but I got a good look at the fella this time.

Just point him out to me.

Let him be.

Marshal!

Come here.

Take a look at this.

And we'll find the hide around here somewheres.

What's your name?

What's my name?

That's what I asked.

Well, I'll tell you, Marshal, they've been calling me Kiowa for so long,

it's hard to say.

What's that there smell?

Sure is rank.

No, it ain't cowboy.

It stinks a lot worse than that.

Marshal!

That's what it is.

Stinks like a polecat, but a good nose can tell 'em apart.

Afternoon, Sam.

You ain't wanted here.

Get out.

Somebody's been killing beef.

Not nobody around here.

There's gotta be one place a man can clear his nose

of marshal and cowboy stink.

How about it?

Let's grab a hold of these two and run 'em out of here so fast

the breeze will burn their britches.

- That's right! - Man: Let's get outta here.

It's gonna be hard doing.

Sam.

I told you, I don't want no part of fighting.

You never did have the spunk of a grasshopper, Bill.

Bill?

What's your last name?

Henderson.

How about it, Charlie?

You're with me, ain't ya?

No, Sam.

It don't hardly seem worth the effort.

Is he the one?

Well... I wouldn't try taking him out of here, Marshal.

Is he or isn't he?

Sure looks like beef they're cooking.

Now that there's jackrabbit.

Jackrabbit... Ha!

Well, I know they grow 'em big around here, but not that big.

Let me borrow your knife, Sam, and we'll destroy some of the evidence.

That's not jackrabbit.

No?

Nope.

That's what we call slow elk.

That's prime yearling, shot for the table.

All right, boys, that's it...

Sam, don't swallow it.

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All right, Sam, I got no more use for you.

Get out.

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Yep.

I'm the original catawampus, but I still got the hair...

I'm mean.

I'm mean.

Aye, there's nothing like the dew off the heather to make a bad man talk.

It's the Kiowa Kid

So Jess told me.

Whose land is it?

What are you going to do about it?

Well, we was here first.

They wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for us.

Cleared all the land for 'em.

Belongs to us.

Kill the cows and the cowmen will go away.

Run 'em.

Ooh, run 'em!

And farmers come in, kill 'em too.

Sam Gallatin talking.

I've been uneasy about those men getting together

and making trouble for a long time.

Why do we have to put up with that kind of truck?

There's just enough truth in what Gallatin is saying to stir them up.

One of these days, Washington's gonna decide who's gonna take over that land

in the outlet... the farmers or the cattlemen.

Then you're going to have to stand up and fight for it.

That's what Sam is preaching.

Let's burn out that hole they're squatting in.

That'll end it.

That's no way to handle it.

That's just what he wants and the law will move over to his side.

Say, Kersey.

You think you and your people will take some of them on,

give them odd jobs?

- Odd jobs! - Doing what?

They're not farmers.

Chopping wood, lugging water, mending fences, something like that.

And Miller, you think you can talk those ranchers in

to putting a bounty on coyotes?

Two bits a head.

For what?

Right now, we have buffalo and wolf hunters

wandering the streets looking for something to do.

Well, let's give them something to do.

I'll tell you what you do.

That one in there, you throw him in prison so deep

the rest of them will think twice

before they even look sideways at a cow.

You know how close you are to having 150 wild men climbing all over you?

Well, they were here first.

So were a lot of other varmints.

Yearling hide.

Looks like your brand.

Jess!

Jess, who done it?

I don't know, Mr. Miller.

I don't want to know no more... I'm gettin' out.

There goes your witness.

I'll see what I can do.

Maybe we can find jobs for eight or 10 wolvers.

Maybe more, I don't know.

That'll be fine.

I'll be sending over a man by the name of Bill Henderson to start.

Miller, don't make a big thing of it.

Just drop it.

There's one way to handle varmints.

Hand feeding 'em ain't it.

♪♪

The boys have got more respect for you than anyone, Charlie.

Oh, I don't know about that.

Oh, you throw in with me, a lot of them gonna come along.

Just be a lot of trouble.

We ain't gonna get nothing unless we make trouble.

Sam, I got kind of a long feeling...

That's my point.

♪♪

Now when you see Sam Gallatin, you tell him for me...

Any more of this and witnesses or no witnesses, I'm coming after him.

You understand that?

Oh, I understand that, Marshal.

But I'm the Kiowa Kid and I ain't been combed

and I ain't been curried.

Now you do like you're told or you're gonna get curried.

Let's get him off.

Just lay him down.

Lay him down here.

Roll him over.

Easy, easy.

- Sam? - You all right, Sam?

You all right?

Leave me be.

Austin, you stay.

I wanted to help you, Sam, but I don't know what come over me.

I just couldn't move.

You still can help me.

Tell me what.

Let me go off with an easy mind.

Oh, Sam.

You ain't gonna die.

They stomped me.

I'm broken up inside.

That's mean.

That's... that's wicked.

They just don't need us anymore, Charlie.

You remember we followed the great northern herd up into Canada?

You and me wintered up there.

Living under a mountain of buffalo hides.

You think you'd know those cowpokes on sight?

Sure.

Can you do it?

Well, I'm a little stove up in the mornings,

but once the sun gets to me, I'm as spry as ever.

Cut 'em down for me, Charlie.

I'd do the same for you.

Sure, Sam.

So long, Sam.

♪♪

Sam.

Is he gone?

You sure improved.

Oh, I've been worse hurt falling off pool tables.

I guess so.

♪♪

Oh, MacGregor, it's beautiful.

Aye.

So soft and luxurious.

Can you picture a muff?

A rough?

A wrap, a coat?

Is it really sable?

Jim Crown.

Jim, come in here.

I've got the answer to your problem.

And your fortune, too.

Now, I defy you, I defy you... you cannot tell what it is.

Could be mink.

Or sable.

Now what is the most common creature here abouts?

Jackrabbit.

Jackrabbit it is.

You're joking!

With the addition of dyes and oils of my own compounding.

Now the hunters can bring them in for us.

It'll keep them busy.

We'll pay 10 cents a pelt... a fair price.

My ingredients cost a penny.

Then we sell them for two dollars apiece.

That's a fair price.

Aye.

It'll take some capital to get rolling, but you're all my friends,

so I'll let you all in on the ground floor.

MacGregor.

Oh.

Aye, um.

The dye does loosen the fur a might.

Jim, Jim, will you let a few details stand in the way of a fortune?

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♪♪

They shot two of my men.

We're gonna burn them out and don't try to stop us.

Go ahead.

They're all gone.

They pulled out.

That's right.

Maybe when this is done, you'll wish you had hand fed them.

♪♪

I have some hot coffee if you like.

Good.

I just helped take them inside at the undertaker's.

Old Charlie Austin and those two men he shot.

I don't want to know about it.

I always heard what these Buffalo guns could do.

- Seeing it is something else. - Two lumps or one?

None.

Oh, Francis, why?

I've seen some mean, vicious, ugly things before

and even here inside, some mean, ugly people,

but Charlie Austin killing those two men...

He was a kind old man.

Crown: Francis!

Francis!

Your horse saddled up?

- No. - Take mine.

Where?

- What's going on? - Kersey.

You know where to find him?

Down at the church with some of his people.

And I doubt they're praying.

- Well, get him here. - Right.

Miller, too.

Yeah, well, sure.

- But... - You ought to have that shotgun

pretty well taken apart by now.

The mood he's in, he'd settle for the lice off their hides.

So watch yourself.

What's happening... Why?

Because I said to.

You know, I haven't heard you take off anybody's head like that

since you found my washing in your bathtub.

Dulcey, there's a box of cartridges in that top drawer.

Let me have it.

Why?

You and Francis are a pair.

Charlie Austin is dead.

Jim, he shot those two men and they killed him and that's it, isn't it?

Jim.

They're predators, Dulcey.

Professional killers.

That's all they know.

They're like wolves, only there isn't anything more to kill except people.

Now that's what we're up against.

♪♪

Kersey, tell your people to stay out of the outlet.

Is that where those wild men are headed?

Probably.

Boys caught this one about a mile out of town with a squaw.

Turn him loose.

He was slipping out of town!

That's his privilege.

Howdy, Mr. Kersey.

Hello, Bill.

Where's Sam?

I don't know.

Not exactly.

What it was, they beat up Sam pretty bad.

I don't blame old Charlie for what he done.

Sam was pretty close.

Any of the other men still around?

Nearing the river, maybe.

Can you find them, Bill?

Talk to them?

Make them change their minds.

Mr. Kersey, I appreciate what you and the marshal is trying to do.

I'd have took that job of yours and so would some of the other boys,

but it's too late now.

We're gonna need two groups, eight to 10 men a piece.

Kersey, you take one of the group north, through the outlet.

Right, Marshal.

Miller, you and I will take the other group south.

Good.

I'll pick up a couple more boys.

Well, I'm all set.

Well, if it comes to a fight, I'll be able to sell every picture I can get.

If you can tie all that junk onto a horse before it's all over,

- it's all right with me. - Thanks, Marshal.

MacGregor, are you ready?

Dulcey: Wait.

Got a little something for you to eat.

For me and what army?

Now it's good, nourishing food.

Now eat all of it.

Thank you, Dulcey.

Oh and... be careful.

With the tablecloth.

♪♪

I'll give it to you later on.

♪♪

Man: Help!

Help me... Over here!

Glory be, I'd about given up.

How long's it been?

I think they come swarming down on me right after first light.

Gallatin, that Balkan devil.

The very traps I put for him.

Set the dogs on him, he said.

Praise Providence I sold them the day before yesterday.

Where they heading?

They headed out that way, but I don't know.

They cleaned me out.

Boys, I'm a ruined man.

They'll be leaving a trail now that we can follow in the dark.

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♪♪

♪♪

Let's talk!

Come on ahead!

You keep 'em pinned down.

Drop it.

Come on!

Look what you made me go and do.

How far up ahead of us are they?

You're spitting in the wind, mister.

I put my hand to Sam Gallatin's.

He's gonna give us back what was took from us.

He's gonna make things like they was before.

Who's gonna bring back the wolves and the buffalos, huh?

Now how far up in front are they?

- I know how to make him... - Hold it, Miller, hold it.

Injuns caught me once.

Took my toes off one joint at a time.

Me singing "Green Grow the Lilacs" to 'em the whole while.

So go ahead, cowboy.

I got an awful voice.

Miller, have someone take him and Fred into Hardesty.

Take care of him.

This much I'll tell you.

It's where you can't root 'em out!

I hope you get cut down trying!

♪♪

Crown: Put it back, we're moving on.

♪♪

Back off!

They got into the pass.

Our toeless friend was right.

That'll be the devil's own work getting him out of there.

Mac, ride over to the railroad and get this wire off to the Secretary of Interior.

Right.

Explaining our situation and requesting further instruction.

We'll meet you back over at Potter's.

Take it easy.

Here, fill your face.

I've important things to do.

Any blueberry pie in here?

♪♪

Okay, boys, look smart.

Set.

Well, come on... Look more heroic.

After all, how would Napoleon have looked with a chicken leg in his hand?

That's better... Hold that while I focus.

They've dropped it right back into my lap

with the exception of the cavalry.

That's a lot of help.

Well, you're gonna bring 'em in, ain't you?

No.

But you gotta bring 'em in!

Do I?

We're up against hunter.

They've been chasing and have been chased all their lives.

We lost a good man this morning by bringing down a half-cripple.

What chance do you think those troopers have up in that pass

against those buffalo rifles

with a killing range with a quarter of a mile?

Well, you know they're not just gonna hightail it out of there.

Now what are you gonna do about it?

I dunno... Something.

Like what?

Something to keep them busy.

♪♪

Howdy, Sam.

We got nothing to parlay about.

We got a fight.

That's up to you.

You'll have to go looking for it.

Nobody's gonna bother you.

It's no trick, Sam.

I don't understand.

As far as we're concerned, it's over and done with.

You can stay right here until you take root.

Sam, you hear that?

I feel like a bear in the berry patch.

I'll whip you, outrun you, outfox you.

If it makes you happy.

You got what you want.

We're gonna clear the outlet.

Drive everybody off.

You gonna run cattle?

No, we're not gonna run no cattle.

If you want a farm, you got enough right here.

No, I made up my mind a long time ago and I'm not gonna change.

I'll tell you this... You better change.

You ever do any hunting?

Real hunting?

You know how it is, running behind the dogs as they're working out the trail,

yapping to beat the band, you yelling just as loud.

Worse than still hunting.

Your throat gets so dry, you lie there quietly, listening.

Used to be my heart beat so hard

I thought I was gonna spook the whole countryside.

Even the traps.

You get the same feeling coming up on traps.

You ever see a full-grown wolf in a trap?

Mm-hmm.

You can't put your hand close to him.

He's got iron on his leg.

He hasn't got a chance and he'll still go for you.

What are you going to hunt here?

Coyotes?

And then after you wipe them all out, then what?

Prairie dogs?

The first thing you know, you'll be chasing grasshoppers.

What do you want with the outlet?

I don't want the outlet.

They want the outlet, the farmers and the cowboys.

It's the only thing worth having around here

and we're gonna take it away from them.

No you won't.

I'll have the cavalry here and we'll chew you up.

Old Charlie Austin.

I had a great regard for that there man.

Hadn't hunted in two years.

Teeth half falling out.

He ached all the time.

I set him on the cowboys, you know.

No, I didn't know it.

I done him a favor.

Some favor.

Well, that there were a favor.

He died proper.

Quick.

Clean.

On his feet, juices running.

I tell you, that there were a favor.

Oh, I haven't felt this good since they took off the bounty.

I could pull down that there moon, tromp it to flinders.

You better watch out you don't get tromped on.

Who's gonna do the tromping?

You?

If I have to.

You go back to that there town of yours while I'm still in a good mood.

You lock the door, bar the windows, crawl under your bed.

Sam?

You and I aren't through with each other yet.

That's your neck.

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First they says we can't come in the outlet.

It's against the law, he's gonna stop us.

Then I bring us into the outlet and he says it's all legal and we can stay.

I say his talk is bullshine, I say it's horse feathers.

All: Yeah!

What the marshal says makes good sense to me.

Well, we know you, Bill.

You'd buy the ticks off a bull's nose anybody sell it to you.

What do you got against us, Sam?

The same thing I got against putting my neck in the hang rope.

I'm gonna tell you the truth about it.

They was scared to come up and fight us in here, so they sent him in.

"Promise him," they said.

"Calm him down.

Get the guns out of their hands."

Homesteading?

Homesteading.

And I'm gonna tell you what's behind that.

They want us scattered out around here so that they can come one night

barreling in here and wipe us out one by one.

Yeah!

All right, now, just hold it.

Nobody's gonna pull a raid on you, nobody.

I guarantee you.

Now, if it doesn't work out and you can't stay here,

you'll be allowed to go peacefully.

You got my word on it.

Your word is hogwash.

I'm inclined to go along with him.

You boys are acting like horses out of a burning barn.

I get you out and you run right back in.

We got this far because we're ready to fight for it.

They're not gonna give us something for nothing.

You're gonna have to work for it.

Work?

There it is.

There's the word... Work.

That's what they're offering us.

Homesteading.

It's all played out, Sam.

Ain't nothing else we can do.

Not by a long chalk, Bill.

Go on, Sam... Keep talking!

Come on, Sam, let's hear what you got to offer.

All right, maybe the game is gone.

There are people down there... Farmers, cowboys, townsmen.

They got all we need to live on.

I say we run 'em and we take what we need.

You know what will happen to you then, don't you?

There's a word for it... It's called outlaw.

I'll have the cavalry down your neck inside of 12 hours.

They'll blow you right off the face of the map.

Do you want to chase cows?

Wanna dig in the dirt?

Wanna be half alive and not know it?

Well, that ain't for me and I don't think it's for you.

I say we don't change.

There comes a time to stop fighting, take care of what you got.

If it takes some changing, then I say we dang well better change.

Why don't you all take a vote on it?

Hush up.

Quiet!

All right.

Those of you agree with Sam, step on his side of the line.

Those of you want to go with the marshal, step on the other side.

Those of you that go along with Sam are asking to be killed.

There's no two ways about it.

Now that's what you have to decide.

Oh, Bill.

♪♪

Kiowa, kill him!

Well, never in my life have I seen such a sorry, sullen bunch.

It's all been settled, Sam.

Which one of you gonna pull me down?

♪♪

We'll keep our end of the bargain, Marshal.

You'll get no more trouble from us.

I'll do what I can to make sure nobody bothers you.

You going after Sam?

If I know that old bounty hunter, I won't have to go after him.

He'll be coming after me.

Goodbye, Pete... Boys.

♪♪

Sam: Howdy.

What took you so long?

Didn't know you were such a bad loser, Sam.

I'm the worst you ever saw.

Sam, you know your shooting's actually pitiful.

♪♪

What with one thing and another,

it's been a pretty disappointing day all around.

Marshal?

Yeah?

We can keep this up all day.

I'm willing.

Well, now it ain't hardly a healthy way for either of us to spend the day.

Care to make a deal?

No dice.

Don't say I never did offer you.

What's the deal?

Marshal?

♪♪

Hold it.

Dang fools.

They dry up and blow away.

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Jim!

Here.

I want you to take a look at this.

Look's the same as before.

I'm using totally different chemicals.

I think he's got it whipped this time.

Dig your fingers right into it.

Oh, go on, I'm busy.

Give it a pull.

Oh, have no fear, man, tug away.

What's this?

- Clean as a whistle. - Well, that's marvelous.

It's nice and soft and...

Such a wee drawback.

Francis, what's the name of that surveyor that lives around here?

Uh, St... uh, Ster...

Oh, Sturdeman.

Yeah, Sturdeman.

I'm going to give you a bunch of homestead applications.

You can take them out to the bend tomorrow and get 'em started.

Right.

Gonna be a lot of homesteaders named X.

There.

Well, thank you Dulcey.

That's a very neat job.

Won't stop blood poisoning.

You're about as reassuring as a Comanche medicine man.

Imagine a man biting another man.

I told you about Gallatin the minute I laid eyes on him.

I said he's incorrigible.

I believe he was arranging how the others were gonna die.

Yes, I guess you'd call that incorrigible.

Among other things.

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