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It's a dry cough.

You ought to know the difference by now.

Give it to me.

Guess I'm just a worrying kind now that I'm a pa.

You've been a pa for 15 years. You was a worrying kind long before that.

Seems like every time I get sick and go off, some of you are going to get sick.

You just got a cough.

You're going off to get shot at.

We're the ones going to worry.

You don't even have to go.

Just go in because a cat may ask you.

They all check the stove.

Here, honey.

Take her with you. She's hungry.

And wake the boys while you're at it.

You can sleep a minute longer.

I can't sleep a minute longer. I'm a schoolteacher, remember?

work before dinner, Charlie?

Well, I'd be at work if I wasn't afraid to go off and leave the help. If I do,

most of them will just get lost and I'll have to waste time looking for them.

Put the rope on a horse's neck, not the damn horn!

You're a little tardy yourself today, ain't you? Ah, Shanky, I'm meeting. Must

like to sleep late. I'm not due to the railroad till seven.

Who you going after this time, Woodrow?

Name of Joey Gar is a train robber. They say he's swift.

Has he give you a fancy gun yet?

Who?

Colonel Terry.

Ain't he still president of the railroad?

Man, I'm dealing with named Brookshire. I don't know who owns a railroad this

boy's been robbing. I expect he'll offer you a fancy gun.

I've no use for expensive weapons.

You let someone give you a fancy gun and he'll tell everybody in five counties

he's your friend when in fact he may despise you.

How many we got? Come on, hand him out over there!

Plan to work before noon.

You better give your hands a help catching the horses.

This is a pointless conversation.

Goodbye. Bye.

Come on, boys. I'd hate to let Woodrow call beat me to work.

August? Oh, put her in the crib, would you? But, Pa, I ain't finished yet.

just do it.

I wish you'd

learned how to drink out of a cup like the rest of us. You know, saucer and

coffees, they haven't hooked up in arranging days in those baths, man.

I was a bachelor most of my life.

Same as Captain.

You were never a famous captain.

No, I'm not.

I hadn't learned how to be a husband yet, and I know that.

There's no thing about being married.

You still don't know a thing about being married. I have to teach you every day.

Was she wet?

No, Mom.

I don't like that old man keeping you away from us.

Why can't he find somebody younger if he needs help chasing a bandit?

He?

Something the matter?

I expect I'll worry about all of you the whole way.

The worry really needs to get paid cash money.

You don't have to worry, Pa.

I'll help Ma while you're gone. Oh, I'm sure you will in what time you spare

from Roy Benson.

She kisses him, Pa. You have to be hitting your brother.

I won't have my Georgie beaten up over a boy like Roy Benson.

Ma, he ain't silly.

Don't talk about him like that. I wish all of you would leave me alone.

She beats up on me all the time.

Well, you deserve it, you little snitch. Give me that rag, Benson. I do not bite

on you.

Well, it's not now. It's a snot rag.

Okay,

children, go on up and get ready for school.

One.

I wish... Paul didn't have to go.

I don't like it when Paul goes.

No,

I did not.

Boys, stop pestering each other and get upstairs.

He don't deserve you.

We do.

We'd love you. He just works you.

Gloria, I've been with the captain a long, long time. You've been with these

children their whole lives.

They got no other father.

He can get another corporal. That's all you are to him.

He don't even like you. He's mad at you because you married me.

He doesn't like it that Gus liked me, neither.

Now that we're married, I've taken two men from him.

Don't like it that I'm a teacher, neither.

Guess he don't think whores ought to become schoolteachers.

Excuse me, sir.

Would you be Mr. Brookshot?

Well, yes. At your service.

I'm called.

Glad you're prompt. I despise laggards.

I imagine you were expecting someone younger.

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Actually, you see, I'm just an accountant.

They don't usually send me on these trips. They usually send Jimmy Roberts,

he swallowed a wine cork and choked to death not an hour before he was to

Train robbers ain't smart.

Five smart train robbers could bust every railroad in this country.

Well, this young Mexican is smart.

That's why Colonel Terry freshly ordered me to hire you.

You've got a very fine reputation.

Fine reputation? Well, I say he does.

This here's Captain Call. He's the greatest ranger that there's ever been.

I prefer my coffee hot and my conversations private.

Say he's sweet -tempered, he ain't, but you'll find that out if you hire him.

Of course, I have to hire you. Temper isn't the point.

How many trains this Garza boy robbed?

The count was seven.

Say he's a guero.

He's what?

A guero means a blonde -haired Mexican, blue -eyed, too.

Oh, I forgot the gun.

It's so windy out, it just about blew my wits away.

Colonel Terry sent you this gun.

It's a gift.

Thanks, but I'll pass.

You mean you don't want it?

Good Lord.

What will I tell Colonel Terry?

It's engraving is handwork, you know. It doesn't come cheap.

Well, then the colonel can keep it for himself, then.

I have no place to keep a fancy weapon. I just have to deposit in the bank, and

I prefer to avoid banks.

I don't know what the colonel's going to say when he finds out you didn't want

his gun.

He'd be mad enough to bite himself.

If he bites himself, that's his concern.

You want me to catch this boy?

I'll give you my terms.

P, could you hitch up the buggy, honey?

Clary's running late.

I never finished cleaning them.

You clean them enough to smell like gun grease all night.

Oh, boy. You smell like something different every night, schoolboy.

Well, I guess it just depends on what I spill on myself during the day.

You mean you're going off to chase a bandit without him being armed?

Don't need to be armed because I ain't going.

You late, Paul?

Nope.

I'm scared one of you might die while I'm gone.

Says this chasing bandits has got to stop sometime.

What about the captain?

I got to go over the railroad and tell him I can't go.

Well, he better not be rough on you.

If he is, he's going to have me to deal with.

You sure this is what you want to do, Pete?

Yeah.

I hope so.

I don't want you moping about it later.

Hank, Charlie, step up.

Mom, you're so mean to him.

Get up now.

not like this back home.

I've not visited Brooklyn, but when you're traveling here on the plains, you

count on wind.

Got off the train here yesterday.

Been chasing my hat ever since.

Might get a piece of twine tied on your head.

on the train now.

Everybody perked up. I was on that train.

Let's go get on the train.

You get settled down. Would you take that?

Where are you going?

I'm going to pack the rest of my gear. I'll be right back.

Do you mind if I come with you?

I thought you wanted to be inside the train.

I did. I do. I did.

But, uh, I'm afraid I'll blow away.

Like a tumbleweed.

I know. It's windy.

I've never seen a wind bad enough to blow a fellow out of a railroad car.

Besides, if you don't mind my saying so, you're a bit heavier than the

tumbleweed.

You sure you're going to come right back?

I'll be right back, unless a big gust comes up.

Ma,

why'd you marry Pop? You're just going to be mean to him.

You think I'm mean to your father?

You don't know what mean is.

Well, Pop buys me a gun.

Well, he's not buying you a gun.

You just shoot Georgie with it. But I can't spare Georgie.

Well, I think I know what mean is.

And I think you're mean to Paul.

Well, no, I didn't forget it, Captain. I left it home.

Who's that fellow at the derby?

That's Mr. Brookshire. He's with the railroad.

Spends most of his time chasing after that derby hat.

A man that can't keep his hat on ain't gonna be much help to Mexico.

Well, I expect I'm not gonna be much help to any Mexico either, Captain.

I got me a wife now and five children.

One of them's a baby.

I got me a farm that won't work itself.

I reckon it's time for me to stay home.

I guess I stopped this train for nothing.

You ain't getting on.

Yep.

What's wrong with your man?

Is he sick?

No, he ain't sick.

He's buried.

Are you a card -playing man? No.

I didn't think you were.

Younger children, take home your readers and study chapter 15.

That's page 143.

Oh, dear.

Where's that captain left without me?

Did he fuss at you much? No, just shook my hand and left.

Clary, mind what you're doing. This is the schoolroom.

Finish your edition.

Quiet, children.

Are you sick, honey?

No.

You have one of your headaches?

Yeah, it's kind of pounding. That little one's a stiff trot.

It's not the stiff trot. It's the stiff wife.

Go home with your father. He's feeling poorly.

I know. He's going to study. And when you get there, fix it. Give him some

and put him to bed. Tell us how he feels better. Come on. Don't put him on me,

Clary. No.

Roy Benson ain't going to melt between today and tomorrow, honey.

You'll see him again.

Paul, do you like Roy?

Ma, I don't.

Roy, he's gangly.

So am I.

You ought to retire, Willie.

You're losing your eyesight.

Just in the left eye.

A man as blind as you oughtn't to be riding that river.

You'd like to fall in a hole and get swallowed up.

You're blind drunk nine days out of ten.

What's to keep you from stumbling off into a hole and getting swallowed up?

The fact is...

I hold court nine days out of ten.

And I am too busy to wander out there and buy myself a hole big enough.

I particularly hate thieves.

A man who would steal 50 cents off you will steal a million dollars.

Ain't too many folks around here got 50 cents.

Much less a million dollars.

I've got 50 cents, and I aim to keep it, too.

If I stole your 50 cents, would you hang me?

I'd hang you as soon as I could find my rope. Now, I may not be able to put my

hand on my hanging rope right off, so if you was quick, you might escape.

Who said you could be a judge anyway?

I'd want to see some papers before I'd let you hang me.

If you could see, you'd see that we're west of the Pecos.

And out here, if you want to be a judge bad enough, you can be.

And I won't be one bad enough.

What if it was a dime I stole?

Would you still hand me? I cannot tolerate the loss of any sum.

Officially.

You won't put this whiskey you've been drinking on your bill, is that correct?

watch out for the garza boy joey i know joey i

don't want to watch out for him because he's a cold killer just because you

fancy his mother don't mean he won't cut you down he won't cut me down well if

you make it for a month or so you might survive why a month or so

They've hired Carl to get him.

You mean Woodrow Carl is after Joey?

Who told you?

John Wesley Hardin.

John Wesley.

There's a fellow you ought to hang as long as you're hanging, folks.

What?

Never stole a cent off me.

Mr. Hardin was heading for Crowtown.

Expect he's killed a few rascals.

Looking for a place to hide out. Well, Broke Town's a place to hide out.

They're just pigs!

Hey, Joey.

You shoot first.

No.

You shoot first.

And then I will beat you.

You're in for a disappointment.

I was the best marksman in the German army. I still had the medals.

You never saw a rifle this fine.

It, uh, takes a while to adjust, no?

Missed two.

It's the sweat, you see. In Germany, it's not so hot.

The sweat fogs up my telescope.

Still, I think I beat you.

Thank you for letting me shoot.

I like your gun.

Mama!

What happened?

What did you do?

I beat your man.

You can't shoot.

He is not my man.

Look at the basket.

Go and bring me a basket.

You

whore.

You cut me.

Hombre, if you put your hands on me again, I'll do worse than cut you.

Well,

what I really need is a bottle of beer.

I sell them walk in the heat, you know. You do not walk at all or do anything

else but talk.

What the news?

God, my brain is bald.

It's so hot, I nearly forgot.

Mary, they've hired Cole.

I'll call him as quick as I could to tell you.

Go to the house and clean yourself.

Teresa will give you the frijoles.

Caught these men with 30 stolen horses.

So Valterra up on the river told us they were from this village.

They are from this village.

They are my son and my grandson.

We caught them with 30 horses.

The law is the law.

But we hung them.

We cut them down.

We brought them home here.

Well, nothing at all.

your children today.

I was speaking to them.

Old spider woman, take them to the fish.

I speak to them every day.

They're happy.

You remember Paul?

The captain.

The gringo.

He killed your father.

And my brothers.

Now he wants my Joey.

Your son?

Can't live with my children?

With the fish?

What's the point of the 8 -gauge? Take old pack fuel just to carry the shell.

Well, the man who sold it to me said it would be useful for self -defense.

I won't dispute that. If you survive the kick, you won't have to worry too much

about the enemy.

Thank you.

Let me see the pistols.

Oh, they're said to be the newest model.

Well, I'll allow they're the most expensive.

I'm glad your colonel don't mind expense.

What if he does?

Colonel Terry hates expense.

Well, maybe I could sell them back when we get through.

You know,

I hadn't expected this extreme weather.

I all but froze in Amarillo, and now I'm all but cooked.

Aren't Amarillo and Laredo in the same state?

More or less.

There's some folks think Laredo's still in Mexico.

Don't get weather like this in Brooklyn.

It's just weather.

If I was you, I'd go over to the telegraph office to see if there's any

trains being robbed.

Well, what'll you be doing?

I'll be packing the horses.

Where have you been?

I thought you were going to help us with the corn.

I am not the farmer.

Where is Billy?

Drive me the wagon to the mines. He'll be back in three days.

Good. I'm glad he's gone.

That old man smells.

He's kind to me.

That is because he wants you.

That is the reason he comes.

And that is the reason he stays.

Any man can want.

It's how a man behaves that counts.

Don't hit me again, Mama.

telegrams. The colonel's mad enough to send out seven telegrams. He's ready to

call out the army.

Lacking a patient man here, colonel.

Patient men make mistakes.

The only mistake he's going to make will be to kill me.

Only he won't think it's a mistake.

Four more trains have been robbed. One of them carrying an army payroll.

Another payroll.

The Lord spare us. The army will be mad for sure.

It's the passengers the Lord should have spared.

Sixteen folks shopping at four robberies.

Sixteen?

That's the count.

Whoever's doing it, doing it for the killing, not the robbing.

How do you know?

You fought the Civil War, didn't you?

Well, I was there. I was quartermaster mostly. You were still there.

How many men did your company move?

About ten.

There you go.

I fought the Indian Wars in Texas.

24 years I lost six men. 16 men killed in four robberies.

That indicates the killer, possibly two.

Well, what makes you say two?

The distance.

The train was robbed in Van Horn, Texas one afternoon. Another in Deming, New

Mexico. Poor Dom the next day. No robber could have made it.

Van Horn to Deming that quick.

He couldn't have made it even if he rode the train he just robbed.

I'm going to have to... Talk to the sheriff in this town.

We can't afford to be short -handed, all these train robberies.

Whoever robbed the train outside of Deming had a gang.

The guard's boy works alone.

How does he stop those trains if he works alone?

Well, he ain't lazy, Captain.

Works at night.

Piled rocks on the track.

Builds kind of a wall.

Clearly a locomotive going four feet to bust through a few rocks.

Maybe.

The train might derail, and if it derailed, you'd be in a pickle.

Joey Garces, after you, you're in a pickle anyway.

If it was me, and I was driving the darn train, I'd pour on the steam. Ted, who

consulted you?

I'll consult him. He's making more sense than you.

Well, I guess the engineer could fly on if he wants to.

Well, Joey Garces, it's either run or fight.

Me, I'd run.

You employed steady, or would you consider accompanying us on this chase?

Well, it's steady, but it's warm here.

I wouldn't mind getting off to some higher country where there might be a

once in a while. Ted, who invited you in this conversation?

I mean, if you leave, who's going to sweep out to jail?

Well, if Captain Call wants me, I expect I better go.

He's Captain Call, Bob.

He's Captain Call. He knows my name, Deputy.

You going or ain't you?

I sure am, Captain.

I'm with you.

Go get your bedroll.

We're ready to leave.

Much obliged, Captain.

Stop patting me on the back like that. Like

what?

Like you was in a hurry and wanted me to stop crying so you could leave.

I gotta get this gear together quick.

The captain's ready to leave.

He ain't gonna like waiting.

That's all I heard come out of your mouth since you got home was the Captain

this and the Captain that. I mean, who is he anyway? He's just some old man I

ain't never heard of. You ain't never heard of Captain Woodrow Call?

No. I knew you didn't get much schooling, Doobie, but I never suspected

didn't know who Captain Call was.

Well, I didn't, and I still don't. I mean, who is he that he's worth breaking

our marriage for? He's the most famous Texas Ranger there's ever been.

He's Captain Call.

Everybody on the border knows who Captain Call is.

I'm on the border.

I ain't never heard tell of him.

But I mean, if he's important enough to break up our marriage with our baby

coming and everything, then you can just go.

I haven't said anything about breaking up our marriage.

I'm just going off with Captain Cole.

I'll be back long before little Joe is born.

Or little Josie, whichever it is.

What if you don't come back?

Why wouldn't I do? This is where I live.

What if you don't live?

Then what will me and Joe or Josie do?

My gosh, I'm not going off to get killed.

You've got to get that notion out of your head.

There's rules, you know.

Rules?

Yes. You don't know what a big honor it is to be asked to ride with Captain

Call. I expect it's the biggest honor a long man can have.

Well, that's right.

I forgot.

You're a lawman.

You have your deputy's badge.

You know, old Bob Jekyll, all he lets you do is sweep out the jail and maybe

arrest a drunk once in a while.

Doobie, I'm going.

I'll be back, though.

Long before the baby's born.

No, you won't.

You're not coming back.

Joey Garza, he's gonna kill you.

And if he doesn't kill you, then somebody else is.

And I'm never gonna see you again. And neither is my baby.

Feed that second pack horse back there, Deputy.

Uh,

Captain?

Where are we going to be sleeping?

On the ground, sir.

You planning on nesting in a tree?

No, no, it's just, it's just that the, the ground's a little, well, I mean,

there are snakes.

Well, well, well.

Hold on, Jethro.

Oh.

Hey, Prusa, wait up a minute.

When I tell a whore to wait, she's gonna wait.

You got a drink?

I'm no puta, senor.

You're not no as pretty as you used to be, Jasper, oh.

Senor? Yeah, what do you want, Mets?

Jeremy's going to come from across the river. He's going to beat us all.

No. He will only beat her.

She made it happen.

What have you done?

I killed a gringo, Mama.

I only like gringos when they're dead.

Now you'll be in trouble.

Donovan, the hard sheriff, he will come.

If he catches you, he'll hang you.

He won't catch me, Mama.

But you know, he may catch you and the old man there.

Joey!

Joey! Go away.

Go to Crowtown.

Nobody find there.

Even lawmen do not go there.

Quiet!

He is bad, that one.

He is bad.

Look, Mama, me and Rafael are here.

We will take care of you. Teresa, you have to stay with grandmother for a few

days. A bad man will come.

I do not want you or Rafael here.

But I don't want to go. Teresa, I can take your cook with you.

Can Rafael take his coat?

Rafael can take his coat.

You Senora Garza?

Si, soy Senora.

Senora Maria Garza.

Where's that murdering son of yours?

Speak up, woman.

Sheriff Donovan asked you a question.

Where's Joey?

This is Mexico.

It's my country.

You're not the lawyer.

Lady's got a point, boys.

What do you mean, Sheriff?

We can do what we damn well please with Mexicans wherever we are.

No.

Senor Garza's right, boys.

This is Mexico.

We ain't the law here.

So what do you say we take her back across the border where we are the law?

Let's get settled in, Miss Garza.

Like you want to tell me where that murdering son of yours is hiding.

You're going to be here a while.

Ouch!

God, if you scrape me one more time with your toenails, I'm kicking you out of

this bed.

Why don't you cut your toenails like other folks do?

Way down there was socks. I forget about them. I'm sorry I nicked you.

Nicked me?

I'd probably be the first person to bleed to death from being cut by her

husband's toenail.

You're wishing you'd gone with the cat, mate.

No.

I just wish he hadn't gone himself.

I wish he'd just quit.

Captain do what?

He doesn't know how to do anything but kill.

That ain't fair, Lori. In the Indian days, he didn't have no choice. I mean,

look what Blue Duck did.

It was just one man. I don't want to remember what Blue Duck did, because he

some of it to me.

I want to forget what Blue Duck did.

Captain Cole was one of the folks that helped me.

I was just a kid when he took me in the troop.

Now he's asking for my help and I can't go.

This feels wrong to me.

I mean, I'd feel more wrong if I went off and left you and the tots. Well, go

after him then.

Go on.

I want you to.

I'll never really have you as long as that old man's alive and neither will

children.

And don't be worrying about me and the tots.

We'll do fine.

Go on. Get killed. In good rhythm. I don't want to go.

I'm here. Here's where I want to be. It's just...

I can't help feeling bad about leaving the captain short -handed.

Oh, no.

I'm sorry I said that about good friends.

I'm just mad.

I get mad every time we talk about him.

It's worse than the toenails, ain't it?

I'm scared.

I think I'm getting a chill.

I don't know.

Maybe you have what George has got. I don't know.

It ain't cold on the outside. It's inside.

It's like I dread something, Laurie.

Well, I don't know what you dread, but you're my husband. I know what you need.

our best pack horse, too.

What happened?

Bad dream, I expect.

Indians. I thought we were being attacked by Indians.

Better make an entry.

How much did that horse cost?

$25, plus the shotgun shell.

I'd be sure and list that shotgun shell if I was you.

He's an old man, Laurie.

I better go find him.

At least he'll be paid cash money.

Cash money can't hug me.

Can't do what we did last night.

Can't make me a baby.

And he can't be a father to the ones we already got.

But if you have to go, go now so I can start getting you.

Get over there.

I'll be back.

I suspect that boy's too good for the both of you, Pete.

He'll kill you and the cabin.

Then I'll get old and won't have you.

And neither will the children.

Take care of Mama.

I love you, too.

What makes you think you can find the captain? You can't even track the milk

half the time.

I'll find the captain.

Folks, don't forget him. I'll just ask folks as we move along.

Hang on, children. We don't want to be late for school.

Hey, Charlie!

Captain, do you ever get worried before a fight?

No, if I can't stay up for that much.

Well, that's brave.

When I was in the war, I was scared all the time.

I was only a quartermaster.

I still had nightmares.

What did you dream?

Mainly of having one of those big shells come in low and knock my head off.

The very thing happened to a man I knew.

A fellow from Hoboken named Johnny Rowe.

Bad luck, I suppose.

Terrible luck.

A man gave me his biscuit that morning and rode out on a scout.

Why did he give you his biscuit?

Well, he said he was too nervous to eat.

So I ate the biscuit and off he rode.

And while I ate the biscuit, General Grant rode by.

That was the one time that I saw General Grant.

Anyway, after a little while, the shell started whistling in, so we all

squinched down and went on up the road and...

There was a bunch of boys standing around a horse.

We thought they were looking at a dead rev, but... No, we're looking at Johnny.

His head was gone.

It was just a red bone sticking up between his shoulders.

Lord, just a red bone?

Yeah, a red bone.

Expect it was his spine.

Lord, just a red bone.

You know, they see that Garza boy can hit you between the eyes from a mile

with that rifle of his. All this is just the effect of reputation.

Bandit gets reputation, folks get to thinking he can do no wrong.

If he had any sense, he wouldn't be shooting between the eyes. He'd be

at the trunk. It's bigger. It's the intelligent target.

How was General Grant?

I've always been curious about the man.

Well, he looked drunk to me.

The man won that war.

He was drunk the whole time.

Famous shoes.

How'd you get here?

Well, my day starts early.

I saw your track in a creek in Apollo.

I thought you had become a farmer.

I was surprised to see your tracks.

Why? I used to travel all the time.

You had no woman then.

Now you have a woman.

Who will give her children if you are traveling?

Well, I expect she'll be wanting to hold off on children until I get back.

What are you doing way up here in the Brazos?

I'm a kickapoo.

Kickapoos lived here until the Comanches came.

Comanches did not like us.

Comanches don't like anybody very much.

Except for the Comanches.

They wanted our part of the world and they took it.

We are not fighters, but we are the best trackers.

Do you think Captain Call would pay me to help him find Joey Garza?

Well, he'd most likely give you something how much you expect to get.

You said your woman teaches.

Does she know how to read tracks in books?

What? Tracks in books.

Tracks on paper?

Oh, you mean words?

You bet she knows how to read words.

When she teaches young 'uns her letters, that's her job.

She taught you?

Well, she didn't mean to get around to it. I know one or two letters. I know P,

and I know Y.

Where's that?

Expecto. Study up some more on the letters when the crops come in. I can

any animal.

I can track spiders.

I can track lizards and snakes. I can even track fleas and bugs.

But I cannot follow the tracks in books.

If your woman will teach me how to read, I will help the captain find Zoe.

Well, that would save on expense.

Does she have anything to eat?

Well, you shot me a big jackrabbit here last night.

Why didn't you kill that antelope?

I didn't see no antelope. He's about a half mile from here. I'm surprised you

didn't see him.

If I take you to him, will you shoot him?

Well, I'll shoot at him, antelope, or jump him.

I saw him a while ago. He's laying down.

If you walk quietly, I can bring you close.

What's matter?

I've seen a bad track.

What kind of bad track?

Track of the man burner.

Man burner? You mean Mox Mox?

We call him the snake you do not see.

I thought he was dead.

No. He was here yesterday.

And he had six men with him.

One of them...

Very large.

His mule is getting tired of carrying him.

I thought Mr. Goodnight killed him.

That devil burned one of his cowboys up on the Pickawire River. He got away.

He was here with his men.

I don't want no brush with the main burner.

Are there any empty houses in this town?

No.

And who are you?

I'm Joey Garza.

Well, if you own a domicile in this town, all you gotta do is find a house

like, kill whoever's in it, and drag the victim up on a sand hill, and the devil

pig will do the rest.

What makes it a devil pig?

It only looks like a pig to me.

It's not just a pig. It's our town mascot.

And it has a tunnel to hell where it goes to see the devil every night.

Yes, and we got a new landlord.

He's better looking than the old one.

That don't mean he'll be easier to get along with.

Huh? No.

No what?

I ain't got nothing.

No, you can't have a gun.

That's all you've been asking for lately.

Ma, I didn't ask for nothing. I just came to tell you there was an old man at

the door.

A tramp or a cowboy or what?

I don't know. Just an old man. I think it's Mr.

Goodnight. Mr.

Goodnight? Are you sure?

He's old.

He's got a mustache.

I think it's him.

Mama, it's Mr. Goodnight.

Okay, ask him to wait a minute. I'm coming. But mine's already waiting. Oh,

don't scold me, Clary.

I've been scolded enough in my life already.

Hush, hush, hush. I hope my boy hasn't been pestering you too much.

No, I like him. He's got spunk. If I ain't careful, he'll have all the

Would you come in? I can offer you some buttermilk.

I hesitate to bother you, but I'll take the buttermilk.

Ben, get down from there.

I've been born in a different circumstance. I could have made

a life out of drinking buttermilk.

Won't you sit down, Mr. Goodnight?

I have a very pretty daughter.

I hear she helps you with the teaching, which I admire.

She's better at fractions than I am.

Well, I could chase a fraction from dawn till dusk and not catch it.

Could I ask the favor of a few minutes private talk?

Something wrong with P?

No, your husband's fine, as far as I know. This is another matter.

Children?

Would you excuse us? But what are we supposed to do, Mom?

Well, go outside, dig a hole, or just sit on the front door. I don't care. Go.

Thank you, Tom.

What is it? I

regret having to tell you this, Mrs. Parker.

It's Mom's mom.

Mom's mom?

But he's dead.

Ain't he dead?

I understood he was. I thought so, too, but now I ain't so sure.

I'm

sorry.

Not so bad scared. I forgot my manners.

It doesn't take much muscle to pour a glass of buttermilk.

I'm the one who's sorry, ma 'am, for having to put you through this.

But Mox Mox is dead.

You killed him yourself in Utah.

No.

He burned one of my cowboys on the Picket Fire River in New Mexico.

I chased him into Utah and lost him.

I heard myself that a Ute Indian killed him, but that might have been just a

rumor.

What makes you think he's alive?

Because someone's been burning folks in western New Mexico.

I come here knowing it might upset you.

Because I understand you were his captive that kidnapped you.

I was.

But how do you know?

I never even told my husband.

Your friend in Nebraska, Claire Allen, told me you'd confided it to her.

I was up there recently buying horses from her.

gonna make you burn harder i'm gonna burn you first so you don't have to hear

that little boy what

do you think

you're doing i'm gonna burn that blue -eyed whore i don't see what business

is yours she's my whore that's what business it is of mine and you ain't

her not today why not by god guys she's my Bait, by God.

The old Granger McRae will come looking for her.

All we got to do is wait.

Once you get here, you can burn them both.

I want to court her at least.

She's my bait.

You can have the boy.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

into that little boy till the day I die.

In my nightmares, I can still hear them screaming.

I found the body of that boy, ma 'am.

I buried him.

That was kind of you.

I can still hear that little boy screaming.

I'll always hear that little boy screaming.

I'm a mother now.

That little boy was about the age of 20.

About the age of 40.

My mom's crying, and we can hear her.

Well, let her fall.

I expect she needs to.

Very seldom, son, very seldom.

Would you go give me a pony?

I'd like a brown one.

I suspect I could scratch you up a brown pony somewhere, but you'd owe me $10 if

I did.

Well, I ain't got it.

But I'll give it to you when I grow up.

Don't suppose a black pony would do?

No, brown's my favorite color.

I'd rather have brown.

I'll take the black pony. Can I have the black pony?

Mr. Goodnight, I'm sorry I sent you out in this wind.

Ma, now Ben's been asking Mr. Goodnight for one. George has been asking for one,

and I need one, too. Where y 'all are going, there'll be plenty of horses.

Where are we going, Ma? August, you boys go out to the barn and finish your

chores. Cleary, it's time for the baby's nap.

Mr. Goodnight, won't you come back inside?

I'll put on a pot of coffee.

If I'd known Mark Marks was alive, I wouldn't be living nowhere near here.

He said he'd find me.

And if I had children, he'd burn them just like he burnt that little boy.

It was the last thing he said before he left the building.

I thought all the mean wolves in this country was about cleaned out.

His name is Emmy Harvard.

I'm sending my children to Nebraska.

Claire will look after them until this is over.

Now, my husband's out there somewhere hunting a killer, and it's my fault.

He ain't a killer, Mr. Goodnight.

And he's got no business hunting killers with Captain Call.

I'd better go find the man myself.

This time, I'll keep at it till I know it's done. Let Captain Call do it.

I've got no right to give you orders, but you came here and asked me what I

know, so I'm gonna tell you.

I've seen that man, and you haven't.

Let Captain Call do it.

My cowboy burned, not Captain Calls. I expect you think I'm too old to do the

man. No, that ain't it.

You may have killed to survive, but you ain't a killer.

Captain Calls a killer.

Send a killer to catch a killer, I say.

Besides, folks around here need you.

This whole part of the country needs you.

He's the man that built the school.

And I know you've built others.

Nobody needs Pratt and Call.

It's all the rich men.

Because he's a killer.

He's as hard as Blue Duck and as hard as Mocs Mocs.

Mr. Gossett, I've got to start packing.

I've got to go to school and dismiss my pupils. Then I've got to hunt somebody

up to do chores around here while I'm gone.

I want to start for Amarillo tonight.

I want my children out of here.

You'll be in a regular lather before you get all that done.

I can stop the train at Kwana, and I can send a couple cowboys with a wagon to

take you to the railroad.

I'd be much obliged.

Can you lend me a weapon?

Oh, my husband lent me. It was a shotgun.

I can lend you several guns, but I doubt you'll need them once you're on a train

to Nebraska.

I'm not going to Nebraska, Mr. Goodman.

Just my children are going north.

You're not going?

No.

Ma 'am, you're the one he nearly burnt.

You have every right to be scared. Why wouldn't you go?

Because I've got to find my husband and bring him back.

I should have set my heels and kept him here, but I didn't.

It's my place to bring him home.

Now, that's right.

I can send an experienced man to go find your husband and bring him home.

None of you cowboys married him.

I married him.

He's a good man, and I need him.

Besides, he won't mind nobody but me.

Except Cap Call.

I'm going to find him and he's going to mind me.

Particularly now.

Well, I'll go send him in with the wagon.

I like the way that talkative boy of yours takes up for himself.

He's got grit.

You mean Georgie?

Apple of my eye.

Don't forget to send that pistol, Mr. Goodnight.

I don't want to be going south without a gun.

I won't.

Goodbye, Mr. Parker.

That's you?

What's happened?

What's happened to you?

No! It's me, it's me, Billy.

Billy. What is it?

Tell me what happened to you.

Billy.

He killed a man, a gringo.

Now the hard sheriff, he wants to know where to find him.

Where is he? I don't know.

No, just the floor.

I despise them lawmen.

I just hate their stinking hearts.

Hey, Billy.

I didn't know you fancied Mexican whores.

What a fancy time is to cut your stinking heart out.

And I expect I'll come back and do it once I take Mary home.

You old -timers got rough tongues.

Tell me something, Billy.

You fancy all Mexican whores?

Get this.

Easy, Ben. You're stinking harsh.

I hope so. I'd like to know who the second robber is if there is two.

I'd like to know that myself.

Be sure there's two.

I'm hoping they don't keep multiplying.

Now, Mr. Brookshire, your color ain't good.

If I was your doctor, I'd recommend you stay away from telegraph offices. Every

time you go in one, you come out looking ill.

Yes, for good reason.

Here's four telegrams and not a word of good news.

Well, what's the worst?

The worst is my wife died.

Katie died.

I never expected it.

She was healthy as a horse when I left Brooklyn.

I never expected it, Captain.

Well, that is bad news, Mr. Brookshire. I'm sorry to hear it.

Wish Nod sent you home the day I left the panhandle.

It's too late now.

She's gone.

You almost missed this

antelope.

Hey, we wouldn't be eating it now, would we?

You will have to shoot better than this to kill Joey Garza.

He shoots better than you do.

I doubt he shoots better than the captain.

They will never find him without me.

Captain usually finds a bandit that he sets out looking for.

Not Joey.

When he was six, his mother's husband sold him to the Apache.

Once, when I was in the mountains watching eagles,

I came to the... What was he doing watching eagles in the mountains?

It helps my eyes work better.

The Apache taught Joey how to track, and they're good trackers.

They taught him well.

So you know him, then?

I know his mother, Maria.

She fed me when the hard sheriff put me in jail in Presidio for eating a dead

horse.

crime to eat a dead horse.

The hard sheriff thought I stole it before I killed it.

He was going to hang me, but a big fire almost burned the jail down and I

escaped.

Maria Garza hid me until I could go back to the mountains.

Well, if she's so kind, how come her son turned out bad?

If I knew that, I would be a matchmaker.

I would be rich.

I don't know.

No one knows.

It'd be a curse, wouldn't it?

If a child fell bad on you?

How about you? How are your children?

They were good children.

Comanche killed all of them.

I came back to the Brazos, too.

be near their spirits and the spirit of their grandfather.

But I didn't find his spirit.

What about your children? Did you find their spirits?

Oh, they were too young.

Their spirits were too light.

They had blown away to another part of the world.

Clary, August, take care of the little ones.

Now get on inside.

Hurry up.

Mary! Mary!

Can't you knock?

This is my house.

Ain't got time for niceties, Mary.

Call, he's heading this way.

He can come.

You'll not find my son.

He will if he sniffs around and picks up his scent.

Joey's in Crowtown, and Crowtown ain't but two days from here.

How do you know this news?

I know what caused our frequent saloons.

If there's news, it passes through the saloons.

A vaquero spotted call.

He's with two men.

Billy?

I want you to stay with my children.

Take good care of them.

You know I'll take good care of them, Mary.

Where are you going to be?

I'm going to Crowtown.

To warn my son.

You?

Crowtown?

How long do you think you're going to last in a place like that, bro? I don't

plan to move there.

I can last long enough to warn Joey.

Mary, let me go.

No.

I have more than one reason to want you to go.

I do not want to be here when Cole comes.

He killed my father, remember?

He killed my brother.

If I see him, I might kill him myself.

Then my children will never be lost.

This youngster is bad.

What now, Captain?

He killed six railroad men just east of Pecos, left 700 sheep on the train to

die of thirst.

Good God.

Here's a telegram from Charlie. Good night.

Mox Mox is alive. He is your man, Byrne.

Your deputy is on his way. Famous shoes tracking for him.

You may recall Mox Mox Byrne, one of my men, available if needed.

Well, we know who the second bandit is, at least.

Mox Mox.

You better want a good night's cowboys and who knows how many other folks.

Well, Mr. Brookshire.

There are two killers out there just like I suspected.

Which one do we go after first?

Joey Garza.

He's the one I've been hired to stop.

What about this man?

Last news was he's in New Mexico. New Mexico has law of a sort. Let them

it.

Well, that'll please the colonel.

And your colonel's a man who expects results.

Despite the bad news, can you travel?

I can travel.

In fact, I think I'd rather travel.

Then let's go. We can reach the Rio Cacho by tonight if we push.

The Rio Cacho will take us right to the boy's village.

If we're lucky, the boy might be at home.

You can catch him there.

Take good care of your brother.

Take good care of Billy, too.

If he gets drunk and falls asleep outside, cover him so he wouldn't

Not a problem, Mama.

I will take care of him, too.

Adios.

Adios. Adios. Adios.

Now, you're on the wrong side of Pecos River, you know. You're going to have to

cross it.

As cold as it is, you're going to have to build a fire and thaw yourself out as

soon as you get across.

Billy, I have crossed rivers before, and I know the kind of risk I'm going to

face.

Well, Mary, can I ask you something?

If you hurry, I cannot be here talking to you or never get to Crowtown.

Well, I like keeping track of your husbands. It's kind of a hobby of mine.

And I ain't seen that Sr. Sanchez lately now.

Why did he run off if I ain't prying?

You are prying.

Well, my feet hurt. Tell me anyway.

Sr. Sanchez left me because he did not like me.

Well, he married you. Why wouldn't he like you?

He liked the way I looked. He mistook that for me.

When he find out who I am, he left.

Well, I sympathize with the man.

I've often made that same mistake myself.

I guess I'd make it again if I could see better.

Listen, Mary.

Since you ain't got a husband, well, how about me?

Billy, are you keeping me here when I have so far to go in this cold wind?

Just to propose?

That's about the gist of it.

I

will

not marry you.

But I'm happy you're my good friend.

And I'm glad you take good care of my children.

Right.

Okay. Okay?

All right.

Take care of yourself.

Adios, hombre.

Teresa! Rafael!

Marietta!

This shirt is dirty.

Wash it again.

He ain't trained to be laundresses, you know.

Well, I better learn, Viola.

My mother could do my clothes much better.

I thought you didn't care for your mother.

Bueno.

She's a whore, too.

But you could wash my clothes.

Joey, you gotta be careful around John Wesley Harden.

He's over at the saloon now drinking with Redfoot.

He's killed over 50 men, they say.

You need to be careful.

He's got a temper.

I seen Ben Lilly yesterday.

Ben Lilly, is he still around?

Of course he's still around. He sold me an antelope, Honch. He sold you an

antelope, Honch. Why don't you cook it?

I don't cook.

Beulah cooks, but she ain't been around lately.

That's because she bunks with the young killer here.

Been in town two days, and he's already corralled half the hoard.

Now he'll corral all the hoard.

Pardon?

Said it cost me 50 cents to bury that helper of mine.

Now, you shot him.

The least you can do is chip in the 50 cents.

Why waste money burying a nigger?

We all got to be buried.

Harden that boy. It cost me $50.

That's $50 for the boy and 50 cents for the grave.

That's $50 and 50 cents you owe me.

Don't stand there talking nonsense to me while I'm working hard at getting

drunk. Just drag your man off behind a fan hill, the big pig will eat him and

save you 50 cents.

I want my money.

Anyway, you're a fool if you paid money for a negra.

It ain't even legal to buy one anymore.

Ain't Blinkin' seen to that.

You give over my money, you owe me, you give it over now.

I could kill you seven times before you drop that hammer on your own toe.

You owe me!

Now, you give it over, you give it over now. Son of a bitch, I heard you.

Now, if you want to live, get gone.

If you'd rather die, flip that damn hammer one more time.

I doubt you're the killer you claim to be, Hardin. I don't claim nothing.

I'd like to smash your ugly face, but I guess I'll leave that pleasure to

Captain Call.

I doubt he'd bother with a scabby old turd like you.

Woodrow Call?

Why would he want to kill me?

Yeah, he arrested me once, but that was over a feud I got into in Lampasas.

Call ain't the sheriff of Crowtown. He don't even live here.

No, but he's coming.

Ben Lilly told me.

Woodrow Call's coming to Crowtown.

That's bold.

We're an old turd, isn't he? Yeah, he's coming, but he ain't coming for you.

You're not important enough anymore, Hardin.

You're just an old killer waiting to die.

Why is he coming?

Do you expect to clean out the town?

No.

He's coming for the werewolf here.

He's coming for this Joey.

Now, come on, Hardin. Give me the money.

I got no reason to give you a free helper to kill.

I hate idiots like you.

Now, wait a minute. Don't die on me.

When's Captain called you to show up?

Soon, I reckon.

Good.

Maybe he can make it in time for your funeral.

You can be buried with your help.

Now, don't sit there. Go outside and die.

Nobody wants you dying in here.

This is a proper slug.

Forty, it hurts you.

I expect so.

That's what a forty -four slug's meant to do.

I thought I told you not to die in here, you ugly bastard.

If you wasn't so near a kilt, I'd take a bedslut to you, I would.

I oughtn't have dropped my hammer.

You didn't drop it. It's in your left hand.

You can tell left from right.

Well, I tried to get the stubborn son of a bitch to go outside, but he wouldn't.

You'll have to drag him out, Pat. He's dead.

Now we're without a blacksmith.

Good. I dislike the bastard.

Drag him on out now. He's gonna start stinking in a minute. You dragged him

You shot him.

Pat, I won't have my morning spoiled by having to drag out some dead fruit.

You drag him out of here, boy.

Did you hear me, pup? Drag this man out of here.

What the hell? Is everybody stubborn in this town?

Why would they send a call after a pup like you?

They didn't send him after me because of the killings.

They sent him after me because gringos don't like losing money.

That's right.

That's right.

It's the money, not the murders.

And don't cost them damn pigs one cent for us to kill one another off out here

in the Baldies.

Why would they care?

Out here on the Pecos, it's fine for us to steal from one another.

We better not rob no trains from the east where them damn Yankees keep their

money.

How much did you get, Kettle?

I heard it was a million.

I heard it was the Army's money.

Being a little closed -mouthed today, are we? You'd do better to talk to

yourself. My ears get tired just listening to your cuss.

Be glad you can hear me, Pat. It means I ain't shot you yet.

You remind me of myself when I was younger and better looking.

I'll give you a little free advice, killer.

You said it yourself.

Stealing is a more dangerous habit in these parts than killing.

But if you have a tendency to steal, you best stay clear of Judge Roy Bean.

You can't abide a thief.

He catches you with money in your pockets, he'll hang you promptly and

money.

No.

He won't hang me.

But I might hang him.

For sport.

But not.

That's original.

That'd make the papers.

No call, he might get fired over that one.

No, my advice is to let Roy go and kill Famous Shoes. You heard him, ain't you?

Why should I kill that old man?

Because Famous Shoes is on his way south to track for Carl.

If you don't shoot him first, he's gonna lead Carl right to you.

Famous Shoes don't miss.

Bueno, viejo.

Neither do I.

any news about ted wasn't any news yesterday and there ain't no news today

i know i'm a pest sheriff but it's just i've never been without ted before and

with the baby coming and all i'm just a little worried you know i'm getting real

tired of you coming to my jail asking about ted ted ain't got the brains it

takes to cross the street that ain't fair sheriff

My husband is just as smart as the next fella.

You know, you keep coming here.

Bob. And you keep coming here.

Bob. Stop it, Bob.

Don't hurt me, Bob.

Shut up.

Don't hurt me.

No. My turn. No.

I just went there looking for news.

Whoa, whoa.

This sleeping in the saddle won't do, men.

We're heading into Joey Garza's territory.

Up to now, there's been no danger.

That changes now.

He's got that German rifle, remember.

We need to take advantage of what cover there is.

You think the Garza boy knows we're coming, Captain?

Expect he does.

Who'd tell him?

I don't know. Lose does travel.

Our advantage is my old corporal is on his way.

How will he find us?

I couldn't find anybody in this country if I had a year.

Neither could Corporal Parker, for that matter.

Tracking's not his skill.

He'd be hard -pressed to find old Mexico.

He's got an Indian with him, famous shoes.

He's the best tracker left in the West. He's damned expensive, but he'll bring

the corporal to us.

Now, are you saying he can just look at the ground and figure out where we are?

Not just the ground.

Famous shoes.

He'll think about it and watch the antelope and talk to the birds.

Pretty soon, they'll show up.

Now, I know you men are tired, but Rio Concho's only 20 more miles.

We got a full moon tonight.

We need to press on.

Once we get to the river, we can use the bank as cover.

Even a German rival can't make a bullet curve under a river bank.

I know it's hard traveling with bad news, Mr. Brookshire.

Your boss wants results.

Yes, he wants results.

And he gets them, too.

Well, let's ride.

We're lucky.

We'll catch that boy while he's home.

This all could be over.

Three poor days.

Is Joy here?

He's here, but he ain't awake.

Wake him.

Tell him his mother is here.

You can come in, but I ain't gonna wake him up. He don't like it when people

wake him up.

Wake up. Wake up. You must leave here.

Mama?

Would you wash my clothes? They cost a lot to do.

We don't have time to do the laundry.

Captain Cole is coming.

I want you to do my laundry.

He will kill you, Joey.

He killed your grandfather and your uncles.

I do not want him to kill you.

This is my room.

I don't like women in here.

Don't talk to me like that.

I'm your mother.

Get up.

Get up and leave.

They have sent the great killer after you.

Go to Mexico, down to the Sierras, and go quickly, or you're dead.

Or a stupid woman.

You've ridden all this way to tell me what I already knew.

I know about Captain Carl.

I'm not running from an old gringo.

Then you're dead if you think that way.

I'll go home and tell your brother and your sister that you're dead.

You'll be lying.

I will not die.

Carl will die.

Even before he knows his death is coming to veras.

Is there anyone who can make him leave?

John Wesley Harden, maybe.

John Wesley's killed over 50 men. I think Joey likes him. Of course, John

Wesley's crazy.

He'd have to kill anybody when he's in a mood.

Where is this man?

He's in the saloon. He never sleeps.

You'll be taking more than your life in your hand if you go on that flu.

There's rough men in this town. In fact, there's none that ain't rough.

They'll not be the first rough men I ever see.

You killed our pig?

What kind of a wild slut are you?

Soy Maria Garza, Joey's mother.

And if you are his friend, I wish you'd tell him to leave.

Captain calls, coming.

Don't know where he is, but he's close.

How close?

I don't know.

His deputy is over by the Pecos.

Famous Shoes is taking him to meet the captain.

I knew it.

Last thing I told your boy was to shoot that old Indian.

She just killed the devil pig.

We have hundreds of people coming here trying to take shots at that pig.

You walk into town one day and kill it dead?

This woman's a witch.

What's wrong with your foot?

I stomped it.

Son of a bitch is a card cheat.

It's too cold to stand around worrying about a dead pig.

Let's go inside.

What's the news other than Woodrow calls coming to Crowtown?

The snake you do not see is alive.

Mox Mox?

That little squint don't bother me.

Now, there's a bed over there in that corner.

You crawl in there with me and these others, they can wait their turn.

Well, you're a fine one.

Your son's got all the whores.

You come into town, killer pig, and now you won't even crawl into bed with me

after I ask you to play.

You watch it.

I like being in small rooms with whores who shoot pistols.

Maybe the killer instinct runs in the family, Wes.

I came here to find out if you would help my son.

No, thanks.

I live for myself.

Captain Cole will kill him. And for all you know... He might kill you, too.

Hey, likely.

He ain't getting paid for me. He's getting paid for your boy.

Calls economical. He don't kill just anybody who needs killing.

Him and the famous shoes, they make a good pair.

Famous shoes only tracks when he's paid.

Call kills for the same reason.

Hell, all right, a dollar, then.

Red can pay you. He owes me money.

He can have seconds, and you'll be $2 richer before breakfast.

A dollar and a quarter then.

need a fresh man.

He'll need more than a horse when I find him.

Why are all of you crying?

Do you miss him already?

My Joey doesn't care about women.

He just cares about himself.

Joey didn't care about us, but he wasn't mean to us neither.

They only left us alone because they were scared of Joey.

Now they will be like wolves.

I have this gun, but this will not keep them away.

I'm going home to Mexico.

Do you want to come with me?

I have to walk.

But I'm going.

We have no one in Mexico.

Our mother is dead.

Redfoot will beat me when he find out Joey's gone.

I was with him till Joey come.

He'll beat me bad.

What will we eat?

All we have is that antelope haunch you bought from that old man, that lily.

We just kill the pig.

You can eat it.

Kill the pig?

What pig?

That big pig.

He killed it. He killed the pig.

The pig would follow us when we had to go into the bushes.

We were afraid he would eat us.

He was the devil pig.

No.

He was just a pig, and now he's dead.

If you give me a bucket, I make sausage.

From the blood of that pig.

I need a horse to drag that thing.

Old Naiche has a horse.

Maybe it could drag a pig.

Que? Naiche, the old Indian woman.

Over there. Her house is made of sticks.

Con permiso.

But mother, I need your horse.

You killed a great pig.

If you let me borrow your horse, I can drag the pig to a place where I can

butcher it.

I will give you all the pig meat you can carry.

You can take my horse if you give me the guts of the pig.

White people were strong for meeting the gusts of animals.

You are from the Comanche, you know?

Yes. But the white men came.

And now we are gone.

If I can take your horse, you can have whatever you want.

Christ is his mother.

What's his name?

Horse.

Horse.

Horse.

I've been trying to tell you we are here to meet Captain Call.

We're both deputies.

We've been hired to try to help him catch Joey Garza. You heard him?

I don't give a tinker's damn who you're here to meet.

That old Indian's a horse thief.

He escaped me once, he will not do it again.

Now look, his name is Famous Shoes because he walks everywhere.

He wouldn't steal a horse because he's got no use for a horse.

The only use he'd have for a horse is to eat one.

Stealing horses to eat is still stealing horses.

Well, I never stole a horse in my whole life. What'd you arrest me for?

Because you were with a horse thief.

You just might be a horse thief yourself.

I am not a horse thief! If I hang the old kicker pull, you can go.

Look, you've had us here all day long, and he has not had a thing to eat.

Now, why are you starving him?

All he did was eat a dead horse, and that was years ago.

He evaded the law.

My law.

He deserves worse than starving, and he's going to get worse than starving,

Besides, why waste food on an old kicker who's good as hung anyway?

All us women want to come with you.

None of us want to stay here. We'll all die if we stay here.

I might die harder if you come with me.

You might freeze, or starve, or drown.

I'd rather drown than stay here.

We ain't scared.

Bueno.

I can take you to the railroad.

It will be a very cold day tonight, and we have to walk.

No, I won't go.

I want to wait for Joey.

He don't have no one to help him.

Joey thinks Gabriela's pretty.

Me and Gabriela, we better stay.

Don't!

Marietta, Gabriela, do not be weak.

Joey will never come back.

These men will use you till you're sick.

Is it or no?

You know she ain't lying.

Yaichi, Yaichi, we're leaving.

You should come with us.

I will take you to the railroad.

This is not a good place for a woman.

I don't have no place to take me. All my people are dead.

Billy Williams says there are many of your people still alive in the

I don't believe Billy Williams. He is right.

There are only white men in the world now.

I have all this food. I want to stay here and eat it.

Bring it.

I'll help you.

I do not know what will become of you if I leave you here with this man.

Don't worry about me.

Look, let me show you.

don't let this fire go out.

When the northern comes, it keeps my scorpions from freezing.

Oh, they don't sting me no more.

When men are dead, I put scorpions in their clothes.

Oh, Tommy, he stole my tobacco.

He got drunk.

I put three in his pants.

They stung him where he is a man.

Naichi, run away to my home.

I have two children.

My girl is blind, and my boy cannot think well.

You could help me with them.

My time is coming.

If you miss your time, then you cannot rest.

house and tells me secrets.

That is why I know I must stay and wait for my time.

She is up there now.

My crow.

I have no more time.

I must go.

I hate these crows.

They bring bad luck.

Need you, John Wesley Hardin.

Mind your own business, you cross -eyed runt.

You're too big to be inside.

You go outside and drink.

Or else sit down.

You're blocking my light.

Ain't no chair for me.

Then sit on the floor, you damn kraut barrel.

Yeah, I'll be friendly, Hardin.

I got six men here.

We aim to kill the God of War.

That six ain't enough.

We're counting means, Seth.

Well, you gotta subtract the Mexicans, because they undoubtedly can't shoot.

Then you gotta subtract this sack of sausage who's blocking my light.

The reason you gotta subtract him is because I'm about to kill him if he

sit down!

Sit down, Gart.

Don't you hear, Mr. Hardin?

Ain't no chair.

Going outside would be even better than I wouldn't have to look at 300 pounds of

stupidity while I'm trying to concentrate on my cards.

I'm out.

I'll play if you're short for a game.

I guess you would, you damn Cherokee.

Or are you Choctaw?

Is the Gaza boy here?

He took three payrolls. Should have been ours if he'd left them damn trains

alone. I mean to see that he don't get the fourth.

The boy ain't here.

Neither is his mother.

Why would I care about his mother?

You ought to care.

She could whip the whole bunch of you.

You are one rude son of a bitch.

This ace don't belong in this deck.

It's got six or seven already.

I got a mind to kill you, Arden.

Well, I doubt if I'll be killed by a squint like you.

Or a Choctaw boy. Or an ignorant anvil of a German you brought in here.

Give me one, too.

Hey, why don't you leave the anvil here?

We need a blacksmith.

He looks like he's got the heft for it.

Ergard couldn't shoe a horse if he had a week.

He can't shoe himself.

Yeah, but he's so strong, half the time he yanks them boots on the wrong feet

and then wonders why they hurt.

But he's useless to move him out of the light.

You know, if you've got a mind for killing, maybe you ought to get old

Call while you're kidding.

Woodrow Call?

Yeah.

The railroad sent him after Joey Garson.

Like whacking an ox.

I hope my weapon's intact.

You got no idea how mean I am, you stabby son of a bitch.

I'm gonna kill that young man.

Then I'm gonna kill old Carl.

He never caught Blue Duck and he ain't ever gonna catch me.

Did you know that we're in the newspapers, Hardin? They say we're the

to ever hit the West.

I rarely bother with folks who read the papers.

Personally,

I wouldn't give a nickel's worth of horse meat for the whole bunch of you.

Now, if you boys want to sit in here and drink, do it quietly.

I don't want to risk damage to my weapon by having to whack you like I whacked

that lunkhead.

Well, I guess if we're not wanted.

I thought you could shoot.

Take a witch to kill a crow, and I ain't no witch.

Sorry you came with me, Mr. Brookshire.

No, I'm not sorry.

Katie's gone now. Might as well be here.

About you, Devin.

I'm with you, Captain.

I was in this village once before.

Me and P .I. caught three horse thieves.

Mexicans over in Texas.

We hung them.

Seeing how they just crossed the river brought the bodies home.

Billy Williams.

Hello, Billy. That is you, ain't it? Woodrow, where you been?

We've been expecting you for about a week now.

Why would you be expecting me?

Everybody knows you're hunting Joey Garza. This is talking a whole west.

Wish the whole west would keep their mouths shut then.

You know this wild boy, Billy?

No.

Ain't that the Ted Plunkerton down Laredo?

That's him.

What are you dragging him along for, Woodrow? He is worthless.

I wouldn't hire him to shovel out manure if I had me a whole stable full.

He's your children, Billy?

They ain't, no.

That's a pretty child.

She's Joey's sister.

She's blind, ain't she?

Yeah. Blind from birth.

This, uh, this house.

This the house? Yeah.

Yeah, you hung Maria's father and her brothers, and you brought them to this

house.

Since you're here with these children, I... I expect their mother's gone off to

warn their brother.

Beg.

Guess we'll be going then, since the news has spread.

Don't forget to take your man.

What man?

Your man, P.

Your corporal.

He is here? Good night informed me he was coming, but he didn't say he was

Yeah, he's over at Sheriff Donovan's jail across the river at Presidio.

Famous, he was with him.

What are they doing in jail?

Some years back, Sheriff caught that old kickapoo eating a dead horse.

Decided it was stolen.

Sheriff ain't forgot.

Why was P arrested?

Consort with a horse eater, I guess.

Since you're here watching after his brother and sister, you must be a friend

this Joey's then.

If Joey has friends, I ain't met him.

When he was a youngster, he was likable enough.

Once he come back from the Apaches, he wasn't likable no more.

He ain't been likable since either.

Boy part Indian?

No.

One of Maria's husbands didn't like having brats underfoot, so one day he

took off and sold Joey to the Apaches.

Maria was gone at the time.

She was off helping her ma on her deathbed.

He was with the Indians three years.

I tried to buy him back a couple times myself, but they wouldn't trade with me.

He was about 12 when he escaped.

He outran them, Apaches.

They couldn't track him, neither.

Explains why he's hard to track.

It's good that P is here.

Guess Deputy Plunkard can go on home now if he's a mind to.

Ted Plunkard ain't a fighter, Woodrow.

He's just a jailer.

She's a pretty little girl, I'll say that.

Who is that man, Billy?

Name is Call, honey.

Woodrow Call.

He said I was pretty.

Well, he's right.

You are pretty.

Real pretty.

Looks like your mom.

Is he a king, Pete?

Well, a king of sorts.

I guess you could say that.

I think he must be a king.

Here? I think we got trouble.

There's a man coming.

I think it's old Carl.

I ain't never seen the man, but I think it's him.

Now, why would that mean trouble?

He's a lawman.

I'm a lawman.

Boy, he's kind of got that stiff look.

Ever since you got your ears shot off, you're imagining things.

Captain!

Let these men out. You have no authority to arrest them. They were sent here to

help me bring in Joey Garza. You ought not to have interfered with them.

I reckon I know who to arrest.

That Indian's gonna be hung. He's a known horse thief.

And I'm sure you hung a good many just like him yourself.

Famous Jews never been known to ride a horse, much less steal one. P .I.

Parker's been my deputy for 30 years. He's never been a lawbreaker.

He came to town with a criminal.

And that's breaking the law for me, by God.

Here. I heard you were stubborn.

So I got a telegram from the governor of Texas.

Mr. Brookshire's boss, president of the railroad that hired me, he sent the wire

to the governor himself.

Now, I've done this to save time.

We're provisioned. We're ready to ride.

It is from the governor.

Want to read it?

No, I don't, by God.

And when I wad something up, I want it to stay wadded up.

Damn the governor and damn you.

You don't just walk in here and order me to let criminals out of my own jail.

They ain't criminals, and you've overstepped.

Your man can go.

The day I hang the old Indian.

And I'll hang the old Indian in my own good time.

They're dead men. They step out of themselves.

I will not tolerate escape.

Son of a bitch!

That needs subdued! Stop it!

Stop, that's enough!

If he ever points a damn pistol at me, he'd better shoot.

I won't tolerate rude behavior.

Yes, sir?

Remind him I was following the governor's instructions.

Read him that damn telegram.

We need an experienced tracker to help us locate the Garza boy. Are you

available?

Yeah.

You won't even have to pay me, either.

Why not?

P .I.'s woman is going to teach me how to follow tracks in books.

Tracks and books. You mean words she's going to teach you to read?

Yes.

As soon as I help you catch Joey.

All right, then. P .I.'s wife agrees.

Hello? Stand there like your targets lined up in a shooting gallery. Let's

You know, when I first met Captain Call, I wasn't sure he ought to have been

hired to take on the assignment like this.

Why's that?

Well, he seemed old and kind of deaf.

Wasn't sure he'd be up to it.

He took it. I reckon he's up to it.

All his hands, man.

Well, after seeing what he did to that sheriff, I'm bound to say Colonel Terry

clearly chose the right man for the job.

Lori,

could that really be you?

Lori, it's me, Tinkersley.

It is you, ain't it? Tell me it's you. I'm married now, Tinkersley.

I'm here looking for my husband.

He was tapping call.

Whose funeral?

Doobie Plunkett. She was well -liked in the town. I liked her myself, even

though I only met her once.

That's why I lent my horse to sing at her funeral.

I kept two back for business.

They had scratchy voices anyway.

So you still wanted a horse, huh?

Yeah, mostly.

I'm surprised that that horse sang at her funeral.

Was she a whore?

Oh, no, no. She was married to the deputy sheriff.

Only about 16.

He went off with old Carl, too, just like your husband.

Yeah, it's a filthy shame.

Sheriff Jekyll raped Doobie.

Did he kill her?

No. She was pregnant.

She felt so bad about the matter that she took rat poison and died.

She must have felt hopeless.

Lori, you didn't even know her. You ain't expected to attend the funeral.

I know hopelessly.

I'd rather you didn't accompany me.

You didn't even know the woman.

Get away from me, Tinkersley.

You done nothing but hurt me when we was together.

I don't want you to be walking with me.

I'm here to find my husband.

Oh, but I bought you pretty dresses.

Yeah, so you could sell me at a higher price.

Get away from me.

I don't like remembering nothing about that.

Laurie, look, I just thought we could dance a little bit. I never thought I'd

see you again.

I come down here to Lonesome Dove looking for you. You'd already gone

old McRae. He wasn't that old.

His head looked like an over -ripe melon after Captain Cole got through with

him.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

I heard you mention Captain Cole.

My husband's his corporal. I'd be grateful for any news you have of the

We don't know much, ma 'am.

Captain Caldane nearly killed that sheriff in Presidio.

They ain't even sure he's gonna live yet.

Well, you heard, miss.

Captain was trying to get his man out of jail.

That'd be my husband.

And I guess the sheriff just went crazy.

Well, he's never broken the law. He oughtn't have been in jail.

That sheriff's got his own ideas about who's a criminal.

You don't have to break much law to get arrested in Joe Donovan's town.

I reckon that's changed now.

I don't think Carl liked his look much. He changed it, didn't he?

Well, thank you for the news.

Ma 'am.

I wish you'd come. You better not come with us.

I have to go home to my children. Maria, you'd do well to get on this train with

us right now.

Max Max is out there somewhere.

If he catches you, you'll wish you were with us in Fort Worth.

My children will not live in Fort Worth.

It's still a long way to Mexico.

You ain't got a hearth.

A hearth can walk, so can I.

Is that dogs?

Dogs.

Who'd be running hounds in a country like this?

That lion -killing man.

Those are his dogs.

He has nine of them.

It's Ben Lilly.

Forget that old man's still alive.

He prefers bear.

If he can't find bear, he'll kill lions.

Those dogs were chasing the mule deer.

They get many shots to kill a mule deer.

I'll go see.

Let's keep a close guard tonight.

I heard six, seven guns.

It's night.

Who'd be hunting at night?

Probably some vaqueros on their way home.

Old Ben Lilly, he's cranky.

Might have made him mad.

What's that?

Be quiet.

I've heard a lot of sounds, Captain. I ain't never heard no sound like that.

You don't suppose that could be an eagle? I've heard that eagles scream. Of

course, I never heard one, though.

What about the Indians, Captain?

Should we wait for them?

He's the tracker, Mr. Bookguy.

You'll find out.

But if Mr.

Lilly travels so much, maybe he'll know something about you and Carter.

Then Lilly won't know nothing.

Why not?

Then Lilly isn't interested in humans. He's only interested in bears and lions.

I saw the tracks of two wolves.

Not many wolves left. I was glad to see those tracks.

Did you find Ben Lilly?

Yes.

He was hiding in the snake's den.

What about his dog?

It's the snake you do not see.

The man burner.

He has six men with him.

One of them is very large.

He killed Ben Lilly's dogs.

Great. They roped his best dog and burned it.

It must be the sound we heard.

Where is Mr. Lilly now?

He's not far.

I think he's confused.

Well, he's always been that way. Right now, he looks like he ain't burnt.

Mr. Lilly?

Mr. Lilly?

He burnt my best dog, Captain.

Killed all nine of my hounds.

And burnt old Flop alive.

Didn't eat them. Just killed them.

You'll see.

The dogs are just ahead.

I don't want to see a burned dog.

Burnt old Flop alive.

Old Flop was my best dog.

Mr. Lilly, you're lucky he didn't burn you.

I'd suggest you follow along with us for a day or two.

I hid in a snake den.

I don't fear snakes.

Mox Mox is a snake to fear.

You best come along with us till this is settled.

We're going to San Francisco.

Get me some new dogs.

We're going to Judge Roy Beans. He usually has a few dogs.

I don't like the Beans' dogs up in the town.

That killer done killed my dogs.

I got to get Santa back.

You be careful, then.

All right, Doc.

All right.

Be careful again.

My dog.

The flop's gone.

Rick, he's loco, kid. Oh, Ben Lilly's always been loco.

Damn few left like him.

Like him how, kid?

Oh, like him, like Gus, like Hickok.

Old Kit Carson.

They'd done what they wanted. They went where they wanted.

Wasn't always good, but at least they lived free lives.

You're a farmer yourself, Corporal.

Respectable. Charlie Goodnight's got his ranch.

It's just a killer's.

A few like old Ben Lilly kept to the old ways.

Well, and you, Captain.

What?

You kept it the old ways.

All right, there.

Doctor, how are your children today?

Sleeping with their fishes.

I'm going to see them again tomorrow.

Mama, you've come back.

Mary, where have you been so long?

Mama, there was a man here.

I think he was the king. He said I was pretty.

Where did this king come from?

What was his name?

Paul came through, Mary.

Down to Concho.

Came through and went where?

Down to Maravilla Canyon, I think.

He done you one favor before he left, though. He ruined that Sheriff Jonathan.

Beat him nearly to death with a rifle.

Then as soon as that sheriff was crawling up to hold the gun,

Some bit choppy -choppy.

Did the famous shoes bring him?

What did you tell him about Joey?

Famous shoes didn't bring him.

And I didn't tell him nothing.

Hell, it wasn't out in the town.

Well...

Don't let him

ever come back.

You come into the house.

Do not let him look at you.

He's a bad man.

He wants to kill Joy.

Do not ever let him look at you.

Do understand.

But he didn't do anything bad.

He said I was pretty.

He was right.

You are.

This Indian owes me a nickel.

He's on your payroll. Cough it up.

I didn't know you served drinks for a nickel.

Liquor ain't that cheap.

He come up lame.

I rubbed some lotion on his foot. That lotion cures all ills except for a weak

pecker.

I stepped on a cactus with thorns as sharp as a snake's tooth.

I'll pay the money.

Although I don't... Happened to have it with me right now. They have a nickel,

Mr. Brookshire. Put it in your ledger. I'm sure your colonel will approve.

Expect the war party. You seem to be thoroughly armed.

I expect perdition. Always have.

Perdition can come in the form of a bullet. That's why I'm ready. I want to

prepared to shoot back.

Well, we've had a norther at our back. If it's still a saloon, we'd like

I expect perdition will come in the form of disease.

I'm susceptible to diseases.

Can't shoot a damn disease.

Hope you catch the Garza boy next week.

This week wouldn't be too soon, neither.

I'll catch him, but I doubt it'll be this week.

Depends on when Famous Shoes picks up his track.

There are very few competent marksmen in this part of the country.

And that boy, that's my chair.

a competent marksman, and he's affecting my profits.

Shooting people who might be coming here to drink.

Besides, I'm not as tranquil with myself as I'd like to be.

Used to, I could sit out there in that chair and concentrate on business

matters. Now I've got to worry that somebody on a hill a mile away is going

plug me while I'm concentrating.

There's no hill within a mile of here.

And a half mile more likely. distance for a rifle shot anyway.

I've never seen a rifle that could shoot accurate more than a half a mile.

You're not a competent marksman, neither.

And you don't know everything.

Charlie Goodnight thinks he knows everything. So do you.

I've never known you to worry about killers before, Judge.

There's a lot safer places to live along this border if you're the sort to let

killers disturb your naps.

I've weathered many a killer.

But I resent a Mexican boy with a rifle that'll shoot that far.

That boy ain't the only reason you ought to start napping indoors, ain't you?

Heard of Mox Mox?

Who'd the lunatic stand his mouth?

Ben Lilly's best dog.

Not flop.

Why would the son of a bitch want to burn a dog?

Why would he want to burn a person?

Because he'd like to, that's why.

I'll serve your deputy again when he wakes up.

I hate to do it, but I'm going to split off.

Why's that, Captain?

We got two different threats to deal with now. We got Mox Mox and the young

killer.

Mox Mox ain't too far. I think I can catch him if I go alone and travel fast.

Well, it's going to upset Mr.

Brooks. I expect so.

He's a grown man. He knows how to make a fire.

Where do you want us to go?

Go back to Owenaga, where we were.

Joey Garza will have to show up at home sometime.

Don't you challenge him without me. You camp on the concho about a half a day

from the village.

You ought to take one of us with you to help the odds.

I appreciate your concern, but we ain't got much choice.

Deputy Plunkett and Mr.

Brookshire... They ought to be sent off alone. They're too green.

If Joey Garza shows up, they'd stand no chance.

You might not stand much of one either, Kim.

I expect you can hold your own, Corporal.

Well, good luck to you, then. Good luck to you.

Keep those men close and set a decent guard at night.

What's wrong, Corville?

You shouldn't have no hard trip.

Cross the river, follow Tocacho, wait a few days.

I doubt if I'll be very long.

You ain't worried about us, Captain. I reckon we can stay pointed south.

The river's right there. Can't lose it unless we go blind.

What is it, then?

Well, it's you, Captain.

That Mox Mox has got six men with him. One's that quick Jimmy Combs. He's a

Cherokee. Hard man to take.

If I was you, I'd read my paper inside.

Don't neglect any killers now.

See you there, men.

Hey, you oughtn't to leave that pistol cocked, you know. You might have a bad

dream and jerk to shoot your knee off.

Might rain whores out of the sky, too.

But I doubt it.

Son, I hit him.

I don't know how bad he's wounded.

Here, cut your sister loose. I'll get you a horse.

Richard,

have you got a biscuit? Me and Marcy, we ain't had no food.

Here, son.

Whoa.

I got some beef jerky.

That ought to get you toothed down.

So we can notify you folks.

What's your name?

Bobby. Bobby Finn.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Bobby Fant?

Son?

Jasper, you're Paul?

Jasper Fant?

That's Paul.

How'd you know his name? Well, we went to Montana together.

It used to work for me.

Now, Bobby, we're going to have to ride hard all night.

Don't you let your sister fall. I won't, sir.

my saloon with your damn bubble.

On the low west of Pecos, in case you ain't heard, I'm the one that does the

hanging around here.

Our horse, mister.

Well, your horse was a lot worse off than we thought. We gave it up last

Fort Stockton's only 12 miles away. We'll make it.

Well,

you see yourself.

up.

You'll have to excuse me, Miss Parker.

I've had a long trip. I didn't recognize you.

It's Mox Mox.

Mox Mox.

Did you kill him?

I hit him.

There's a chance he'll die.

Let's get these children up to my room. We'll get them in a long bath.

What about my husband, Kat?

He's fine, Miss Parker.

He's waiting for me in Mexico.

Build a fire, Jimmy.

It's chill.

No more fires for you, Mock.

Why? Why not? What's wrong with you?

Not near as much as is wrong with you.

I ain't shot in the lung and I ain't dying.

And you're both.

Building you a fire would be a waste of time.

And I ain't got the time to waste on a man that's dying. I ain't dying.

I'm just shut up a little.

I'll live if I can get warm.

Hellfire will warm you, Mox.

You'll be plenty warm there.

There you strip and be clean, you turkey scum.

I should have killed you a long time ago.

I should have shot you in your sleep.

I could be sound asleep and drunk, and I'd still be too quick for you, Mox.

That's why I'm called Quick Jimmy, remember?

You damn snake!

Get away, mad horse!

Make me a fire!

I ain't the snake.

You're the one they call the snake you do not see.

Only old Carl seen you.

He didn't get much of a shot, though, did he?

But he still killed you.

I ain't there.

I'm just shot, damn you.

Why are you in such a hurry?

Please, leave me some matches.

No, I am in a hurry.

Old Carl might be coming.

He ain't coming.

He's got them brats.

I don't believe I'll take that chance.

If he does come, he'll find you frozen.

You know, I never thought an old man like that could beat you, Mox.

But I guess I was wrong.

Get done for, Mox.

You ought to cut your own damn throat and be done with it.

I didn't mean to pass out like that this morning.

I'm worried about my horse. I don't usually go off without stabling him.

The sheriff saved him for you.

I was glad to do it.

He saved those two children from a hard death, Captain.

There are plenty of folks that can stable a horse.

My five -year -old can do it perfectly well.

I used to take care of my own mounts.

Any news from Jasper Pham?

They're arriving today.

I believe they're going to go right on back to the children.

They've got cattle to work.

I was a prisoner of Mox Mox, Captain.

When Blue Duck had me, I know what you saved those children from.

The Vance have every reason to be grateful.

They're very lucky, and they know it.

I didn't know that Mox Mox was with Blue Duck. I don't recall P .I. mentioning

that. He never mentioned it because he didn't know.

I never even told Gus.

I told him it's a good night when he gave me the news that my son was alive.

When can we go to my house?

We're going to have to go a horseback.

There's not much road between here and Max.

It'll be cold.

I hope you don't doubt I can ride, Captain.

I rode all the way to Nebraska with that coward you and Gus drove.

I can ride and I can keep up. The cold don't discourage me.

I want to find my husband.

It ain't the riding of the coal, ma 'am. What is it, then? I can leave now. I'm

packed. Captain, did you get the news?

What news?

Joey Garza killed Judge Roy Bean.

He gut shot him and then strung him up to his own barn.

Hung him.

Sheep herder found him. Came by to get drunk.

There the man hung.

Boy must have been watching when we left.

Damn it all.

Were there any other bodies?

No, just the judge.

Sheep herders are all scared now. They're bringing their sheep closer in

towns. I don't know what good that'll do.

They could drive those sheep right down the middle of the street and still sit

back and pick them off.

Do you think P's okay, Captain?

He didn't leave before I did.

I don't think McGar's boy followed P. I think he followed me.

I felt it all the way here, but I never could catch him at it. He's damn clever

to ambush Bean like that.

Bean's a tough old rooster, but he's caught his last call.

I'm much obliged to you, Sheriff, for staying with my horse.

It's my pleasure, Captain.

I appreciate it.

Let me go, Captain.

I'll ride night and day if I have to.

Well, that was not my objection, ma 'am.

Well, what is your objection, then, if you have one?

I'm just not sure I can protect you. That's it.

I'll let Joey Garza slip right by and kill Roy Bean. Then I'll let Box Box get

away. That's two poor performances in a row.

I'm just not sure I can protect you.

Did you hear me?

I heard you, Captain.

But I need to find my husband.

He's the one that needs protection.

There you go. to go alone if I don't take you.

Let's go get you a horse.

I'm going to

Kill an old gringo.

But I will come back for you and Rafael.

I will take you both far down the river to my cage.

And then I will throw you both on the grass.

A great bear will come along and he will eat you while you are still alive.

Brother likes teasing you.

He's not going to feed you to a bear.

Calmate, Teresa, calmate.

Calmate, calmate.

Shh.

Shh.

Calmate.

Ain't that current you's going to be upset when you tell him you used his

account books? start fires in Mexico?

Stop worrying about trying to carry.

Makes more sense just to worry about picking the worm.

Olin Roy is coming.

He was making a camp, but I told him we already had a camp.

I don't know. I used to know him.

Where's he been over here?

I don't know.

He weighs too much for his horse. I'll take him. Thank you.

Olin?

Weather's cold, ain't it?

Could be colder.

I've seen colder.

Been anyplace special?

Well, Pedro's Negros.

That's a rough town.

No, it ain't.

Of course, any town Wesley Hardin untattles his horse is rough.

He come in whoring.

What's the news from Down River?

Any news from Laredo?

Yeah, they put that damn Sheriff Jekyll in his own jail. I hope they hang that

rascal. Bob Jekyll's in our jail?

I'd say that's news.

Yeah, I guess some little gal came in asking about her husband.

He forced her.

A woman asking about her husband?

Call her name?

No.

I reckon I never heard her name.

Poor thing took rat poison and died.

They're trying to share for the murder. I doubt he'll hang.

It's my wife.

I feel it was her.

My wife.

My wife.

I feel it was her.

My wife.

Ted oughtn't to run his horse out in rough country like this. There's bluffs

down there by the river. A horse could ride off them.

Well, you know, that's two of us now.

First Katie and now the deputy's wife?

How far is it back?

Back where?

Back to where it's not like this.

People getting killed every day.

No houses, no streetcars.

Back to civilization!

Colding.

You was just a mean bandit, you old squint.

You should have been a cook. You like fire so much.

Old Carl was lucky.

Was it Garza?

No.

It was some vaqueros.

They were very poor.

Their horses had no shoes.

They probably wanted his guns, horse, saddle, and his clothes.

All his clothes?

Let's get him buried, then.

Isn't it far there?

You can call me Lorraine, Captain.

It wouldn't disturb you.

We've known each other long enough it wouldn't be rude.

It's just my rough habits, I guess. I expect I never really got quite

Do you see some horses off to the northwest?

Yeah, I see three.

Looks like they're grazing.

Didn't see them last night.

I think I'll ride out and check the brand.

Probably wandered off from some remuda.

We can return them on the way south.

I'll pack up and be ready when you get back.

I won't be long

You ought to go on.

P .I. is below the river.

When the real cots show you, you can make it in two days.

Adam, I can't ride off and leave you here to die.

If you die, I'll go.

But not until then.

It's foolish.

I could linger for a week.

I'd be obliged if you'd go.

Am I such a poor company?

You got family.

I don't.

I need to stop talking to myself.

Here.

Dillard. Dillard.

Dillard.

Pardon?

Dillard Brawley.

He's a barber over in Lonesome Dove.

Never used a barber in Lonesome Dove. I don't guess I ever met him.

Yeah, he got a centipede in his pants and ruined his leg.

Gus B. We had to cut his leg off or he'd have died of blood poisoning.

Was he in there with the horse voice?

He ruined his voice screaming when we took the leg off.

You're gonna have to do the same.

You're gonna have to take my leg off or I'll die.

Shoulder to the weight with the leg.

The leg is bad. You said there was a town where more than two days there'll

doctor there to tend to your leg. I'll never make it two days.

I'm in the same position Gus was in.

I ain't a ladies' man like Gus.

I got no women to lose.

If I do it, you might bleed to death.

I ain't done it yet.

If I have to live one -legged, I will. I won't live long enough to kill that

boy.

I'm better disappointed in you.

You don't think there's a better reason for living than killing a boy?

Killing's the only reason you think of living. You just might as well die.

I'm sick of it.

I'm sick of it, Captain.

You oughtn't to have taken my husband.

He's no killer.

You and Gus were the killers.

I love my Gus McRae, but not like I love my husband.

Our children love him and need him.

You ought to have taken him from us.

In regards to the boys I killed, he's killed a regiment of men. He ought to be

stopped. I don't care.

There's killers and killers and killers out there.

My husband's got nothing to do with it.

You ought to have let him be.

Look at me, Captain.

You remember what I was, huh?

I was a whore.

Two dollars is all I cost.

I don't know how many men bought me.

I expect if you brought them all here, they'd about fill this desert.

I expect they'd nearly make an army.

Do you remember that I was a whore captain?

But I'm not a whore now.

I'm a married woman.

I'm a mother.

I teach school.

I didn't stay what I was, Captain.

Can you understand that?

I didn't stay what I was.

Clara Allen cared for me.

And she showed me a better way.

I'll cut your leg off.

I'll cut it off now.

If you die, you were killed by a killer like yourself.

But if you live, you won't stay a killer.

I didn't stay a whore.

There's a... There's a whetstone in my saddlebags.

You're gonna have to take a knife and hit it on a rock.

Hit it hard.

You got to nick it a little so it'll saw.

Stick a knife in the fire.

You're going to have to cut bone.

I'll do my best, Kathy.

I'm scared.

I'm going to have to do this.

If I die, it'll be the bullet to kill me, not the knife.

Cut.

Cut down where the...

Bone's been shattered.

Might make it easier.

Thank you.

Gus and me didn't have too much luck when it come to legs.

You know, Gus, he wanted me to take him back to Texas.

You know, I had the herd to settle and winter was coming on.

So I packed him away for the winter.

You know, I thought I'd done it nice so he'd keep.

I packed a leg long with the rest of him, but... I thought I'd done a good

The damn doctor left the door open to his shed, and the varmint got in and

knocked the casket off.

Whatever it was, he run off with his leg. I... I expected

it was a wolverine.

Gus would have laughed at that story.

Gus. Gus laughed at everything.

It's a gift I often wished I had.

Me too.

I assume it appeals to women, the theme to it, in Gus's case.

It's nice, but it has its limits.

My husband wouldn't know a joke if it walked up and slapped him in the face.

But I still put him above all the men.

He loyal be.

I fought with him and men in engagement.

He never shirked.

We've got a sick man.

Can somebody help us?

We take him in.

Cut his leg off. I did.

Either that or let him die.

Oh, my, it's the man who was here before.

The man who's a king.

He's not a king now.

Put him by the fire so I can look at his wound.

No, that bullet's too close to the heart.

It ain't going anywhere from that.

You can't run from there.

No, there's no doctor here.

That doc will cross the river in Presidio.

Best we got here is a butcher.

Gordo cannot do it.

He'll kill him.

Who shot this man?

Captain Call thinks it was Joey Garza, though.

Do you know Joey Garza?

He's my son.

I'm Joey's mother.

But I'm not like him.

You go and rest.

No. Do not worry. I'll take care of your friend.

If I had meant to kill him, I'll never let him into my house.

Teresa, take her to my bed.

No, no. Do not worry.

Go and rest.

Do you have any children?

No, I have five.

Do you tell them stories?

Yes, I tell them.

I will tell you a story about old Spider -Woman.

Then you can tell it to your children when you go home.

That's nice.

I'd love to hear your story.

By that woman, she's beneath a rock, near the deep part of the river,

ensuing.

You recognize the Garza boy?

I have no idea who it might be. It might be those Beccaros that killed Ted

Plunkett.

It was plain old bandits.

They just rode in slaughtered as they wouldn't have shot the horses either.

Well, then it's him.

We're done for.

Why didn't he just shoot us? He killed all the animals. It don't make sense.

Nothing makes any sense.

This whole trip hasn't made any sense.

Captain Otto caught this boy by now. He's taking too much time.

Where is he?

He must have run into trouble.

What that means is the captain won't be coming because he's dead.

Which means that we're going to be dead, too, just as soon as this boy feels

like finishing us off. The captain won't be coming.

No, he's always come before.

We just hold up for a couple days.

We'll sneak back into camp tonight and get some grub.

That boy hit what he was aiming at.

The question is, why wasn't he aiming at us?

Nothing that happens out here makes any sense.

It's all just killing.

Captain's always come before.

I reckon he'll come this time.

I just hope we're not dead when he gets here.

Where'd the Indian go?

He's hiding, I expect.

Think he'll turn up?

He wouldn't just run off and leave us.

Hey, he was...

He wants my wife to teach him how to read.

Hey, why don't we hike down the river?

We can't get lost if we're in the river.

We might flush us out. I got a feeling he wants us to run, although I don't

why he does.

The scoundrel took it all.

I'll say he did.

He didn't even leave us a pot.

Nothing to cook in it if he had.

Way to cook it. You're the pipe smoker. Didn't you even keep a match?

No, I haven't fired up yet.

Well, we've eaten raw horse meat before.

We've got to head down river.

Famous shoes will catch up with us eventually.

No. No, let him come and kill us.

He's going to anyway.

He knows right where we are. He's got our food, our ammunition.

He's just playing with us now. He can kill us any time he wants to, and he

it.

I have spent nothing but cold nights since I got to Texas, and I'm damned if

going to spend another cold night squatting on my heels just to get shot

morning. He could just shoot me now and spare me the shivering. Mr.

Brooks, don't give up.

Don't give up.

We might beat him yet.

Captain could come back and scare him off.

What if he's already killed, Captain?

Huh? I expect he has. Myself?

Captain's already four days late. You said yourself he's never late. No, no,

We go back to the creek, Pat. We just give it one more night. We go back. He

might let us go. Pat.

Of shivering.

And I'll tell Joey Garza that, too, if I see him.

I'll tell Colonel Terry something, too, if I ever make it back to the office

alive. Joey Garza can rob all the trains he wants to, but Ned Brookshire is

resigning.

I'll be damned if I'm going to wander around Mexico any longer free.

No, Mr. Brookshire.

Don't give up. Just give it one more night.

There's two of us. We stand a better chance of sticking together.

Well, I appreciate this a lot, but I have waited.

I've waited.

And now I'm going.

Killer or no killer.

I expect I can get down the river as well as the net, man.

If I don't get through, all I ask is that you send my love to my sister.

I don't know your sister, Mr. Bookshaw.

I wouldn't know how to get her, too.

Her name is Matilda Morris.

She lives in Avon, Connecticut.

Just tell her that I regret that I didn't have time to write before I left,

Colonel Terry wanted me on that next train.

Okay.

Well, at least I've seen your face.

Haven't you got any more lanterns?

No.

Well, if he doesn't bleed any more out of that leg, I reckon it's going to

But that bullet in his chest, I can't get in that close to his heart.

So that bullet's going to have to stay right where it is.

Will he live, Doctor?

Well, he's lived this long. I reckon he'll go on living.

And if he does die, at least he killed a man -burner first.

Did Captain Call kill Mark Mark?

Yep. Old Wesley Hardin seen the corpse himself.

You didn't hear about that?

No.

And I don't think the captain did either. He told me he hit him, but he

know the man died.

We don't get much news over here in Mexico.

There could be a war going on that we wouldn't know about.

Yeah, well, Mox Mox is dead.

Now you keep them bandages fresh, you hear?

And make sure they're clean.

Comprende?

Mama, I want to give him some frijoles.

To whom? To your goat?

No, dear Capitano. I want to feed him when he wakes up.

He's lost a lot of blood.

I wonder why a man would want to burn people up like that.

We'll have to tell the cat when he comes to.

He'll want to know.

Might help him get better.

Let's just hope he wakes up.

Brooks your dad?

Yes.

Joey shot him.

When did you come to kill me then?

He says if you'll give him your boots, he will let you go.

He doesn't think you will follow him without your boots.

Why didn't he shoot you?

I'm too old to waste bullets on.

Captain Carl is in Onhinaga, where Joey shot his leg off.

He thinks the captain will die.

It was your woman who brought the captain to Mexico.

Lorena.

You know Inaga? You sure?

Joey saw her. She has blonde hair.

It is your woman.

She cut the captain's leg off and then brought him to Onaga.

Sorry.

Joey wants me to bring him your boots.

Where is he?

He's by the concho.

If you go towards the village, I think he will kill you.

If you go the other way, he might let you go.

Where can I go where my wife is?

I never should have left my family. I never should have left them.

I've been captain enough for nobody.

If I get out of this, I'll make it up to them. I'll never leave them again.

Can I borrow your knife?

Joey took mine.

I want to cut myself some horse meat so I will have some food.

That big shotgun, don't restructure you.

Did Joey take it?

No. He thought it was too ugly. He only took the man's watch.

It's still laying there then?

It's a knife.

It's a bowie knife.

It keeps a good edge. I'll give it to you.

I just want one favor in return.

What favor?

Take these boots.

Take them to Joey. Tell him I'm leaving.

When you pass the body, Mr. Brookshire, I want you to stop.

Just pause for a second.

Just pretend like you were looking at a track or something. I need to know about

where that big shotgun is. I figure it's my only chance.

I'll take the boots to Joey.

Are you sure your woman will teach me about tracts and books?

She'll teach you.

Then I will stop.

Take your boots.

You hit Joey pretty good. He won't need them.

I thought he was supposed to be a prank shot.

I blew him a turn tall.

I think I'll take this blanket. It's better than mine.

And this knife.

You can have yours back.

Let's go back to the river, fight out.

You don't have to hide.

I think you killed Joey.

Let's go down here and hide to make sure.

I will go get your woman and be back tomorrow.

I reckon I owe you my life, Mr. Brookshire.

I wish you was alive so I could thank you.

Thank you for bringing their shotgun.

I'd better kill another chicken.

Too many people to feed.

Mama, please do not kill my little hen.

Send to your patient, Teresa.

I'm not going to kill your hen. An Indian common.

He looks old, but he's not slow.

Why, it's famous shoes.

He might have some news about your husband.

Your man is alive.

He? He said you are a teacher.

That you will teach me how to read tracks and books when you have time.

He's alive?

Yes. He has horse meat.

He won't go hungry.

Do you think you would have time to teach me about tracks and books? Take me

my husband. I'll make time.

I'll gladly make time.

B .I.'s alive.

Why ain't he here?

Captain.

Joey shot him and broke his hip.

He's not bleeding much, but he cannot walk fast.

And what about my son?

P .I. shot Joey with the big shotgun.

Joey is hit in the back, but he rode away.

I don't know where he is, but I didn't follow his track.

If I take you to your husband, Joey might follow and kill both of us.

Oh, hell, I'll take you to him.

Just got to tell me where he is.

I'd be a lot more comfortable with your husband to kill Joey on the spot.

Maybe he died of his wounds.

No.

No, Joey ain't dead.

I wouldn't be this jumpy.

Joey's out there somewhere.

He's got that rifle.

You're the way you

And give me my knife.

Maria, Maria, please, Maria, please come quick. The baby's coming.

I'll be there in a minute.

Her labor has just begun. No, no, Maria, she's screaming. You must come now,

please, please.

I'll come now.

Rafael, Teresa, you must come with me.

No, Mama, I want to stay here with the old man.

You cannot stay with him.

Not now.

But why?

Because your brother might come, and I do not know what he may do.

I have to go and bring this baby into the world.

And you and Rafael must come with me, so you'll be safe.

But the old man might die while I am gone.

And you might die too, unless you do as I say. I do not want to be away from

Señor Cor too long.

He is my friend.

He was not a very good friend to your grandfather. Do not talk bad about Señor

Cor.

I like him.

You go on, Tessie.

You do what your mother tells you. I'll be all right till you get back.

Maria!

Maria, wait! I want to talk to you! Eduardo!

I have no time now!

Stay close, where I can hear the bell.

I will run away from him. You'll run away from him if he doesn't cut you

Just stay close when I hear the bell.

She's dying. She's dying. Please help her.

Beautiful baby.

Look what you see.

Pea.

Pea, honey.

Pea.

Pea, honey.

Laurie.

Laurie, you found me.

His friend, he'd come all this way.

Well, why wouldn't he?

We're married anyway.

I couldn't be without you, baby.

Neither could the children.

Please, will you help me?

There won't be no more of this fighting.

I'm done with it.

Captain, we have to find somebody else to do it now.

You're not dead yet, old man?

I could kill you with your own gun.

But that would be doing you a favor.

It's a good boy.

I love the way he wiggles.

He's going to give you much trouble.

How do I hold him?

Give him to the old sisters.

What has happened?

Did he come?

I couldn't do anything.

Do anything.

Teresa, do not be afraid, my girl.

Joey's dead.

Now you and Rafael are safe.

Billy will come and take good care of us.

The old sisters will stay until he comes.

My good boy again.

Teresa, wash him.

Make him nice.

No, no, no.

Maria, they think he is the devil.

If they touch him, they will go to hell.

Then get out.

I'll wash him myself.

Teresa,

bring me water.

Mama, you're bleeding. I can feel it. Maria, you're hurt.

Maria.

He's my son.

I want to put clean clothes on him.

I must do it now.

That's all that people do.

What's happened?

You're dying, aren't you?

Billy.

Billy. Billy.

Go and get drunk.

Oh, Billy.

Billy.

Go on.

Obey me.

Didn't I always?

Billy? Yeah?

Yeah?

Don't forget my children.

Talk to them about me when you are with them.

Tell them your memories.

Tell them how I danced and laughed when I was young and pretty.

You're still young and pretty.

Now go.

Go and get drunk.

I've got my husband back I expect we can take care of all the children that come

along

Mama.

Mama.

Mama.

There's no more places left in this house to lay sick or dead, folks. I'll

you that.

She's gone, Todd.

Our picture taken with Joey before you bury him.

That's right.

We shall kill him. Go away, you scroungy buzzards!

Let go!

is just a boy.

Clary's bigger than he was.

There ought to be singing.

Well, if you start, I guess I could join in.

Do you know when they ring the golden bells?

I could piece it together, I think.

There's a land beyond the river That we call

the sweet forever And we only reach that

shore by faith's decree One by one

we'll gain the port

with thee, O Lord of all.

Amen.

One thing.

What if one of our boys goes bad?

What? What if one of our boys goes bad like Joey?

Oh, they won't.

Why not?

Well, because they've got to keep their mom and their pa.

Who'll keep them in line?

Maria was a good woman.

Her other children are nice.

But Joey went bad.

I could live without a charcoal bed.

I need to walk.

I need to walk.

And then what happened?

She chased that bear right into the river.

A river. Yeah, a big old river.

She scared him.

A river.

Could you spare me some liquor, gentlemen? I'm feeling kind of chill.

Here, ma 'am, this one ain't been slobbered on too much.

I don't mean to impose. You don't need to choke off your conversation just for

me. Oh, we wasn't saying much anyway.

We just chatting about Mary.

What was she like? I didn't have time to get to know her very well.

She's married four times.

Four times.

Three got killed.

The other in a runoff.

I don't care for any of them myself.

Hell, if Mary took him as husband, not me.

Then Joey went bad.

Was she ever happy?

Yeah.

Yeah.

We used to dance a lot.

Did you love her?

She wouldn't have me, you know.

You got along anyway.

Were any of her husbands good to her?

Yeah.

She had her children.

She's real good to her children.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Famous shoes.

Where are you going?

To the Sierra Madre.

I want to watch the Eagles.

Billy gave me the great eye.

When you get tired of watching them come to our house, I'll teach you to read.

Yes, Parker.

You're going to be kind to live with us, Captain.

You're going to have to call me Laurie now.

Or Lorena, if you prefer.

Yes, ma 'am.

Can you call?

Over here, Tessie.

My gut is sick. Oh, here, here, here. My gut is sick.

Oh, let me see. I'm breathing.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Here's the trouble.

I expect it's snake bit.

Your little goat, imagine stepped in a hole and an old snake bit it.

Will he die, senor?

Expect he will, Tessie.

He's small.

If he dies, I hope he will see my mother.

She is with the dead.

She will take care of my goat.

I expect she will.

Her mother eaten by the reaver.

He will never find her.

Senor, call.

What, Tessie?

I don't understand what he did, babe.

I don't understand that too well, myself.

I dream about my mother.

I dream that she is with me and my rooster.

When we go away can we take my rooster?

Yeah, we can take you rooster

Benjamin, he's crying.

Hello,

Woodrow.

Can I give you a hand?

Well, it's a nice small, but it'll make a good little home to captain.

Give me a meal.

I'd rather see the captain at ease than anyone.

Tessie kept him alive.

He'd have given it up if it hadn't been for her, I think.

Ma, I wish you wasn't so sad.

It makes me sad to look at him.

Well, I guess this old axe will cut for a while.

Tessie, do you think you could reach over here in my pocket to one I don't

too good and see if you can find my little knife?

There you go.

Now you take it. It's for you.

For being my help.

I didn't do much.

You helped plenty.

I spent my knife for over 30 years. I want you to have it.

Thank you, senor.

What will I do with it?

Well... You might need to cut a string.

Captain and great Texas Ranger once, Mr. Goodnight.

I've always heard he was the greatest Ranger of all.

Yes, he had exceptional determination.

Well, but now, look, what's he doing?

Sharpening spades on a darn farm.

Woodrow Call had his time.

It was a long time, too.

Life's but a knife edge, anyway.

Sooner or later, a man slips and gets cut.

You ain't slipped, sir.

How would you know, son?

Miss

Parker,

I got a question.

I've heard tell there's school for the blind.

I wonder if you know anything about them.

Well, they're fine in St. Louis.

Well, I got a little money to save, and if Tessie could get her education, I'd

like to help.

I believe she's bright.

Yeah, she's bright.

She needs her education.

Of course, if she went away, we'll all miss her.

Yes, we'd miss her.

I expect it's the right thing.

Yeah.

It's the right thing.

You're a schoolteacher. I was hoping you could advise me. Do you think we should

send her now or maybe wait one more year?

Let's wait one more year, Captain.

Let's wait one more year.

I expect that's bad.

All the people are paying the fiddler toughness.

Then he takes, he and his wife are taking the money and off they go.

Looks like the captain's finally formed an attachment.

To a female, is that?

Like I do.

Well, not quite, honey.

Dancers, fiddlers just playing away.

They're all dancing.

And that looks like some sort of a pole there. I guess that's what they call a

maypole, I think.

I don't know what that is, but they're all giving them their tuppence, and then

they went away.