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Loved by the Buffalo
had traveled across the nations
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but had not yet found the prophet
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who could make false
the terrible vision
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of the white man's wheel.
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He sought the signs that would
lead him to his people's salvation
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but found only traces
of those who had come before
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and vanished into the darkness.
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Let the ribbons
of the Union Pacific Railroad
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unfurl from this immortal point
until they reach the shores
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of the mighty Pacific.
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I have in my hand a telegram
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just received from Washington...
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...which I shall read to you.
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It says,
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"When this great task
shall have been done,
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disunion will be rendered
forever after impossible.
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There will be no fulcrum
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for the lever of treason to rest upon."
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Thomas, Jackson, stop shirking
and set that wheel on the bench.
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It's gonna take ten years to finish the
line. I'd sure like to ride it one day,
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one train from Atlantic to Pacific.
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Maybe they'll finish it,
maybe they won't.
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There's money to be made, and I intend
to see our family gets its share.
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I want to see 20 wheels
on that wall by sundown.
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Come on, Pop, you're talking
like the railroad's already here.
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Listen to me. We have to make ready.
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Haven't I taught you anything, boy?
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Pardon me, sir.
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My name is Clara Wheeler.
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My father's name was Samson Wheeler.
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You can't turn out an orphan, Daniel.
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The poor thing has no one.
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I'll send her back east
where she belongs.
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And where will she find safety
in the middle of a war?
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We've heard nothing
from Wheelerton these many months.
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There are places in St. Jo,
across the river,
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- where she can be with her own kind.
- It is our Christian duty
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to care for that child. We're the
only people that she has left.
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Woman, she's not
even Samson's natural child,
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just a foundling he took in,
as was his won't.
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We owe her nothing.
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- What?
- Ma's right.
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- Excuse me?
- We just can't turn our backs
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on someone looking for our help.
Not after what she's been through.
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Think if it was one of us.
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Charity always costs
those who give it.
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So you'd bear that burden upon yourself,
I take it? Be responsible for her?
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- I will.
- Then you will answer for her,
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for good or ill.
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That's right.
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Very well, then.
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Robert, why does
she get to sleep in my bed?
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Clara is our guest, Lilly. We're gonna
have to learn to make sacrifices.
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Really the floor is fine.
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There's comfort in just
having a roof over my head.
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Mother says you can
wear some of her things
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until she can make you new ones.
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Please tell her not to bother.
I know how to work a sewing machine.
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All right.
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What you got there?
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Did you do these?
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I used to have time for frivolities.
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I thought the world
was a pretty place. But it's not.
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Well...
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Let me know if you need anything.
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- I'll be in my room.
- Thank you.
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Get going!
I'll come for you when it's over.
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Go on! Git! Go on!
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Papa, no!
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Clara, Clara. Clara, Clara!
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It's OK. You're OK. You're OK.
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What's wrong with her?
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You're OK. You're safe here.
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As governor of California,
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I am proud to welcome you to this
celebration of our American industry.
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We of the Central Pacific Railroad
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have come far these last few months,
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further, I might add, than our
competitors on the Union Pacific.
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Bravo!
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The great race has now begun.
We may now look forward to the day
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when the Pacific will be bound
to the Atlantic with bands of iron
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that shall consolidate
and strengthen our ties of nationality,
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and advance with giant strides
the prosperity of our nation.
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Can you imagine, Margaret?
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We can have breakfast in San Francisco,
supper in Carson City,
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all the way to the Mississippi in
just three days. It is truly remarkable.
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It's all changing so fast.
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The wheels of progress, my dear.
The wheels of progress.
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...it is our destiny
to smash it asunder!
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Two, one, finally.
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What are you saying, my darling?
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Something my mother said
to me before we were married.
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Her world always seemed
so different than mine.
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I'd like to see it sometime.
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I don't see any reason why we
shouldn't see some of it sometime.
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Ethan, do you mean it?
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Absolutely. It's what
we've always said we'd do.
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We could catch the next stage to Denver.
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Really?
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You are brilliant, you know that?
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And exquisitely beautiful.
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Truly one of the most
wonderful women I've ever known.
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And there have been so many, my love.
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Ethan! I love you too.
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My daughter Margaret and her husband
Ethan were not alone in their wandering.
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My son Abe joined the jobless men
who threw their lot in
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with the Central Pacific on its thousand
mile journey east from Sacramento.
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By the time it was finished,
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the railroad would profoundly
impact my children's lives.
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Put your backs into it!
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Come back here, chief.
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The name's Abe.
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One of the Lost Tribes of Israel,
are we?
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Well, my Old Testament friend,
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have you looked at the offering
you've brought me.
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Now we're trying to keep
the grade level. This won't do.
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You'll have to clean it up.
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That's your job.
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Fight!
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Get him!
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Damned gandy dancers! That'll
cost you sons of whores a day's wages.
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That goes for all of you.
Now, move it!
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Mr. Strobridge! Get over here.
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You men, get back to work!
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I will not tolerate
mistreatment of these men.
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You can't speak to them
as though they were gentlemen.
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They're as near brutes as they can get.
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Most of these micks
will head to the gold fields
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as soon as they can earn a grubstake.
We started with 5,000 men.
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Now I got less than 600.
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Well, there seems to be a surplus
of Chinese in San Francisco.
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They're said to be
very reliable workers.
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I will not boss Chinese! Damn it!
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How'd this happen?
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- Good God.
- What happened?
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- How'd this happen?
- That's not right.
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Look ye upon this outrage
to all civilized people.
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The Hungate family, cruelly
murdered on their own land,
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land only 25 miles
to the east of our fair city.
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Sacrificial lambs slaughtered
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by the godless
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers,
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their bodies cast
like Joseph's into a well.
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Who's this speaker?
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Colonel Chivington,
the Fighting Parson.
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Whupped the graycoats
at Glorieta Pass,
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and he's gonna give
these redskins a hiding!
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Brothers and sisters of Colorado.
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Our territory sits poised
just on the cusp of statehood.
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But there can be
no statehood without order.
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Hear, hear!
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And there will be no order
as long as a single savage
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is allowed to occupy
one sacred inch of our precious soil.
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Now, there is hope.
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Governor Evans has authorized me
to muster a new regiment
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- for our self-defense.
- Yeah.
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Now,
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who of you...
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...will join me
in this righteous enterprise?
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Grisly business, that.
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Why must you insist
on making a record of it?
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It's what we do.
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Sorry. I just wasn't thinking.
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Hell of a price to pay
for some mangy cows.
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Well, they say old man Hungate
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was out looking for strays
when they butchered him.
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Yes. Thank you.
If you could keep quiet.
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Beggin' your pardon, ma'am.
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You just leave everything
to Colonel Chivington.
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When he wants to get something done,
you bet it gets did.
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Indians!
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Driver! What in blazes...?
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No! No, don't kill him!
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No!
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- Ethan!
- I love you.
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I don't understand.
What are they doing?
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I think they are
taking us to their camp.
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I won't let anything happen to us.
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They are treating us
as honored guests, not captives.
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Yes. They admire you here.
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You're one of them.
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No.
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I've spent most of my life
denying my mother's blood.
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It's all right.
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Take these. It's all right.
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I'll be here.
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Tell me about this magic box.
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We call it a camera.
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- Camera.
- Camera.
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Camera.
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The white man's words,
they have no...
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...music in them.
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You speak them very well.
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So many white man come.
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They fill our land with their noises.
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I do not like their language.
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Their words, they have no meaning.
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Walking on the white man's road
as you have done,
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it is difficult.
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The spirit... does not know
where to rest.
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Sometimes I...
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I feel a hole in my heart.
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The white men are like locusts.
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They fly so thick that the
whole sky looks like a snowstorm,
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and we are like small
buffalo herds left scattered.
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They will keep coming.
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They are building a railroad.
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It will carry them
from one ocean to another.
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Have them over there.
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If you could just... There.
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That's perfect.
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It's all right.
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Thank you.
Thank you very much.
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She says...
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I am not so ugly in your magic box.
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When the White Father told
those of us who wished peace
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to come to this place, we came.
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But there is nothing here for us.
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Without the buffalo,
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our boys cannot become men.
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They seek war to prove themselves.
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In Denver we saw a family.
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They had been horribly butchered.
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Some said it was your people.
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This is a lie.
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There are bad white men,
and there are bad Indians.
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Bad men on both sides.
They have brought about this trouble.
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But I am determined
to end this fighting.
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You will help me.
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You understand
the white man's thoughts.
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Yet in these shadows...
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...I see your true heart.
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Take my message of peace
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to the tall chief in the fort.
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Assembly!
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Major. You'd better
come take a look at this.
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My God.
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Black Kettle asks for a council.
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I bear witness
to his fair treatment.
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- Dirty Indians!
- Boy, stop that!
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We have been traveling
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under a cloud.
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The skies have been dark
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ever since the war came.
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We want to take
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good tidings home to our people.
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I want all the chiefs
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of the soldiers to understand
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that we are for peace,
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that we may not be mistaken
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by them... for the enemy.
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Governor Evans and Col. Chivington
have heard your words.
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The governor and the
father of all white men
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in this territory
will now speak to you.
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00:25:07,381 --> 00:25:11,135
We cannot live together on this land.
255
00:25:11,302 --> 00:25:14,138
War among the whites
is nearly through.
256
00:25:14,305 --> 00:25:16,891
The Great Father will have nothing
to do with his soldiers
257
00:25:16,891 --> 00:25:19,894
except send them out
after the Indians.
258
00:25:19,894 --> 00:25:23,689
Your people must make
their peace with us.
259
00:25:24,899 --> 00:25:27,318
I have done my best
260
00:25:27,485 --> 00:25:30,154
to keep my young men quiet,
261
00:25:30,321 --> 00:25:32,573
but they do not always listen.
262
00:25:32,740 --> 00:25:35,409
By their rebellion,
they seek to help
263
00:25:35,576 --> 00:25:37,912
the graycoat traitors
who make war on us.
264
00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:39,914
No.
265
00:25:40,081 --> 00:25:44,502
We do not fight
the white man's war.
266
00:25:52,510 --> 00:25:56,597
All Cheyenne have ears open.
267
00:25:56,764 --> 00:25:59,642
White Antelope proud to see
268
00:25:59,809 --> 00:26:02,645
all white chiefs of this country.
269
00:26:03,187 --> 00:26:05,106
Since I go Washington
270
00:26:05,273 --> 00:26:06,899
and received this medal,
271
00:26:06,899 --> 00:26:08,901
I have been proud
272
00:26:08,901 --> 00:26:12,071
to call all white men brothers.
273
00:26:14,448 --> 00:26:15,908
Whatever peace you make
274
00:26:15,908 --> 00:26:18,202
must be with the soldiers,
not with me.
275
00:26:35,177 --> 00:26:37,263
I am not a great war chief.
276
00:26:37,430 --> 00:26:40,891
But in this country,
all the soldiers are under my command.
277
00:26:40,891 --> 00:26:43,144
My rule of fighting,
278
00:26:43,311 --> 00:26:46,564
whether it's the graycoats
from the South or the Indians,
279
00:26:46,731 --> 00:26:49,609
is to fight them
until they lay down all their arms
280
00:26:49,775 --> 00:26:52,361
and submit to military authority.
281
00:26:52,528 --> 00:26:54,572
When you are ready to do that,
282
00:26:54,739 --> 00:26:56,157
then Major Wynkoop...
283
00:26:57,700 --> 00:26:59,035
...Major Wynkoop
284
00:26:59,201 --> 00:27:02,913
at Fort Lyon will see
to all your needs.
285
00:27:15,885 --> 00:27:18,012
Please, everybody, look this way.
286
00:27:21,015 --> 00:27:23,893
That's no captive.
She's one of them.
287
00:27:24,894 --> 00:27:27,772
Black Kettle, it is an honor
for me to present to you
288
00:27:27,938 --> 00:27:31,442
- the flag of the United States.
- Everyone, very still.
289
00:27:36,614 --> 00:27:38,115
With all due respect, gentlemen,
290
00:27:39,325 --> 00:27:40,910
the Cheyenne don't want a war.
291
00:27:42,036 --> 00:27:43,954
I believe their pledges to be sincere.
292
00:27:45,623 --> 00:27:47,333
And what will I do
293
00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,461
with the Third Colorado Volunteers
if we make peace?
294
00:27:51,462 --> 00:27:54,882
The Third was raised
primarily to kill Indians.
295
00:27:58,803 --> 00:28:01,806
Then they must kill Indians.
296
00:28:08,104 --> 00:28:09,897
The Tall Chief said
297
00:28:09,897 --> 00:28:13,567
as long as this flag
flies above our camp,
298
00:28:13,734 --> 00:28:15,653
no soldiers will harm us.
299
00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:34,422
Margaret Light Shines
had lifted the people's spirits
300
00:28:34,588 --> 00:28:37,800
with the magic of the
white man's shadow box.
301
00:28:37,967 --> 00:28:42,179
Now Black Kettle called
on the young men who remained behind
302
00:28:42,346 --> 00:28:44,432
to search for the buffalo.
303
00:28:55,443 --> 00:28:57,903
- Riders coming in!
- The gate!
304
00:29:01,574 --> 00:29:03,284
Major!
305
00:29:05,453 --> 00:29:08,372
See that these men are fed
and given a place to rest.
306
00:29:08,539 --> 00:29:11,292
We march on the hostiles
at Sand Creek tonight.
307
00:29:11,459 --> 00:29:13,919
But I've heard
of no new provocations, sir.
308
00:29:13,919 --> 00:29:16,464
Don't you know
the Cheyenne nation is guilty
309
00:29:16,630 --> 00:29:21,677
of robbery, arson, murder,
rape and fiendish torture?
310
00:29:21,844 --> 00:29:23,345
Not even sparing women and children.
311
00:29:23,512 --> 00:29:26,307
I feel it is right
to use any means under God's heaven
312
00:29:26,474 --> 00:29:29,518
- to end these outrages.
- Including murder, colonel?
313
00:29:31,896 --> 00:29:34,815
- First Sergeant Ode!
- Sir!
314
00:29:34,982 --> 00:29:37,735
Post a ring of pickets
around the perimeter of this post.
315
00:29:37,902 --> 00:29:40,654
Any man trying to leave will be shot.
Is that understood?
316
00:29:40,821 --> 00:29:42,281
Yes, sir!
317
00:29:42,448 --> 00:29:44,909
Damn any man
in sympathy with the Indian.
318
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,465
Well, when will you leave?
319
00:30:01,509 --> 00:30:03,135
Tomorrow.
320
00:30:06,430 --> 00:30:08,224
You have
brought us much happiness.
321
00:30:08,390 --> 00:30:10,893
But it's good you should
return to your people.
322
00:30:17,691 --> 00:30:21,654
Many white people will see
the Cheyenne as they really are.
323
00:30:21,821 --> 00:30:25,241
They will understand
that your spirits are peaceful.
324
00:30:27,910 --> 00:30:29,912
I will keep this one.
325
00:30:31,789 --> 00:30:33,123
For my wife.
326
00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:36,210
Of course.
327
00:30:36,377 --> 00:30:38,587
This is good medicine.
328
00:30:44,301 --> 00:30:48,430
My husband and I can never repay you
for the kindness you have shown us.
329
00:30:51,892 --> 00:30:53,894
You go in peace, my granddaughter.
330
00:30:54,061 --> 00:30:58,399
May one day your heart
will be full again.
331
00:30:59,775 --> 00:31:01,902
Thank you.
332
00:32:39,792 --> 00:32:41,710
Off with your overcoats, men.
333
00:32:42,378 --> 00:32:44,880
You'll fight better without 'em.
334
00:32:49,885 --> 00:32:51,470
Remember the Hungates.
335
00:32:53,347 --> 00:32:55,432
You look back on
the plains of the Platte,
336
00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:58,894
where your mothers and fathers and
brothers and sisters have been slain,
337
00:32:58,894 --> 00:33:02,564
- their blood saturating the sands.
- Yeah!
338
00:33:03,816 --> 00:33:05,859
Take no prisoners.
339
00:33:07,361 --> 00:33:10,364
Kill 'em all. Scalp 'em all.
340
00:33:11,198 --> 00:33:13,909
That's right. Every last one!
341
00:33:33,887 --> 00:33:35,305
Soldiers.
342
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,911
Margaret! Margaret! Listen to me.
343
00:33:58,078 --> 00:34:01,540
Take this and fasten it to the top
of the flag as quickly as you can.
344
00:34:01,707 --> 00:34:02,833
The soldiers will see!
345
00:34:14,178 --> 00:34:15,721
Wait!
346
00:34:16,096 --> 00:34:17,973
Stop! Stop!
347
00:34:18,974 --> 00:34:19,975
Stop!
348
00:35:16,156 --> 00:35:17,908
Remember the Hungates!
349
00:35:25,916 --> 00:35:28,585
No! No! No!
350
00:35:29,378 --> 00:35:31,880
No, don't shoot. No, don't shoot.
351
00:35:32,756 --> 00:35:34,049
Ethan!
352
00:35:34,883 --> 00:35:36,593
Ethan!
353
00:35:55,279 --> 00:35:58,240
Ethan! Ethan!
354
00:37:29,748 --> 00:37:32,626
When you return to your people,
355
00:37:32,793 --> 00:37:33,835
tell them...
356
00:37:34,711 --> 00:37:37,881
Tell them a great shame fills my heart.
357
00:37:41,301 --> 00:37:43,345
You are my people now.
358
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,575
Now you see how these savages
treat their prisoners, major?
359
00:38:06,785 --> 00:38:08,787
Damn you to hell, colonel.
360
00:38:09,538 --> 00:38:11,915
You wanted war.
Now you're gonna have it.
361
00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:26,888
Two rails every 30 seconds,
one on each side.
362
00:38:26,888 --> 00:38:28,473
Four rails to the minute.
363
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,768
Three strokes per spike,
ten spikes per rail.
364
00:38:31,935 --> 00:38:33,729
Four hundred rails to the mile.
365
00:38:33,895 --> 00:38:36,106
It's 1,800 miles to San Francisco.
366
00:38:36,273 --> 00:38:39,609
Twenty-one million times
they got to swing those hammers.
367
00:38:39,776 --> 00:38:41,570
Listen to that sound.
368
00:38:41,737 --> 00:38:44,031
That's money. Money.
369
00:38:44,531 --> 00:38:48,910
It won't be long before this enterprise
gets beyond the reach of any town.
370
00:38:50,037 --> 00:38:53,457
And men deprived of their diversions
are inclined to get restless.
371
00:38:53,623 --> 00:38:55,500
So if they can't come to town,
372
00:38:55,667 --> 00:38:59,087
why, then the town will just have
to come to them. Get my meaning?
373
00:38:59,963 --> 00:39:01,757
Sure doesn't look like much.
374
00:39:01,923 --> 00:39:03,216
Not now.
375
00:39:03,383 --> 00:39:07,429
There's gonna be thousands of boomers
coming to the North Platte from Omaha.
376
00:39:07,596 --> 00:39:09,973
Men with nothing
to do once winter sets in.
377
00:39:10,140 --> 00:39:12,934
Right here.
Right here is where we're going
378
00:39:13,101 --> 00:39:14,978
to stake our own little claim.
379
00:39:16,104 --> 00:39:19,232
Our own little empire. Good work.
380
00:39:28,325 --> 00:39:29,868
Take me with you.
381
00:39:32,913 --> 00:39:34,414
No womenfolk allowed.
382
00:39:35,123 --> 00:39:38,251
It's just gonna be Father,
me and Jackson.
383
00:39:38,418 --> 00:39:40,879
Thomas is to see
to business here.
384
00:39:40,879 --> 00:39:43,465
You and Lilly, you look after Ma.
385
00:39:43,632 --> 00:39:45,801
I can work as hard
as any of your brothers.
386
00:39:45,967 --> 00:39:47,886
Harder, I expect.
387
00:39:47,886 --> 00:39:49,429
Well, what is it, then?
388
00:39:50,138 --> 00:39:51,890
You know Father.
389
00:39:52,891 --> 00:39:56,353
You're not like him. You are decent.
390
00:39:57,312 --> 00:39:59,815
Two staves.
391
00:39:59,981 --> 00:40:01,900
Supposed to be three.
392
00:40:04,111 --> 00:40:06,363
Father is Father.
He is who he is.
393
00:40:06,530 --> 00:40:08,156
There's no use trying to change him.
394
00:40:09,866 --> 00:40:11,910
Family's family.
You know what it's like...
395
00:40:14,996 --> 00:40:17,749
They were taken from me.
396
00:40:20,710 --> 00:40:24,131
Out here we can make
our own way in life.
397
00:40:24,297 --> 00:40:26,216
Robert, some of us
haven't got a choice.
398
00:40:27,759 --> 00:40:29,594
We've all of us got a choice.
399
00:40:33,515 --> 00:40:37,227
First Wheelers came out here,
it was all wild country.
400
00:40:37,394 --> 00:40:39,938
Grandpa's cousin Jacob?
He was the first to come out.
401
00:40:40,105 --> 00:40:42,274
You should hear our stories about him.
402
00:40:42,441 --> 00:40:44,985
They tamed so much of it.
403
00:40:45,152 --> 00:40:48,029
I figure the railroad
will tame what's left.
404
00:40:48,196 --> 00:40:50,949
There isn't going to be
much of a West once it's finished.
405
00:40:53,577 --> 00:40:56,913
I guess I just want to see it
before it goes. That's all.
406
00:40:56,913 --> 00:40:59,166
Let me see it with you.
407
00:41:00,750 --> 00:41:02,752
You're all I have left.
408
00:41:03,670 --> 00:41:05,881
You are my only family.
409
00:41:11,761 --> 00:41:13,889
Father's gonna have
himself a proper fit.
410
00:41:13,889 --> 00:41:16,892
- Then you'll help me?
- I... can't make promises.
411
00:41:21,646 --> 00:41:23,899
I'm going to take two mallets.
412
00:41:26,902 --> 00:41:32,866
Dog Star had once believed the white
men would some day leave the land.
413
00:41:33,033 --> 00:41:36,077
Now with his grandson, White Bird,
and his son, Sleeping Bear,
414
00:41:36,244 --> 00:41:40,373
he saw them come
like a prairie fire on hot wind.
415
00:41:41,166 --> 00:41:43,460
Many passed
through the sacred ground,
416
00:41:43,627 --> 00:41:46,463
where the hoop of the world
bent to the four directions,
417
00:41:46,630 --> 00:41:50,842
seeking the yellow stone
that made them crazy.
418
00:41:51,009 --> 00:41:53,887
Dog Star had heard how the Long Knives
419
00:41:53,887 --> 00:41:56,431
repaid Black Kettle's
promise of peace.
420
00:41:56,598 --> 00:42:00,644
He feared that a similar fate
awaited his people.
421
00:42:07,984 --> 00:42:09,903
Some promised to fight
422
00:42:09,903 --> 00:42:13,198
until every white man
was driven from their sacred land.
423
00:42:13,907 --> 00:42:18,620
The bravest of these leaders sent his
messengers riding through the nation.
424
00:42:18,787 --> 00:42:22,499
Dog Star's brother Running Fox
answered the call to battle
425
00:42:22,666 --> 00:42:26,461
and invited the great warrior
to speak to their village.
426
00:42:26,628 --> 00:42:30,882
His name
was Makhpiya-luta: Red Cloud.
427
00:43:21,891 --> 00:43:26,104
Red Cloud spoke, and White Crow,
his son Red Lance,
428
00:43:26,271 --> 00:43:28,898
and many young men
were inspired to follow him
429
00:43:28,898 --> 00:43:30,900
to protect their land.
430
00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:34,487
Sleeping Bear and White Bird
also wished to fight,
431
00:43:34,654 --> 00:43:37,907
but Dog Star had already
lost one son to the white man
432
00:43:37,907 --> 00:43:41,328
and did not wish
to sacrifice another.
433
00:43:43,913 --> 00:43:46,082
Keep it straight, lads.
434
00:43:49,919 --> 00:43:51,254
Celestials.
435
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,216
Worse than savages, you are.
Half-made men.
436
00:43:55,383 --> 00:43:58,136
What do you know
about railroad construction?
437
00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:01,222
They built the
Great Wall of China, didn't they?
438
00:44:03,183 --> 00:44:05,268
Come on. Movie. Movie.
Quickie. Quickie.
439
00:44:05,894 --> 00:44:07,896
Come on, lads.
Keep it straight.
440
00:44:15,403 --> 00:44:18,323
- You got a problem?
- Men say you Indian.
441
00:44:18,490 --> 00:44:20,241
Yeah. What of it?
442
00:44:20,408 --> 00:44:24,287
Never seen Indian.
Very afraid you eat them.
443
00:44:28,416 --> 00:44:30,335
Well, I never had a Celestial before.
444
00:44:30,502 --> 00:44:31,961
Might like to try me one.
445
00:44:36,758 --> 00:44:37,884
Abe Wheeler.
446
00:44:39,177 --> 00:44:41,054
Chow-Ping.
447
00:44:41,221 --> 00:44:43,098
What bad luck brings
you here, Chow-Ping?
448
00:44:43,890 --> 00:44:46,685
Before here, Gam San. Gold Mountain.
449
00:44:46,851 --> 00:44:48,895
Fan gway steal claim.
450
00:44:49,062 --> 00:44:51,648
Gold not for Chinese, he say.
451
00:44:53,066 --> 00:44:55,235
"Fan gway"?
452
00:44:55,402 --> 00:44:57,946
White ghost. Demon.
453
00:44:58,571 --> 00:45:02,075
Fan gway stand, talk,
tell us what to do.
454
00:45:02,242 --> 00:45:06,204
Call us "coolies." Chinese like Indian.
455
00:45:06,371 --> 00:45:09,624
Fan gway hit, steal, cheat.
456
00:45:09,916 --> 00:45:12,627
Come on, lads. Break your backs.
Keep 'em straight.
457
00:45:12,794 --> 00:45:16,172
Incline's 75 degrees.
That face is straight up.
458
00:45:16,339 --> 00:45:20,593
We got to clear a shelf three miles
long across that bastard of a rock.
459
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,972
Your plan to accomplish this,
Mr. Strobridge?
460
00:45:24,139 --> 00:45:26,891
Damned if I know, sir!
461
00:45:32,272 --> 00:45:37,026
One-Eye Bossy Man
think road not possible.
462
00:45:37,193 --> 00:45:41,865
Use very bad language.
But road possible.
463
00:45:44,576 --> 00:45:46,411
How?
464
00:45:48,413 --> 00:45:50,665
Well, I'll be.
465
00:46:01,885 --> 00:46:05,555
If there's one thing the Chinese
know something about, it's gunpowder.
466
00:46:27,911 --> 00:46:29,370
Ready!
467
00:47:05,782 --> 00:47:07,659
Chow-Ping!
468
00:47:09,285 --> 00:47:11,246
Help me!
469
00:47:18,795 --> 00:47:20,171
Chow-Ping!
470
00:47:43,486 --> 00:47:44,654
Good.
471
00:47:50,994 --> 00:47:55,707
The white man's forts spread like
a stain across the people's land.
472
00:47:55,874 --> 00:47:59,294
White Crow and Red Lance joined
the warriors of Red Cloud.
473
00:47:59,460 --> 00:48:03,214
There they would fight to remove
any mark of the white man.
474
00:48:03,381 --> 00:48:06,217
This would be a different kind of war,
475
00:48:06,384 --> 00:48:08,094
fought like no other.
476
00:48:08,261 --> 00:48:12,682
It would be a war of watching,
of waiting.
477
00:50:12,635 --> 00:50:15,513
Captain! The supply train
is being fired upon.
478
00:50:18,057 --> 00:50:20,268
Quickly!
479
00:50:22,186 --> 00:50:24,605
Support the supply train,
Captain Fetterman.
480
00:50:24,772 --> 00:50:25,940
Relieve it and report back to me.
481
00:50:26,107 --> 00:50:28,901
Under no circumstances are you
to pursue and engage the Indians
482
00:50:29,068 --> 00:50:31,738
over Lodge Trail Ridge.
Is that understood?
483
00:50:31,904 --> 00:50:34,157
Yes, sir. No pursuit
beyond Lodge Trail Ridge.
484
00:50:34,323 --> 00:50:36,868
Colonel Carrington, sir. Come on!
485
00:50:38,494 --> 00:50:40,788
Godspeed, captain.
486
00:51:03,895 --> 00:51:05,480
Company, halt!
487
00:51:07,482 --> 00:51:10,193
That's Lodge Trail Ridge,
Captain Fetterman.
488
00:51:12,028 --> 00:51:13,613
What's he doing?
489
00:53:08,561 --> 00:53:10,188
Please.
490
00:53:15,151 --> 00:53:16,903
Please.
491
00:54:40,695 --> 00:54:44,907
We're never gonna break out of that
rock. We've been trying for a year.
492
00:54:44,907 --> 00:54:48,452
Fan gway say move mountain,
493
00:54:48,619 --> 00:54:51,664
but mountain don't want to move.
494
00:54:51,831 --> 00:54:53,082
That's white man's logic.
495
00:54:53,249 --> 00:54:56,711
Don't try to understand it.
You'll go crazy trying.
496
00:55:00,881 --> 00:55:04,218
You got people back where
you come from, Chow-Ping?
497
00:55:04,385 --> 00:55:07,054
Have wife in home village.
498
00:55:07,221 --> 00:55:10,891
One day I finish here, say to her,
499
00:55:11,934 --> 00:55:13,811
"You come now."
500
00:55:13,978 --> 00:55:17,982
Give her silk dress.
We go live in Tai Fau.
501
00:55:18,149 --> 00:55:21,402
Tai Fau. San Francisco, right?
502
00:55:21,569 --> 00:55:23,904
You learn Chinese real good.
503
00:55:23,904 --> 00:55:25,948
I've been studying your phrase books.
504
00:55:26,115 --> 00:55:28,743
Learned how to write
a little of your alphabet.
505
00:55:35,541 --> 00:55:36,917
You have village?
506
00:55:39,545 --> 00:55:42,673
Americans don't belong
to any one place.
507
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,427
Just when we get settled, we up and
get restless for something different.
508
00:55:46,594 --> 00:55:49,889
I rode the Pony Express
till it played out.
509
00:55:51,766 --> 00:55:54,894
Never as free as when
I was on the back of a horse.
510
00:55:57,438 --> 00:56:00,524
Nothin' steady after that.
511
00:56:00,691 --> 00:56:02,902
Why you stay now?
512
00:56:02,902 --> 00:56:05,905
Never been a part
of something like this.
513
00:56:05,905 --> 00:56:08,532
Something permanent.
514
00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:11,285
I think maybe I'll see it through,
just this once.
515
00:56:14,288 --> 00:56:17,583
Or maybe I'm just a crazy Indian,
like they all say.
516
00:56:33,891 --> 00:56:39,271
Once, North Platte had only been an
empty prairie, 300 miles from Omaha.
517
00:56:39,438 --> 00:56:44,693
Ambitious men like Daniel Wheeler had
turned the wilderness into a boomtown.
518
00:56:44,860 --> 00:56:49,156
Carnivorous swarms followed the
railroad workers every step of the way,
519
00:56:49,323 --> 00:56:53,160
devouring their weekly pay
faster than grasshoppers.
520
00:56:55,913 --> 00:56:58,916
- Jackson!
- Coming, Pa!
521
00:57:03,712 --> 00:57:06,006
- Sure is flush times.
- Hell on wheels.
522
00:57:06,173 --> 00:57:09,468
Should've seen the place
before we civilized it.
523
00:57:22,398 --> 00:57:24,567
I don't mind telling you, Wheeler,
524
00:57:24,733 --> 00:57:26,902
that the Union Pacific
finds the very presence
525
00:57:27,069 --> 00:57:30,739
of a sinkhole like this
a noxious affront.
526
00:57:32,366 --> 00:57:34,910
I'd like to see you try
to stop it, Casement.
527
00:57:35,077 --> 00:57:37,079
You'd have a mutiny on your hands.
528
00:57:37,246 --> 00:57:41,750
Might be wiser for you to start
thinking of us as informal partners.
529
00:57:41,917 --> 00:57:44,378
You appropriated railroad land
for illicit purposes
530
00:57:44,545 --> 00:57:47,631
and then sold it to other speculators
at five times its value.
531
00:57:47,798 --> 00:57:50,301
Don't bellyache to me
if the Union Pacific swells
532
00:57:50,468 --> 00:57:52,511
couldn't see the potential
of their own right-of-way.
533
00:57:52,678 --> 00:57:55,890
Do not presume to lecture me
on what's good for the railroad.
534
00:57:55,890 --> 00:57:58,267
No. That's for you.
535
00:57:58,434 --> 00:58:01,312
Your masters back east
don't need any lessons.
536
00:58:01,479 --> 00:58:06,901
Government bonds. $16,000 a mile
for flatlands graded and tracked.
537
00:58:07,067 --> 00:58:09,528
$32,000 a mile for foothills,
538
00:58:09,695 --> 00:58:12,781
$64,000 a mile for mountains.
539
00:58:12,948 --> 00:58:14,200
Tell me, Casement.
540
00:58:14,366 --> 00:58:17,077
How many so-called "mountains"
541
00:58:17,244 --> 00:58:19,788
has the Union Pacific
climbed thus far?
542
00:58:23,375 --> 00:58:27,296
You, sir, are a rank opportunist.
543
00:58:30,466 --> 00:58:32,551
Welcome to North Platte, sir.
544
00:58:32,718 --> 00:58:34,970
King of the Plains Emporium
is the place for you.
545
00:58:35,137 --> 00:58:36,138
Best tables, best liquor.
546
00:58:36,305 --> 00:58:38,891
They got the best-looking women too.
Let me get that for you.
547
00:58:38,891 --> 00:58:41,101
Here you go.
548
00:58:41,894 --> 00:58:44,563
Give us this day our daily strangers.
549
00:58:52,905 --> 00:58:55,824
- Hey.
- I have your britches ready.
550
00:58:55,991 --> 00:58:57,785
All right.
551
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,040
Gonna get that wheel fixed, son.
552
00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:05,960
- You'd never know they were ripped.
- Five cents, please.
553
00:59:06,126 --> 00:59:07,670
Almost forgot.
554
00:59:07,836 --> 00:59:10,923
Those are getting pretty worn.
You ought to let me make you a new pair.
555
00:59:11,090 --> 00:59:12,883
- You'd do that?
- Yeah.
556
00:59:12,883 --> 00:59:15,010
- I'd like that.
- I'll have to measure you.
557
00:59:15,177 --> 00:59:17,346
OK.
558
00:59:17,513 --> 00:59:18,889
Step right up.
559
00:59:25,813 --> 00:59:28,065
Raise your arms out like this.
560
00:59:29,650 --> 00:59:31,402
Looks like you're prospering.
561
00:59:31,569 --> 00:59:34,780
If I save up enough money,
I can get my own shop,
562
00:59:34,947 --> 00:59:37,199
and I won't have to rent
from your father anymore.
563
00:59:37,366 --> 00:59:39,535
You deserve finer things, Clara.
564
00:59:40,828 --> 00:59:42,121
So do you.
565
00:59:43,122 --> 00:59:44,873
Robert!
566
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:51,880
See ya.
567
00:59:55,342 --> 00:59:57,344
- You're needed at the shop.
- Yes, sir.
568
00:59:57,511 --> 01:00:00,180
Don't let me see you idling again.
Especially with that girl.
569
01:00:00,347 --> 01:00:02,308
"That girl" has a name, Father.
570
01:00:02,474 --> 01:00:05,894
It's Clara. About time
you got used to saying it!
571
01:00:28,292 --> 01:00:31,670
These miscreants will not trouble
your establishment again.
572
01:00:31,837 --> 01:00:33,255
What about my money, colonel?
573
01:00:33,422 --> 01:00:36,467
Are you going
to make good these men's debts?
574
01:00:38,177 --> 01:00:39,887
Good day, sir.
575
01:00:44,058 --> 01:00:46,894
You all come back now, Yankee!
576
01:00:48,562 --> 01:00:51,899
Soldiering in the West
was a lonely, miserable affair.
577
01:00:51,899 --> 01:00:53,901
Some men deserted outright.
578
01:00:53,901 --> 01:00:56,111
Others fell into bad habits.
579
01:00:56,278 --> 01:01:00,407
Before officers like George Armstrong
Custer could tame any Indians,
580
01:01:00,574 --> 01:01:03,744
they first had to tame their own men.
581
01:01:03,911 --> 01:01:06,914
My son, Jacob Jr., didn't like
what the army had become,
582
01:01:06,914 --> 01:01:11,377
but still thought his skills could be
used to preserve peace on the frontier.
583
01:01:11,543 --> 01:01:14,755
When Custer took charge
of the 7th Cavalry,
584
01:01:14,922 --> 01:01:19,510
Jacob knew it wouldn't be long before
his job went from scoutin' to killin'.
585
01:01:19,718 --> 01:01:23,347
I don't reckon this display
586
01:01:23,514 --> 01:01:25,891
will help morale any.
587
01:01:25,891 --> 01:01:29,645
The men's morale will improve when
they've been given Indians to fight.
588
01:01:29,812 --> 01:01:33,232
For that, gentlemen,
I have relied upon your good offices,
589
01:01:33,399 --> 01:01:34,942
to no avail, it seems.
590
01:01:35,109 --> 01:01:36,902
Funny thing about Indians, colonel.
591
01:01:37,069 --> 01:01:40,280
They ain't so easy to find
when they don't want to be.
592
01:01:40,447 --> 01:01:43,951
Let me offer you an alternative
explanation, Mr. Wheeler.
593
01:01:44,118 --> 01:01:47,913
You being half-breeds,
have perhaps not applied yourself
594
01:01:47,913 --> 01:01:51,291
to the work with the
requisite enthusiasm.
595
01:01:51,458 --> 01:01:53,836
The 7h Cavalry has been charged
with clearing these plains
596
01:01:54,002 --> 01:01:57,381
of savages from
the Arkansas to the Platte.
597
01:01:57,548 --> 01:02:02,261
All depredations on lands being
opened up by the railroad are to cease.
598
01:02:02,636 --> 01:02:07,266
You will oblige me by performing
your duties without further delay.
599
01:02:07,891 --> 01:02:09,893
Have I made myself clear?
600
01:02:13,522 --> 01:02:15,274
As day, colonel.
601
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,694
We're finished here. Dismissed.
602
01:02:18,861 --> 01:02:21,113
Thank you, trooper.
That will be sufficient.
603
01:02:53,228 --> 01:02:55,022
We're through.
604
01:02:56,273 --> 01:02:58,233
Donovan! We're through!
605
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,236
They've done it!
They've bloody done it!
606
01:03:01,403 --> 01:03:02,863
It's not possible!
607
01:03:03,030 --> 01:03:05,616
They built the Great Wall of China,
didn't they?
608
01:03:08,535 --> 01:03:10,871
You should be proud of yourselves.
609
01:03:11,038 --> 01:03:14,082
Let's see the Union Pacific
try to beat us now!
610
01:03:14,249 --> 01:03:15,918
Step aside, ladies!
611
01:03:19,546 --> 01:03:20,881
We did that.
612
01:03:24,843 --> 01:03:29,264
Eastward, men! Eastward to victory!
613
01:03:31,934 --> 01:03:33,477
We did it, boys!
614
01:03:40,275 --> 01:03:44,988
Margaret Light Shines had followed Black
Kettle's people in their wanderings.
615
01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:48,116
She began to live the life
of her mother before her.
616
01:03:48,283 --> 01:03:53,455
When the Long Knife Chief Sherman
came to speak words of friendship,
617
01:03:53,622 --> 01:03:58,418
she listened, but she no longer
trusted any white man.
618
01:03:58,585 --> 01:04:03,006
It was white men
who had killed her husband.
619
01:04:05,259 --> 01:04:08,971
The iron horse is now crossing the lands
between the Arkansas and the Platte.
620
01:04:09,137 --> 01:04:11,890
But there is land
south of the Arkansas,
621
01:04:11,890 --> 01:04:15,894
and before it's taken, we'd like
to set aside a part of it for your home.
622
01:04:15,894 --> 01:04:19,982
On this home we'll build a house
to hold the goods we'll send.
623
01:04:20,148 --> 01:04:23,193
To this home we'll send a physician
624
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,654
to live with you and heal your sick.
625
01:04:26,822 --> 01:04:30,909
We will send a farmer to teach
your people to grow corn and wheat,
626
01:04:31,076 --> 01:04:36,123
and a mill to make
for you meal and flour.
627
01:04:36,915 --> 01:04:42,713
For all this you'll receive an
allowance of $20,000 each 12-moon,
628
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,341
to be spent by the
White Father on your behalf.
629
01:04:56,894 --> 01:04:58,896
He says, "Why do you come here?
630
01:04:59,062 --> 01:05:01,732
Because Red Cloud
has killed so many bluecoats.
631
01:05:04,067 --> 01:05:06,862
This is the time
for fighting, not talking."
632
01:05:12,284 --> 01:05:14,786
From this day forward,
633
01:05:15,871 --> 01:05:18,081
all war between the parties
to this agreement
634
01:05:18,248 --> 01:05:20,042
shall forever cease.
635
01:05:21,501 --> 01:05:24,212
War will end in the total
destruction of the Indian
636
01:05:24,379 --> 01:05:26,965
because his numbers are less.
637
01:05:27,883 --> 01:05:29,885
We have prepared peace papers.
638
01:05:29,885 --> 01:05:33,513
We ask that your chiefs
and head men hold their councils
639
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:37,851
and meet with us when the shadows
are long to sign these papers.
640
01:06:42,958 --> 01:06:46,712
Many wrongs have
been done my people,
641
01:06:46,878 --> 01:06:49,881
but I still live in hope.
642
01:06:49,881 --> 01:06:52,384
I have not got two hearts.
643
01:07:13,321 --> 01:07:15,532
I got it. Here, load this one.
644
01:07:17,909 --> 01:07:20,162
What am I paying you for?
Get to work!
645
01:07:20,328 --> 01:07:22,998
Get to work! Move this stuff.
646
01:07:35,302 --> 01:07:37,054
I'm sending the girl back to Omaha.
647
01:07:37,220 --> 01:07:39,222
She belongs
with your mother and sister.
648
01:07:40,307 --> 01:07:43,894
- I won't let you do that.
- You won't let me. You won't let me?
649
01:07:44,436 --> 01:07:46,605
You've been seduced
by girlish blandishments.
650
01:07:46,772 --> 01:07:48,565
- It's not like that.
- Yes, it is.
651
01:07:48,732 --> 01:07:52,027
If you want to expend some of
that surplus of manly urges you've got,
652
01:07:52,194 --> 01:07:54,154
I suggest you do it in
one of our own establishments...
653
01:07:54,321 --> 01:07:55,405
Stop it!
654
01:07:55,572 --> 01:07:56,948
I got women who could teach that slut...
655
01:07:57,115 --> 01:08:00,660
- I said shut your mouth!
- Robert! Stop!
656
01:08:00,827 --> 01:08:03,497
- Robert. Stop. Please.
- Get off him.
657
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,045
I will let this pass. For now.
658
01:08:14,841 --> 01:08:16,134
Don't make me choose.
659
01:08:26,895 --> 01:08:29,481
What are you looking at?
660
01:09:07,894 --> 01:09:10,230
Sorry. I didn't
mean to startle you.
661
01:09:10,397 --> 01:09:11,898
It's all right.
662
01:09:12,899 --> 01:09:14,860
It was about me,
663
01:09:15,443 --> 01:09:18,572
what happened before
with your father. Wasn't it?
664
01:09:21,324 --> 01:09:24,119
It's not just the land
that's changing, Clara.
665
01:09:24,286 --> 01:09:27,747
It's people. Me.
666
01:09:28,456 --> 01:09:30,125
No.
667
01:09:30,292 --> 01:09:31,918
You are one
of the "better angels."
668
01:09:38,133 --> 01:09:40,886
Better angels, huh?
669
01:09:41,052 --> 01:09:43,054
"Better angels of our nature."
670
01:09:43,221 --> 01:09:45,765
That's what Mr. Lincoln called them.
671
01:09:48,059 --> 01:09:49,895
Got a spot over there!
672
01:09:49,895 --> 01:09:51,646
That's mine!
673
01:09:54,566 --> 01:09:58,570
How could a country
so beautiful make men so cruel?
674
01:10:01,990 --> 01:10:04,159
And so the towns came and went,
675
01:10:04,326 --> 01:10:07,829
Julesburg, Sidney,
Potter, Kimball, Archer.
676
01:10:07,996 --> 01:10:10,999
At every stop the empire that
Daniel Wheeler sought for his family
677
01:10:11,166 --> 01:10:12,459
grew a little larger.
678
01:10:12,626 --> 01:10:15,879
Then came Cheyenne,
the Magic City of the Plains,
679
01:10:15,879 --> 01:10:19,883
nearly halfway between Omaha
and the shores of California.
680
01:10:19,883 --> 01:10:22,636
The Wheelers
had become men of substance,
681
01:10:22,802 --> 01:10:26,556
but Robert knew that something more
important had been lost along the tracks
682
01:10:26,723 --> 01:10:28,850
and he aimed to get it back.
683
01:10:29,017 --> 01:10:30,602
Thank you.
684
01:10:42,447 --> 01:10:44,658
- Hello, Robert.
- Let me help you.
685
01:10:49,955 --> 01:10:52,374
That's a pretty dress, Clara.
686
01:10:52,540 --> 01:10:55,794
It speaks
of a real delicate sensibility.
687
01:10:55,961 --> 01:10:58,922
Delicate? My, is that how you see me?
688
01:10:59,756 --> 01:11:02,384
No! I was just...
689
01:11:02,550 --> 01:11:03,927
Look, all I meant to say was
690
01:11:04,094 --> 01:11:06,888
it's nice to see some refinement
in a place such as this.
691
01:11:07,055 --> 01:11:08,890
Thank you.
692
01:11:08,890 --> 01:11:12,060
Well, you did just what you said
you would. I'm proud of you.
693
01:11:12,227 --> 01:11:13,937
Let me show you something.
694
01:11:27,325 --> 01:11:29,411
Clara...
695
01:11:30,161 --> 01:11:32,414
- These are...
- Vanities, I know.
696
01:11:32,580 --> 01:11:36,543
No. No. Not at all.
These are... great.
697
01:11:36,710 --> 01:11:39,087
I never thought
I'd take up drawing again.
698
01:11:39,254 --> 01:11:42,132
When I was a girl,
I had such ambitions.
699
01:11:42,299 --> 01:11:45,343
I dreamed of owning
a ladies' emporium
700
01:11:45,510 --> 01:11:49,889
in a place
like New York or San Francisco.
701
01:11:49,889 --> 01:11:52,267
I imagined myself traveling
702
01:11:52,434 --> 01:11:54,894
to all the great capitals
of Europe and...
703
01:11:57,564 --> 01:12:00,483
I had time to dream then,
I suppose.
704
01:12:01,901 --> 01:12:04,070
You should never
stop dreaming, Clara.
705
01:12:15,915 --> 01:12:20,879
That was bold of me, I know.
706
01:12:20,879 --> 01:12:24,215
Not nearly bold enough,
Robert Wheeler.
707
01:12:37,395 --> 01:12:38,396
Donovan!
708
01:12:41,524 --> 01:12:43,902
A jackrabbit would need
a canteen and a haversack
709
01:12:43,902 --> 01:12:47,864
to get through this desert. Makes me
wish we were back in the mountains.
710
01:12:48,031 --> 01:12:50,909
Damn it! Put your backs into it!
711
01:12:50,909 --> 01:12:56,915
Every mile we make, the
mother-loving Union Pacific makes four.
712
01:12:56,915 --> 01:12:59,918
Now you work as though
heaven itself were before you
713
01:12:59,918 --> 01:13:01,294
and hell behind you!
714
01:13:03,630 --> 01:13:05,840
This isn't a ladies' social, Donovan!
715
01:13:06,007 --> 01:13:08,259
Beggin' your pardon,
Mr. Strobridge.
716
01:13:08,426 --> 01:13:11,888
You work these men any harder,
you're not gonna have one left.
717
01:13:11,888 --> 01:13:12,889
Theheat,sir.
718
01:13:13,056 --> 01:13:16,017
You get these cursed Celestials digging!
719
01:13:30,365 --> 01:13:33,493
If you don't get these
Chinese working, Donovan,
720
01:13:33,660 --> 01:13:37,122
you and the other walking bosses will
have to take their place on the line.
721
01:13:37,288 --> 01:13:39,791
- I'm afraid I can't do that, sir.
- What did you say?
722
01:13:39,958 --> 01:13:43,670
- Can't or won't?
- No disrespect meant, sir.
723
01:13:43,837 --> 01:13:45,880
But we're gonna finish
this railroad together,
724
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:48,383
or we're not gonna finish it!
725
01:13:56,057 --> 01:13:57,892
Give the men a day of rest.
726
01:13:57,892 --> 01:14:01,521
We resume work
first light tomorrow morning.
727
01:14:01,688 --> 01:14:03,898
Yes, sir.
728
01:14:09,821 --> 01:14:12,615
Thought you said you didn't
have any use for the Chinese.
729
01:14:12,782 --> 01:14:14,909
Got even less for bosses.
730
01:14:19,747 --> 01:14:23,543
After two years of fighting,
the Long Knives abandoned their forts
731
01:14:23,710 --> 01:14:25,336
and signed a treaty
732
01:14:25,503 --> 01:14:28,882
that gave the sacred lands
back to the Lakota.
733
01:14:28,882 --> 01:14:31,176
Red Cloud had done what no man,
734
01:14:31,342 --> 01:14:34,888
white or Indian, thought possible.
735
01:14:34,888 --> 01:14:38,391
Young warriors took heart
from this great victory.
736
01:14:38,558 --> 01:14:41,060
Many who had gone
to the reservations
737
01:14:41,227 --> 01:14:44,647
began to return
to their hunting grounds.
738
01:14:44,814 --> 01:14:46,941
There they found more white men.
739
01:14:47,108 --> 01:14:49,944
The circle of violence was renewed.
740
01:14:50,111 --> 01:14:54,449
Punishment fell on those
who did not seek war.
741
01:15:07,337 --> 01:15:11,382
See that, Mr. Wheeler?
A presentiment of victory.
742
01:15:12,592 --> 01:15:14,677
Heaven sent, colonel.
743
01:15:14,844 --> 01:15:17,972
Fine work, scouts.
I will send for you if I have need.
744
01:15:22,185 --> 01:15:24,896
The Garry Owen,
if you please, corporal.
745
01:15:48,878 --> 01:15:50,713
Soldiers!
746
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:53,925
- Soldiers! All around us!
- See to the women.
747
01:15:54,092 --> 01:15:55,635
Save as many as you can.
748
01:15:58,846 --> 01:16:02,100
We're living in the nightmare.
May we meet again.
749
01:16:26,541 --> 01:16:28,710
Colonel wants to see you.
750
01:16:29,210 --> 01:16:32,130
Give me that coat! Now!
751
01:17:07,457 --> 01:17:09,917
Get moving!
752
01:17:09,917 --> 01:17:11,919
Go on!
753
01:17:23,931 --> 01:17:25,892
Margaret?
754
01:17:49,791 --> 01:17:53,795
That one doesn't look like such
a bad sort, does she, Armstrong?
755
01:17:57,632 --> 01:17:59,884
Their women possess a fierceness
756
01:17:59,884 --> 01:18:02,595
not found in our more refined sex.
757
01:18:02,887 --> 01:18:05,890
Those that have not been too degraded
by being mere chattels
758
01:18:05,890 --> 01:18:08,893
may yet learn some
rudimentary manners.
759
01:18:09,894 --> 01:18:11,062
And what's your name?
760
01:18:11,896 --> 01:18:14,273
This one goes by Margaret, ma'am.
761
01:18:15,441 --> 01:18:18,903
Margaret. That's a lovely name.
762
01:18:19,737 --> 01:18:21,489
It's nice to have met you, Margaret.
763
01:19:01,279 --> 01:19:03,156
That's the one!
764
01:19:08,911 --> 01:19:11,706
You tell the lieutenant
to mind his privates.
765
01:19:11,873 --> 01:19:14,167
This one's a wildcat.
766
01:19:16,919 --> 01:19:19,505
No! Take me back!
767
01:19:20,256 --> 01:19:22,759
Stop fighting!
Ain't nothing gonna happen.
768
01:19:22,925 --> 01:19:25,720
You're nothing but a murderer
just like the rest of them!
769
01:19:25,887 --> 01:19:27,889
Listen to me! Listen to me!
770
01:19:33,102 --> 01:19:35,438
I'm gonna march you
through that gate.
771
01:19:35,605 --> 01:19:37,523
There's a pony
waiting at the corral.
772
01:19:37,690 --> 01:19:39,901
Get on it.
You gonna ride clear of here.
773
01:19:40,067 --> 01:19:42,904
- No! I won't!
- No!
774
01:19:45,114 --> 01:19:47,450
Take me back!
775
01:19:47,617 --> 01:19:51,162
You don't belong with these people.
You don't belong with them.
776
01:20:01,214 --> 01:20:02,673
These people.
777
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:04,926
They're my sisters...
778
01:20:05,885 --> 01:20:08,721
...and my mothers and my children.
779
01:20:08,888 --> 01:20:10,890
And my brothers.
780
01:20:11,891 --> 01:20:13,684
I won't leave them.
781
01:20:13,851 --> 01:20:15,520
You ain't talking sense, Margaret.
782
01:20:15,686 --> 01:20:18,898
How can I ever face Ma and Pa
if I don't see you safe out of here?
783
01:20:21,901 --> 01:20:23,569
You tell them...
784
01:20:25,863 --> 01:20:28,407
...their daughter Margaret
785
01:20:28,574 --> 01:20:30,910
died at Sand Creek.
786
01:20:30,910 --> 01:20:35,456
lyohmeahwe lived to see the white man
787
01:20:35,623 --> 01:20:38,668
keep his promises on the Washita.
788
01:20:38,835 --> 01:20:40,419
You tell them
789
01:20:40,586 --> 01:20:44,090
that the hole in my heart
790
01:20:44,257 --> 01:20:46,759
is now filled with sorrow.
791
01:20:47,510 --> 01:20:49,887
You tell them
792
01:20:49,887 --> 01:20:53,891
that I can never be who I was.
793
01:20:58,521 --> 01:21:00,147
Tell them that I love them.
794
01:21:05,903 --> 01:21:08,447
Will you do that for me, Jacob?
795
01:21:08,948 --> 01:21:12,076
You tell them these things, Jacob.
796
01:22:05,421 --> 01:22:08,007
The lines will meet
at Promontory Summit.
797
01:22:08,174 --> 01:22:10,718
Utah's Mormon country.
798
01:22:10,885 --> 01:22:15,056
But they say Brother Brigham appreciates
the worth of a gentile dollar.
799
01:22:15,222 --> 01:22:18,225
When they drive that last spike,
our real opportunities begin.
800
01:22:18,392 --> 01:22:20,770
We'll have our pick
of the spur lines and...
801
01:22:20,937 --> 01:22:23,064
- Hauling contracts.
- Yes.
802
01:22:23,230 --> 01:22:25,358
I don't want any part of it.
803
01:22:30,196 --> 01:22:33,866
I had hoped to bestow upon you
our family's good fortune.
804
01:22:34,033 --> 01:22:35,910
That is my obligation
as it is yours
805
01:22:35,910 --> 01:22:37,995
to respect and serve
our businesses here.
806
01:22:38,162 --> 01:22:41,749
And I'll carry out my duties
until the rails meet. I owe you that.
807
01:22:41,916 --> 01:22:44,543
Once it's finished,
I'm striking out on my own.
808
01:22:47,338 --> 01:22:50,841
You display no aptitude
for enterprise, sir.
809
01:22:51,008 --> 01:22:54,595
That girl has a better head
for business than you'll ever have.
810
01:22:54,762 --> 01:22:56,889
- I underestimated her.
- Clara, Father.
811
01:22:57,056 --> 01:22:58,891
Can you say her name? Clara.
812
01:23:01,060 --> 01:23:02,895
- Clara.
- Yeah.
813
01:23:02,895 --> 01:23:05,940
She makes people nice things.
814
01:23:06,107 --> 01:23:09,777
Taking advantage of their weakness
doesn't seem much of a business to me.
815
01:23:09,944 --> 01:23:11,904
Different times call
for different methods.
816
01:23:11,904 --> 01:23:15,408
That's progress. I suppose
I don't want much part of it.
817
01:23:22,915 --> 01:23:25,376
You'd better think hard
on your future, boy.
818
01:23:46,397 --> 01:23:49,066
You boys earned it.
I'll fill it for you.
819
01:23:57,408 --> 01:24:00,202
The Union Pacific. Late as usual.
820
01:24:24,226 --> 01:24:25,978
For my wayward son, Abe,
821
01:24:26,145 --> 01:24:29,148
that May morning
was a triumph like no other.
822
01:24:29,315 --> 01:24:32,902
A ribbon of iron
stretched 1,800 miles,
823
01:24:32,902 --> 01:24:36,447
from the Mississippi
to the Pacific Ocean.
824
01:24:36,614 --> 01:24:39,241
When those final rails were laid,
825
01:24:39,408 --> 01:24:41,160
America changed forever.
826
01:24:41,327 --> 01:24:43,037
The final spike!
827
01:24:51,879 --> 01:24:52,963
Preacher!
828
01:24:54,924 --> 01:24:59,637
Some men fancied that they represented
the future of that new America,
829
01:24:59,804 --> 01:25:02,848
but it was men and women
like Robert and Clara
830
01:25:03,015 --> 01:25:05,893
who would come
to embody its true spirit.
831
01:25:05,893 --> 01:25:10,106
Their pluck and determination
would be sorely tested
832
01:25:10,272 --> 01:25:13,526
- in the years that lay ahead.
- ...we celebrate here today.
833
01:25:13,692 --> 01:25:18,072
Bless this majestic road
and all those who ride upon it.
834
01:25:18,239 --> 01:25:21,367
- May they and their business prosper...
- Amen!
835
01:25:27,957 --> 01:25:32,336
Where we now stand,
but a few months since
836
01:25:32,503 --> 01:25:35,548
could be seen nothing
but the path of the red man.
837
01:25:35,714 --> 01:25:39,510
Now a thousand wheels
will bear on their axles
838
01:25:39,677 --> 01:25:43,264
the wealth of half the world,
drawn by the iron horse,
839
01:25:43,430 --> 01:25:45,683
darkening the landscape
with its smoky breath
840
01:25:45,850 --> 01:25:49,353
and startling the wild Indian
with its piercing scream.
841
01:25:52,398 --> 01:25:54,984
We are a great people
842
01:25:55,151 --> 01:25:58,779
and can accomplish great things.
843
01:27:53,936 --> 01:27:56,689
You micks get down off that train.
844
01:27:56,855 --> 01:27:59,525
Let's get the
real railroad men on here!
845
01:28:00,734 --> 01:28:02,528
All right. Time for a photograph.
846
01:28:03,445 --> 01:28:05,698
All you micks back up.
847
01:28:05,864 --> 01:28:09,118
Get down from those rails,
you Chinese. Come on!
848
01:28:16,917 --> 01:28:19,753
At least we got this to show for it.
849
01:28:20,879 --> 01:28:22,798
They can't ever take this away from us.
850
01:28:24,883 --> 01:28:26,885
Good luck in Tai Fau.
851
01:28:33,892 --> 01:28:35,936
You watch out for Fan gway.
852
01:28:38,314 --> 01:28:42,818
Can't escape 'em.
They're everywhere.
853
01:29:17,728 --> 01:29:19,396
Hold still now.
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