1 00:00:16,083 --> 00:00:18,116 Jeb! Jeb! 2 00:00:19,220 --> 00:00:20,985 Jeb! 3 00:00:21,054 --> 00:00:22,554 Jeb! 4 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,201 I got the lay of it just the way you told me, Jeb. 5 00:00:36,270 --> 00:00:38,415 It's good forage land, as far as you can see. 6 00:00:38,439 --> 00:00:41,006 With a clear pass through to the Sierras off to the left. 7 00:00:41,074 --> 00:00:44,442 Looks like our luck is running for a change, Billy Boy. 8 00:00:44,511 --> 00:00:47,512 Desert south, nothing but rock and bramble north. 9 00:00:47,581 --> 00:00:49,447 And right in front of us it's opening up 10 00:00:49,516 --> 00:00:51,850 like the Red Sea into the land of milk and honey. 11 00:00:51,919 --> 00:00:53,218 Right in front of us. 12 00:00:53,287 --> 00:00:54,953 That's the Ponderosa, Jeb. 13 00:00:55,022 --> 00:00:56,955 We can't cut through there. 14 00:00:57,024 --> 00:00:58,423 You don't understand, Jeb, 15 00:00:58,491 --> 00:01:00,792 that's Cartwright land far as your eye can see. 16 00:01:00,861 --> 00:01:03,039 You mean they own all that? 17 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:04,362 Own?! 18 00:01:04,431 --> 00:01:05,596 A man don't own nothing 19 00:01:05,665 --> 00:01:07,866 unless he's willing to die holding onto it. 20 00:01:07,935 --> 00:01:09,267 I worked out this way. 21 00:01:09,336 --> 00:01:10,635 I know Ben Cartwright. 22 00:01:10,704 --> 00:01:12,315 Why, he'd kill every last one of us 23 00:01:12,339 --> 00:01:14,773 before he'd let a sheep set foot on the Ponderosa. 24 00:01:14,841 --> 00:01:17,943 Start bringing up that flock. 25 00:01:18,012 --> 00:01:19,043 Now! 26 00:01:19,112 --> 00:01:21,680 I come a long ways with you, Jeb, 27 00:01:21,749 --> 00:01:25,083 but I ain't riding against Ben Cartwright for you or nobody. 28 00:01:25,152 --> 00:01:27,885 Start bringing up them sheep, Burton. 29 00:01:29,523 --> 00:01:31,256 I'm pulling out, Jeb. 30 00:01:31,325 --> 00:01:33,791 And you ain't got nothing to say can stop me. 31 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:37,262 Don't appear there's much I can do to stop you, either. 32 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:41,967 No hard feelings, Jeb. 33 00:01:42,036 --> 00:01:45,103 But I just ain't gonna ride against Ben Cartwright. 34 00:01:45,172 --> 00:01:47,072 That's all. 35 00:01:53,580 --> 00:01:56,140 All right, you two, get them sheep moving. 36 00:01:59,319 --> 00:02:00,519 Leave him, Billy. 37 00:02:00,587 --> 00:02:01,853 He's past fussing. 38 00:02:01,922 --> 00:02:04,655 You got to learn to kill a man once you draw on him. 39 00:02:04,724 --> 00:02:08,093 But I shared second plates with him, Jeb. 40 00:02:08,162 --> 00:02:10,762 Just a few hours ago. 41 00:02:10,831 --> 00:02:13,398 Once a thing is dead, you gotta get clear of it. 42 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:15,901 The scruffiest hole squirrel knows that. 43 00:02:15,969 --> 00:02:17,213 Sure, Jeb. 44 00:02:17,237 --> 00:02:20,005 You, uh, you're lettered, ain't you, boy? 45 00:02:20,073 --> 00:02:22,418 Yes, sir. I spell out some. 46 00:02:22,442 --> 00:02:24,409 All right. 47 00:02:24,477 --> 00:02:27,111 You read that to me, boy. 48 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:30,315 "And Moses went up from the plains 49 00:02:30,383 --> 00:02:33,351 and the Lord showed him all of the land." 50 00:02:33,420 --> 00:02:37,688 I been near 40 years myself just like Moses. 51 00:02:37,757 --> 00:02:40,859 But the Lord has finally showed me my land. 52 00:02:40,927 --> 00:02:43,728 And I'm gonna take it to myself 53 00:02:43,797 --> 00:02:47,298 if I have to kill everything on it and burn it to the root. 54 00:03:41,922 --> 00:03:44,589 Ought to be an easier way to make a living than this. 55 00:03:44,658 --> 00:03:47,058 Yeah, there is. 56 00:03:47,127 --> 00:03:48,938 You know how, don't you? No. 57 00:03:48,962 --> 00:03:50,262 Marry a rich gal. 58 00:03:53,534 --> 00:03:56,234 Little Joe, you reckon how long it's gonna take us 59 00:03:56,303 --> 00:03:59,771 to clear out all this stuff out of this drain ditch? 60 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,117 I figure, at the rate we're going, 61 00:04:01,141 --> 00:04:03,653 it'll, uh, take us about five or six years. 62 00:04:03,677 --> 00:04:05,811 Yeah. 63 00:04:05,879 --> 00:04:07,045 Hiya, Pa. 64 00:04:07,113 --> 00:04:09,814 Well... And I ask, you ever see 65 00:04:09,883 --> 00:04:11,394 such a pair of working fools? 66 00:04:11,418 --> 00:04:13,851 Adam, I wish some of that would rub off on you. 67 00:04:15,088 --> 00:04:16,666 Well now, Pa, the way I look at it, 68 00:04:16,690 --> 00:04:18,568 if man expects to get ahead in this world, 69 00:04:18,592 --> 00:04:20,436 he's gotta use his brain instead of his back. 70 00:04:20,460 --> 00:04:22,093 Adam, with a place like the Ponderosa, 71 00:04:22,162 --> 00:04:23,461 a man has to be able to use both. 72 00:04:23,530 --> 00:04:25,130 Now, come on, let's give the boys a hand. 73 00:04:30,504 --> 00:04:32,170 Who'd be over there? 74 00:04:32,239 --> 00:04:33,449 Must be Tucker. 75 00:04:33,473 --> 00:04:34,773 I put him out hunting strays. 76 00:04:34,842 --> 00:04:36,541 That don't sound like strays. 77 00:04:36,610 --> 00:04:38,876 Strays, all right, but the two-legged kind. 78 00:04:41,248 --> 00:04:42,881 Hyah! Hyah! 79 00:04:52,159 --> 00:04:53,858 That was just a warning. 80 00:04:53,927 --> 00:04:55,367 Where do you men think you're headed? 81 00:04:55,428 --> 00:04:57,696 Why, we're aiming to cross the Sierra. 82 00:04:57,765 --> 00:04:59,442 Well, you better find another way. 83 00:04:59,466 --> 00:05:00,976 Nobody goes through the Ponderosa. 84 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,634 That's Ben Cartwright's orders. 85 00:05:02,702 --> 00:05:05,703 You figuring to stop us all with that gun? 86 00:05:05,772 --> 00:05:07,271 Maybe not all of you, 87 00:05:07,341 --> 00:05:09,781 but I'll drop the first man that tries to come through here. 88 00:05:11,211 --> 00:05:13,811 How much is Cartwright paying you, Mister? 89 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:15,313 What's that to you? 90 00:05:15,382 --> 00:05:18,149 Is it enough for a man to get himself killed for? 91 00:05:18,218 --> 00:05:20,385 Look, we're coming through. 92 00:05:20,454 --> 00:05:22,787 Now, you can shoot me if you've a mind to, 93 00:05:22,856 --> 00:05:24,467 but as soon as you pull that trigger, 94 00:05:24,491 --> 00:05:27,051 you're the same as a dead man. 95 00:05:28,227 --> 00:05:31,429 All right, bring 'em through! 96 00:05:31,498 --> 00:05:33,298 And you better get out of the way, mister, 97 00:05:33,367 --> 00:05:34,833 before you get yourself trampled. 98 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:50,147 I warned them, Ben. I give them clear warning. 99 00:05:50,216 --> 00:05:52,550 Nobody expects any more, Sam. 100 00:05:52,619 --> 00:05:55,320 You've been told you're on Ponderosa land. 101 00:05:55,389 --> 00:05:57,133 I'd be obliged if you turn the tails 102 00:05:57,157 --> 00:05:58,567 of those sheep and got them off. 103 00:05:58,591 --> 00:06:01,092 Are you, uh, Ben Cartwright? 104 00:06:01,161 --> 00:06:04,096 Drummond, Jeb Drummond is my name. 105 00:06:04,164 --> 00:06:05,797 We ain't bringing no trouble. 106 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:07,186 We're just looking to pass through 107 00:06:07,234 --> 00:06:08,333 on the way to California. 108 00:06:08,401 --> 00:06:09,434 No more than that. 109 00:06:09,503 --> 00:06:11,302 Mr. Drummond, I'm sorry. 110 00:06:11,371 --> 00:06:13,883 I can't let you take those sheep across the Ponderosa. 111 00:06:13,907 --> 00:06:16,408 You mean you got all this here 112 00:06:16,476 --> 00:06:18,710 and you ain't willing for us just to cut through? 113 00:06:18,779 --> 00:06:20,545 That's what I mean. 114 00:06:20,614 --> 00:06:24,416 Why, you got enough land here to parcel out a state of your own 115 00:06:24,485 --> 00:06:27,052 and you're sitting fat right on top of it, ain't you? 116 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,221 Let me ask you a question, Mr. Cartwright. 117 00:06:30,290 --> 00:06:33,191 What more right have you got to this land than me? 118 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:34,793 It's mine. 119 00:06:34,861 --> 00:06:36,194 That's right enough. 120 00:06:36,263 --> 00:06:38,296 Every inch of this land is deeded in our name 121 00:06:38,364 --> 00:06:40,076 if that's what's bothering you, Mr. Drummond. 122 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:42,434 Oh, a deed, huh? 123 00:06:42,503 --> 00:06:46,204 Why, a deed is only a piece of paper. 124 00:06:46,273 --> 00:06:49,874 Looks to me like all they got is some scribbling on paper. 125 00:06:49,943 --> 00:06:52,121 It's what backs up the scribbling, Mr. Drummond, 126 00:06:52,145 --> 00:06:53,425 that's what counts. 127 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,514 How many of them you count, Billy? 128 00:07:01,054 --> 00:07:04,455 Five, Jeb, just five. 129 00:07:07,694 --> 00:07:09,427 Less than we got. 130 00:07:19,906 --> 00:07:23,508 Well, there's, uh, no cause to draw down. 131 00:07:23,577 --> 00:07:25,676 I was just, uh, just resting. 132 00:07:25,745 --> 00:07:28,413 Look, I'm, uh, I'm only trying 133 00:07:28,481 --> 00:07:30,126 to get passage through to California. 134 00:07:30,150 --> 00:07:31,983 And I aim to pay for it, too. 135 00:07:32,052 --> 00:07:34,920 Drummond, I don't want any of your money. 136 00:07:34,988 --> 00:07:39,991 Well, uh, it's getting on near to dark. 137 00:07:40,060 --> 00:07:42,994 You wouldn't mind if we was to camp here for the night? 138 00:07:43,063 --> 00:07:46,464 Well, all right. 139 00:07:46,533 --> 00:07:49,634 But you make sure you're gone by tomorrow morning. 140 00:07:49,702 --> 00:07:50,982 That understood? 141 00:07:51,037 --> 00:07:53,638 You won't find us here. 142 00:07:53,707 --> 00:07:54,973 I promise you that. 143 00:08:03,216 --> 00:08:08,553 Yes, sir, you can count on it, Mr. Cartwright. 144 00:08:08,622 --> 00:08:11,656 You won't find us here. 145 00:08:20,267 --> 00:08:21,699 Here you are, Billy. 146 00:08:21,768 --> 00:08:24,335 I saved you a chaw piece without no gristle. 147 00:08:24,404 --> 00:08:25,970 Well, that's out of your helping, Jeb. 148 00:08:26,038 --> 00:08:27,318 You best keep that for yourself. 149 00:08:27,374 --> 00:08:29,685 Oh, I had my fill for tonight, boy. 150 00:08:29,709 --> 00:08:31,976 You take it. Thank you, Jeb. 151 00:08:32,045 --> 00:08:35,380 You know, you could still use fattening up. 152 00:08:35,448 --> 00:08:38,008 If you was one of my sheep, rib scrawny like you are, 153 00:08:38,051 --> 00:08:40,985 I'd have sold you off for hoof glue before now. 154 00:08:42,289 --> 00:08:44,433 You did fatten up some though. 155 00:08:44,457 --> 00:08:46,903 When I first come on you and them wranglers was fixing 156 00:08:46,927 --> 00:08:48,670 to string you up, well, you didn't look like 157 00:08:48,694 --> 00:08:49,905 no more than a fence post. 158 00:08:49,929 --> 00:08:53,765 You been mighty good to me, Jeb. 159 00:08:53,834 --> 00:08:56,367 I appreciate everything you done. 160 00:08:56,436 --> 00:08:58,870 I only hope I can pay it back some time. 161 00:08:58,939 --> 00:09:02,373 There'll be a time come, boy. 162 00:09:02,442 --> 00:09:04,776 There's always a time. 163 00:09:04,845 --> 00:09:08,379 Well, you better get yourself some sleep before morning. 164 00:09:08,448 --> 00:09:09,781 What are we doing, Jeb? 165 00:09:09,850 --> 00:09:11,082 Going back? 166 00:09:11,151 --> 00:09:13,784 Well, I don't know yet. 167 00:09:13,853 --> 00:09:15,753 I got to think on it. 168 00:09:15,822 --> 00:09:17,366 You see, the way I figured it, 169 00:09:17,390 --> 00:09:20,558 we'd have made California just about spring market time. 170 00:09:20,627 --> 00:09:23,261 That flock would've been fat and woolly. 171 00:09:23,330 --> 00:09:25,140 Would've gotten a sight of cash for them. 172 00:09:25,164 --> 00:09:29,100 But... I don't know. 173 00:09:31,371 --> 00:09:34,405 Oh, uh, I got another blanket for you, boy. 174 00:09:37,444 --> 00:09:39,777 That's Burton's, isn't it? 175 00:09:39,846 --> 00:09:42,246 What difference does it make? 176 00:09:42,315 --> 00:09:44,449 Ain't no good to him buried. 177 00:09:44,518 --> 00:09:46,584 I-I was just asking. 178 00:09:46,653 --> 00:09:49,587 Good night, Billy. 179 00:09:51,324 --> 00:09:53,591 Good night, Jeb. 180 00:09:57,363 --> 00:10:00,197 Ooh! Dad-burnit, Little Joe, cut it, don't pull it. 181 00:10:00,266 --> 00:10:01,677 We wouldn't be having all this trouble 182 00:10:01,701 --> 00:10:03,501 if you hadn't gone and lost that chili bowl 183 00:10:03,570 --> 00:10:05,570 I always fit on your head. Just take it easy. 184 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:07,216 It's getting thin enough up there like it is. 185 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,173 Keep your head still. 186 00:10:09,242 --> 00:10:11,476 Are you still putting that salad oil on your hair? 187 00:10:11,545 --> 00:10:13,311 Hog lard. Oh. 188 00:10:13,379 --> 00:10:14,791 Don't know what you're so worried about. 189 00:10:14,815 --> 00:10:16,659 You ain't gonna look any different when I get done, anyway. 190 00:10:16,683 --> 00:10:18,349 Yeah, but I'll feel different. 191 00:10:22,722 --> 00:10:23,822 What's the matter? 192 00:10:23,890 --> 00:10:26,758 He's doing a good job, ain't he? 193 00:10:26,827 --> 00:10:29,293 Fine. Yeah. 194 00:10:29,362 --> 00:10:31,696 Hey, let me see that mirror. 195 00:10:36,470 --> 00:10:38,969 Pa, I got an idea. 196 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:40,405 Ah, about what, Adam? 197 00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:41,753 Well, I've been thinking. 198 00:10:41,807 --> 00:10:43,085 The way the country's growing, 199 00:10:43,109 --> 00:10:46,577 more people coming west, California, 200 00:10:46,646 --> 00:10:48,246 we could cut a road across 201 00:10:48,314 --> 00:10:50,874 the north section of the Ponderosa. 202 00:10:51,551 --> 00:10:53,718 Not a bad idea. 203 00:10:53,787 --> 00:10:55,219 I'll give it some thought. 204 00:10:55,288 --> 00:10:58,622 Well, I'd, uh, like to start on it, Pa. 205 00:10:58,691 --> 00:11:02,126 Well, Adam, I said I'd give it some thought. 206 00:11:02,195 --> 00:11:03,673 Oh, by the way, tomorrow morning 207 00:11:03,697 --> 00:11:05,129 I want you to ride out 208 00:11:05,198 --> 00:11:07,632 and see if Drummond and those sheep of his have cleared out. 209 00:11:07,701 --> 00:11:09,133 What if he hasn't? 210 00:11:09,202 --> 00:11:11,636 Then we'll make sure he's cleared out. 211 00:11:11,705 --> 00:11:14,705 But why do we have to take the law into our own hands? 212 00:11:14,774 --> 00:11:18,443 Now, we're not taking any law into our own hands. 213 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:20,244 What do you want me to do? 214 00:11:20,313 --> 00:11:23,581 Open up the Ponderosa to every scavenger that comes along? 215 00:11:23,650 --> 00:11:26,718 Drummond's kind turns the land to dust and then just moves on. 216 00:11:26,786 --> 00:11:29,253 Look, Pa, I'm not saying let Drummond in. 217 00:11:29,322 --> 00:11:31,099 But there's gonna be people after him. 218 00:11:31,123 --> 00:11:32,957 Farmers, traders, homesteaders. 219 00:11:33,025 --> 00:11:35,426 What are you going to do? Take a gun to them, too? 220 00:11:35,495 --> 00:11:37,828 Now, you know that isn't so, Adam. 221 00:11:37,897 --> 00:11:40,197 But I will take a gun to Drummond's kind. 222 00:11:40,266 --> 00:11:42,700 He'll grab anything he can get his hands on. 223 00:11:42,769 --> 00:11:45,703 Tomorrow morning, you go out there and see that he's gone. 224 00:11:45,772 --> 00:11:47,038 That understood? 225 00:11:47,107 --> 00:11:50,575 Yeah, all right, Pa, anything you say. 226 00:11:58,151 --> 00:12:00,151 Come on, roll out! 227 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:03,420 Come on, hustle it up. 228 00:12:03,489 --> 00:12:05,723 Come on, we gotta be making tracks. 229 00:12:05,792 --> 00:12:07,069 Want me to get the flock 230 00:12:07,093 --> 00:12:08,303 shifted around and headed out, Jeb? 231 00:12:08,327 --> 00:12:10,172 I'll lead out the bell sheep if you want. 232 00:12:10,196 --> 00:12:12,797 I ain't taking them out. You ain't? 233 00:12:12,865 --> 00:12:16,000 You mean we're not crossing the Cartwright land? 234 00:12:16,069 --> 00:12:17,735 Oh, we're crossing all right. 235 00:12:17,804 --> 00:12:21,639 But I been thinking maybe we won't cross all the way. 236 00:12:21,708 --> 00:12:24,441 You heard what Ben Cartwright said. 237 00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:26,878 Cartwright! 238 00:12:26,947 --> 00:12:29,747 I'm through being shoved and hauled by his like. 239 00:12:29,816 --> 00:12:31,282 A man takes something, it's his. 240 00:12:31,351 --> 00:12:33,651 You gotta start learning that, Billy Boy. 241 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,553 Yes, sir, but ain't we taking on a peck of trouble? 242 00:12:36,622 --> 00:12:38,656 Trouble? 243 00:12:38,724 --> 00:12:40,891 I'm an old man now, 244 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,361 but I once had me a flock of sheep 245 00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:45,896 was like looking across a big white sea. 246 00:12:45,965 --> 00:12:48,499 I run 'em from the Snake River in the north 247 00:12:48,568 --> 00:12:50,100 to the Mexican border and back. 248 00:12:50,169 --> 00:12:52,236 Then the cattle come. 249 00:12:52,305 --> 00:12:55,139 Then the farmers plowing up the earth. Hmm. 250 00:12:55,208 --> 00:12:58,076 I been pushed so hard, Billy, 251 00:12:58,145 --> 00:13:01,646 there ain't hardly a corner I can squeeze myself into. 252 00:13:01,714 --> 00:13:04,149 But I'm through being pushed now. 253 00:13:05,886 --> 00:13:07,652 All right, hurry it up, you men! 254 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:08,998 And get that chuck wagon loaded. 255 00:13:09,022 --> 00:13:11,122 Them Cartwrights'll be 256 00:13:11,191 --> 00:13:13,324 after us before it gets much lighter. 257 00:13:13,392 --> 00:13:18,028 Billy, you take them two and hang back to ride guard. 258 00:13:18,097 --> 00:13:20,898 And if them Cartwrights come tailing us, you let me know. 259 00:13:20,967 --> 00:13:22,767 All right, Jeb. And, Billy... 260 00:13:22,835 --> 00:13:25,836 you make sure you stop whichever one of 'em it is. 261 00:13:26,939 --> 00:13:28,873 You mean kill 'em, Jeb? 262 00:13:28,941 --> 00:13:30,174 Is that what you mean? 263 00:13:30,243 --> 00:13:31,342 That's right. 264 00:13:31,411 --> 00:13:32,955 And leave him out there like bait 265 00:13:32,979 --> 00:13:34,979 to stink a trail for the rest of 'em. 266 00:13:35,014 --> 00:13:37,481 I can't see doing that to 'em, Jeb. 267 00:13:37,551 --> 00:13:39,350 What they ever done to us? 268 00:13:39,419 --> 00:13:40,796 Why, them Cartwrights would kill us 269 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:42,860 if they got the chance, every one of us. 270 00:13:42,888 --> 00:13:45,089 You know that, Billy boy. 271 00:13:45,158 --> 00:13:47,825 Now don't you shed no tears over them Cartwrights. 272 00:13:47,894 --> 00:13:50,661 They're the same kind as tried to string you up. 273 00:13:50,730 --> 00:13:54,465 Why, they got, and we ain't. 274 00:13:54,533 --> 00:13:57,068 And those that got ain't going to give it up 275 00:13:57,137 --> 00:13:59,170 unless you shake 'em until their britches pop. 276 00:13:59,239 --> 00:14:01,372 I'm telling you, Billy, they'd kill every one of us 277 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:02,540 if they got the chance. 278 00:14:02,609 --> 00:14:07,144 Only... they ain't gonna get the chance. 279 00:14:18,758 --> 00:14:22,160 This looks like about as good a spot as any to set up. 280 00:14:23,263 --> 00:14:25,196 Set up for what, Billy? 281 00:14:25,265 --> 00:14:27,142 You talking about an ambush? 282 00:14:27,166 --> 00:14:29,399 You just do like I say. 283 00:14:29,468 --> 00:14:32,737 I been riding with old Jeb for a long time now. 284 00:14:32,805 --> 00:14:34,383 I know the way he thinks. 285 00:14:34,407 --> 00:14:36,740 How do you mean, Collier? 286 00:14:38,511 --> 00:14:40,111 That old buzzard. 287 00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:43,114 He's thinking about killing himself some Cartwrights. 288 00:14:43,183 --> 00:14:45,483 Now, you know I'm right, Billy boy. 289 00:14:45,552 --> 00:14:49,220 You spot yourself up there. 290 00:14:49,289 --> 00:14:52,056 Collier, you head on down a ways. 291 00:15:19,485 --> 00:15:20,718 I'll tell you, Billy boy, 292 00:15:20,786 --> 00:15:23,454 I don't want to get mixed up in no range war. 293 00:15:23,523 --> 00:15:25,423 Not for what we're getting out of it. 294 00:15:25,492 --> 00:15:27,058 You just do like Jeb says. 295 00:15:27,127 --> 00:15:29,793 Well, can't we maybe scare 'em a little bit? 296 00:15:29,862 --> 00:15:31,229 The Cartwrights? 297 00:15:31,298 --> 00:15:33,631 That kind don't scare. 298 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:36,934 Maybe you feel like having Jeb flay the skin off you 299 00:15:37,003 --> 00:15:38,936 for not doing what he says. 300 00:15:39,005 --> 00:15:41,572 Jeb says shoot. 301 00:15:41,641 --> 00:15:43,975 Shoot to kill. 302 00:15:46,078 --> 00:15:50,047 Hey, Collier, what about all this? 303 00:15:50,116 --> 00:15:52,984 You mean about killing a Cartwright? 304 00:15:53,052 --> 00:15:55,653 I mean about getting strung up for Jeb Drummond. 305 00:15:55,721 --> 00:15:59,523 I don't plan to get strung up for Jeb Drummond or nobody! 306 00:15:59,592 --> 00:16:01,892 Come on, let's get out of here. 307 00:16:14,774 --> 00:16:16,173 All right, drop the gun. 308 00:16:34,227 --> 00:16:36,693 You win, mister. 309 00:16:36,762 --> 00:16:38,962 I... I lose again. 310 00:17:00,786 --> 00:17:04,188 Keep 'em bunched over to that side so they don't mill! 311 00:17:04,257 --> 00:17:06,390 And get them two moving there! 312 00:17:08,528 --> 00:17:10,161 We gonna make a new camp, Jeb? 313 00:17:10,229 --> 00:17:11,373 No, not here. 314 00:17:11,397 --> 00:17:13,097 It's too rocky. 315 00:17:13,166 --> 00:17:15,999 I'd like to get to that draw up ahead. 316 00:17:16,069 --> 00:17:18,335 No pasture up there, Jeb. 317 00:17:18,404 --> 00:17:20,571 That ain't no good for the sheep. 318 00:17:20,639 --> 00:17:22,651 No, not for the sheep, it ain't, 319 00:17:22,675 --> 00:17:25,154 but for what I got in mind, it's fine. 320 00:17:25,178 --> 00:17:28,178 Come on, get them sheep moving! 321 00:17:34,153 --> 00:17:35,964 Jeb! What? 322 00:17:35,988 --> 00:17:38,922 One of the Cartwrights come upon us, unexpected like. 323 00:17:38,991 --> 00:17:40,757 Well, did you kill him? 324 00:17:40,826 --> 00:17:42,426 No. He got Wheeler. 325 00:17:42,495 --> 00:17:44,340 There was nothing I could do about it, Jeb. 326 00:17:44,364 --> 00:17:45,963 He had position on me. 327 00:17:46,031 --> 00:17:49,871 He'd have finished me off, too, if I hadn't got clear. 328 00:17:50,536 --> 00:17:53,070 I give you a job, I mean to have it done right! 329 00:17:53,139 --> 00:17:55,973 Now, instead of the rest of them coming looking for him, 330 00:17:56,042 --> 00:17:58,909 he'll tail back and tell them which way we went. 331 00:18:00,213 --> 00:18:02,780 Well, maybe it's for the best. 332 00:18:02,848 --> 00:18:05,683 If we can get us to that draw ahead of them, 333 00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:07,829 might be they'd get a little surprise. 334 00:18:07,853 --> 00:18:10,120 Huh, Billy boy? 335 00:18:10,190 --> 00:18:12,601 All right, drive 'em! 336 00:18:12,625 --> 00:18:14,258 Hooeeeee! Run 'em!! 337 00:18:19,666 --> 00:18:21,744 I should have run that bushwhacker out 338 00:18:21,768 --> 00:18:23,100 for good last night. 339 00:18:23,169 --> 00:18:25,336 Want me to ride into town, tell the sheriff? 340 00:18:25,405 --> 00:18:26,771 I don't need any sheriff. 341 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:28,105 With that flock of sheep, 342 00:18:28,174 --> 00:18:30,018 he couldn't have gone more than a few miles. 343 00:18:30,042 --> 00:18:31,653 We can get rid of him before dark. 344 00:18:31,677 --> 00:18:33,043 Now, wait a minute, Pa. 345 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:35,145 Let the law do it this time. 346 00:18:35,215 --> 00:18:37,326 What's wrong with you, boy? 347 00:18:37,350 --> 00:18:39,594 You want to sit here and twiddle your thumbs 348 00:18:39,618 --> 00:18:41,463 while Drummond's sheep eat our land bare? 349 00:18:41,487 --> 00:18:43,131 By the time the lawyers and the sheriff 350 00:18:43,155 --> 00:18:44,833 and the court in Virginia City get through 351 00:18:44,857 --> 00:18:46,268 haggling with what should be done, 352 00:18:46,292 --> 00:18:47,903 the whole north pasture'll be torn up. 353 00:18:47,927 --> 00:18:50,005 Get your guns. We've got work to do. 354 00:18:50,029 --> 00:18:51,462 What kind of work, Pa? 355 00:18:51,531 --> 00:18:52,674 Get those sheep off our land. 356 00:18:52,698 --> 00:18:53,938 Now, look, Pa, I don't want you 357 00:18:53,999 --> 00:18:56,077 running after Drummond. Now, just settle down. 358 00:18:56,101 --> 00:18:57,601 You going soft, boy? 359 00:18:57,670 --> 00:18:59,470 Pa, you're just as bad as he is. 360 00:18:59,539 --> 00:19:00,682 I'm what?! 361 00:19:00,706 --> 00:19:01,872 You and Drummond both think 362 00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:03,774 you're a law unto yourselves, and you're not. 363 00:19:03,843 --> 00:19:06,355 Without the law, a man's no better than dirt. 364 00:19:06,379 --> 00:19:08,123 Now you listen to something from me. 365 00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:09,358 I cleared that land 366 00:19:09,382 --> 00:19:10,792 that Drummond's driving his sheep through. 367 00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:12,494 I worked it till my hands cracked open 368 00:19:12,518 --> 00:19:13,762 and the sweat blinded my eyes. 369 00:19:13,786 --> 00:19:14,930 And I planted that grass, 370 00:19:14,954 --> 00:19:16,398 and with the Lord's help, it grew. 371 00:19:16,422 --> 00:19:17,832 And I'm not gonna let a sheepherder 372 00:19:17,856 --> 00:19:21,696 who never did an honest day's work in his life ruin it! 373 00:19:22,061 --> 00:19:24,621 Now, are you coming with me or not? 374 00:19:55,995 --> 00:19:57,761 All in, Jeb. 375 00:19:57,830 --> 00:19:59,830 That's good. 376 00:19:59,899 --> 00:20:02,800 Now it's the Cartwrights who are gonna be in open ground. 377 00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:05,436 Jeb, you sure you ain't picking off 378 00:20:05,505 --> 00:20:06,915 a bigger piece than you can chew? 379 00:20:06,939 --> 00:20:08,672 This is a blind draw, Jeb. 380 00:20:08,741 --> 00:20:11,909 You let 'em come in here, it's us that's gonna be trapped. 381 00:20:11,977 --> 00:20:14,144 Well, if that's what they thought, 382 00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:17,347 might turn out just a bit different. 383 00:20:17,417 --> 00:20:19,583 It don't matter if they got us trapped, 384 00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:21,952 long as we get one of them, just one. 385 00:20:22,021 --> 00:20:24,700 You let 'em walk in here, what's gonna keep Ben Cartwright 386 00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:26,668 from killing off the whole lot of us? 387 00:20:26,692 --> 00:20:29,192 'Cause Cartwright is the kind of guy that don't shoot 388 00:20:29,261 --> 00:20:31,495 unless somebody else fires the first shot. 389 00:20:32,932 --> 00:20:35,466 Well, I don't like sitting here like a treed squirrel. 390 00:20:35,535 --> 00:20:39,437 I say, we get out there and face 'em straight off. 391 00:20:39,505 --> 00:20:42,065 All right, go ahead. 392 00:20:43,042 --> 00:20:45,020 Well, what's the matter? 393 00:20:45,044 --> 00:20:46,722 You ain't going, are you? 394 00:20:46,746 --> 00:20:48,089 'Cause you ain't smart enough 395 00:20:48,113 --> 00:20:49,758 to tackle a man like Cartwright. 396 00:20:49,782 --> 00:20:51,059 He'd chew you right up 397 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:52,895 and spit you out on the ground. 398 00:20:52,919 --> 00:20:55,653 Any fool can go out and get himself shot dead. 399 00:20:55,721 --> 00:20:58,255 If you ain't gonna face 'em, what are you gonna do? 400 00:21:01,694 --> 00:21:05,128 You ever see Injuns go after a herd of buffalo? 401 00:21:05,197 --> 00:21:08,198 They dog out the strays one by one. 402 00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:09,667 And then, pretty soon, 403 00:21:09,735 --> 00:21:13,003 the rest of 'em are scared and running over each other. 404 00:21:13,072 --> 00:21:15,973 Collier, I want you to take two men 405 00:21:16,041 --> 00:21:19,443 and hide yourselves up there on that ledge over there. 406 00:21:19,512 --> 00:21:24,014 Billy, I want you to get back down the path by the draw there. 407 00:21:24,083 --> 00:21:25,694 Because if we split 'em up, 408 00:21:25,718 --> 00:21:29,620 that's where some of them are liable to run for it. 409 00:21:29,689 --> 00:21:31,867 Well, sounds good, don't it, boy? 410 00:21:31,891 --> 00:21:34,024 Yeah, I... I guess so. 411 00:21:34,092 --> 00:21:37,061 That ain't what you're thinking, is it? 412 00:21:37,130 --> 00:21:38,996 What are you thinking, boy? 413 00:21:39,064 --> 00:21:42,666 You're asking us to shoot those men down 414 00:21:42,735 --> 00:21:45,603 like they was nothing but a bunch of bounty pelts. 415 00:21:47,106 --> 00:21:48,305 Well... 416 00:21:48,373 --> 00:21:50,440 Well, sure I am. What's wrong with it? 417 00:21:50,509 --> 00:21:54,311 I didn't say nothing was wrong with it. 418 00:21:54,380 --> 00:21:55,880 That's good. 419 00:21:55,948 --> 00:21:57,493 Because I hope you ain't forgetting 420 00:21:57,517 --> 00:22:00,651 how I first come on you... Strung up for a horse thief. 421 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,152 You didn't do it, 422 00:22:02,221 --> 00:22:04,500 but you had a rope around your neck anyways. 423 00:22:04,524 --> 00:22:06,490 Well, this ain't no different, 424 00:22:06,559 --> 00:22:08,859 and the Cartwrights ain't no different, neither. 425 00:22:08,928 --> 00:22:11,562 They'll kill you if you give them the chance. 426 00:22:11,630 --> 00:22:14,464 Maybe not with a rope, but they'll do it. 427 00:22:14,533 --> 00:22:17,200 What're you gaping at? 428 00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:19,337 Nothing, Jeb. 429 00:22:19,405 --> 00:22:21,965 Well, you get back there where I told you! 430 00:22:23,643 --> 00:22:27,545 Now, look, boy, I been pulling myself 431 00:22:27,613 --> 00:22:29,858 through this world for a long time, 432 00:22:29,882 --> 00:22:32,783 and when you get right down to it, it's a fact. 433 00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:35,720 You've got to fight back, whichever way you can, 434 00:22:35,788 --> 00:22:38,348 or you'll just get beat to the ground. 435 00:22:40,460 --> 00:22:43,394 All right, get back there where I told you to go. 436 00:22:43,463 --> 00:22:44,762 All right, Jeb. 437 00:22:44,831 --> 00:22:47,264 And boy, remember. 438 00:22:47,333 --> 00:22:48,699 Remember what I want. 439 00:22:48,767 --> 00:22:52,836 I want one of them Cartwrights... alive. 440 00:22:52,905 --> 00:22:55,139 Yes, sir. 441 00:22:57,342 --> 00:22:59,309 And put a jacket on, boy! 442 00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:01,311 There's a chill coming up. 443 00:23:17,096 --> 00:23:19,196 Well, what do you make of it, Hoss? 444 00:23:19,265 --> 00:23:22,532 I can't figure out why, Pa, but it looks to me 445 00:23:22,601 --> 00:23:26,441 like he took them sheep right up into that blind catch. 446 00:23:26,806 --> 00:23:28,572 That old scavenger. 447 00:23:28,641 --> 00:23:30,440 He isn't leaving the Ponderosa at all. 448 00:23:30,509 --> 00:23:31,742 He's planning to camp here. 449 00:23:31,811 --> 00:23:33,310 What makes you say that, Pa? 450 00:23:33,379 --> 00:23:36,346 Well, why else would he be heading up into that blind draw? 451 00:23:36,415 --> 00:23:38,348 Why, up there, he can protect his flock 452 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,650 and have a good chance of standing us off. 453 00:23:40,719 --> 00:23:42,997 There sure ain't no sign of 'em anywhere else, Pa. 454 00:23:43,021 --> 00:23:44,433 Well, that's the way it appears. 455 00:23:44,457 --> 00:23:46,668 Except there's no pasture for his sheep in that draw. 456 00:23:46,692 --> 00:23:48,470 If he can stand us off, that means 457 00:23:48,494 --> 00:23:50,739 we can do the same to him... starve him out. 458 00:23:50,763 --> 00:23:51,862 Yeah, why wait for that? 459 00:23:51,931 --> 00:23:53,575 Why don't we just ride in, get it over with? 460 00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:55,633 Wouldn't Mr. Drummond love that? 461 00:23:55,701 --> 00:23:57,467 The four of us bunched up together 462 00:23:57,536 --> 00:23:59,302 like so many flies on fly paper. 463 00:23:59,371 --> 00:24:03,173 No. We're going to have to spread out and stay spread. 464 00:24:03,242 --> 00:24:06,477 Hoss, you and Joe... You move up on the left side. 465 00:24:06,546 --> 00:24:08,445 Adam and I'll ride straight in. 466 00:24:08,514 --> 00:24:11,214 Pa, there is another thing we could do. 467 00:24:11,283 --> 00:24:12,950 What's that? 468 00:24:13,019 --> 00:24:16,164 Well, you can stand watch on him while I get the sheriff. 469 00:24:16,188 --> 00:24:18,188 I thought we'd settled that. 470 00:24:18,257 --> 00:24:21,224 Well, we could pin 'em down, like Adam says. 471 00:24:21,293 --> 00:24:23,961 And wait for some judge to serve a paper on them? 472 00:24:24,030 --> 00:24:26,997 The court in Virginia City doesn't own the Ponderosa. 473 00:24:27,066 --> 00:24:29,934 We do. And if we're not willing to fight to hold on to it, 474 00:24:30,002 --> 00:24:32,269 we might as well turn it over to the first settler 475 00:24:32,338 --> 00:24:33,578 who feels like staking a claim. 476 00:24:52,158 --> 00:24:53,824 Collier! 477 00:24:53,893 --> 00:24:56,104 Take your men and move them out into the open! 478 00:24:56,128 --> 00:24:57,627 What for, Jeb? 479 00:24:57,696 --> 00:25:00,497 We got good position on them Cartwrights right here. 480 00:25:00,566 --> 00:25:02,433 Just do like I say! 481 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,413 Take those men and move 'em out in the open! 482 00:25:04,437 --> 00:25:07,838 But, Jeb, them Cartwrights'll be sitting ducks from here! 483 00:25:07,907 --> 00:25:09,339 We can wipe 'em all out! 484 00:25:09,408 --> 00:25:12,242 I don't want to wipe 'em out! 485 00:25:12,311 --> 00:25:14,677 Or maybe just miss wiping them out. 486 00:25:14,746 --> 00:25:17,514 I just want one of them Cartwrights alive. 487 00:25:17,582 --> 00:25:18,848 Now, you take those men 488 00:25:18,918 --> 00:25:21,351 and move them out in the open where they can be seen! 489 00:25:33,132 --> 00:25:34,765 They're there all right. 490 00:25:34,834 --> 00:25:36,366 We'll ride in slow. 491 00:25:36,435 --> 00:25:37,479 Adam will come with me. 492 00:25:37,503 --> 00:25:39,602 You boys cover us from the rocks. 493 00:25:49,615 --> 00:25:50,926 Don't fire! 494 00:25:50,950 --> 00:25:52,160 I'll tell you when to shoot. 495 00:25:52,184 --> 00:25:54,784 You hold your ground right there. 496 00:25:54,853 --> 00:25:58,956 The first one breaks to run, I'll kill him all by myself. 497 00:26:04,463 --> 00:26:06,797 I hear you, Cartwright. 498 00:26:06,865 --> 00:26:09,099 My son and I are coming in there. 499 00:26:09,168 --> 00:26:12,269 You fire one shot, there won't be a one of you 500 00:26:12,337 --> 00:26:14,071 ever comes out of that draw alive. 501 00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:45,568 I ain't drawing. 502 00:26:45,637 --> 00:26:49,506 Drummond, I ought to let you and your sheep starve. 503 00:26:49,575 --> 00:26:52,742 Looks like I did work myself into a hole kind of. 504 00:26:52,811 --> 00:26:56,112 Drummond, you broke your word to me. 505 00:26:56,181 --> 00:26:57,492 You're not going to break it again. 506 00:26:57,516 --> 00:26:59,060 I'm gonna give you one last chance 507 00:26:59,084 --> 00:27:00,417 to get those sheep out of here! 508 00:27:00,486 --> 00:27:02,652 Maybe we can make ourselves a little deal. 509 00:27:02,721 --> 00:27:05,289 No deal, Drummond. 510 00:27:05,357 --> 00:27:06,790 Clear those sheep out. 511 00:27:06,858 --> 00:27:11,628 He don't give a man much space to twist in, does he? 512 00:27:11,697 --> 00:27:12,796 He means it. 513 00:27:12,865 --> 00:27:16,733 Either you get out or you get starved out. 514 00:27:18,637 --> 00:27:19,870 All right, boys! 515 00:27:19,938 --> 00:27:22,839 Put down your guns. 516 00:27:22,908 --> 00:27:26,109 I'll get my sheep out of here come morning. 517 00:27:26,178 --> 00:27:29,145 You get your sheep out right now. 518 00:27:29,214 --> 00:27:32,582 Sure beats me. 519 00:27:32,651 --> 00:27:34,451 Here you own half the world, 520 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,832 and me, all I'm asking is the right 521 00:27:36,856 --> 00:27:39,689 to drive a few miserable sheep across a corner of your land. 522 00:27:39,758 --> 00:27:43,593 You'd think you could do a man that little good. 523 00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:46,262 You got a mighty unreasonable old man, boy. 524 00:27:48,734 --> 00:27:50,934 Now, Drummond, get those sheep out now. 525 00:27:53,072 --> 00:27:57,941 All right, boys, you got your orders. 526 00:28:05,717 --> 00:28:09,486 Adam, help them get those sheep on the move. 527 00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:20,730 Hey, uh, 528 00:28:20,799 --> 00:28:24,401 you look like a reasonable fellow. 529 00:28:24,470 --> 00:28:26,148 Maybe we can make us a little deal. 530 00:28:26,172 --> 00:28:28,772 You heard what my father said. 531 00:28:28,841 --> 00:28:31,308 All right, you men, let's get 'em moving. 532 00:28:50,662 --> 00:28:53,222 Take cover, men! 533 00:29:39,378 --> 00:29:41,110 That's good shooting, Pa. 534 00:29:41,179 --> 00:29:42,846 Adam's cut off in there. 535 00:29:42,915 --> 00:29:43,958 I've got to get to him. 536 00:29:43,982 --> 00:29:45,816 Pa, you can't make it down there. 537 00:29:45,884 --> 00:29:46,916 Joe! 538 00:29:46,985 --> 00:29:48,118 Yeah, Pa? 539 00:29:48,186 --> 00:29:49,864 I'm going to try to make it up along that ledge. 540 00:29:49,888 --> 00:29:51,521 Cover me! 541 00:29:51,590 --> 00:29:53,490 Pa, you can't make it. 542 00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:56,159 I got Adam in there, I'll make it. 543 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:10,473 Joe! Yeah, Pa? 544 00:30:10,542 --> 00:30:12,320 Get Drummond, he's behind the wagon! 545 00:30:12,344 --> 00:30:14,677 I can't get a shot at him from here. 546 00:30:30,562 --> 00:30:32,328 You're cut off, boy! 547 00:30:32,397 --> 00:30:33,463 Throw down your gun! 548 00:30:36,034 --> 00:30:37,533 You heard him, drop it. 549 00:30:38,637 --> 00:30:39,702 Adam! 550 00:30:39,771 --> 00:30:41,304 Make for that path behind you! 551 00:30:48,380 --> 00:30:50,313 Come on, Billy, cut him down! 552 00:30:54,219 --> 00:30:55,318 Drop it, kid. 553 00:30:57,556 --> 00:30:59,156 You're gonna kill me, ain't you? 554 00:30:59,225 --> 00:31:01,424 Come on, kid, I said drop it! 555 00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:06,062 Now, get out of the way. 556 00:31:06,131 --> 00:31:08,431 I can't. 557 00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:09,866 I said get out of the way! 558 00:31:09,934 --> 00:31:12,068 I can't, Jeb gave me orders! 559 00:31:12,137 --> 00:31:15,005 Cover me! 560 00:31:19,911 --> 00:31:22,078 Drop your gun and put up your hands. 561 00:31:24,149 --> 00:31:26,883 All right, now, come on down here. 562 00:31:37,930 --> 00:31:39,073 Cartwright! 563 00:31:39,097 --> 00:31:41,898 Cartwright, can you hear me?! 564 00:31:41,967 --> 00:31:44,901 You call your men off or I'll kill your boy right now. 565 00:31:47,606 --> 00:31:50,073 Joe! Hoss! 566 00:31:50,142 --> 00:31:51,407 Hold your fire! 567 00:31:52,677 --> 00:31:54,911 All right, now, clear out! 568 00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:57,447 You're still trapped in that hole, Drummond. 569 00:31:57,516 --> 00:31:59,883 Am I? 570 00:31:59,952 --> 00:32:03,053 You got yourself an empire ain't you, Mr. Cartwright? 571 00:32:03,121 --> 00:32:05,433 Is it worth your boy's life? 572 00:32:05,457 --> 00:32:07,424 Well, is it?! 573 00:32:10,729 --> 00:32:11,895 What do you want, Drummond? 574 00:32:11,963 --> 00:32:14,464 You hear that, Billy boy? 575 00:32:16,534 --> 00:32:21,137 What I want, Mr. Cartwright, ain't that what you said? 576 00:32:21,206 --> 00:32:23,072 Well, I'll tell you flat out. 577 00:32:23,141 --> 00:32:26,642 First off, I'm gonna run my sheep across your land 578 00:32:26,711 --> 00:32:30,180 and I'm gonna graze them till they're full enough to bust. 579 00:32:30,249 --> 00:32:32,360 And your son is gonna be with me 580 00:32:32,384 --> 00:32:33,628 every step of the way. 581 00:32:33,652 --> 00:32:35,296 And if you try stopping me, 582 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:36,820 I'm gonna put a bullet 583 00:32:36,889 --> 00:32:38,199 right in the back of his skull. 584 00:32:38,223 --> 00:32:42,125 It's been a long ways to here, Mr. Cartwright. 585 00:32:42,194 --> 00:32:45,728 A long ways and a lot of time. 586 00:32:45,798 --> 00:32:49,399 And if you got any doubt about my meaning what I say, 587 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:51,601 well, you just make your play. 588 00:32:51,670 --> 00:32:54,370 All right, Drummond. 589 00:32:54,439 --> 00:32:56,707 I can't stop you. 590 00:32:56,775 --> 00:32:59,709 But you listen to me and you listen good. 591 00:32:59,778 --> 00:33:03,980 If you put a scratch on my boy, 592 00:33:04,049 --> 00:33:05,481 I'll find you 593 00:33:05,550 --> 00:33:09,519 and I'll kill you if I have to follow you clear to hell! 594 00:33:15,427 --> 00:33:18,295 Pa, we gotta do something. 595 00:33:18,363 --> 00:33:19,496 Maybe Adam was right. 596 00:33:19,565 --> 00:33:21,605 Maybe we should've called the sheriff in 597 00:33:21,666 --> 00:33:24,101 in the first place. I don't know. 598 00:33:24,169 --> 00:33:27,303 He was right. 599 00:33:29,274 --> 00:33:31,641 It's my fault. 600 00:33:31,710 --> 00:33:34,911 Oh, Pa, you know, 601 00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:37,714 you know we don't blame you for nothing. 602 00:33:37,783 --> 00:33:39,850 It's just the way things turned out. 603 00:33:39,918 --> 00:33:41,262 Hoss and I would've done the same thing 604 00:33:41,286 --> 00:33:43,286 if it were up to us. That's right. 605 00:33:44,256 --> 00:33:47,824 I made Adam do it my way. 606 00:33:47,893 --> 00:33:49,425 I let Drummond outsmart me. 607 00:33:49,494 --> 00:33:51,761 Pa, you heard Little Joe. 608 00:33:51,829 --> 00:33:54,389 Any of us would've done the same thing. 609 00:33:56,335 --> 00:33:59,535 I couldn't have done it any differently? 610 00:33:59,604 --> 00:34:02,172 Couldn't just let him in and asked him 611 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,842 to make himself and his sheep at home in the best pasture? 612 00:34:05,910 --> 00:34:09,078 Pa, we know you couldn't do any such thing. 613 00:34:09,147 --> 00:34:11,080 Don't blame yourself. 614 00:34:13,184 --> 00:34:14,762 Should've thrown him and his sheep 615 00:34:14,786 --> 00:34:17,754 right off the property right away. 616 00:34:17,822 --> 00:34:20,690 I was soft. 617 00:34:20,759 --> 00:34:25,528 Pa, we've all learned our lesson. 618 00:34:25,597 --> 00:34:26,930 From now on, we'll know better 619 00:34:26,999 --> 00:34:29,632 than to try to fight this sort of thing ourselves. 620 00:34:29,701 --> 00:34:31,234 We'll go for a sheriff. 621 00:34:34,672 --> 00:34:36,639 You mean, from now on the Cartwrights don't fight 622 00:34:36,708 --> 00:34:38,552 their own battles anymore? Is that what you're saying? 623 00:34:38,576 --> 00:34:40,388 From now on whenever we get into any kind of trouble, 624 00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:41,622 we have to go begging for help? 625 00:34:41,646 --> 00:34:42,757 Not begging, it ain't begging! 626 00:34:42,781 --> 00:34:44,091 Well, then what is it if it isn't begging? 627 00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:45,749 It's asking. 628 00:34:45,817 --> 00:34:47,450 It's asking like other folks do 629 00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:48,930 when their rights are violated, Pa. 630 00:34:48,954 --> 00:34:51,131 It's asking folks who've sworn duty to us 631 00:34:51,155 --> 00:34:53,000 to uphold the law to come and help us. 632 00:34:53,024 --> 00:34:57,126 Pa, ain't that what you always tried to teach us? 633 00:35:00,365 --> 00:35:02,110 Pa, you know I've always wanted us 634 00:35:02,134 --> 00:35:03,844 to take care of our own troubles. 635 00:35:03,868 --> 00:35:06,013 But this time, they've got Adam. 636 00:35:06,037 --> 00:35:09,071 I just don't think there's anything else we can do. 637 00:35:11,843 --> 00:35:14,344 Yeah. 638 00:35:14,413 --> 00:35:17,113 Yeah. 639 00:35:17,182 --> 00:35:19,182 All right, you two saddle up. 640 00:35:19,251 --> 00:35:20,695 Ride into town, tell the sheriff what's happened. 641 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,452 I think I can go faster by myself. 642 00:35:26,258 --> 00:35:28,725 Hoss... 643 00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:31,928 you and I, we're riding into Drummond's camp. 644 00:35:31,997 --> 00:35:34,264 I got an idea how to keep Drummond busy 645 00:35:34,333 --> 00:35:35,698 till the sheriff gets there. 646 00:35:35,767 --> 00:35:37,534 I don't trust him further than I can see him. 647 00:35:37,603 --> 00:35:39,169 Yes, sir. 648 00:35:40,606 --> 00:35:42,139 All set, Jeb. 649 00:35:42,207 --> 00:35:43,487 You look at them sheep? 650 00:35:43,542 --> 00:35:44,774 They're resting and quiet. 651 00:35:44,843 --> 00:35:47,322 Bet they ain't felt as good in their bellies 652 00:35:47,346 --> 00:35:49,045 in a month of Sundays. 653 00:35:49,114 --> 00:35:52,282 Grazing on all this nice, fat Cartwright grass! 654 00:35:52,351 --> 00:35:54,351 Sure is good pasture, Jeb. 655 00:35:54,419 --> 00:35:56,386 You know something, Billy, 656 00:35:56,455 --> 00:35:58,633 I been thinking there ain't nothing we can find 657 00:35:58,657 --> 00:36:00,502 in California as good as we got right here. 658 00:36:00,526 --> 00:36:01,702 Now, is there? 659 00:36:01,726 --> 00:36:03,193 I guess not, Jeb. 660 00:36:03,262 --> 00:36:05,862 Good land, lots of it. 661 00:36:05,930 --> 00:36:07,375 Why, we could raise ourselves 662 00:36:07,399 --> 00:36:09,144 the biggest, fattest flock of sheep 663 00:36:09,168 --> 00:36:10,978 in the whole country right here. 664 00:36:11,002 --> 00:36:13,903 And I'm gonna take it, Billy, all of it. 665 00:36:13,972 --> 00:36:17,106 How you gonna do that? 666 00:36:17,176 --> 00:36:19,420 I knew that Providence would show me a way. 667 00:36:19,444 --> 00:36:20,710 Him? 668 00:36:20,779 --> 00:36:21,844 You mean young Cartwright? 669 00:36:21,913 --> 00:36:24,481 Mm-hmm, before I'm done with him, 670 00:36:24,550 --> 00:36:26,394 Ben Cartwright is gonna be begging 671 00:36:26,418 --> 00:36:29,118 to give us the Ponderosa to get his son back. 672 00:36:29,188 --> 00:36:31,299 You remember one thing, Billy, 673 00:36:31,323 --> 00:36:32,967 you catch a man where he's soft 674 00:36:32,991 --> 00:36:34,424 and you can most always 675 00:36:34,493 --> 00:36:36,070 squeeze anything you want out of him. 676 00:36:36,094 --> 00:36:37,894 You better take care of him. 677 00:36:37,962 --> 00:36:40,074 I don't want nothing to happen to him just yet. 678 00:36:40,098 --> 00:36:42,098 I'll take care of him. 679 00:36:42,167 --> 00:36:44,867 Yes, sir, Billy, there ain't nothing at all in California 680 00:36:44,936 --> 00:36:47,970 we ain't got more of right here. 681 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:50,940 Say, you must be clean hungry. 682 00:36:51,009 --> 00:36:53,521 Eat some of them beans before they're cold. 683 00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:54,789 See you in the morning, Billy. 684 00:36:54,813 --> 00:36:57,714 Night, Jeb. Night! 685 00:37:13,898 --> 00:37:17,767 Brought you some beans. 686 00:37:17,836 --> 00:37:20,303 I can't untie you. 687 00:37:20,372 --> 00:37:22,138 Jeb wouldn't favor that. 688 00:37:22,207 --> 00:37:24,440 It's all right. 689 00:37:28,546 --> 00:37:30,146 You coulda killed me yesterday 690 00:37:30,215 --> 00:37:32,148 when you had the chance. 691 00:37:32,217 --> 00:37:33,817 Guess I could. 692 00:37:33,885 --> 00:37:36,820 If you had, you wouldn't be here like this now. 693 00:37:36,888 --> 00:37:39,448 Yeah, I guess that's true. 694 00:37:40,892 --> 00:37:42,058 Why didn't you do it, then? 695 00:37:42,127 --> 00:37:43,804 Why didn't you kill me when you had the chance? 696 00:37:43,828 --> 00:37:45,261 I don't know. 697 00:37:45,330 --> 00:37:46,929 Just couldn't. 698 00:37:46,998 --> 00:37:48,865 That ain't like Jeb said. 699 00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:51,868 I mean about what you and your pa'd do to us. 700 00:37:51,936 --> 00:37:54,381 Oh, what'd he say we'd do to you? 701 00:37:54,405 --> 00:37:56,873 Kill us... first crack out of the barrel. 702 00:37:58,977 --> 00:38:01,210 How long you been with Drummond? 703 00:38:02,314 --> 00:38:05,248 Oh, a year, maybe a little more. 704 00:38:05,317 --> 00:38:07,750 I met him when I first left off farming 705 00:38:07,819 --> 00:38:09,752 and took to the road. 706 00:38:09,821 --> 00:38:11,754 Wasn't exactly like I met him. 707 00:38:11,823 --> 00:38:15,258 Some drunk cowhands was gonna hang me up 708 00:38:15,327 --> 00:38:18,261 for stealin' a pinto, but I never done it. 709 00:38:18,330 --> 00:38:19,929 How old were you? 710 00:38:19,998 --> 00:38:21,931 Nineteen. 711 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,433 I guess that's how it happened. 712 00:38:24,502 --> 00:38:27,436 I didn't know much then... like now. 713 00:38:28,974 --> 00:38:31,908 I, I bought the horse off a peddler feller, 714 00:38:31,977 --> 00:38:35,345 but I never had sense enough to get-get no papers for it. 715 00:38:35,413 --> 00:38:37,379 Just dumb trustin' like. 716 00:38:37,448 --> 00:38:40,383 Now he's taught you not to trust anybody, huh? 717 00:38:40,451 --> 00:38:43,386 Jeb saved my life. 718 00:38:43,454 --> 00:38:45,833 That doesn't mean you have to live the way he does. 719 00:38:45,857 --> 00:38:47,790 I owe him. 720 00:38:47,859 --> 00:38:50,293 But I guess you wouldn't know what it feels like 721 00:38:50,362 --> 00:38:52,340 to have a rope strung around your neck... 722 00:38:52,364 --> 00:38:55,298 Not with a regular family and livin' the way you do. 723 00:38:57,369 --> 00:38:58,968 No, sir. 724 00:38:59,037 --> 00:39:00,803 Ol' Jeb, he'd just come by 725 00:39:00,872 --> 00:39:03,005 and scattered them trail hands off. 726 00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:06,008 And you think he did it for you. 727 00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:07,721 Haven't you been around him long enough 728 00:39:07,745 --> 00:39:10,057 to know he doesn't do anything for anybody except himself? 729 00:39:10,081 --> 00:39:13,015 That don't make no difference. 730 00:39:13,084 --> 00:39:15,518 Oh, I... 731 00:39:15,587 --> 00:39:18,187 I guess it weren't so much to save me 732 00:39:18,256 --> 00:39:21,457 as much as ol' Jeb's just got it in for cattlemen 733 00:39:21,526 --> 00:39:23,459 and cowhands and that like. 734 00:39:23,528 --> 00:39:27,997 He's bitter in his ways... like my pa was. 735 00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:30,700 What happened to him? 736 00:39:30,769 --> 00:39:32,702 He got himself killed 737 00:39:32,771 --> 00:39:36,038 fightin' over a few acres of bare, rocky ground 738 00:39:36,107 --> 00:39:37,873 back in Kentucky. 739 00:39:37,942 --> 00:39:40,042 It wasn't like I knew him much. 740 00:39:40,111 --> 00:39:41,877 Him or anybody. 741 00:39:41,946 --> 00:39:43,879 Mostly, I just sort of shifted around 742 00:39:43,948 --> 00:39:45,348 from one kin to the next. 743 00:39:45,416 --> 00:39:47,416 Doesn't mean you have to stay with him. 744 00:39:47,452 --> 00:39:50,619 He's always done good by me. 745 00:39:50,688 --> 00:39:52,288 Listen, he's no better 746 00:39:52,357 --> 00:39:54,335 than something that crawls after carrion. 747 00:39:54,359 --> 00:39:56,470 You want to plunder your piece of land bad enough 748 00:39:56,494 --> 00:39:58,374 to have his taint rub off on you? 749 00:40:00,298 --> 00:40:02,098 You talk mighty big, don't you, mister? 750 00:40:02,167 --> 00:40:04,901 That's 'cause you got it all, a family 751 00:40:04,970 --> 00:40:08,237 and regular livin' and all this good, rich land to hang on to. 752 00:40:08,306 --> 00:40:11,407 All I got in this world is Jeb Drummond. 753 00:40:11,476 --> 00:40:13,409 You remember that, mister. 754 00:40:13,478 --> 00:40:17,280 I got nothin' in this world but Jeb Drummond! 755 00:40:45,210 --> 00:40:46,309 Jeb. 756 00:40:46,378 --> 00:40:47,977 Some men on horses. 757 00:40:48,046 --> 00:40:49,979 Looks like the Cartwrights. 758 00:40:51,216 --> 00:40:53,149 Pull that wagon! 759 00:41:19,177 --> 00:41:21,110 I left my gun, Drummond. 760 00:41:21,179 --> 00:41:23,112 He ain't left his. 761 00:41:25,016 --> 00:41:26,916 Get that gun, Billy boy. 762 00:41:29,020 --> 00:41:30,820 Adam. 763 00:41:30,889 --> 00:41:31,889 Hello, Pa. 764 00:41:31,923 --> 00:41:32,988 All right, 765 00:41:33,057 --> 00:41:35,591 now suppose you dismount and say your piece. 766 00:41:43,568 --> 00:41:46,335 Drummond, let my son go. 767 00:41:46,404 --> 00:41:47,404 Take me instead. 768 00:41:47,439 --> 00:41:48,972 You? 769 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,306 Did I hear correct? 770 00:41:50,375 --> 00:41:52,308 You hear correct. 771 00:41:52,377 --> 00:41:54,310 What're you figurin"? 772 00:41:54,379 --> 00:41:56,312 You want a hostage. 773 00:41:56,381 --> 00:41:57,914 Well, I'll be a hostage. 774 00:41:57,983 --> 00:41:59,382 No, Pa. 775 00:41:59,450 --> 00:42:01,751 Well, Drummond, what about it? 776 00:42:01,820 --> 00:42:03,753 Well, I'll tell ya, 777 00:42:03,821 --> 00:42:07,257 I don't care much which of you Cartwrights I hold as hostage. 778 00:42:07,325 --> 00:42:09,358 'Cause I got me another notion. 779 00:42:09,427 --> 00:42:11,527 What's your notion, Drummond? 780 00:42:11,596 --> 00:42:14,363 I been thinkin' there ain't nothin' in California 781 00:42:14,432 --> 00:42:16,365 as you good as you got here. 782 00:42:16,434 --> 00:42:18,868 So I'm gonna take it, all of it, 783 00:42:18,937 --> 00:42:20,903 and claim it as my own. 784 00:42:20,972 --> 00:42:24,007 How you figurin" on doing that, mister? 785 00:42:24,075 --> 00:42:26,042 You plannin' on killin' us all? 786 00:42:26,110 --> 00:42:28,044 Ask your old man. 787 00:42:28,113 --> 00:42:29,712 I think he knows. 788 00:42:31,582 --> 00:42:33,516 Billy boy, give me that paper. 789 00:42:36,521 --> 00:42:38,454 Yes, sir, Mr. Cartwright, 790 00:42:38,523 --> 00:42:41,457 I got it all right here. 791 00:42:41,526 --> 00:42:44,460 The deed to 50,000 acres of your land. 792 00:42:44,529 --> 00:42:47,963 Now all you gotta to do is sign it 793 00:42:48,032 --> 00:42:49,298 and make it all legal. 794 00:42:49,367 --> 00:42:51,301 Drummond, do you think 795 00:42:51,369 --> 00:42:53,536 that my signing a ridiculous scrap of paper like that 796 00:42:53,604 --> 00:42:54,903 is gonna make anything legal? 797 00:42:54,972 --> 00:42:57,907 Well, the way I see it, I'm willing to take the gamble... 798 00:42:57,976 --> 00:42:59,954 Because I ain't got nothin' to lose anyhow, 799 00:42:59,978 --> 00:43:03,246 and you got something mighty important to gain. 800 00:43:03,315 --> 00:43:04,914 Well, what's he got to gain? 801 00:43:04,983 --> 00:43:06,916 You. 802 00:43:06,985 --> 00:43:08,796 'Cause unless he signs this deed, 803 00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:09,918 I'm gonna kill you 804 00:43:09,987 --> 00:43:12,121 and let your body rot where it drops. 805 00:43:13,624 --> 00:43:16,492 Adam, there's something you ought to know, 806 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,495 I sent Little Joe to town for the sheriff. 807 00:43:19,563 --> 00:43:21,163 Thanks, Pa. 808 00:43:21,232 --> 00:43:22,943 It looks like I've been wrong all along. 809 00:43:22,967 --> 00:43:24,900 No. 810 00:43:24,969 --> 00:43:27,303 No, you weren't wrong. 811 00:43:27,372 --> 00:43:29,383 And, Drummond, with the sheriff coming, 812 00:43:29,407 --> 00:43:31,819 how do you think you're gonna get away with all this? 813 00:43:31,843 --> 00:43:35,110 Well, like I said, I'm willin' to take the chance. 814 00:43:35,179 --> 00:43:38,114 Yes, that's what you said. 815 00:43:38,183 --> 00:43:40,616 What about you? 816 00:43:40,685 --> 00:43:42,618 You willing to take a gamble, too? 817 00:43:46,190 --> 00:43:48,758 Whatever Jeb says is good enough for me. 818 00:43:51,162 --> 00:43:52,995 You, too? 819 00:43:53,064 --> 00:43:55,064 I'm willin'. 820 00:43:56,434 --> 00:43:59,369 Look at him. 821 00:43:59,437 --> 00:44:01,371 You think he cares if you get skinned 822 00:44:01,439 --> 00:44:03,239 and hooked like some coyote meat... 823 00:44:03,308 --> 00:44:05,274 As long as he can use you to get what he's after?! 824 00:44:05,343 --> 00:44:07,777 All right, you had your say, mister. 825 00:44:07,846 --> 00:44:10,012 Now do you want to sign this deed, 826 00:44:10,081 --> 00:44:11,647 or do you want to bury your son? 827 00:44:11,716 --> 00:44:13,515 Don't sign it, Pa. 828 00:44:13,584 --> 00:44:14,584 He won't shoot! 829 00:44:20,791 --> 00:44:23,726 That's the difference between you and me, Drummond. 830 00:44:23,794 --> 00:44:26,729 I'm not a gambling man. 831 00:44:26,797 --> 00:44:28,464 Give me that paper. 832 00:44:31,236 --> 00:44:32,935 Pa, don't! 50,000 acres! 833 00:44:33,004 --> 00:44:34,004 It isn't worth it! 834 00:44:34,039 --> 00:44:35,971 Isn't it? 835 00:44:48,453 --> 00:44:51,387 Well, that's a mighty fine looking signature. 836 00:44:51,456 --> 00:44:54,223 Much better than I could've done... 837 00:44:54,291 --> 00:44:56,225 But then I never owned 50,000 acres 838 00:44:56,293 --> 00:44:58,227 of prime land before neither. 839 00:44:58,295 --> 00:44:59,729 And you don't own it now! 840 00:45:00,831 --> 00:45:03,266 Don't move! 841 00:45:05,236 --> 00:45:07,169 Adam. 842 00:45:08,606 --> 00:45:11,540 I was gonna make it an even deal... 843 00:45:11,609 --> 00:45:13,542 The land for your son. 844 00:45:15,245 --> 00:45:18,147 But it looks like I can't trust any of you Cartwrights. 845 00:45:18,215 --> 00:45:20,193 There's only one way to deal with you. 846 00:45:20,217 --> 00:45:22,184 Give me the gun, Billy. 847 00:45:22,253 --> 00:45:24,219 You can't just kill 'em, Jeb. 848 00:45:24,288 --> 00:45:25,754 Can't I? 849 00:45:25,824 --> 00:45:27,389 You just watch. 850 00:45:27,458 --> 00:45:29,803 They ain't done nothin' for you to kill 'em over, Jeb. 851 00:45:29,827 --> 00:45:31,260 You give me that gun! 852 00:45:31,328 --> 00:45:32,795 But, Jeb... 853 00:45:32,864 --> 00:45:35,464 Look, how many times I've tried to beat it into you, Billy? 854 00:45:35,533 --> 00:45:37,811 If you want somethin' in this world, you gotta get it 855 00:45:37,835 --> 00:45:39,480 whichever way you can... 856 00:45:39,504 --> 00:45:41,515 But you go right on being woman-soft. 857 00:45:41,539 --> 00:45:43,973 Maybe I should've let them wranglers string you up 858 00:45:44,041 --> 00:45:45,774 for stealin' them three pintos. 859 00:45:45,843 --> 00:45:48,210 Three pintos? 860 00:45:52,049 --> 00:45:55,485 Jeb, how'd you ever know they was lookin' for three of 'em? 861 00:45:55,553 --> 00:45:58,286 Well... they said, I guess. 862 00:45:58,355 --> 00:46:00,289 No, they never. 863 00:46:00,357 --> 00:46:02,035 They never said nothin' after you came. 864 00:46:02,059 --> 00:46:03,804 Well, that don't make no difference, boy! 865 00:46:03,828 --> 00:46:04,828 Don't it? 866 00:46:04,862 --> 00:46:07,797 Well, I think it does, Jeb. 867 00:46:07,865 --> 00:46:10,800 'Cause you killed 'em straight off. 868 00:46:10,868 --> 00:46:13,402 I thought it just to save me. 869 00:46:13,471 --> 00:46:15,104 But that wasn't it, was it? 870 00:46:15,173 --> 00:46:17,272 Well, you knew there was three pintos, 871 00:46:17,341 --> 00:46:18,908 'cause you was the one that stole 'em 872 00:46:18,976 --> 00:46:20,342 and sold 'em off yourself. 873 00:46:20,411 --> 00:46:24,280 Well, I guess I really don't owe you nothin', do I, Jeb? 874 00:46:24,348 --> 00:46:27,116 Now you know that ain't right, Billy boy. 875 00:46:27,185 --> 00:46:30,619 I mean, maybe I did lie to you about them pintos, but... 876 00:46:30,688 --> 00:46:33,622 I-I always done good by you and I taught ya things. 877 00:46:33,691 --> 00:46:35,124 Sure. 878 00:46:35,193 --> 00:46:37,126 Like shooting a man in the back. 879 00:46:37,195 --> 00:46:39,128 Like grabbin' and thievin'. 880 00:46:39,197 --> 00:46:41,130 Well, I learned good, Jeb. 881 00:46:41,199 --> 00:46:43,165 But I ain't learnin' no more. 882 00:46:43,234 --> 00:46:45,001 Now look, Billy... 883 00:46:45,069 --> 00:46:47,003 Billy, you're like a son to me. 884 00:46:47,071 --> 00:46:48,604 The only reason I want this land 885 00:46:48,673 --> 00:46:50,284 is because I'm gonna leave it to ya. 886 00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:51,308 I promise it! 887 00:46:51,342 --> 00:46:52,742 No, Jeb. 888 00:46:53,845 --> 00:46:55,177 You give me that gun! 889 00:46:56,914 --> 00:46:59,114 How many times I tried 890 00:46:59,183 --> 00:47:01,743 to beat it into you, Billy? 891 00:47:06,257 --> 00:47:07,690 Jeb. 892 00:47:07,758 --> 00:47:12,528 I... I should've let 'em hang ya! 893 00:47:12,596 --> 00:47:16,365 You no good thievin', dirty double-crosser. 894 00:47:16,434 --> 00:47:19,368 Shoot him, Collier. 895 00:47:19,437 --> 00:47:20,937 Kill him! 896 00:47:35,686 --> 00:47:37,831 Hey, Pa, how come Hop Sing got all this vinegar? 897 00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:40,188 Sorry, Pa, they didn't have no rutabagas. 898 00:47:40,258 --> 00:47:42,224 Guess I'll be leaving. 899 00:47:42,293 --> 00:47:45,027 I sure do thank you for all your help. 900 00:47:45,096 --> 00:47:46,362 For the shirt, Little Joe. 901 00:47:46,430 --> 00:47:47,830 You're welcome. 902 00:47:47,898 --> 00:47:49,832 Where'll you go now? 903 00:47:49,901 --> 00:47:51,834 I don't know exactly. 904 00:47:51,903 --> 00:47:55,337 Billy, do you ever think of taking up homesteading? 905 00:47:55,406 --> 00:47:57,050 You mean a place of my own? Yeah. 906 00:47:57,074 --> 00:47:58,852 Sure, but... Well, uh, 907 00:47:58,876 --> 00:48:01,121 we've got a lot of open land here in the Ponderosa. 908 00:48:01,145 --> 00:48:02,790 I figure that Adam here 909 00:48:02,814 --> 00:48:05,058 could probably help you pick out a good piece of it. 910 00:48:05,082 --> 00:48:08,016 You mean a piece of your land? 911 00:48:08,085 --> 00:48:10,330 Well, we got a lot of people coming out this way. 912 00:48:10,354 --> 00:48:13,288 I-I guess we'll have to make some room for more. 913 00:48:13,357 --> 00:48:16,291 Including the law. 914 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,294 Well, Mr. Cartwright, I... 915 00:48:19,363 --> 00:48:21,964 I sure will try to live up to your faith in me. 916 00:48:22,032 --> 00:48:23,510 I... Well, Billy, you better, 917 00:48:23,534 --> 00:48:24,867 because if I catch you 918 00:48:24,936 --> 00:48:26,279 stepping out of line just once, why I'll... 919 00:48:26,303 --> 00:48:28,671 You'll, uh, go get the sheriff.