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Cuttle, they died.

We can't afford to leave them to the wolves.

You leave us to the wolves.

Won't come to that.

If it does, you will not be the last to die.

Got us a gold find.

Gold find?

Take yourself a pan full of bottom. Take a look.

How big a strike do you think it is, Mr. Peasley?

Can't say for sure.

I'd say you're not going to have a financial worry the rest of your life,

Evans.

No matter what he says, I knew I had to put up a fighter. He hanged right there

in the barn.

You deliberately pointed my own gun at me. You deliberately took aim.

You shot me.

This man, Luke McCain.

Rode with a gang of outlaws known as Flint's Raiders.

From the beginning, I know about this killer kid.

This is a letter that... that Kurt wrote to me before he was killed.

Luke and me were spending a lot of time together. Me teaching him how to quick

draw and shoot.

You really have an infamy care, don't you? Just as you do.

I want him facing me for killing my brother. The difference between us is I

don't enjoy pulling the wings off of flies.

What's the matter with Doreen?

I think you wrapped her up.

Young lady, I got to ask you what this fella did to you. He was forcing me to

things and hurting me.

Oh, my God.

I can't see him breathing, Marshal. You must have really hurt him bad.

Get back.

Now you hand up the pistol.

I'll break it. You breathe wrong.

All right.

Get up on your feet and open the door.

able himself to do this, Judge.

No matter how bad you feel, I figure both of us to be hanging if we don't

out fast.

Oh, no.

Josh! Now, Josh, you got her.

Benson's dead.

Dead?

Yeah, somebody killed him.

Let's go, Luke.

I'm not getting too much for the money I paid you.

Now, Mr. Simmons, once I make a commitment, I aim to keep it. I arranged

of the best trackers in the whole Southwest. They're going to meet you

town. Now, these warrants authorized, they may be taken dead or alive.

You and the others can see yourselves to be deputized marshals. I want you to

put on a telegraph that I am guaranteeing a reward of $5 ,000 for the

apprehension of Luke McCahan.

What about his brother, Judge?

It's the older McCahan I'm interested in.

McCahan's the name. Seb McCahan.

You any kin to them McCahan outlaws we've been hearing about down in Las

Wade? What are you talking about, outlaws?

Big manhunt going on down Rio Grande way.

You any kid to him?

Them two would be my nephews. I'd like you fellas to leave my drovers, keep the

herd here till I get back.

Right now there, brother, is our problem.

I don't know where Stillman and Grayson got those two, but they sure know how to

pick up sign.

Hey, senor!

How much you pay for taking care of horses?

I don't know. Just how much are you going to charge?

For those who are being followed, $5 is a cheap price.

So is there any chance of...

We can get some food over in that canteen and possibly a couple beds for

night. There are safe places to sleep.

And places not so safe.

They're here.

Luke McCann!

You and your brother got ten seconds to open that door!

Luke?

If we give up, Josh, it's going to be a hanging party.

I just don't like the idea of leaving you to ride alone, Luke.

We don't have any choice, Josh.

Have you seen your... Have you seen your... Can you

claim you're on their side, a friend of theirs? When putting out a wanted poster

like that means they're fair game for anybody who wants to take a shot at

When he broke jail and took his brother with him, I lost interest.

What about that gal, Doreen? I took her testimony.

I found nothing contradictory.

Now, you and me, young lady, we got some talking to do about my nephew, Josh.

I've got nothing to say to you.

Oh, you got something to say, all right. Now, I want to know everything that

happened in this room that night.

Who are you afraid of?

That he'd hurt me if I said anything as a lesson to the other girls.

In case you didn't know it, young lady, you're afraid of the wrong man.

Who the hell are you?

Get up.

hand, mister.

Now, you and me is going down to the jailhouse.

You can come piece of a like or you can come tied in a knot. That's up to you.

Those are mighty magnificent words, especially if you're backed up by that

large knife there and a very large gun.

I ain't planning to use nothing on you but my bare hands, mister.

Let's all get dressed, lady.

Your friend won't be coming back.

You're saying you weren't working with a friend?

I swear.

I didn't know he was threatening this girl into framing Josh McCann.

Totally ignorant about what was going on.

What about Stillman?

Well, you heard him, Judge.

He claims he didn't want to see a killer like Luke McCann go free, that he did

it all on his own. And I say that's a lie.

Stillman was being protected by Britain.

You're relieved of all law enforcement function.

Official reason, stupidity.

And if you'd like to challenge my findings, I'll order a full hearing

your past activities.

Now, get out of here.

Well, the only thing we can prove here is that Josh McCain was

made to appear as an unreliable witness.

So the governor would find against Luke, extradite him to Missouri.

Of course, Judge Rinson being murdered.

Did you hear anything at the club? Anything that might indicate who shot

judge?

We heard rumors that somebody had sneaked into town, Ed, to pay off an old

grudge.

Well, that's probably it.

Just a coincidence that Luke was at the house a few minutes later.

A problem, McCain.

is that charge of suspicion of murder hanging over Luke is still valid.

Any man who flees this town as fast as his horse can carry him has got a lot of

explaining to do.

A little too late to do anything about that, Judge.

What about that posse of Stillman's out there chasing my nephews?

When we hear from Stillman, we'll order him to desist the pursuit.

You'll tell him in Mexico?

It's a good place to bury the bodies and no questions asked.

Are you heading out after them?

I will be.

I got some words to say to you.

Might come to have some real importance for you one of these days.

Know the little gal out there, Doreen?

Well, she's scared of you and the devil himself.

Hmm.

I wonder why that would be.

You know, she's going to be testifying against you.

And she's going to be getting on a stage for Eastern Parts, hoping never to see

you again.

Well, I'll try to remember. I do wish her a pleasant trip.

Well, I hope you'll remember too, Francis, not to ever try and see her

I'll tell you why. I'm going to be keeping an eye on Doreen.

If anything ever happens to her, I'm going to come looking for you.

Do you always take this long to make a point?

Only when the man I'm talking to has his life dependent on it.

Not a point being this.

Anything ever happens to Doreen, anywhere, anytime, I'm going to come

And I'll make you a promise.

I'm going to turn your hide over at the Apaches.

And then I'm going to pay him.

For every day they can keep you alive over a slow fire.

I never broke a promise, Francis.

Mr. McCahan, when you see Josh again...

Think

low of me.

Oh, I feel low.

You see, it wasn't just that Mr. Britton said he'd do terrible things to me if I

didn't help him, but he'd see to it maybe Josh got hurt, too.

There was just no which way to turn.

What I'd like you to tell him is that I'd like his forgiveness.

I'll tell him.

Maybe you could say that I... I enjoyed knowing him.

I mean, I... I almost felt about him the way he did me.

I'll tell him, Doreen.

But it ain't too late.

Yeah, the young one's crossing the rocks.

You can figure him to swing north when he gets past the riverbed.

That's a younger boy heading home.

I don't give a damn about him. What about Luke McCahan?

Well, unless they change horses, he's heading west.

I'll lay odds he's gonna cross that Tago River and move into Sonora.

We can shortcut.

I'm not gonna try kissing McCahan.

Stay right on his trail.

He's laying those tracks right out for us, isn't he?

He's laying a straight track to make sure we don't bother following his

By night or tomorrow, he'll be back playing games with us again.

His sign will be disappearing to every piece of high ground of water he hits.

If he gets to that Tygo River before us, we'll be a whole day picking up a true

sign.

I'm thinking we got a way of eliminating Guessworth.

And the younger one, he'll know where his brother's hidden.

I don't think it'd be that much trouble to backtrack him and catch up with him.

You expect one brother to give information on the other?

He'll lie to us at first.

But after a while, he'll be begging us to believe him.

It looks like you and me fought company here, Mr. Stillman.

You figure on straight track?

I figure on it.

We've been doing that for two weeks and he's still ahead of us. If we find Josh,

he'll tell us where he's heading.

We sure couldn't be waiting for him.

But sometimes a shortcut's not to my liking.

We'll have Luke's bones picked clean under an oak time you find him.

What's your name there, young fella?

I'm watching you.

Well, I'll tell you, Manuel.

My horse is in pretty good shape, but maybe you can help me with something.

I'm looking for a couple of young men that might have rode through here in the

last day or two.

Looks like they've been on the trail a long time. You see anybody like that?

There, that help you remember?

Questions answered for one dollar?

You must be lawmen.

I'll be hornswoggled.

No, sir, I ain't no lawman, young fella.

I'm related to them two I was asking you about.

Now, you seen them or ain't you?

Related? I'm their uncle.

Tito.

They rode away, but there were men who followed.

Oh, that's more like it, Manuel.

Which way was it headed?

West.

Well, knowing they would be followed, they would be smart to change

no?

You're right about that.

You know what I'm going to do?

If I catch up to them nephews of mine and bring them back here safe, I'm going

to see that you get a reward.

Thank you, senor.

But they will not be back this way safe.

The men who follow are more clever.

I see they're slacking their nephews.

They will not return this way safe.

about that, Manuel.

You know, when two brothers split up on different trails, they usually let each

other know where they're headed.

Now, we can go about this two ways.

You can either tell us the truth, and we see it as the truth, or you can start

lying and give us all a bad night.

I'm telling you nothing, Mr. Stillman.

You know, boy, these men here paid good money and get good results.

I'm gonna take a walk down here and see if the horse is all right.

Warden and everything.

I'm not coming back till you're ready to talk.

You wouldn't believe what I said anyways.

Yes, I would, boy, if it was the truth.

Luke's on his way home about now.

Crossing the Rio.

Whatever has to be done.

You'll talk to us, kid.

You'll get to the point where you won't be remembering much of what's going on,

but you'll talk.

far from it.

Me looking Paul man who lived to stop whatever might serve his purpose It

appears to be just that I'd say No, I was wrong to bring a white boy in here

Paul. I just couldn't be not dead. I saw you did what was right

Howdy good morning to you

then caller and sign on some tracks leading up here Well get a lot of people

hitting down from the border

My name's McCahan.

Said McCahan, I could sure use some information.

Sort of mind our own business, mister.

That's fair enough.

I've been tracking a couple of young fellas.

Picked up the sign on one of them down by those sand ridges leading up this

Sorry.

Now, mister, the wind covered most of them signs.

Looked to me like a burro might have brought him right in here.

I aim to have a look in your house.

Just get your hands off that boy.

Mister, there ain't no need to hold a gun on me.

He the one you've been hunting down? You aim on finishing him off?

I got us a little misunderstanding here, mister.

This boy's my nephew.

Josh McKay.

My sorry, mister, for the misunderstanding.

We sometimes get some bad people coming through here.

When my son brought him in, he didn't say a word.

Found him this morning, just lying in the death of getting buried by the wind.

It's me and my son here.

Since my missus passed.

But we've been doing all we can for him.

Is there a doctor anywhere near these parts?

You ain't gonna get no doctor to come way out here. And you can't take this

that distance and expect him to be alive when you get there. There's one in San

Galeno, more than 50 miles away.

My son rung in here.

We knew it was up to the almighty if he lived.

I didn't tell them where Luke was.

Don't talk now, boy.

They couldn't make me tell.

They won't free him.

Gonna keep him a few more days.

Why don't you go on?

We'll do what we can for him.

They left him.

They didn't care if he lived or died.

Stillman? No doubt about it.

Luke McCann's heading for the Tygo.

But right here, there's a village... I told you to take it easy on that.

Now, right here, there's a village he's got to stop at by the name of Del Oro.

Now, he's got to stop there because if he doesn't get his horse shot, he's

to be in sorry trouble trying to cross those Sonora wastes.

You sure he's headed for Sonora?

Well, I'd say old Luke ain't got too many ways open to him now.

You were positive about that boy talking back there, too, when I was taking a

walk.

Now you're bound to run into a tough one every once in a while.

Uh -huh.

Now he has got to be following our trail.

If that's who I think it is, we got another McCann on our hands.

Name's Zeb.

Heard about him, but never met him.

He's not a man to tangle with.

Indians call him White Eagle.

Some superstition in the tribes that the bullet ain't been made yet, they can

kill him.

That's heathen nonsense.

You afraid of him? No.

Just letting you know that he's kin to Luke and Josh, and we're going to have

deal with him.

I don't see him as a problem.

He'd be interfering with the law if he's taking the sides of those two boys.

Well, now, I don't think the fact that you're deputized is going to carry any

weight with him.

You better ride on, Stillman.

What's wrong with the three of us dealing with?

Well, what Lynn means is, means you're a deputized lawman.

Maybe there's a couple of things you shouldn't be seeing.

I'll wait up for it.

Where do you know Zeb McKay in from?

A couple of times scouting during the war.

Never exactly friends, eh?

We left each other alone.

I want you to wait till he gets real close before we open up on him.

Here he comes.

Do you like beating up on young boys, do you?

How do you make out against a grown man on equal terms?

Now, Stillman was deputized to track down a killer.

Posse's got the right to get the job done anywhere it can.

Mister, you're not worth wasting many words on.

expect me to beg for my life?

Maybe you'd like me to crawl on my hands and knees and beg you for some of that

water.

Do you no good, mister.

I don't waste water on a dead man.

All these years.

Hounding my nephew, Luke. Why?

You're not blind.

He wasn't trying to kill you. He was just trying to get away.

He was out to lynch him.

It was wartime.

You hung a horse, Steve.

You didn't bother putting no coddling joy together.

He wasn't even trying to steal that horse. He was just trying to make a

and you know it.

Damn Yankee marauders.

They loot and they steal.

It can't pass a house without burning it.

So that's it, huh?

You're under the Yankee soldier, boy, so you picked on Luke.

He'll still hang for killing Judge Rinson.

If Frank Christian don't kill him first.

You know, Stillman, I was going to stay here and watch you shrivel up and blow

away.

I don't think I will.

Wouldn't be any more than watching a sick rat die.

You ain't got the guts to kill me with your own hands.

I'm gonna let you think on it a while.

Every man needs a little time to think when he's gonna die.

And the good things he did, and the bad.

I guess you killed those two who went after your nephew, Josh.

Yeah, that boy sure did a lot of screaming.

Did you find him alive, McCann?

I just took me a walk out in the night air.

Listen to him screaming.

I gotta hand it to him, though.

Not saying where Brother Luke was headed.

See, I was right.

They hate a man enough, you kill him.

The reason don't make that much difference is not the hating that

It's the killing.

Go ahead, make a hit.

Pull that trigger.

You know that good feeling just like I do.

First the heat, and then the killing.

It just doesn't like it.

You can feel it just like I do.

I feel it.

I feel it.

One more time.

I feel it.

I feel it.

Thank you.

The owner of the horse.

He's in the canteen eating.

Thank you.

Take care of the horse.

A glass of wine, friend.

Looks like they interrupted your dinner, Luke.

You sure are a man who knows how to travel without leaving too many signs.

I got a little lucky at the Grand.

Took a wild guess that you'd use the downstream crossing.

So there's no misunderstanding.

I've got a gun under this table pointed straight at your guts.

Well, it's just so you don't misunderstand.

The second that I even smell you're ready to pull that trigger, you're a

man.

You're that good?

Always was.

And I still am.

Unless I don't see the ears catching up with me.

You got to know I'm going to take you right along with me.

Maybe.

But the only reason you're alive to this point is because I'm curious as to how

Kurt ever let a double dealer get in back of him.

In back of him?

You think I killed Kurt?

Would you care to blame somebody else for putting that bullet in his back?

The reason the Jimsons break newspaper never named the man who killed Kurt is

because they figured that one of the Flint gang would come back gunning for

McCain, you're a hard one to figure out.

You're either the smoothest liar I've ever met or you're the most

and innocent boy.

And that, we both know, ain't true.

claim to be innocent.

But I did not kill Kurt.

The man who did was shooting at an outlaw who was in the act of robbing a

train, so he cannot be blamed for what he did.

I never said I was blaming anybody but you.

Hasta luego.

You told the sheriff...

Flint was going to hit that gold train.

Yeah.

I thought I had it arranged so nobody would be getting hurt.

If you hadn't have interfered, we could be alive today.

Maybe.

Then you'd kill him.

I don't care who pulled the trigger.

You can go, amigo.

Have yourself a last glass of wine.

Frank, I'm going to say this one more time.

Your brother was my friend.

If you think I haven't told myself a hundred times before that he'd be alive

today if I'd been smarter, you are crazy.

Don't change anything.

I loved my brother.

And he trusted you.

And that dress killed him.

Frank.

I'm just playing out of answers.

Both of us are going to die here.

You're as accurate as Kurt said you were.

one more last thing.

Something that's been on my mind since you showed up.

Something your brother said before he died.

Say it.

See, after he was shot, I went to him.

He was laying there in the dirt with a gun in his hand.

He had me covered.

Why didn't he kill you?

He was there looking at me.

Closer to me than... Closer than we are now.

He just said... There's no sense in both of us dying.

So that's what I'm saying to you right now.

Your brother gave me my life that day when he could have taken it.

But he didn't.

There's no sense.

Hold her right there.

Her name's Zeb McCahan. Looking for my nephew, Luke.

Is he in there?

Uncle Zeb.

Luke.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm fine. Just fine.

I owe you more than I can ever pay.

You don't owe me nothing.

It's all might is doing.

Never deny his help.

Cattle up around these parts, Uncle Zepp?

No, I figured it must have been our herd, Luke.

That one there, it's got Appleton's brand on it.

You think those Indians just left without you?

Headed on north by themselves?

Well, by the looks of it, this herd come through here a day or two ago, so that

means they must stay down there ten days or so anyway.

You dying of thirst, Uncle Zepp?

Be a good guess.

We ought to be able to catch up to them by morning.

Let's go.

You were telling me about Jessie.

Being lost out in the desert, is she back now? Is she safe and all?

Oh, everything's fine, Uncle Zeb.

A fellow by the name of Peasley sure was a help.

Peasley? Well, he was with Aunt Molly, Laura, and me.

The name of Deke Peasley?

Yeah. He said he knew you. Had a run -in with you once.

Jess, you mean Deke Peasley is back at the homestead with our womenfolk?

Oh, no, sir.

Well, Aunt Molly owed him $1 ,000 for his help.

He's just back there waiting for his money.

You sure he's gone?

Sure. He only went into Elk Creek for the money Aunt Molly promised him.

Seems to me I heard about a cutthroat called Peasley.

Luke Deke Peasley.

Ran the most vicious gang I ever run across.

They was wanted on the other side of the border for scalping Mexican men and

women. Bringing the scalps back into Texas to sell for bounty.

Texas was paying bounty on Mexican scalps? No, they was paying for Apache.

But Apache was hard to come by.

That didn't make no difference to Peasley.

You scalped women, too?

Not only scalped them, you abused them first, Josh.

How'd you get involved with him?

Well, some of his victims was friends of mine, Luke.

I found out what he'd done and set out after him.

Caught up to him a couple of days later and killed two of his men.

Carved Peasley up pretty good.

Figured it killed him, too.

Then I found out later that I hadn't.

Guess I'll kill him outside next time I see him.

I hate to see you ladies working like this.

Mine is not an easy life, is it, Molly?

Well, what worries me about all of this is that our chores are being neglected.

You know, tomorrow we certainly have to start preparing for the fall planting.

Molly, what do we have to worry about planting for? We're going to be rich.

Oh, well, for the very simple reason that rich remains to be seen.

How much sugar do we have now, Mr. Beasley?

Well, we can figure the price of gold would be about $20 an ounce.

95 ounces times 20.

Yeah, five ounces. I got here called a hundred -round figure.

That's $2 ,000 in not even two weeks.

Right of two ways, that makes $1 ,000 each side.

Well, that's not too bad for a couple weeks' work, is it?

Oh, no, sir.

We set that sluice up down at the creek, we might start seeing old five, ten

thousand a week.

Ten thousand dollars in a week?

Is that possible?

Why, anything's possible, Molly. It's like a dream.

Of course, we might see twenty, thirty thousand dollars, then that creek might

feed her out. You never know for sure.

Well, we'd still be rich with twenty or thirty thousand dollars.

With that, we could buy a brand -new ranch.

Yes, that's true, but... Well, to a more practical matter, Mr. Peasley,

I gather from you speaking of Zeb McKay and that

you're not too eager to renew the acquaintance. Well, these differences

spoke of, are they so great that they cannot be resolved, despite your help to

this family?

The fact is, Molly, I don't plan to be around here when Zeb gets back. I'm

to put my homestead and my share of the creek into the hands of a lawyer, and

pretty soon I'm going to be on my way.

I figured between you and the lawyer, my rights would be protected.

Oh, we'd never cheat you, Mr. Peasley.

I mean, whatever gold we get from the creek, we'd see you get your share.

Even Uncle Zeb being angry with you for something doesn't change our bargain.

Half the creek is yours.

Yeah.

Well, I figure we're all gonna come out about even, who knows who, Zeb and me.

In fact, someday I could even see myself getting better.

Zeb being such a generous fellow, you know.

in the camp.

Herb won't go on.

No water.

You all right, son?

Yes, sir.

You know that girl when I told you you had to do back the agency there?

Looks like you sure done it, boy.

Come on.

One wolf?

What happened at the south waterhole? You're supposed to wait for me there.

Water gets low.

One wolf figure take chance, reach river.

Ain't no rivers around here.

Anybody get hurt here?

No one get hurt.

Cattle run around in circle.

Many die.

Many horses die, too.

To me, like there's more than 50 head left.

I just want to say to you men that I'm proud of you.

You've done a good job so far. You stayed with this herd. You haven't run

Now, we got a ways to go, but we're going to make it.

We got some mountains ahead. We're going over them.

Let's move them out.

Cattle, not to move.

hearing about Zeb being close is true.

The herd's already crossed the South Mesa. They ought to be in late today.

You bet.

Governor's already in town, and two stage loads of bigwigs and a band's

over from Gold City.

Jim, are Josh and Luke with Zeb?

It's what I heard. It'll be the biggest celebration Elk Creek has ever seen.

You best get the wagon hitched if you want to be there when they arrive.

Did it to me again, didn't you?

A wind of the rainbow.

Mr. McGreevy.

Be careful there.

Thank you.

I hope you had a nice trip in. Oh, Dusty.

My.

Oh, it's going to be a proud day for Zeb and all them braves with him. Oh,

indeed it is, Mr. McGreevy. Come along, girls. Let's take a place.

It's less than 25 head, I'm telling you. I thought there was supposed to be a

real big herd, Miss McGreevy.

Here they started with better than 200 head of cattle.

Why do they treat us so?

After we have failed.

Congratulations. What for?

What you're looking at here is all we was able to bring through alive.

Ah, but you accomplished what you set out to do.

Yes, sir, you carved a new cattle trail. All the newspapers in the country are

writing about the McCann track.

All the publicity watched it got shamed into sending beef to the agency.

300 heads.

You and your drovers will be celebrities in this territory for a long, long

time.

Well, the governor's lady has been asking to meet some of the Elk Creek

for tea at the hotel.

Quite a day, huh, McGreevy? Ah, that it has been, Mr. Stone.

Mr. McGreevy, could you ready the buckboard for me? I'm going to go find

Molly and head back to the farm. Miss Laura, that's all your aunt going over

toward the hotel. That's where all the town ladies are meeting with the

governor's wife.

The governor's wife?

Mr. McGreevy, maybe I could borrow a horse from you so I could go on ahead

get some cooking started.

Oh, there's no need for that. I'll go right past your farm. I'll be glad to

you a ride. Come on. I'll bug you. It's right over there. Oh, that's kind of

you, Mr. Stone.

I really appreciate this, Mr. Stone. Oh, it's no trouble at all.

All ready? Yeah.

Let's go.

In addition to the kettle, we've got our full allotment of flour, sugar, grain,

even medical supplies.

Seb, can the McCann trace?

That's what the newspapers finally got around to calling it.

Can it ever be a true cattle trail?

I think it could.

We made a few mistakes. We learned a few things, too.

Next drive's got to take place in the springtime, after the winter rains.

I'll tell you one thing.

If they're going to call it anything, they're going to call it the Arapaho

trace.

These men, they carved that trail. They left... One of their own behind there.

They've earned the right to call it that.

The Arapaho Trace, but not without Zed McCahan.

Now it is time to take the cattle home.

You know what I'm going to do? Let's see that you get a man's wages for that

cattle drive.

You did a man -sized job.

Gee, thanks, Mr. McCann.

Here they're going to make you a member of the tribe, huh?

Yeah, an honorary member.

Honey, I understand you had a rough time lost out in the desert.

Yeah, but everything turned out just fine.

Mr. Peasley was a big help.

You know, I know that fellow well enough to know that if there wasn't something

in it for him, he wouldn't give you the time of day.

Oh, no. Mr.

Peasley's our neighbor.

You mean he's back there right now with Aunt Molly and Laura?

Well, yes.

But I remember him saying something about leaving before you got up this

Well, does ever you want me to go along?

That's something I gotta do myself, Luke.

What are you doing in our house?

Getting my goods together, pretty missy.

Where's your Aunt Molly?

Mr. Peasley?

You're taking our share of the gold.

I wouldn't exactly say taking, Laura. I'm selling it.

Selling the creek and my homestead for the share. I asked you... Molly.

Aunt Molly's in town. You mean the whole creek and all of the gold in it would

belong to us?

Yeah, that's about the size of it.

She's going to get the urge to move on.

When's she going to be back?

She'll be in later.

Oh, you haven't heard.

Uncle Zeb and the boys are back. There's quite a celebration in town.

Zeb's back? It was so exciting. There was a band playing. Everyone was

to the Arapaho agency.

I came in early to get dinner started.

Everyone comes in, they're going to be hungry as bears.

Fair time, yes.

What?

Speaking of hungry, Laura, how hungry are you?

I don't know what you mean.

Well, I mean, you know how you wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and

you're going to lay there just staring up at the ceiling? I don't know what it

is, but it's always a starving kind of feeling.

Mr. Peasley, I... I don't want you talking like

that. How close have you ever been to a man?

I don't want you talking like that.

You know, I bet you came back here tonight because you just kind of figured

you'd find old Deke here alone.

And you thought, well, maybe you got some grown -ups too.

Come on, Laura, I don't... I don't want to get old D mad out here. I don't like

my meanness coming out with no pretty girl.

You like your best in me.

This time being wasted, you could be purring like a kitten about now.

Laura?

Here we come, full about, pretty lady.

You want to kill old Deke, don't you?

You know, it ain't gonna be easy to pull that trigger, Molly.

Molly, you've been buying me off for a long time out there in the desert,

knowing I could have had my way with you.

You knew what I wanted.

You wanted the same thing, didn't you?

Didn't you know it always had to come down to this, down to you and me?

Huh?

Panned out real quick.

Yeah, there's no more gold.

It was just a little baby pocket.

So, back to what's between Zeb and me.

Now, you think Zeb's going to know about this and he's going to be coming after

me.

I want him coming after me, Molly.

Ain't that so?

So I want him knowing that his McCain ladies even things between us, and I

him coming after me with that digging into his guts so that he's not thinking

too much about himself.

You ain't gonna be able to use that money, so why don't you put it...

That's going to be the end of me.

I'm going to be getting to you first.

I never got to Laura.

Oh, not proper. You understand?

Where's that wagon coming? And I didn't know.

It might be his head.

Sure interrupted something interesting.

I'm going to get to you pretty much.

you, Sam.

Just a few miles ahead, Jesse.

I sure never seen country like this before.

Neither have I.

It's so beautiful.

It is that, Laura.

I'm so glad we decided to move on.

But I never thought a year ago I'd be a pioneer crossing the West in a covered

wagon. Tell you the truth, Aunt Molly, I think you were born to it.

I don't know whether that's a compliment or not, Luke.

It's so exciting, Seth.

Every day the land changes.

Well, that's why anybody who's spent much time out in this country can't stay

away for long, Molly.

There's a place up in the north part of the territory here called Yellowstone.

They got fountains of water that shoot up 100 foot in the air.

They got warm streams you can swim in all winter long. You can cook eggs in a

hot spring right out by your front door.

On it?

On it.

Well, why don't we go see it?

Oh, I told we were going to Oregon.

Well, that's one of the good things about being a pioneer, Molly.

You don't have to answer to anybody but yourself.

You can go where you want, stay as long as you want.

You don't have to pull up stakes till the spirit moves you.

I'll never get used to this family. You've all got itchy feet.

I'll go to Yellowstone. You know, we can always stop by Jimson's break and meet

Hillary. Oh, yes.

Are you really going to marry her, Luke?

Well, not till I get things straightened out with the law, Jess.

But I'd sure love for all of you to meet her. Well, I think it's a wonderful

idea. How far is it, Luke?

Three or four days north of here. I was going to leave you once we got to

Wyoming territory, but we all went together.

Oh, let's do it. I want to see the girl who's got my big brother thinking about

marriage. Well, I'm set.

Well, why not?

Jessie, let's head along.

Something tickling your fancy, Laura?

Oh, I was just remembering what you said, Aunt Molly, about this family

itchy feet.

We started out for Oregon over eight years ago, and we're still nowhere near

Well, I'll tell you, Laura, Oregon ain't going anywhere, and you kids might as

well see as much of the country out here as you can while you're young enough to

enjoy it.

There's more out here than anybody can see in a lifetime.

Why, there's painted deserts and huge trees turned to stone.

Canyons a mile deep.

And mountains.

Why, there's mountains that got meadows so green, it makes your eyes ache just

to look at them.

Yes, sir, folks, it's a big country.

Real big country.

Maybe the greatest country in the whole damn world.

Debula, do try to mind your language in front of the children.

Yes, ma 'am.