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[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

Howdy.

Hello. What can I do for you?

I'm catching the afternoon train to Virginia City.

I'd like to board my horse with you for a while.

What's a man have to pay to board a horse

in this part of the country?

Oh, no more, no less than anyplace else.

Guess that's fair enough.

I knew it. I knew you'd be back.

Are you telling me you know me?

Oh, listen, mister, the fellas in this town,

they've been giving me a bad time for a year

about my doing all the repair work on this saddle for nothing.

I knew you'd come back.

Oh, this is a beauty. It's a collector's item.

A man doesn't leave a piece of leather like this behind him

and not come back for it.

You don't see many of these anymore.

Especially with that Riley brand on it.

You positive I left this saddle here?

I got a receipt for it.

Mister, if you've got a receipt, I want to see it.

I do things real business-like.

Yeah, I'll show you your receipt.

You were here about a year ago.

There you are.

Don't you bother to put a name on a receipt?

Well, uh, a man can change his name.

But a man doesn't tamper with a brand.

Especially a Riley brand.

How do I get to the Riley ranch?

A hundred miles, straight north.

How much do I owe you for the work on the saddle?

Twenty-three dollars. No more, no less.

Twenty-three dollars, huh?

I'm a little short.

Will you trade my saddle

for the work you did on this one, even?

I'll be getting the best of the deal.

Now, wait a minute. I thought you said

you were gonna take a train to Virginia City.

Well, a man can change his mind, can't he?

Are you dead-set on going out to the Riley ranch?

You know some reason why I shouldn't?

Well, I hear tell they don't like strangers

dropping in on them.

Well, how much of a stranger can a man be

when he's riding a saddle sporting one of their brands?

? Oh Shenandoah ?

? You're doomed to wander ?

? On beyond ?

? This land so lonely ?

? Oh Shenandoah ?

? You're doomed to wander ?

? So roam ?

? In search of home ?

? Across this land ?

? So lonely ??

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[NARRATOR] An isolated Wyoming cattle ranch.

An empire unto itself.

Still another place to search for a man with no name,

no past, no memory.

For a man called Shenandoah.

[HORSE GALLOPING]

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[CATTLE LOWING]

[SIZZLING]

[SIZZLING]

You know, boss, I been branding cattle for years

and I still don't like it.

[CATTLE LOWING]

Looking for something, mister?

The Riley Ranch.

You've been on it for two days.

If you'd checked back in Laramie,

you'd have found out we're not hiring any hands.

Saved yourself quite a ride.

[CHUCKLES] Thanks, I'm not looking for a job,

but I heard something else in Laramie,

and if I can look at that branding iron

I might answer my own question.

Find your answer?

You're right, I could have saved myself a long ride.

I was hoping that branding iron

would match the brand on my saddle.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Fine looking calf you got there.

Reach, mister.

I think you're a horse thief.

Looks like we're gonna hang another one, Egan.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[CLANGING]

[HORSES GALLOPING]

And he has the old rocking "R" brand on his saddle.

We haven't used that for years.

You still can't hang a man, just 'cause

he's turned up with an old Riley Ranch...

Julia, look.

We've put a lot of years

of hard work into this ranch.

Now, we didn't build it from a shack

and a few head of cattle to what it is now

just to play host to every saddle tramp that comes along.

Well, we didn't build it by hanging them either, Jared.

I want to talk to him.

[DOOR OPENING]

I'm Julia Riley.

I believe you've met Mr. Abel.

We didn't exchange names.

I was told you rode all the way in from Laramie.

Can I help you?

I was hoping the brand on my saddle

and the brand being used by your ranch match.

They don't.

So if you convince your foreman

that I'm not a horse thief, I'll be on my way.

Well, that was our old brand. Didn't he tell you?

No, he didn't offer that information

What's your name?

I'm called Shenandoah.

Where did you get that saddle?

I've had it as long as I can remember.

Why is it so important for the brand

on our saddle horn to match yours?

I'll be all right, Jared. I'll see you back at the house.

Why is it so important our brands match?

Why is it so important to you?

Twenty years ago, my mother and father

were massacred during an Indian raid.

What has that got to do with it?

Well, Jared Abel rescued me, but my brother Adam disappeared.

I don't know whether he was killed,

or was carried off someplace.

And then I come riding in with one of your saddles.

Do you know what that could mean?

Are you trying to tell me that I could be your brother?

That's right.

[DOOR OPENS]

Well, what's the verdict?

I don't know, Jared, I'm really not sure.

Well, I am.

It's not that simple.

He could be Adam.

What do you think?

Well, I guess it's possible.

He is riding that saddle.

There can't be too many of them around with that old brand.

Yeah, but it's been over 20 years.

You can't be sure.

I know.

Well, I can be sure of one thing.

Even if he is Adam Riley,

he's not gonna come riding back here

and take over everything I've worked for.

The Riley Ranch is an empire today.

I built it.

I'm not gonna give up even one piece of it.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Miss Riley wants to see you.

I thought we might take a ride around the ranch.

I'd like to show you the place.

I could use the fresh air.

Thank you.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[HORSE SNORTS]

This was the corral area of the original ranch.

Might have been where you first learned to ride.

My father was so proud of how expert Adam was.

I'm sorry to say, it doesn't mean a thing to me.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

The original ranch was over there.

It was burned in the Indian raid.

There's nothing much left of it now.

The ranch house is gone, but our tree-house is still there.

Our tree-house?

I mean the tree-house Adam and I used to play in.

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

This is where Adam used to swim.

You Riley's have quite a spread here.

And up there behind that waterfall was Hermit Cave.

I know what you're trying to do,

Miss Riley, but I can't help you.

I don't remember the waterfall, or the pond.

Nothing.

And yet I can't honestly tell you

that I couldn't be your brother.

I don't understand.

I can't blame you for that.

Maybe I can explain it.

You know, you and I have one thing very much in common.

We're both looking for something that we...

Well, that we can't find.

And then we had eight years when the rains

came at the right time,

and the grass was green for grazing,

and the herds kept getting bigger and bigger.

The herds didn't grow just by themselves.

That's right, Miss Riley.

It takes a lot of work to make a ranch prosper.

Some more wine for Mr. Riley, please.

Mr. Shenandoah.

If you'll excuse me, I have work to do.

Something seems to be troubling your foreman.

Yes, I think so.

You know, I was thinking about what you said this afternoon.

There must be a doctor you can see.

Oh, I've been to a doctor.

He told me, that during the Civil War,

they discovered many forms of amnesia,

but so far they don't know how to treat it.

Why talk about it?

Nobody really understands.

I think I do.

I told you we had a lot in common.

Yes, but you're completely alone.

At least I have this ranch.

It really has given me a reason for being.

I'd hoped it would give me a reason too.

But it's asking an awful lot

of an obsolete brand on an old saddle.

Let's have coffee in the living room.

Let's.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

Well, Mr. Abel?

She's being stupid.

She's talking herself into things,

and she just won't give up.

Well, I won't give up either, Egan.

I could pick him off right now.

No.

And we're not going to hang our horse thief either.

I got a better plan.

He's going to be shot tomorrow morning

trying to make his escape.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Miss Riley says, I'm to take you to the edge of the ranch

and send you on your way.

Gotta get started, we got a long way to go.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

Sleep well?

What's the matter, did our friend from Laramie

give you nightmares?

No, I didn't sleep very well if that's what you mean.

Julia...

You know he's not Adam Riley, we both know that.

No, we don't.

We don't know anything for sure.

You know you're talking yourself right into this?

You've been missing family for so long,

that you're selling yourself a bill of goods.

I'm not selling myself anything, Jared.

I am just saying that we can't be positive.

Well, I'm positive.

And I'm also dead certain that this ranch means too much

to both of us, to start

cutting it up like pieces of pie.

Even if someone legally owns one of those pieces?

Julia, to legally own something you have to have legal proof.

Now, what has this saddle tramp got? Nothing.

There is a resemblance.

And he's got our brand on his saddle.

[SIGHS] He could have picked that saddle up anyplace.

Now, we both know that.

All right, so...

He got a tour of the ranch, thanks to you.

A couple of free meals, a clean bed.

Now, let's just let it go at that.

Let's figure ourselves lucky

he doesn't ride off with some of our tackle.

He's not riding off, Jared.

Not yet.

If he wants to go, how are you gonna stop him?

You stop him.

[LAUGHS]

That's an order, Jared.

From the owner to the foreman.

Or an order, from the rich relative to the poor cousin.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Look, this man might be my brother.

Do you know what that would mean to me?

It would erase all the years of uncertainty and not knowing.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[COCKS GUN]

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNSHOT]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[HORSE GALLOPING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Miss Riley, you'll find Egan's body

at the bottom of the ravine.

What happened?

He got killed trying to carry out his orders.

Orders? What are you talking about?

[HORSE NEIGHING]

If you don't know, then somebody else is running this ranch.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNSHOTS]

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNSHOTS]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[JULIA] I wanted you to be Adam so badly.

Tried to talk us both into it.

Look at all the grief I brought on.

You can't blame yourself for Jared.

Any way you look at it, he brought it on himself.

If I ever do find Adam, I hope he's just as nice as you are.

Hoping's not enough.

It has to be true.

That's the only thing that really matters.

You going to see me to the door?

There's lots of room on the ranch

for another man, Shenandoah.

- I wish you'd stay. - I can't.

When I heard about the Riley brand,

I was on my way to Virginia City.

There's a lead there I can't afford to ignore.

But if I come this way again, I'll sure stop by.

Come to think of it, there might be very decided advantages

to not being your brother.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

? Once more I'd failed ?

? To learn the answer ?

? Once more I walk ?

? This land so lonely ?

? Oh Shenandoah ?

? You're doomed to wander ?

? So roam ?

? In search of home ?

? Across this land ?

? So lonely ??

[THEME MUSIC]

[ROARS]

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