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- Aboutfįve more mįnutes, cowboy, you betcha,

wad a due a hole rįUhtthrouUh you.

Have you seen our ske?

Ah.

70s s company proper.

- 0h?

- 7housands of cowboys,

burnįnU thousands of stakes

for thousands of pots of muddy coffee.

Isnitthat rįUht, cannon?

You, uh, you hįred me on about three years aUo.

Drove s,DDD head up from AmarįIIo

wįth you and your kįd brother.

- Yeah. Yeah. Youire Betcher MįIIs.

Hį.

Hey, do you remember we stole that chandelįer

from the Harper house?

- It looked damn Uood hanUįni įn thatjaįI, too, dįdnit įt?

- Yeah, įt sure dįd.

- Wasnit much of a drįve thįs year, was there?

- Nope.

RaįIroad Uotto AmarįIIo įn September.

Anyways, live been spendįnU more tįme cuttįnU barbed wįre

than I have herdįnU cows.

- Yeah, donit I know įt.

70s come real easy to me after my last one.

Uh, I heard somethįnU about you, dįdnit I?

Some, uh, trouble įn AmarįIIo?

You can it Uetahead of nothįnU for IonU

nowadays, can you?

- Why can it you?

- From here to Calįfornįa, less than a second.

- Well, there is drįves left. lill fįnd iem.

- Yeah. ltwouldnit surprįse me

įfwe zįpped rįUht past you and that horse before IonU.

0h, Cannon? . Yeah.

- Say hello to your brother for me, wįII ya?

Cood luck, Cannon.

- All rįUht. Haul your can out of there.

Move.

Come on, move įt, wįII ya?

- Okay. okay. lim tryįnU.

- Count yourself Iuc there is nojaįI around.

- You know, I been Iookįni for įtto thįn out some,

butthįs s too thįn.

How about a rįde to the next town, mįster?

- FIaU a passenUertraįn and buy yourself a tįcket.

- Wįth what?

- I Uot my own problems.

- Damn you.

- Howie that?

- Damn.

Okay. Up on your feet, boy.

You Uotthe wronU fellow, boy.

Come on Come on, boy.

Come on.

Phew!

- Mįster.

- ForUet įt, boy. . Move.

- I come to thank you, mįster.

- Okay. You dįd.

- Do you mįnd įf I rįde įn here wįth you?

- Not įfyou Uota match and can close that door.

- Here.

- 7hankyou.

- I Uuess I was under them wheels.

Where you headįnU? . Just headįnU.

- Me too.

I Ie phįIadelphįa sįx days aUo.

I was drįvįnU for a brewery.

Percherons. Four of iem.

- Hmm.

- Say, how come you donit have a horse?

- How come you donit have a beer waUon?

- Almost dįd have.

0h, I Uotto the edUe of town one day

and decįded to keep rįUht on UoįnU.

Fįnally hopped a traįn įn west VįrUįnįa.

Cave 1g keUs of beer to a bunch of Urįfters.

You should have seen theįrfaces.

SįnUIe rįU, huh?

Me, I fįUure to Uet a double rįU.

Brazos double.

It is better for ropįni, you know.

- Shut up, boy. 70s s a Brazos double.

- Looks dįfferent up close.

I been readįnU some books.

- 0h.

- Where you headįnU?

You use that Uun much?

Just curįous.

What kįnd s įt?

- It is a porterhouse thįr seven.auUht.fįeen, Model K.

Now Uood nįUht, boy.

- It aįnit Uonna do you no Uood to run.

Come up here.

Iill have to come down and Uetyou.

- Just Iįke that, huh?

- I donitfįUure phįIadelphįa s all preachers, s įt?

- Hell, no, but that was real slįck.

- SIįck?

- Yeah.

- You ever kįII anybody, boy?

- No.

- Well, there aįnit nothįnU slįck about kįIIįni.

You just close your eyes and Uo to sleep, boy.

- Donit call me boy.

- Just close your eyes and Uo to sleep.

- What is wronU?

- Must have mįssed the brakeman at the last stop.

- Now what?

- Hįtthe dįrt runnįni.

7hen youire on your own.

- On your feet, boy.

- I dįdnit do nothįnU.

- Anybody say you dįd?

- All rįUht, you o. Come on out of there.

Come on, boys.

Cet up. Come on, now. Move.

- Ease up on the trįUUer, depu.

He hasnit Uot a Uun.

- Co on, now. Move on.

All rįUht, boy.

Boy, come on out from under there

Come on. Cet up, up there.

Jud, brįnU iem down here.

Come on out. Up aUaįnstthere.

All rįUht. You two men up aUaįnstthe traįn.

Come on.

Is that all of them? . Yeah.

- Iim Sherįff polaskį.

CeorUe, take įt on out.

- My saddle. . Come on, now.

- I just want to Uet my saddle, sherįff.

- Come on back, cowboy. Come on.

- Wįnd up įn South Dakota.

- Wonderful.

All rįUht.

Whįch one of you boys dįd įt?

Cood mornįni.

YounU man, raįse your head on up.

Look, sonny, howid you cut your hand so bad?

- Knockįni around.

- You wouldnit have seen the brakeman, would you?

- He threw me off the traįn. I Uot back on.

7hatis įt.

- Mm-hmm.

What about these men, boy?

- I mįnd my own busįness.

- Heill talk to us.

- rįUht?

- Poke me. . Jud.

- Ah, he seen įtall, sherįff.

Heisjusttoo slįck to tell you, that is all.

It wasjustthįs sįde ofWakeeney,

that the brakeman pole.axed thįs Urįer.

7he Urįfter knįfed hįm, but įtwas a faįr enouUh fįUht.

7he brakeman would have just as soon kįIIed hįm.

- It just never happened that way, sherįff.

7he kįd dįd įt.

- 7hatis a Iįe.

- Now, you say įt Iįke įt s, boy.

- You sure donit make a man keen to do no favors, mįster.

- All rįUht. Move įt.

- RaįIroad aUents wįII pįck hįm up later.

- Much oblįUed, sherįff.

- Howid you ever Uetto be 2D? . 23!

- It is hard to belįeve.

Youill never make įtto 2.

- Where do you thįnk youire UoįnU?

- Iim Uonna waįtaround for my reward.

Unless you plan on kįnU the hundred for yourself, sherįff.

- When the aUent comes.

It is $SD for you and $SD for the depu and me.

Faįr enouUh? . Faįr enouUh.

- Itill be a few days.

You know, as far lim concerned,

you can put your bedroll anywhere except įn the street.

Or else you could try the FourWįnds.

- Donit Uet rouUh įn there. one of the Uįrls s a depu.

We playfįnd the badUe every Saturday nįUht.

- Now, Uo on, Jud.

- All rįUht. Move įt.

- If I was to leave, boy, you could Uet back on the traįn.

- What is that for?

- Kearneyis mįIk cows.

- Cows sure are dumb.

- Mornįni, maiam.

- Louįsa!

- You want heat, youive Uotto chop.

- Ma?

- Cannon! . Hį!

- Come, Uįve me a hand.

- Why, cerįnly, maiam.

Here you are. 7here you Uo.

- I donit know, Cannon.

Every tįme I thįnk live found peace and uuįet, you show up.

- Well, įtis terrįble, aįnit įt?

Come here.

- Let me look at you, Ma.

- 0h, that is notfaįr. I just woke up.

- Are you kįddįnU?

Youive Uota nįce mornįnU face, Ma.

live always saįd that.

Ma, whereid you Uo after Kansas Cį?

- 0h, New 0rleans. Nįce place, New 0rleans.

You Uet, um, money and, uh, flowers.

- Mm-hmm.

Whyid you come here?

- 0h, įtjust happened.

Besįdes, there was too much musįc.

7oo loud all the tįme. . We are a cooperatįve here.

It Uįves a Iįttle prįde, you know?

- Yes, maiam.

- Iim Louįsa. Cermanyis bįUUest loss.

- Iim Cannon, maiam. pleased to meet you.

-Bįtte, Julįe.

Come on, you cook today.

- Cota IįUht?

- Been three years sįnce AmarįIIo.

- Yeah. . Howie thįnUs there?

- 0h, not too Uood.

- You Uot off the traįI?

- For a whįIe. . Wįth your brother?

- Mmm. Yeah. Yeah

- How s he? . Well, Jįmis...

peaceful enouUh.

- I never saw you come įnto town carryįnU your saddle, Cannon.

No horse? . No.

- No money? . No food.

- 0h, I donit know, Cannon.

7hereis some thįnUs live just Uotto be sure of.

- Dįd you see a man Uo įn there?

- All the tįme.

- I apprecįate what you dįd for me, mįster,

but I fįUure you owe me some money.

- 0h, thanks, Matt.

Matt...

Nowthatyouive come barUįnU įn here, make yourself known.

- My name s Jess Washburn.

Maiam.

- Iim MaWest. . West?

- Iim West. And Louįsais North.

And Julįe here s East.

And, uh, well, we donit have the South anymore

because Dolly went to Denver.

- At least you Uot a nįce easy name

to remember thįs tįme, Ma.

0we you for what exactly, son?

- Half the reward. 0ur share.

- What kįnd of phįIadelphįa thįnkįni s that?

I turned hįm įn. . You saįd įt was a faįr fįUht.

Now, įf I hadnit have been there, you wouldive saįd nothįnU.

- So I owe you because I turned hįm įn?

- Yep.

- You know, įtis crazy, Ma.

It is crazy, but heis rįUht.

- Donit Uetany įdeas, boy.

- Donit call me boy. My name s Jess.

- Now, Jess, there are o thįnUs I donit expect to have

when I Uet back on those tracks.

Money, and you.

- 7hereis some work here.

7he Cross 7rįanUIeis been short a hand for o months now.

I know, because he ran off wįth Dolly.

Couple of months here wouldnit kįII you.

- Ma, I need lots of space to do what I know best,

and įf I Uo keep movįni to fįnd įt,

tiro just Uonna keep movįni, that is all.

- lid take a job, maiam.

I wouldnit even care įf I Uot paįd.

- Well, įfyou-- įfyou work, you have to Uet paįd.

Isnitthat rįUht, Cannon? . 0h, donit ask me.

I aįnittellįnU nobody what to do.

- All rįUht then.

Why donit we...

see that you Uet a Uun.

Just so you can ke care of yourself.

Put įt on. lill sell įtto you, on credįt.

- What is wronU?

- You Uet įtany hįUher, youire Uonna choke yourself to death.

- Hey, hey, donit poįntthat Uun at us.

You Uot any įdea what that s?

- A S.

- Coltis S. Smįth and Wessonis.

Okay, cowboy.

Letis see how Uood you can take care of yourself.

Weill straįUhten you up a Iįttle bįtthere.

7hatis įt.

Now, put that away.

Now, when I tell you to draw, you just draw.

And whatever you do, please donit pull the trįUUer, huh?

You know what the trįUUer s?

- Sure. . Cood for you.

Okay, now.

Ready...

Set...

Hey!

- 7hatis notfaįr. You dįdnittell me to draw.

- 7hatis the only way youire Uonna hear įt.

- How much, maiam?

- Uh, that is, uh, $2D

- Done.

- Okay.

- Dįd you see that?

Someday I am Uonna Uet myself a hammer

and just mash the hell out ofthįs thįnU.

- You know, I learned thįs Uame up įn South Dakota

on a pool table that was so crooked they had

to put all the pockets on one sįde.

- I seen an lndįan pool table once made out of mud.

And įt dįdnit have any pockets.

Just mud puddles you shot įnto.

It was a durn sįUht better than thįs.

- Howie the jobs around here, mįster?

- Iim all full up.

Justtook on two new men today.

Well, one and a half, anyway.

Ben Fowler, or Bo lvers, ask them.

We all run cattle on the same ranUe.

- Amos, them two I took off the traįn?

- Yeah. Well, John, you know when Ma srts to work

on you for a favor, she is mįUh hard to turn down.

- Hey, depu.

Ah, I thouUht I was UettįnU too old for any more fįrsts.

- 0h, Cannon, įtis always Uood between us.

- Yeah.

- Hey. . What?

- 7ake the job.

- 0h. . For a whįIe.

- Well, įt s open ranUe, įsnit įt?

Yeah.

For a whįIe.

- For a whįIe.

- 7hat deserves a drįnk.

- Hey, that is new.

- I aįnitthe only one wįth that scar.

You can it help fallįnU įnto a Iįttle wįre now and then, Ma.

- Notthat deep, Cannon. Notwįthout beįnU pushed.

Just how, uh,

peaceful s Jįm?

- He took 1D,DDD head of cattle rįUht across hįs chest.

I dįdnit have to bury hįm. He was burįed.

- Iim sorry, Cannon.

- Yeah.

I tauUht hįm to stand up to anythįnU

that stood įn hįs way,

and he stood up to the wįre.

Boy, he stood up to the wįre.

Whatid he learn from įt, Ma?

He learned absolutely nothįnU. Absolutely nothįnU.

Absolutely nothįnU.

You know, some day, lim Uonna fįnd me a bottle

that srts out emp and ends up full.

- I am sorry, Cannon.

- Hey, donit be sorry for a waddy, Matt.

Just Uįve hįm a new bottle and tįckle hįm a Iįttle,

that is all he wants.

7hatis all.

- Hey!

0h! Stop, oh!

- Come here!

- Yes?

- Would you cutthįs off for me?

- Let įt down.

Now, thatwasnit so heavy, was įt?

- No. Not heavy at all.

- Hey, fella.

- Jess.

- 0h, Jess, you shoot pool?

- Some.

- Well, lke here says he can sįnk

that nįne ball wįthout hįttįnU no other ball on the table.

- No, no, Ben. 7hatis too hard.

- Well, lke says he can do įt.

- Drįnks for everybody įf I can it.

- Heh. Drįnks for everybody įfyou can.

- Yeah.

- Ike Uets the fįrst drįnk įfyou make įt.

- Drįnk?

You drįnk.

- Capper. . Amos.

- Capper, I brouUhtyou a couple of new hands.

- I Iįke to pįck my own men.

- You wasnitthere. Now, Washburn here, he ill work cheap

untįI he learns the ropes, and Cannon, he knows iem.

- Whereid he learn iem?

- 0h, 7exas, Kansas.

Had your own spread, dįdnityou?

- Mm-hmm.

- Whyid he leave there?

What happened?

- I Ie.

- Hey, Amos, where is that newspaper?

- 0h, they read įt so hard įn town,

they wore all the prįnt off of įt.

- Now, Harry, donityou throw away no more tįn cans,

icause I was rįUht įn the mįddle

of a real Uood tomato paste label.

- All rįUht. I Uonna wrįte down some words

for you to read, okay?

- Creek?

- 7heyis all Creekto me.

- Boys, Jess, Cannon.

Coff, Maz, Lou, Lįttle.

- Hį.

- "Avo įr du poez,"

"Avo įr du poez"?

- 7hatis a town įn Cuba. 7hatis where they bottle įt.

- No. It means weįUht, that is all.

Sįxteen ounces to the pound. Avoįrdupoįs.

- Atown įn Cuba. Boy, are you dumb.

- Well, maybe įtis Uonna be a town įn Cuba.

- Come on, pass the mush.

- Mm-hmm.

- Ah!

- When your top hand asks for somethįnU,

he Uets įt, dįrect.

- You saįd pass įt, lill pass įt.

- Let Uo, boy.

- Now I donit have to pass įt?

- EverybodyfįUhts over Harryis cookįni.

- Now, you let Uo, boy.

- All rįUht, mįster,

but you dįdnit have to rap my knuckles.

- Harry.

- Coffee, Cannon.

- live Uot įt, 7op Hand.

- Ah, ah, ah.

You better Uetyourself some paper, too.

Make a Iįst. Youire Uonna fįUht iem all.

Here you Uo.

Harry Uave some hunUry Mexes a bįU chįIį spread.

Conna cost you ten bucks thou Uh.

And forthįs, you owe Maz SD.

7hatis the best I could do.

It is a sįnUIe cįnch, but įtis Uot a real hįUh cantle,

a stronU Uullet and a horn.

Just look at them tapaderos.

- What are you IkįnU about?

- Cutlet, cantle, horn.

- 7apadero? . Uh.uh. 7įe strįnU.

7apadero.

7hatwasnit much of a book you learned from, was įt?

- Cannon? . Yeah.

- Why dįd you leave 7exas?

- Are we Uonnajaw, or are we Uonna work cattle?

Ya.

Let Uo.

Let Uo, Jess.

Let įt Uo, Jess.

You know, there is a tįme to hold on,

and a tįme to let Uo, Jess.

Now, Uet up and Ietis try another one.

- More cow chįps.

- More cow chįps.

- Hey, cow chįps.

Why donityou Uet the avoįrdupoįs outta your butt?

- Cet hįm, kįd. Co on, Uet hįm.

- Damn you.

- Cet down. Co on, Uo on!

Cet down there. 7hatis įt.

- Easy, easy, boy. Easy. Easy.

- WejustfįUured to water that stock you been fįUhtįni.

- 7hatis the way you do įt, Jess.

- Cood boy.

Nowthatyou can hįt sįx įn a row,

we ill try somethįnU reasonably small.

Nowtry that.

- Fast draw, Cannon?

- Well, you say when.

- Ready, set...

- When you do somethįnU, Jess, do įt.

- Mm-hmm.

- Hey, yo.

You from Cross 7rįanUIe?

- Yeah.

- 2D7 head. 7hatis seven over contract.

- Well, Ietis keep movįni iem down ranUe, Cannon,

ortheyire Uonna crowd that south end.

- But what contract? . Donitask me, mįster.

I just done a job for an aUent up įn Laramįe.

- How much?

- I thįnk I heard three dollars a head, delįvered.

- 0h, they ill brįnU 1S easy after a Uood summer,

eatįnU wįnter Urass.

- You tell Amos we want to talk to Mrs. Cross

fįrstthįnU she shows up.

Weive been sharįnU thįs ranUe for seven years.

Huh, hyah!

- Amos.

Amos.

- Fįnest...

"Iubra satįn" oįI for--

- LubrįcatįnU. . Catįni?

Fįnest Iubracatįni oįI

for "skįssors"?

- Scįssors.

- Come on, Uet out of there.

- Who cut these sprįnUs? . You Uot sprįnUs?

- If you slept on a slat bed Iįke us,

the yid have to saw the bottom out, capįn.

- What have you Uotthere?

All rįUht. Hand those over, boy.

- You want to take iem, Capper?

Or do you want me to pass iem to you?

- Boy, lim Uonna take iem.

- 7rykįnU iem from me, Capper.

- Heis mįne, Cannon. . Eįther one.

- Cannon. . Yeah?

- You ever seen įndoor plumbįnU?

- In Kansas Cį, why?

- You better come on, Harryis Uot us įn an awful dįsaster.

Come on.

- Now, you fellas play real nįce, huh?

- 0h, oh.

Hey, uuįck. ltis Uot my jacket now.

- 7he tank, where is the water tank?

- Do somethįnU. . We put įt out of sįUht.

It is on the roof. . Do somethįnU, Amos.

- 7hereis too much pressure. 7urn įt off.

- Canit. No valves.

- Do somethįnU, Amos. Help me, Amos.

I have only two shįrts.

- Well, donitjust snd there, fellas.

Stop the damn wįndmįII.

- DanU.

Blast.

One more mįnute and we could have beat įt.

- We trįed, Mrs. Cross. I sure am sorry.

- 0h, as a Uesture, Amos, įtwas very nįce.

As plumbįnU, įt was a Iįttle excįtįnU.

- I owe you sįx bullets, Amos.

Iim sorry, Harry.

- 7hankyou, Mr. Cannon.

- 0h, heis the one I was tellįnU you about, Mrs. Cross.

- I know. Well, Uood nįUht, boys.

- Cood nįUht, maiam.

- Cannon.

Wasnit įtyou Ben Fowler Iked to about those cattle?

- Well, he saįd he was Uonna talk to you about įt.

- Well, I donit suppose after 7exas,

the Cross 7rįanUIe įmpresses you very much.

- 0h, no. No. Notatall.

As a matter of fact, įtis kįnd of nįce.

- My husband was a man of moderatįon, Cannon.

- 0h, how is that, maiam?

- He had one chaįr shįpped įn, for hįm.

- Yeah. Seems to me you could fįx up thįs place real nįce.

Make a sįde table for there, a couple of sįde chaįrs.

- You know, įt sounds Iįke stayįnU here

kįnd of appeals to you, Cannon.

Iill Uetyou somethįnU to drįnk.

- Well, thank you, maiam, but I best be IeavįnU.

- Cut iem back, Jess.

- Damned įf I remember that cactus beįni there.

- Well, he dįd.

- Okay. . Up you Uo.

Yeah.

- Maz.

- Whoa.

- live looked įnto enouUh Uuns, Ben.

Put įt up.

- I donit mean to cock įt iless I have to.

Bo. Cass. Keep the men workįnU.

- Mrs. Cross, Ben here, and some of the other small ranchers

claįm there is 1,DDD head of cattle on the way.

- Ike here heard įt last nįUht, downtown.

- 7hatis rįUht.

- I never knew you real Uood, Mrs. Cross,

but you clearly Uot plans we can it Iįve wįth.

- 7hereis 1,3DD on the traįI, exactly.

- Mrs. Cross, thįs ranUe can hold just so many cattle.

- 0h, įt can hold another 1,SDDfor one summer.

- No, įt can it. . It has to, Mr. lvers.

live spent every cent live Uot on those cattle, $,SDD.

7heyill all be Uone come September,

and I won it be a day behįnd.

One summer, that is all I need.

- 7he trouble is not the summer, įtis the wįnter.

7herejust aįnit enouUh Urass.

It is no faįr way to turn a profįt.

- It is the only way I have.

Please?

- What you run from here on back s your busįness.

- 7he water hole and the rest are on our sįde.

Boys.

FencįnUis the only claįm to a pįece of land.

And once įtis up, sherįff says everybody is Uot a rįUht

to defend what is behįnd įt.

I donit Iįke wįre, but lim puttįnU įt up.

And įfyou want to try and stop us,

there is Uonna be a fįUht, sure as hell.

- Amos.

- From here on back, that is no more than theįr share.

7hatis true.

- Capper.

My husband took you off the bottle

and Uave you back an outfįt.

Now, you stand up to these men for sįx months,

and lill Uįve you thįs ranch.

- It mįUht do to Ik thįs over įn prįvate, Mrs. Cross.

- Lou?

- Well, I tookthįsjob wearįnU Uuns, maiam.

And the Cross 7rįanUIe has...

įtis been more home than I ever expected,

but I can it see myself fįrįnU the fįrst shot.

- Hey.

- Okay, boy. Cet.

- Move įt, boy.

- Donityou try įt.

- Putthat Uun up.

You hearįni, offįcer? put įt away!

- Letis Uo.

- Keep workįni.

- You know, you draw me a Iįttle pįcture,

I could make you anythįnU.

- You Uįve įtfour hįts about an įnch apart.

- You know, I once made a man and a woman.

Solįd įron, for a bįU weddįnU cake.

Put įt rįUht up on the top.

DanU bust, they sunk rįUht down to the bottom.

Here, how is thįs?

- Yeah. 7hatill do įt.

- Wantto talk, Mrs. Cross?

- Not rįUhtthįs mįnute, capįn.

- Yes maiam.

- Cannon, may I speak to you a mįnute?

- You Uot a foreman and a top hand, maiam.

70s donit look Uood talkįnU to me įnstead of them.

- Youire the one who can stand up to the wįre.

- 0h, no, maiam. You Uot me all wronU.

- 70s s a Uood place for you and you know įt.

- Let me see that.

- Is that an order, sįr?

- Yes, that is an order.

- Cannon teach you that?

- I thįnkyou want me, Capper.

- I want both of you.

- It is my fįUht.

Cannon.

Let Uo.

7he knuckles made įtfaįr.

Youire so bįU on fįUhts beįnU faįr, what is wronU?

- Your hand wouldive Uotten better, Jess.

Sometįmes waįtįni s better than fįUhtįnU.

I wouldive waįted.

- Well, that is your way.

I had a fįUht comįni, and I stįII do.

Look, lim nottellįni you how to fįUhtthat wįre.

- You Uonna stop įt, Cannon? . Hell, yes, he s.

- Come here.

Dįdnityou hear me?

Sometįmes waįtįnU s better than fįUhtįnU.

- What is the matter? Are you afraįd to fįUht?

- I aįnitafraįd not to fįUht.

- Well, I Uot a fįUht stįII comįni,

and I aįnit much for waįtįnU on įt.

- Hey, Jess, not wįth me, you aįnit.

- Iim not so sure about that anymore.

- Roses. . Yeah.

7hey Urow wįId behįnd the cookhouse.

Harryfeeds iem soup, I Uuess.

- 7hankyou, Cannon.

- Yeah. You been thįnkįnU about cattle so much,

I thouUht maybe you forUotyou were a woman.

- Well, now, look at that.

- Ma.

- Jess, įn about two hours,

we Uota worktraįn comįnU throuUh.

Ittakes on a few passenUers.

- Whereis įt headįnU, sherįff?

- East. CoįnU east.

- Who says lim UoįnU east?

- Well, now, them two fellas over there, theyire rįdįnU west.

You could rįde alonU wįth them.

- Who says lim UoįnU west?

Who says lim UoįnU anywhere?

- IimjustfollowįnU polaskįis law.

- Whįch one? 0oh!

- 7he less people įn town, the less trouble.

- Just you stop pushįnU me.

- Mm-hmm.

Whereis Capper?

- In my room asleep.

Drunk. I couldnit stop hįm.

- Julįe, you lock hįm įn your room.

Put įn a full bottle įn there wįth hįm.

- We heard about the fįUht, and the fencįnU.

- Yeah.

Well, thįs sure was a bad town to Uet off įn.

- Cannon stayįnU?

- What do you say we Ik about me?

- He hasnit been here įn a week.

- Well, heis been pre busy sįnce Mrs. Cross Uot back.

- Yeah. Why not?

- Come on now, Ma.

A woman Iįke you can it afford to be jealous.

Lįsten, I...

Uot me a few of these.

What do you say we Uo upstaįrs and have a Iįttle par.

- I wįsh lid have heard that one.

- Lįsten to me.

You ke thįs money so they all can see įt,

and you come upstaįrs wįth me.

- I asked you about Cannon.

- And I saįd--

- You answer me, boy.

Now, what is happened?

Whyid you leave?

- I donit know.

Heis fįUhtįnU when he shouldnit and not when he should.

- You know hįm that Uood?

- KnowįnU hįm aįnit easy, Ma.

- Who says įt has to be easy?

You let hįm care about you, he ill make hįmself known.

- If he cares, he sure hįdes įt Uood.

- 7hatis rįUht.

- How come you know so much about hįm?

- It is tradįtįon, boy.

A man can talk free to a whore.

All she is supposed to want s hįs money.

- 0h, lim sorry.

- He, uh, he was drunk once įn AmarįIIo,

dįdnit stop IkįnU for two days.

Now, įfyou want to save face, you can.

Iill Uo upsįrs wįth you,

but you are UoįnU out the wįndow.

- Nah.

I Uuess I can save my own face įf I have to, Ma.

7hankyou.

- Cood nįUht, Jess.

- Bet I aįnitwasted enouUh tobacco

įn my Iįfe to roll one cįUarette.

Your husband smoke, Beth?

- My husband snored, Cannon.

He worked hard all day and snored hard all nįUht.

- Hmm.

- Would you Iįke to hear about hįm?

- No.

- 7ell me about yourself.

- 7hereis nothįnU to tell.

live been there. lim here now.

- And later?

Where you Uonna be later, Cannon?

- 0h, I donit know.

Funny, but I aįnitthouUht about įt much lately.

- 7hatis all I thįnk about.

Where lim UoįnU to be later.

- You mean, youire really not stayįnU here?

- Could you?

- I could run thįs place real fįne, Beth.

- Seven years live watched that wįndmįII Uo around.

Atfįrst, įt was Uonna make everythįnU Ureen.

7hen I saw įtwasjust UoįnU to suck all the water

out of the Uround and never chanUe anythįnU.

NothįnU ever really Uets Ureen around here.

One whole nįUht last year, I counted

thatwįndmįII turnįnU,

Do you know what $2S,DDD can buy įn ChįcaUo?

- EverythįnU, I Uuess.

- Just enouUh.

Cannon, I had nothįnU when I came here.

- You Uota lot more than nothįnU thįs tįme.

You Uot Uood land here, Beth.

And you Uot Uood men proud to work for you,

įncludįnU me.

Now, įf I was one of them ranchers,

and a man came alonU IookįnU for more than hįs share,

heid eįther Uet kįIIed orfenced out.

I never arUued for wįre before, Beth,

but lid much rather see you fenced out.

- But lim not a man, Cannon,

and all I want s what a woman wants.

- And you are a woman, Beth, a real one.

You know that now, donityou, hmm?

- Keep tellįnU me.

- Cet rįd of them cattle, Beth.

- I lose everythįnU įf I do.

- You lose everythįnU įfyou donit.

- IncludįnU you?

- Drįnk?

- Hmm?

Yeah, sure.

7here you Uo.

Wander around, wanderįnU around

- Uh, uh, uh, uh.

- Uh uh what?

- Well, you aįnit drįnkįnU less than me.

Unless, of course, you aįnit up to įt.

- Hey, youire talkįnU to a Washburn. No contest.

- Cood.

Cood.

Ah, now, Ietis Uet the rules straįUht, huh?

- Okay. phįIadelphįa rules.

Last man passes out wįns.

- Okay.

And įf we pass outtoUether, Kansas Cį rules.

- Now what is that?

- Fįrst man comes to wįns.

- Done.

- 7here you Uo.

7here... there is one thįnU I want to tell you

before we srt drįnkįnU serįous.

One thįnU.

- You can come wįth me.

- Where?

- I donit know. I donit know.

Wherever lim UoįnU. 0h, stayįnU put, that is..

- Stay here. . StayįnU alįve.

- 7he two of us, here.

- Now, that is somethįnU. 7hatis somethįnU.

Yeah.

7hatis what I shouldive tauUht old Jįm.

7hatis what I shouldive tauUht hįm.

Stay put, Jįm.

We aįnit backįnU down for nothįnU.

- Whois Jįm? . He was my kįd brother.

And you remember how we-- we Uotthat spread įn AmarįIIo?

7hatyellow-bellįed Ureedy bastard, DouUIas.

He... he fences us out.

0ur spread was eatįnU too much Urass.

7hatis what he thouUht.

We aįnit backįnU down for nothįnU, Jįm.

7hen there was the... the noįse.

7here was that noįse Iįke...

thunder aUaįnstthe Uround.

Run, Jįm, run. I Uot down.

Cet off the barbed wįre, Jįm.

7hey crushed... crushed hįm rįUhtthrouUh the Uround!

7hey crushed hįm. I went back...

and I shot DouUIas and them,

and them fįve hands of hįs.

- Yeah. You stood up, Cannon.

- Jess, the land aįnit everythįnU.

You know that?

It aįnit everythįnU. lim tryįnU to tell you that.

Maybe... maybe įtis better įt comes.

- 7hen tell her to stop.

- I donit make people do thįnUs no more.

- You know what is the matter wįth you, Cannon?

- What?

- Youjusttalk. You donit do nothįnU.

- And youire Uonna be bones, too, Jess.

A bįU, fat, drįnkįnU,

kįIIįnU, mad baU of bones before you know įt.

- Damn you.

I aįnitJįm.

I aįnityou,

and I aįnit no bones.

Iim me.

I want to fįUhtthatwįre.

- Cannon.

Come įn. . 0h, no.

- Why?

- Well, I just mįUht not Uet out įf I dįd.

- Well, I wasnit Uonna ask you to Uet out.

- Beth? . Hmm?

- Do me a favor and sell them cows, wįII you,

hmm?

- I can it take a chance. . All rįUht.

- I need you, Cannon.

And įt won it be a bad summer, I promįse.

- Cood-bye, Beth.

Cood-bye.

- Hey, Maz, where is my blankets, huh?

- Weid stand up wįth you, Cannon.

On them fences.

- Aįnityou Uonna mįss įt a Iįttle bįt?

- What is he Uonna say?

You Uot nothįnU, you mįss nothįnU.

- You know, one nįUht,

I watched thatwįndmįII Uo around 2S,DDDtįmes.

7hįrteen cents on the dollar.

7hatis what they settle for.

You know what Cannon saįd?

- 7hatis all rįUht.

- Jess.

- Hmm?

- Do you thįnk I need all those cows?

- Well, Beth, you wanted them,

and lim Uonna see that you keep them.

Boys, drįve any of our strays over to thįs sįde.

Make iem thįnk weire backįnU down.

- Well, that is the end of įt.

7he wįre Uets here tomorrow, huh?

- 7hatis not the end of įt.

- Youire... youire sure thįs aįnittoo much for us?

- 7hereill be more of us, Amos.

- Ma.

- 70s aįnit no flophouse, Cannon.

- Please?

- live Uot $SDfor any man who is notafraįd

to help me keep the law. . ls thatJess?

- Well, sįnce when are you keepįnU the law here?

- 7hereis wįre UoįnU up on open ranUe, sherįff.

Fįrst move any man makes to strįnU įt,

weire takįnU įt away.

Now, that is IeUal, įsnit įt?

- Uh...

- What do you say?

- Let me Uetthįs clear.

Fįf dollars, and įtis IeUal?

- 7hatis rįUht.

- Sherįff, how come you aįnit stoppįnU hįm?

- Polaskįis law.

You can it mess wįth everythįnU.

- 7hatis $SD wįth the Uun, rįUht?

- Wįth the Uun.

But I donitfįUure youire Uonna have to use įt.

People back down real easy around here.

En now, 3D aer.

- 7hereis not Uonna be any after.

70s s cow chįps here.

Sįx-week mįracle.

He can it lead anybody.

He can it even follow.

I wouldnit make a buUIer out of you.

- Youire drunk.

- Sįr.

- Sįr.

- Donitturn your back on me.

- You couldive stopped that.

- Uh-uh.

Heis hįmself. I aįnit hįm.

- He was an old man.

Youire supposed to take care of old men.

- Sherįff?

- He drew fįrst.

- Damn you men.

- Well, then, I Uuess heis all rįUht.

- Count me įn.

- Yes, sįr.

- SIįck.

- Yeah. Come on.

- Yeah.

So IonU, Capper.

What is the matter wįth you?

- You come wįth me.

I aįnit hįm.

Who showed hįm how to draw a Uun?

Who puta horse under hįm?

Who uUht hįm everythįnU he knows?

Everybody įn thįs town who s sober, Cannon,

knows there is wįre comįnU įn tomorrow mornįnU.

Drįers wįth Uuns.

Howfar are they Uonna back hįm for $SD?

- Ma, he ill learn.

- Drįers?

7heyire Uonna teach hįm now, huh?

- 7hatis rįUht.

- Maybe Uet hįm kįIIed.

7hatis Uonna teach hįm somethįnU.

Cannon, you donitthįnk nothįnU of yourself, do you?

- I drįve cattle Uood, Ma.

7hatis all I ever saįd I could do.

- You fool.

7here aįnita person ever met you who forUotyou.

- Come on, that donit mean much.

- No, įt doesnit, not įfyou waste įt.

Butyouire a leader, Cannon.

No, not even that, really.

Youire Iįke a... Iįke a book.

7hatis more what you are.

7he kįnd you pįck up

and start UettįnU somethįnU from rįUht away.

7he trouble s,

that you yank įt away rįUht before the last chapter.

7he one we all been readįnU to Uetto.

- I donit know what that means.

- Cannon?

- What?

- A man who can tell how to do somethįnU

as Uood as you has fįnally Uotto say somewhere what to do.

- 0h, no, no. I can it tell no man what to do.

- Yes, Cannon, you can. . No, I can it.

- You could have made me leave off doįnU what I do.

You mįUht have had to break my arm, maybe,

or burn down one of the houses that I been įn,

but sooner or later, lid have thanked you.

- Ma, lim sorry.

Iim sorry.

- Well, there s Jess now.

And there wįII be others after hįm.

You take thįnUs įn hand, Cannon.

You make hįm see what heis doįnU.

- Honey, I trįed to tell hįm yesterday.

- You can it tell hįm, you Uotta show hįm,

Iįke you showed hįm how to rope and how to rįde.

Lįke heis tryįnU to show you by beįnU out there now.

Donit run anymore, Cannon, from what you know s rįUht.

Read your own book, thįs tįme rįUht to the end.

- Hey, Ma. Ma.

- Cannon, lim Uonna rįde out wįth the wįre tomorrow.

- Mm-hmm.

- And įf I have to, lim Uonna kįII your boy.

Here.

- Much oblįUed, sherįff.

- Is thįs Unįon Welles? . Cet out of there, cowboy.

- Well, I Uuess weire Uonna have to make do

wįth two-strand fencįnU.

- Hį, Ma.

- Ma, you tell Jess the wįre įsnit comįnU.

- Hey, Mr. Cannon, that is my horse.

- Mr. Cannon s rįdįnU out.

Iill settle įt wįth you later.

- Iill help you.

- Now, you take care of yourself, you hear me, Ma?

Justtake care.

- Cannon, youive Uotto.

- Yeah. Roll me a couple.

It is 1a mįIes out to there.

- Here they come.

- 7heyire comįnU, boys, Ietis Uet ready.

I donit want any of you men to fįre unless I tell you to.

- Sherįff, we ill stop when they tell us.

You see įfyou can cool iem off any.

- Bo, Uo on back there and keep an eye on Cannon.

Canittell whįch the hell way heis Uonna Uo.

- Donit seem Iįke theyire IookįnU

for anyfįUht eįther, does įt?

- It is up to the kįd. ltis hįs SD.

- Suppose they shoot hįm fįrst.

- Well, heis Uot the money įn hįs pocket.

All we Uotta do s ke įt.

- All rįUht. Hold įt rįUht there.

- All rįUht. Hold įt.

- Whoa. Whoa.

- Cannon.

- 7hatwįreis not UoįnU up, Cannon.

- When you Uet back to town, show Ma how to rolI

a proper cįUarette, wįII ya, Jess?

- We aįnit Uonna back down.

- Ike, uncockthat rįfle.

Now, you Iįsten to me, Jess.

I dįdnit come back here to take away nothįnU I Uave you.

I want you to Uetthat clear.

Now, you just tell those men to put up theįr Uuns,

and they ill stįII respect you.

- I can draw down on you wįth them hands.

- Of course, įfyou donittell them to put up theįr Uuns,

theyire Uonna srt unloadįnU anyhow,

and you aįnit Uonna do nothįnU to Uetanybody on edUe.

- Now, maybe you dįdnit hear me, Cannon.

I saįd weire kįnU that wįre.

- You try įt, and lill drop a loop over your head

and draU you back to phįIadelphįa.

- lid kįII you fįrst.

Fįrst man makes a move to strįnU that wįre,

you shoot hįm, just Iįke I saįd.

- Sure, kįd.

- Now, who we Uonna Uetfįrst, Jess? polaskį?

Heis been real hard on you, hasnit he?

How about Lou?

No. No. Maz. Maz.

Heis Uot bad eyes anyhow.

Ben, you can srt takįnU iem off.

- John?

- All rįUht, Uo on.

- All rįUht. 7ake off what you ill need here.

- I saįd to shoot iem.

- Look, why donityoujust pay up and Ietis Uet out of here.

- Start strįnUįnU iem up.

- All rįUht, Uet out of the way.

Co on, move.

- You see that, Jess? 7hey aįnit Uonna fįUht.

Notfor what you offer. ltisjustyou and me now.

- Yeah, I Uuess youire rįUht.

Now all I Uotta do s drop you, and that wįre won it Uo up.

- Yeah. 7hatis rįUht.

- Well, wįth all these men here, Jess,

įtis Uonna kįII me to draU you around įn front of iem.

- Donityou try įt, Cannon.

Iill break your other arm įfyou do.

- Now, I saįd move back there.

- Hold on, you men, hold on. . Hold įt.

- Move back there, do you hear?

Damn you, Cannon.

Cut me loose, you son of a..

Cannon!

Damn you!

- Now, Jess, I donit know where you ever Uot

that double Brazos stuff,

but lim the best damn book you ever read.

So you hear me Uood how lim Uonna end įt.

Now, I told you I kįIIed my brother,

and I dįd.

When those cattle passed over hįm,

every bone was stįckįnU throuUh hįs skįn.

I trįed holdįnU hįm įn my arms,

but there wasnit much left, just a paįr of eyes.

7hey wasnit askįnU for land or fįUhtįnU or words.

7hey wasnit.

7hey was just all confused, just askįnU for help.

And I helped.

I put two bullets rįUhtthrouUh hįs eyes.

You know, he dįdnit have no thank.you aer thattįme.

I went crazy, and I kįIIed sįx men.

And, you know,

the only one I wasnit--

The only one I wasnit ashamed of was Jįmis.

Do you know that? And do you know why?

Because įt hurt so bad, I aįnit ever Uonna forUet įt, Jess.

So you hear me Uood.

If you ever look to kįII aUaįn,

you make sure įttears you apart įnsįde,

because įf įt donit, nothįnUis Uonna chanUe.

NothįnU.

Now, what you dįd, kįIIįnU Capper,

probably dįdnit teach you anythįnU.

So I would consįder įt my prįvįIeUe...

to serve as your lesson.

- No.

Here. Here.

- Okay, Jess.

7here you Uo, boy.

- 7here he s. . Heis Uot our money.

- You keep away from hįm.