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In the dark shadows of history lie

legends of lost civilizations

whose kings ruled with the power of gods

only to crumble.

into the dust of time.

From such a place

rode three horsemen,

their leader

wearing the gold of ancient royalty.

Heat up here.

Heat. Heat.

Heat

up

here.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Oh

yeah.

Darn you, Sam.

Sam, you bring those clothes back here

this minute.

Sam,

do you hear me?

Sam, Isaac, you just wait till I get my

hands on you.

You just wait till Ma hears about this,

Sam.

Better hurry up and get dressed if you

don't want to get caught bare.

Somebody's coming.

Whoa.

>> Mom in the house.

>> Yeah. What's wrong, Mr. Abs? You

>> got time to talk now. You get her,

please.

>> Yeah. M.

Bill, what is it? What's happened?

>> It's Jenny. I'm afraid she's got to

kalera.

>> Kalera,

>> you got to come. Molly

>> M. Can I go with you?

>> No.

>> Why?

>> By ain't chasing you getting the color.

Mama.

>> Charlotte. Jenny's got the chalera and

I'm going with milk to see what I can

do. And

>> Charlotte, I'm leaving you in charge.

Your paw's not due back till late

tonight and no telling how long I'll be.

So, I'm trusting you both. And Sam, for

once, mind your sister. Do you hear?

None of your tricks.

And don't think you're getting away with

what you did, Sam Isaac. You'll get your

just dues when P gets home.

>> Sh. What about Ma? Won't you get the

caller?

>> Maybe.

>> But she'll die. You don't think that

would stop her from going, do you? She

wouldn't take a thought to her own life

if she thought she could help save

Jenny's.

>> But that don't make no sense. Her dying

to save Jenny.

>> She ain't going to die.

>> But she could.

>> You don't understand, Sam. There's a lot

more to it than that. If a person's

everything he should be, he wouldn't be

thinking of himself first, even if it

meant dying.

>> Where'd you get that idea?

>> Right under your nose.

The holy scriptures

says right here in the Bible, you can't

have no greater love than to give your

life for a friend.

>> I don't know anybody I'd die for.

Would you die for me?

>> I'd die for anybody in this family.

>> I'm sorry to say that includes you.

Sam, come look.

I ain't never seen any like them before.

Sh, what will we do?

>> Sam, help me.

They're coming right here.

Come on.

Quick. Get down there.

They get calling. Shh.

What if they said part of the cabin?

Let's get out of here. Hide in the

storehouse.

I can't get out of here.

We got to get it open. Please.

God, help him.

Go. Go.

Heat. Heat.

Come on. What about Kelly?

>> I can't tell now.

Heat.

Heat.

Charlotte. Charlotte, hurry. You got to

get up. Come on. You got to get up.

>> We got to keep going.

>> Quick. Get on a ride.

>> I can't leave you.

>> No. Do as I say. Go. Run for help.

Go.

No, no, no.

John, thank Kevin they found you

says you got a good look at those

engines son. Are they Cheyenne or

Shosonyi?

>> Neither one, P. Never seen Indians like

them. They wore funny looking moxins and

one had a gold band on his head and they

come riding in not scared and nothing.

They've done anything to her.

>> It's all my fault. Pa shouldn't have

gone back for Callie.

>> You mean you came back for that full

calf?

>> Molly, I would have got him.

>> Yes. And now they got your sister.

>> Molly, that's enough. You're being too

hard on him. He's only a boy.

>> I should have never left him here alone.

John, you got to find her.

>> I will.

>> You just got to.

>> I will, Molly. I won't give up till I

do.

I'm sorry, Charlotte.

I'm really sorry.

Heat. Heat.

Oh,

this is where they got her. First time

in more than 3 years anything like this

has happened.

Zeke,

look at this.

I never seen an engine make tracks like

this before.

Right, too.

Let's ride where the trail gets cold.

Heat.

Heat.

Yeah.

Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

So is Bob taking me with him?

Heat. Heat.

Come on, Grayback. We got to swim this.

What up?

Boy, grab that rope.

Dad, grab the rope.

Now he helped save your life.

See there? Now he likes you. He likes

you real good.

>> Bar killer,

come over here right now. I'm going to

shoot you.

Bar killer. He wouldn't kill nobody

except bars and engine. Maybe a white

kid or two.

All right, get over in your corner. Go

on. Go on.

Yeah.

You know, I had a boy like you once,

except he was ugly as dirt. Took after

his mom.

He ended up having to slit his throat.

>> Who are you?

>> Well, speak up, boy. What's your name?

>> Sam Sutter.

You one of them new settlers over by the

Black Ridge country.

>> I'm looking for my sister.

The Indian stole her and I ain't going

back till I find her.

>> Well, ain't you the greedy one.

Hear that bar killer?

This little old boy,

he can't for a river pack a rifle, but

he's setting off in barn engine alone.

Got no grub bag. What was you figuring

to feed on?

And what do you got in your pockets?

Huh? Maybe.

Maybe it's little trinket here.

>> That's mine.

>> It's yours, is it? Well, why don't you

take it?

>> It's mine now. Give it here. I said take

it. I

get on you scraggly monster. See, he

likes you. He likes you real good.

He likes me better. Now, where'd you get

this?

>> Off them Indians that stole my sister.

>> Well, in all my barn put together, I

never seen nothing like this off no

Indian.

Hell, don't even smell like him. Nobody

knows him better than me. Now look you

there.

Oh, just fits.

Your mom pa know you're out here.

>> No.

>> Well, there's one thing you got, Sam

Sutter, and that's guts.

But there's one thing you ain't got, and

that's knowhow.

You get away from here. Had your share.

There's others of us

now. Boy, I've been trapping on this old

river for nigh on 30 years. I know every

tribe from here to the divine. Speak six

engine tongues and still have to hang on

my scalp. And here come a skinny little

thing like you a barging into grizzly

country without even enough sense to

cross a river. You know what I got a

good line to do? Slit your throat.

Now eat up.

>> I don't want none.

>> Think you're going to insult my stew?

You're going to insult my stew. Now boy,

I said eat up.

Well, don't pay no attention to him. You

won't find no cleaner hound in all this

territory. Now, boy, eat up.

No sir.

All my years deal with Redskins. I ain't

never seen nothing like that.

Must sure be worth something.

Two, $300, I suppose.

>> Well, yeah. You ain't getting it. It's

mine.

>> Nothing prettier

than sweet

yellow gold.

Well,

there's your bed. Ain't about to say

another word to you till I take you home

in the morning.

>> I ain't going home.

>> Sure you are.

>> I ain't going back.

>> Yeah,

>> not till I find my sister. Now give me

what's mine and I'll be off.

I tell you, I ain't going home.

>> Yeah, you are. Ain't that truth bar

killer?

There's mom.

>> Yep. There she is waiting for you with a

razor strap. My oh my. The razor strap.

Just a quiver and a shivering waiting

for them blisters on.

Sh. I don't like drunks.

>> Drunk. I ain't no drunk I bar killer.

Uh afternoon ma'am. Uh my name's H Cook.

Uh most folks just call me Russian. You

might have heard of me. Uh I've been

trapping in these parts for nine to 30

years.

>> Sam Isaac, where you been?

>> Well, mom, we found him in the river

near drowned and me and old bar killer

fetched him out and brought him home to

you. Have they found Charlotte yet?

>> You don't see her dancing no jig, do

you? And mazize you. I'll give him a

whipon and a good one, too.

>> Hey, we've got enough trouble, Sam,

without you running off, too. I can't

take anymore. I just can't. Well,

>> that's right, boy. You get in there and

get what's coming to you. And the next

time you leave the searching to men,

come on, bar killer. Get around here.

Come on. Come on.

>> Russian.

>> I killed the bar.

>> Hey, wait. You got my headband. I want

it.

>> Now, boy, it ain't no good to you. I'm

just going to keep it

>> now. Give it here. I want it.

>> You know what that is?

Now that is gold. That is sweet yellow

gold. And it ain't no use to no kid know

how.

>> Now you ain't getting it. It's mine.

You know something? I should let you

drown. Shouldn't I bar kill her?

I

killed a bar

over.

I didn't really do it. I was drunk.

>> Let me see that darn thing.

Well,

what do you think?

>> Ain't no way of knowing for sure if it

even came off an engine.

>> It had to. I found it in the spot where

they got Charlotte.

>> Look, I ain't expecting any of you boys

to ride out with me again. I uh if

you've given me two weeks your time

already, I'm much obliged.

John,

give it up.

>> I'll give up when I found her. I might

Paul, I'll go with you. We can find it.

We don't need them.

They

>> ain't going, Sam.

>> Please, Paul. I've got to help find her.

I was to blame.

>> Sam,

you did wrong of going off before. Now,

this time you're standing here looking

after your mom.

I'm depending on you, son.

>> Yes, Paul.

An arrow

flies

against a crooked

sky.

The night window knows

someone

must die.

But love will win.

You hear the night will sing.

There's love.

There is

eternal

spring.

You're sure growing good, Kelly.

Paul won't even know you when he gets

back.

It's

ply's

been hurt.

>> Looks like he's been shot.

>> Oh, dear God.

Quick, Sam, help me get him to the

house.

Ollie,

>> I'm here. John, now I like quiet.

>> I thought I'd never make it.

Damn, Kyle is

>> Don't try to talk, Sam. Get my bag.

>> And ain't no use, Mommy.

I searched.

I tried.

My little girl's got to be dead.

Ain't no place left to look.

Lord, forgive me that I hate them.

And I'll never forgive what they've

done.

I killed a bar.

knock you over there.

I didn't really do it.

>> Rushing you in there.

You drunken old trapper.

>> I never seen you far in my life. Bar

killer. Tear his legs off.

>> Nobody listen to me at all.

There ain't no way you can get me to

take you no place, no how.

>> Just think of all that gold we'll find

once you take me those engines that

stole my sister. Just think. Yellow

gold. Stacks and stacks of it.

I sir reckon everything that's dear and

precious to me is back right there in

that mule. said maybe for old bar

killer. Come on.

Heat. Heat.

Hey,

hey, hey. Heat.

Heat.

Dang it. You don't make the worst coffee

in the world.

>> Told you I never made it before my dead

squy

have a son.

Of course I did. Told you, didn't I?

Did you really slit his throat?

>> What would you think I made that stew

out of?

>> He's a good boy.

Told you he put me in mind to you.

Tomorrow was Cheyenne.

Bought her from old chief shook kebab

for two jugs.

Damn Pox's got them both.

>> You know, you'd think after all this

time, we would have found a clue by now.

It's like hunting for ghosts, ain't it?

>> Well, you can't expect folks to know

something about a tribe that don't

exist.

Gets more clear every day you drug me

out on a wild goose chase. And you might

as well know

I don't aim to go on.

>> Russian, you ain't quitting. had it in

mind to head back first thing in the

morning.

>> But you can't.

>> What's to stop me?

>> But I've got to have you long. How else

am I going to talk to them engines?

They'll scout me for sure.

>> And then wouldn't your mom my paw have

something real to grieve about? Both

their kids hanging in a tree.

>> I don't care if you do go back, but I'm

going on till I find Charlotte. You can

bet that when I find that gold, you

ain't getting one piece. You old jeller

belly.

Well,

it's only two more days to the Cheyans

and after that I'm heading back and you

you can go to hell.

>> Well, look at her. Ain't she pretty? Old

shoke Bob like to swap her for a smart

alec white kid.

Let's watch it.

E R.

Well, it's just like I figured he don't

know nothing neither. Now, Sam Isaac, if

you'll excuse me, I'm about to attend a

small social due following which I am

heading back.

I'm doing nothing.

Then say it, boy. He ain't about to lift

your scalp.

>> What's he doing? Does he know anything?

>> Why can't he talk?

>> His tongue's cut out. The old fool came

here years ago. dead a winter tried to

steal some food and these loving

Cheyenne took him in and sentenced him

to do squas work for the rest of his

life.

>> Well, maybe he's

>> No, they don't know who he is and they

don't know where he came from. Good.

The writing

is great

spirit,

great

The struggle.

Crooked

sky.

>> Crooked sky. That's what we've been

looking for. Russian. That's got to be

where Charlotte is.

>> Now, I ain't never heard of no crooked

sky. And ain't about to go trapsing all

over this country looking for some place

I never heard of.

>> Ask him, Russian. Ask him where it is.

>> Shinji.

Well, he

absolutely no tell where crooked sky.

He

leads

me

and you

on trail.

Crooked sky.

He

wants to die.

Now that's among

his

people.

>> Sure, we'll take him home. Tell him

Russian.

>> Are you local? Look at him. He can

barely totter around this camp. He

wouldn't last one day on the trail. And

besides, I told you where I'm going.

>> But that's if we didn't find any clues

here. But now we know where Charlotte

is. Please, Russ, you got to help me.

>> No, my mind's made up. And this time I

mean it.

Damn fool me listening to a brat.

Should have Never should have never

never never come.

Hey. Hey.

What is it? What's wrong?

>> This is Apache country and that old

buzzard knows it.

All right,

this where we stop.

Unpack this fuel. make camp while I do a

little scouting. Boy, you'd be wise to

keep that rifle handy. Bar killer. Come

on.

Sure

wish that Russian didn't get here.

Russia, look out.

Hey,

Russian. Look.

Rotten Apaches

killed my dog.

There'll be some black hair hanging on

my belt before I'm through this.

save my life.

Two times he saved it.

You think he's going to make it

>> for a while? I guess

lasted while we got him out of those

rocks.

Likely last just long enough to get us

lost in that desert.

I sure as hell hope he knows where he's

going.

End of the world

and we're dead.

>> Russian muck.

It's the same drawing. Same as on the

gold band.

>> We led us right to the edge of nowhere.

>> We're rushing. That's got to be Crooked

Sky. That's what he's trying to tell us.

We made it.

What are you going to do,

Russian? You're almost there. We're

likely right on top of it. And behind

that rock wall, there's water waiting

for us and Charlotte and enough gold to

make you rich.

>> In the morning, if I wake up, I'm

heading home. Now, I likely won't get

far, but I'm going.

>> Why? You dirty old drunken coward.

You're nothing but a coward. Always

giving up.

Sorry, old man about not being able to

keep my promise and take you back home.

But I was hoping you'd taken us to the

right spot,

but I guess Russian was right.

You're just a crazy old Indian.

Crooked sky.

Russ. Russ, wake it up. Come on. We

found it. Come on. Get up. Get up. Come

on. Right over here. Right over here.

>> Right up there.

>> Oh god. Sure.

>> Well, now

that is a freak of nature to behold.

>> Why couldn't we see before?

>> I don't know. Something to do with the

sun's rays, I suppose.

Well, come on.

Heat. Heat.

There is water up there, boy. There is

water. Come on. Come on.

Come on, get out of

a Beautiful.

Now, what incarnation is that?

Well, now I never seen nothing like that

in all my life.

>> Russian, look.

Oh,

that's gold.

Boy, that's gold.

I'm going to be rich. Boy, you done

right by me. You br me to the end of the

rainbow.

A beautiful sweet yellow gold. Look at

it, boy. Watch it shine. Don't it

pleasure your eyes.

Sam, I'll share it with you. You bring

me here, I'll share everything we find,

and there'll be plenty of it.

Sweet yellow,

>> fresh, look at this.

>> What does it all mean?

>> Damn fo.

Now, boy,

we got you dig up this arrow and get

packing. Come on.

Come on.

Well, fit to be scouted. I'm praying,

boy. Best get to your prayers. We're

sure as hell going to need them now.

There's no

They ain't going to kill us, are they?

>> You

What do you

>> mouth truck, boy? Oh,

>> I don't I don't want it.

>> Just a matter of time. We're poisoned

for sure.

Just matter of time.

>> Oh, bat ice.

I'm going

be

trapping on the old river country with

bar killer

instead. Look at me now.

Laying here near naked being gawkked at

by that old bat mother of the squ. I'm

going boy. I'm going. I'm

Hey, Emma.

Baby,

come on.

Okay.

Sh me. I bonker.

Rush. brushing pipitis.

>> Titus,

>> I feel like the inside of a s's belly.

What the devil?

>> It's old cut time. Must be dead.

Look like they're fixing a barbecue.

Lord, I wait around to find out. Come

on.

Stop. Cut that out.

They burn Ekima soon. You speak English,

>> white girl. Teach me your language.

>> I am Ashia,

daughter Chief Shumiki.

My father feels sorrow,

anger for one who killed brother Ekima.

>> Oh, cut tongue murdered.

Ekima great warrior once for chief but

failed test crooked sky ecima feel shame

leave people never return

>> no he passes test didn't you Russian

that's why he cried when he saw the gold

band

>> you win gold now chief

>> and we might just be Next.

>> Look, you've got to help me.

Your people, they stole my sister,

Charlotte. I've got to see her. Please,

you got to help me. You just got to help

me. I've got to see her. I've got to

talk to her.

Gold Ben. That's him. He's the one that

stole my

You aiming to take on this whole tribe.

>> Keith Kim Kai, my brother, your sister's

husband,

wear gold, soon to be chief

>> Charlotte.

They say she kill

Ekima. No, no, she wouldn't do that.

Now you tell that old buzzard of the

chief that if he tried to kill my

sister, I'm going to kill him. Now you

tell him that for a start, cuz I mean

business.

>> Boy, you trying to get us both

barbecued.

>> She's telling him

>> chief angry. He know like be called

buzzard. He say you go or die with girl.

>> Tell him I'm not leaving this place

without that girl.

>> Boy, you want me to come over there and

get you?

>> I didn't come all this way just to see

my sister die before I give up fighting.

I'll give my own life for Charlotte.

Now you tell him that. Boy,

I never seen nothing like you in all my

born put together.

for

you. Let Charlotte go.

>> Chief say if Charlotte have no blame,

boy raise sun to crooked sky. Give blood

to let sister live. Your death will

prove your sister's innocence. It means

the gods have allowed you to win.

>> What do I have to do?

>> Racing against the sun. Now, that is the

crulest, damnest thing I ever heard of.

Asking a scrawny little kid like you to

race against the sun and for the

privilege of receiving an arrow that was

meant for your sister.

>> We got to prove who did a Russian.

That's the answer. Well, you not head.

Have you figured that out yet?

>> You know,

>> I'm not so blind I can't see the facts.

Now, if old cut tongue was telling the

truth about winning that gold band, then

he should have been the king all along.

But

he was left out in that desert without a

tongue. He's left out there to die. And

somebody else is running this place.

>> Shumiki,

>> you hush up, boy, or we ain't worth

rags. Not to ourselves, not to your

sister, not to nobody.

>> What are we going to do?

>> Hell, if I know,

>> we got to help save Charlotte.

>> Boy, you really do expect miracles.

>> And where's all that gold you promised

me? Now, that's our bargain. You're

going to bring me out for gold. And now

you're asking me to risk my life, and I

got to think about that.

>> We don't got time to think. We only got

till morning.

>> I said I'm going to think about it.

Little brother,

please come.

Charlotte.

Charlotte.

Sam.

Everything's going to be okay.

Just leave it in my hands.

>> Tells Mama, "Papa,

I miss him so much."

>> They're doing just fine. They miss you,

too.

>> Please, Sam, I want you to go home.

Please, before they harm you.

>> I'm going home. All right. But I'm

taking you with me.

>> But there's no way. Hurry, little

brother. Stop. Find us here. Wait.

I want you to take this home. MPA,

please hurry. Go before it's too late.

Ashia, keep my secret.

Tim Kai must never find out that I carry

his child.

Not with what he must do.

Aska, what does it mean to race the sun?

>> You will begin in the valley below. Race

across the valley and climb to the top

of crooked sky. This must be done before

the shadow of the sun leaves the golden

arrow. How? How could anybody ever do

it?

>> Even the strongest warriors failed the

test of Crooked Sky. You do as your

sister begs. Return to your own land, to

your mother and father.

It is Timkai.

He sad for what he must do.

>> I don't understand.

>> He wear gold. His arrow must take

Charlotte's life.

It is the way of my people. What?

My people's ways

are hard.

I'll do it. Who says I can't? God will

help me. And I'll make it, too.

And I'll be the one that'll take Tim

Kaiserero.

>> I do not understand such love to give so

much for your sister.

>> She'd do it for me. So would Ma and P.

They believe what it says right in here

about giving your life for a friend.

Here, there's no need to me keeping this

now.

Hello.

I

Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Please God,

don't let me give Heat.

Heat.

Heat

up here.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Ow.

Ow.

Sam.

Sam.

Samuel.

Ma

ma

ma

ma

A a

Sam.

>> Well, about time you got back.

>> Howdy, Russian.

>> Where have you two been? Running off

without a word?

>> What brings you out here this time of

the year? Well, now gentlemen, I was

afraid that if we got a heavy snow, I

might get locked in, and I was hoping I

could spend a little time here with you

folks.

>> Well, now you're welcome to stage as

long as you'd like.

>> Sam, take your cow.

What the hell is that?

>> We'd saved him for you, Russian. Name's

Bar Killer.

>> Well, you not hit.

Don't you know enough not to give my

dog's name to a scraggy thing like that?

Let me see it.

Morning.

Where's Russian off to today? went to

get his mule.

>> His mule?

>> Yeah, his mule left him this morning. He

was cussing it and that thing turned and

headed towards the hills.

Guess it had enough of him.

>> Yeah,

you're going to miss that Russian.

>> Uhhuh. He's a good old boy,

huh?

>> Yeah, son.

Do you think M ever get back to the way

she was?

>> What do you mean, Sam?

>> She don't act the same.

>> Your mom's going through a lot of pain,

son.

I guess maybe she doesn't realize what

she's got for thinking about what she's

lost.

You know, when you and Charlotte was

both gone,

how she never stopped hoping and praying

that she'd both come back.

When you came back and told us that

Charlotte had died of the fever in that

Indian camp, well,

I guess maybe she just ain't accepted

it.

We'll just have to give her time, son.

And trust in the Lord.

>> Hey, it's getting hot. How about some

water?

Sam.

Sam.

Sam.

John.

>> Please only stay here. Shut up.

Heat.

Heat.

What's the matter with you, boy?

>> It was damn Kai.

Molly.

Molly,

>> I saw you fall.

I'll see you.

Ashka,

she took my place at Crooked Sky.

Riley.

Riley. Come on.

Charlotte, I

>> He's my son. Mine and Temp.

>> What is it, John? What's wrong?

>> Mama. Mama,

come on.

Baby,

thank God.

Oh,

heat.

Heat.

Heat.

An arrow

flies.

against a croen

sky.

The night wind knows

someone

must die.

But love will win.

You hear the night wind sing

love

is eternal

spring.

One leaf

may fall,

but the tree

grows

down.

True love is on.

There is no lasting.

My wind cries

against a crooked

sky.