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Why'd you have to come back?

Gambler's hand?

You forgot I saw yours once before and they didn't.

How'd Zindler know your hands wouldn't be all cut up and scarred like that

handyman that worked here?

Well, you haven't won yet, McGavin.

Because I'm going to ride into town with Mavis.

I'm going to go along with her story. You ain't going to live that long.

You're dead, remember?

They can't do nothing to me for killing someone who's dead.

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How are you, Sheriff?

Roscoe.

You're late.

How about that, Settler?

Let's get the mail on board. What do you say?

Well, you've been a real good sport about it, Maverick. I never saw a better

poker player or a better loser.

You know that's what this town needs? A man who likes to draw it on inside

straight.

Well, that's the sad game of chance, gentlemen.

As my pappy always said, patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

But money is better.

Bosco, give this gentleman a nice safe ride, huh?

Hop in, mister. We'll be pulling out in a minute or two.

This is a token of our esteem, since we also won your horse and saddle.

I'm back and forth.

I'd like to have another hand with you.

went through the alley i'll circle them

Harriet?

What happened to

the money sack?

Yeah. Where's the sheriff?

Joe!

Well, I killed all of them. Did you get the money?

Oh, there must have been a fourth man.

Probably passed it to him.

Let's get a party going.

McGavin, Walt, Sims.

What fourth man?

There was only three of them, and he had it last.

Maybe you think he dropped it somewhere, Mr. Zendler?

Yeah, maybe you did.

And maybe you were any kind of a sure of this would never have happened.

You heard him, boys.

Start searching near Grog and Speed's store, then back at Wilson's barn.

Yeah. And search them alleys real good, huh?

Forty dollars a month buys a lot of patience, doesn't it, Sheriff?

Something like that.

Get these dead bodies off the street and find out who they are.

I've had about all this town I can take for one night.

Somebody throw that mail sack on board.

You all right, mister?

The only thing that can help me is a little hard cash.

How much did they get away with, Sheriff?

How would I know?

Now, if you'll be so kind as let me get this posse started. I don't think the

money ever left this town.

Listen to him, Mr. Halley. He's right.

The man in the alley dropped a canvas sack near Grogan's feed store. I was

looking through the window.

What else?

I don't know.

My boy got scared.

I forced him into bed.

I didn't see what happened.

I'm ordering you to close this town off.

I'm searching every man in this town till I find that money.

$7 ,000 of it.

I'm even gonna search you, Sheriff.

Maybe you'd like to search me first?

I'm just telling you, there was no fourth man.

Somebody in Amber Flats has got that money.

Now open up your coats.

Yeah, you too, mister.

At your pleasure, sir.

As long as it's your show, why don't you make it real good?

McGavin, search the stage, too. Right.

I'll get the mail for you, Roscoe.

you happen to find anything i wish you'd let me know i need it

Hey, Hitler.

As clean as a hound's tooth.

I still say Holly ain't worth a pot of beans, and this little deal ought to

prove it.

Still got that itch to be sheriff, huh, McGavin?

Yeah, I'd do better than Holly.

Well, I want my money first.

You're next.

Moscow?

Sure took your time.

Maybe you don't remember the place was kind of littered.

Open up your coat.

It's not that I objected to be in search like anybody else.

I just wanted it understood that nobody could tell me what I had to do.

See any money, McGavin?

Well, go on. Look.

Search him, too.

All right.

Walt, Sims, McGavin, I'm making you my deputies.

Walt, McGavin, you take the Dutch Creek.

Sims, you cover the road to Pleasantville.

I'll take the door, too, and meet up with you at Bob's Ferry by dawn

All right, mister, let's get out of here.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Hope this hasn't tired you for your trip. Mr.

Harley, at this moment I'm so tired I'm breathing from memory.

Don't let him steal your mail, Roscoe. Take it away.

Well, now, I thought you'd be home sleeping.

Say what the...

I'm awful late. I'll be pulling out as soon as they give these old ponies a

breather. Take what you got coming.

Hey, Pilgrim, wake up.

This is where I leave you.

Aren't you just a little premature?

Maybe I am, but this is as far as they paid for your ride. Hop down.

Those no -good, cheap ten -horn gamblers?

Seems like a smart -looking fella like you would know when a practical joke's

being pulled on him.

I've got a pencil wallet and a $40 hat.

Nope. They took me for $900. I'm only asking for a $5 ride.

I'm sorry, but if you don't pay up by the company, sticks me for it.

All set.

Three packages, nine letters.

Here you are, Roscoe.

Listen, fellas, I've got to get out of here.

Don't we all?

I ain't...

around here except in roscoe for quite a spell you won't mind it

friendly

cuss ain't he

J. Holly.

Well, what do you know?

Did you say something?

Oh, I just read a friend's name here. Can I do something for you?

Would this be worth a plate of beans and some coffee?

Oh, I don't want your hat. Help yourself.

Much obliged

You'd

have been better off you taking up Undertaker I did

Give it up when a fellow wants that up in his coffin.

Say, do you play cribbage?

Not today.

I'm very unlucky at cards.

Say, mister, somebody must come pick up that mail. Maybe I can get you right out

of here. Well, maybe, but they don't come very often. There's only six of

and they're scattered in all directions.

I just spoke to him last night.

Where? Hamper Flats.

Well, that's funny.

I just got a package for him inside. I ain't seen him in months.

He sent me to the pen five years ago.

You know, mister, he done me a good turn.

He taught me to give up crime and to end my days in respectability.

He sure let whoever shot him get close. Look at the powder burns on that coat.

What do you think he was trying to say?

Who knows?

A lot of men hated you, didn't they, Joe?

You put too many of them away.

I guess one of them finally made good his brag to put Joe where he belongs.

Maybe not.

The last time I saw him, he was looking for a man that just stole $7 ,000 from

the American mail company in Amber Flats.

My, oh, my.

Hmm.

Looks like my guess was wrong.

Well, as I always say, one bullet's as good as another.

You mind getting a shovel while I sort of pay my last respects?

Sure.

It's all the same to you. I'm taking Holly's horse for services rented. Hmm?

Oh, yeah.

You know, I just noticed something. This here package for Holly is postmarked

Amber Flags.

That ought to be a pretty rare treasure for a stamp collector.

Good day to you, Mr. Coleman.

You thinking what I'm thinking?

Well, I don't know what you're thinking.

About that robbery you told me about? Zindler locking up the town because he

thought the money was still in it? And Holly putting the mail on board the

stage?

Reckon you wonder why I brought this all up? I could have let you ride on out.

Oh, you could have.

But then you remembered you told me about this.

What are we talking about, mister?

Well, it does seem kind of strange that a man would send Holly a package 40

miles away when he could have handed it to him right there in Amber Flats.

That's what we're talking about.

In case it eases your mind any, I didn't know about that postmark until you

brought it up. You think fast, don't you?

Well, I like to land on my feet with coins stuck between my toes.

American Mail Company.

You know that Holly had me believing there was a fourth man?

All them years, Holly sending crooks to jail.

And then coming here for his last big haul and getting bushwhacked on an old

store.

we wanted.

Well, Mr. Coleman, I thought you'd turned over a new leaf of

Just wanted to make sure we was on the same track.

If you trust me now, I could ride into town, collect that reward, and we can

split it. I don't trust you that much.

What about your job here?

Well, I'll just close the place up. Let them fire me.

Returning this ought to be worth at least a thousand dollars reward. I

earn my share in five years working here. We got a ride, boy.

We've got a ride for ourselves. We're gonna be rich men.

We're gonna be rich men.

There she is, Maverick.

Fat and juicy.

That you, Holly?

There's two of them.

Well, if it ain't our poker -playing friend, Maverick.

And old Bert Coleman.

I ain't seen you in quite a spell.

You looking for Holly?

How do you know? You rode out of town last night.

Hey, that's Holly's horse. I know the rig.

Holly's dead. Somebody shot him.

We're bringing back the money he stole.

Oh, that's a real pretty story.

Come on.

Get off.

Now, don't lose your head. We're telling the truth.

You old Jonah.

Ain't seen you since you took Wells Fargo at Dodge City.

Sims, take a look at that saddlebag.

Hey, it's a cat, sure enough.

Now, hold on a minute, gentlemen. You don't understand.

Sure.

Up the old tricks, huh, Bert?

You inside, him outside.

Piers Holly was right, boys.

There was four of them.

No, he was wrong.

Holly sent the money he stole to himself at the Midway station.

Sure, I'll bet he did.

I ain't robbed a nickel in five years.

Sure, the honest brakeman. Never stole a boxcar in his life.

Tie him up, boys.

Get to the horses.

Help me Maverick.

Call me.

I got Coleman, huh?

Yeah, he's dead.

Well, where's the loot?

I wouldn't know.

Them other two will be along any minute.

Now, there's still time for you and me to make a deal.

Whatever you got here, we split.

That's quite a deal. You're no crook like him.

Not with fancy hands like that.

I'll get a doctor for you.

I'll help you get away.

I'm a gambler, McGavin.

I'll bet on a calculated risk, but I'd never bet on the likes of you.

You just might be sorry. That's Holly's horse. I know that blazed face.

Over here.

Walt, take a look. See if there's any money on that horse over there.

Nothing on this horse.

Nothing.

Coleman's dead.

Where's that money?

I don't know.

You better start remembering.

Let's get him back into town.

Go on. Get on your horse.

Hey.

That money ain't going to do you no good when you're swinging at the end of a

rope.

Hey, Walt, give me a hand.

What about your Holly?

Well, now, ain't you pretty?

I thought she wasn't working at the saloon no more now that Holly told you

quit. Hands off me.

Now, look, I didn't kill that sheriff, neither did he.

Can't you see? Holly stole that money and he sent it to himself at the Midway

station. You're a liar.

Hey, Mavis, you'll get your chance.

She's kind of touchy about that kind of talk, mister.

You see, she and Holly was fixing to get married.

Where is it?

Look, I never stole it. We were bringing it back.

Where's my money?

Leave him alone.

Look, it's my money.

Yeah, well, he's my prisoner.

Walt? Yeah? You and Sims take him in and lock him up. All right, come on.

Now, uh, so long as Holly made me act in deputy sheriff's, we're gonna do things

my way.

Now, I'll get him to talk.

If I can't make him talk...

I'll give them to you.

It'll be a pleasure.

All right, the rest of you clear out of here.

You two, take care of him.

Now, uh, Mavis, honey, what's wrong with me now that there ain't no more

competition?

Nothing, I guess.

You're just the kind of doormat a woman would love to wipe her feet on.

Oh, honey, I bet you'd change your tune if I come up with some hard cash, huh?

Just want you to figure out splitting the reward.

When Zendler posts one.

You're so broke, tell old Rosie up the street to give you credit.

I'm still waiting.

You do business with me, you get away.

If I turn you over to Zendler, hanging will be a pleasure compared to what

do to you.

Hey, McGavin, fire Wilson's barn. They want you.

Great time for a fire, isn't it? I thought so.

Get in the back of the buck boat.

Look, there's one thing I want to get straight. I never stole that money.

I know you didn't. I wouldn't have gotten you out of jail.

You're not trying to sandbag me. I'm not playing poker, mister. I'm playing for

keeps. I know Joe Holly stole that money.

Now you get under that canvas. I can't afford to lose you.

Look what we got here. Get inside, Emily. You asking me, sister, or telling

Oh, I'd say she's asking.

You ask me, mister.

Maverick.

Maverick. Now, ain't that a pretty name?

Oh, you better sit down, mister.

Oh, much obliged.

Say, where are you from?

You name it, I've been there.

Emily, you better get into bed.

I don't want to go to bed.

You think because I'm younger than you, you can tell me what to do, but you

can't. I could use a cup of coffee.

Sure enough.

Say, what's the matter? Did Mavis shoot you or something?

I need to get this coat off until I can take care of that.

Take care of what?

This is my house, too, you know.

Anyway, what's Joe going to say when he finds that you're taken off with a

strange fella?

Joe's dead.

Joe dead?

It was Joe that stole that money last night.

I think I killed him to get it.

Did you?

No, I didn't.

Your sister broke me out of jail because she thinks I'm innocent.

She also believes I know where that money is.

How would you like me to fill in the rest of the details?

I reckon I can figure it out in time.

Emily, get me some bandages.

Oh, mister, you know you're lucky. It's only a flesh wound.

Now then, why don't you just tell me where that money is?

I'll turn it over to Mr. Zindler.

You too, huh?

You got another offer?

McGavin. You do business with him and you'll end up horizontal.

Oh. And if I do business with her? I'll save your neck.

I'll tell him I know that Joe sold that money and told me exactly how he did it.

I can make him believe me.

Awful little old ham, huh?

Will you shut your mouth?

What's the matter, sister dear? Do I bother you?

How do you figure I have that money unless I killed Holly to get it?

Well, let's just say I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

Now, where is it?

I'd better get some sleep first.

First, the money.

Well, the other man buried it. But somewhere we can find it.

I have to do a lot of figuring.

I'll go fix this for you, Mr. Maverick.

And don't go getting any ideas about Emily, now, you hear me?

I'm just beginning to get ideas about you.

What you better be doing is trying to figure out where your partner hid that

money. This here's my passcode.

I thought I'd let you wear it until I fixed yours, just to show you my heart's

in the right place.

Oh, I'm sure it is.

Eight tunnels for Indian rights. Now, it's deep. You hold on to that ladder,

you hear?

Wait a minute.

What the

devil happened back in town?

A friend told me he saw you going and cracked all that jail. Did you let that

joker out of his cell?

You ain't answered our question.

I went in wanting to kill him, but he...

He pulled a danger on me and made me open the cell and drive him away on my

buckboard. Where is he now?

I don't know. He tried to steal a horse from me and I beat him off with my whip.

I got away in the dark.

Probably come back here to steal an animal.

Search the place.

Something eating at you, Mr. McGowan?

Yeah, kind of.

If I can't convince your sister I'm a real catch, maybe I can convince you,

Leave it alone!

Where'd he get away from you?

I can show you. I'll know it when I see it.

Nothing outside.

Maybe I'd better stay here.

You go after women on your own time.

Is there a reward, Mr. Zinler?

A thousand dollars, dead or alive.

What you looking at me like that for, sister?

I'm worth a thousand dollars, huh?

Look, mister, if you're thinking of getting away from me without any help,

forget it. They're all over the place out there.

All I'm trying to do is tell you don't trust Mavis. The only reason she's

protecting you is because she wants that money.

So does everybody else, even you.

Of course I want it. I've never had more than a dollar in my whole life.

Only I wouldn't go to man into stealing it for me.

Joe Holly?

Mm -hmm.

He was decent.

And he loved Mavis.

And he just got all caught up in her sweet talk.

it's kind of gotten to you, too, huh?

Not exactly.

Yes, it has.

I don't like my sister, mister.

I never have.

I hate this place.

Look, if you know where that money's hid, I'll help you find it.

And we'll even return it.

I don't have that money, Emily.

And I don't know where it is.

Mr. Take me away from here.

You're a child.

I'm not a child.

I'm a woman.

I don't want to end up rotting here like my ma or being a dance hall girl like

Mavis with men pawing all over me.

I want to... I want to be somebody, Mr. Maverick.

Well, then how did you get involved in all of this if you didn't take the money

from him?

Well, we were bringing it back.

But Gavin and his men stopped us.

Well, and then what happened?

Well, after Coleman and I escaped, he had the money.

By the time I found him, he was dead.

He'd already buried it. He was all dirty.

Almighty. Look, honey, I'm awful sleepy. How about let's talk about it in the

morning? What do you say?

Where's Emily?

How would I know?

You better start figuring out where that cash is.

They know you're around here somewhere. You ain't got a chance of getting out of

here.

Now, let's start from the very beginning.

Where'd McGovern stop you?

On the road from Midway Station.

That'd most likely be Pine Meadows.

After you got away from him, how long before you found your partner?

Maybe 20 minutes.

Twenty minutes, that don't give a man much time to dig very deep, not on hard

ground.

Wait a minute.

Have you had any rain around here lately?

No, not in, I'd say, four months.

Dry as a bone.

Except for Bear Pond.

How close is that to Pine Meadows?

It's part of it.

You're right, a man couldn't have hidden it very deep, but he could have hidden

it in mud.

Coleman had mud all over his hands and his boots.

That's it, Mavis, that's where the money is.

You take her to it and you'll never see that money again.

Emily, you stay out of this. Now, Joe didn't mean to take that money. That's

I'm putting it back.

Get this fellow off by telling the truth.

I don't believe you. You wouldn't know the truth if it was staring you in the

face. Now look who's calling the kettle black.

Who talked Joe into stealing that money in the first place just to buy you

pretty things?

You're no good, Mavis. You never were any good.

I'm in enough trouble already without all this.

I can get you out of this country. I know the woods better than any old

I know all the secret hiding places.

You better trust me, mister.

Right now, I wouldn't trust my grandmother.

He's out there, Mavis!

Who? The handyman.

This is his day to work here.

Now you're going to let me help you, mister? Make your choice.

Against two queens?

I think I'll just stick with the money.

All right.

You go with her.

You stay behind me. I'll get you into the wagon.

Mister. Here.

Just to make sure you get back.

I'll take care of Henry. Now get going. Take the back road.

Whoa!

Mr. Maverick?

Are we there?

No, I need some help.

Thanks. Mr. Maverick.

I'm, uh... I'm playing straight with you. I sure hope you're playing straight

with me.

Anyway, I guess I ain't got no other choice but to trust you have, uh... Joe

Harley.

Joe Harley's told that money, all right, but what you don't know is he was gonna

give it back.

Give it back, the money? But that's why I'm doing all this, don't you

understand? For him.

Honey, I quit believing in Mother Goose when I kicked the slats out of my

cradle. But I'm not lying to you.

I've been... I've been having a pretty hard time since my pa died.

Joe didn't want me working in that place.

He wanted to take care of me. I guess he thought if he took that money that...

Mr. Maverick, Joe was a decent man.

He was so shamed of what he'd done.

Afterwards, when he came out to the farm to see me, he wasn't even wearing his

badge. He knew that we'd never find any happiness on something stolen.

When he left, I... I rode to the edge of the woods with him.

Before he rode on to Midway Station, I... I made him put his badge back on,

because he was still a lawman.

Honey, I sure hope you're this convincing when we ride into Amber Flats

that money.

Look.

The posse?

No, I don't think so. There'd be more tracks.

But not if there'd been just one girl around here.

You mean Emily?

Dear little Emily. She wasn't home all night. She knows these woods like the

back of her hand.

Whoa!

Shot his shoulder and half his face away.

Well, he found Mr. Marek's coat. And he saw the blood in the bullet hole.

And he knew that the posse had been here looking for him. And that we'd said you

never were here. He knew that we'd lied.

He was trying to choke me into telling them where you'd gone.

He was going to kill me.

or don't you believe me?

I don't know.

Did you find the money, Mr. Maverick?

Somebody beat us to it. Now, Emily, I want you to tell me what you know about

all this. I don't know anything about this.

You've got to get out of here now.

Mavis won't help you. But what about him?

Well, we'll bury him.

No.

We won't bury him. We'll use him.

We'll put your coat on him.

Well, he hasn't got a face anymore, and his shoulders shot away like yours.

It'll fool the posse.

Look, it's the best chance you've got.

I'll tell them that you came back to steal a horse and some water, and I shot

you.

Emily, what are you up to?

Well, I'm doing better than you. This way they'll think he's dead, and he

need either of us to help him anymore.

Might work.

That is, unless you didn't mean what you said about helping him.

Mavis, you go get the posse.

I hope you know what you're doing.

Hope so, too.

Oh, Mr. Maverick.

Before you went to sleep last night, you said something about finding your

partner with mud on his boots.

The only place he could have picked it up was Bear Pond.

Well, then why did you let her go just now?

Because she would have turned you in.

She's been using you, mister, just like she's used everybody ever since she was

a kid.

Well, this is going right back. Of course, whatever you say. Only, let's

run now.

What about him?

Oh, let Mavis get out of it the best way she knows how.

They'll never find us. I know places through those mountains that nobody

about. I'll just bet you do.

And stop worrying about Mavis.

She's as bad as that money.

I heard her and Holly talking, standing right here in this room.

You sure do get around, don't you?

They thought I was away, but I was right behind that door.

Holly was talking about picking up the package at Midway Station, and Mavis was

goading him into taking her with him.

Bet she didn't tell you that, did she?

Not exactly.

Oh, Holly didn't want to take her. He wanted to meet her later. Except she

didn't want to get her hands off that money, not for one second.

Finally, he talked her into his way of thinking.

But, you know, Holly wasn't much better than she was.

There he was, standing right in the center of this room, with that star

right there on his coat, bragging about how he'd put it over on everybody.

If you'd asked me, she was mad enough to have shot him right then and there.

Somebody dead before he got to Midway Station. Yeah, there you see, it was

Mavis. Only, only, he got away, and she got scared and came back here.

Look, you get a couple of horses, and I still have to put that coat on him. Now

you're talking, mister.

Rocky, I found you.

Hamley just shot Maverick. Oh, well, good for her.

Did he have the money? I don't know. Come on, let's go.

You sure did real fine with his face.

How can you tell who he is?

It's him, all right.

It's all there.

Get him out of here.

Too scared to touch him with the money, huh, Emily?

Well, I did a thousand for his carcass, and I meant it.

Just don't spend it in one place.

He sure got himself some food and a horse, didn't he?

Coming?

Another day, another dollar, huh?

Where'd that money come from?

Why don't you tell her, Emily?

Why'd you do it?

It could have all been ours, and we could have gotten away, too.

Oh, you got your reward. Tell me what's going on.

Joe, Holly.

But you gave up the idea of going on to Midway Station after he escaped you, not

Mavis. Me?

That's what you tried to make me believe.

But you went too far, honey.

You're a liar. I never saw him.

You know, Holly may not have been the best sheriff in the business, but he was

nobody's fool.

He would never have allowed anyone to get close enough to him with a gun to

leave powder burns on his coat.

Not unless he knew that person well enough to know that they wouldn't pull a

gun. You cannot prove anything.

I said I never even saw him. You also said you saw a badge on Holly here at

farm. But you couldn't have.

You see, Mavis pinned that badge on him at the edge of the woods.

And she has no reason to lie about a thing like that.

And you only heard Holly talking to Mavis in this room.

And then you rode out there and shot him.

That's when you saw the badge on his coat.

And you thought he'd been there all the time.

You see, she gave herself away when she didn't have to.

But then most people do.

You ain't gonna do a thing with me.

I got this money, and I'm leaving here.

Emily. I'll think about you, sister dear, when I'm all dressed up in my silk

clothes and my high -heeled shoes with champagne glasses in each hand.

You and your poor Holly.

You keep the farm, but I'm taking the horse, and I'm leaving here, and you

ever gonna see me no more.

Never.

Give me my money.

You ain't gonna talk either.

I got you, Mavis.

You're going to dance when I pull the string now.

Or I'll turn the both of you in for hiding a murder.

Why'd you have to come back?

Gambler's hand.

You forgot I saw yours once before and they didn't.

How'd Zindler know your hands wouldn't be all cut up and scarred like that

handyman that worked here?

Well, you haven't won yet, McGavin.

Because I'm going to ride into town with Mavis.

I'm going to go along with her story. You see, Holly stole that money.

You ain't going to live that long.

You're dead, remember?

They can't do nothing to me for killing someone who's dead.

I'm sorry, Mavis.

But that old saying that the good die young.

It doesn't figure here.

Well, do you think he can make it stick?

Well, let's see.

He came back and attacked Emily.

And before I could stop him, they killed each other.

He has a bad enough reputation, I think they ought to believe it. They will.

I guess as far as Amber Flats is concerned, I'll have to remain dead

Maverick, I don't want this kind of money. You know that.

Yes. But you deserve it.

You've got to start someplace.

But it ought to be yours.

Well, if it'll make you happy, I'll borrow enough for a poker stake.

You know, maybe this ain't goodbye.

I always pay my debts.

That's one I'll enjoy collecting.

Is that an invitation?

Could be.

For the future.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Who is the tall, dark stranger there?

Maverick is the name.

Riding the trail to who knows where, luck is his companion, gambling is his

game. Smooth as a handle on a gun, Maverick is the name.

Wild as a wind in Oregon, blowing up a canyon, easier to tame.

Riverboat, ring your bell, fare thee well Annabelle.

Luck is a lady that he loves the best.

That's to New Orleans,

living on Jackson, Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.

Riverboat, ring your bell.

Farewell, Annabelle.

Luck is a lady that he loves the best.

That's to New Orleans, living on Jackson, Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.

Maverick is a legend of the West.