Original subtitles

Narrator: AT THE EDGE OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER,

LAWLESSNESS RUNS RAMPANT IN A NOTORIOUS TEXAS TOWN.

WE HAD A NICKNAME -- HELL PASO.

[ GUNFIRE ]

Narrator: THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW ONE MAN,

DALLAS STOUDENMIRE,

TAKES ON THE WILDEST CORNER OF THE OLD WEST...

YOU CAN LIVE IN JAIL OR DIE HERE.

IF YOU WEREN'T FOLLOWING THE LAW,

HE HAD NO PROBLEM MAKING YOU FOLLOW IT.

Johnson: BASTARD!

...OR, EVEN, IF HE HAD TO, KILL YOU.

HE MIGHT JUST BE THE MAN THAT COULD TAME THAT TOWN.

YOU SEEN THIS?

IT'S NOT MY FIRST DEATH THREAT.

WELL, WHATCHA GONNA DO?

Narrator: ...EARNING HIS PLACE IN HISTORY

WITH A GUNFIGHT THAT BECOMES THE STUFF OF LEGEND.

IF YOU DON'T HIT HIM WITH THE FIRST SHOT, YOU'RE DEAD.

Narrator: AS AMERICA RISES AS A NATION,

VIOLENCE REIGNS.

A FEW BRAVE SOULS FACE THE DANGER,

FIGHTING TO CREATE JUSTICE FROM CHAOS.

THESE ARE THE STORIES OF AMERICAN LAWMEN.

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[ GUNFIRE ]

Polk: IN 1881, EL PASO WAS A DANGEROUS PLACE,

AND YOU SURVIVED BY KNOWING HOW TO USE A GUN

OR KNOWING HOW TO RUN -- ONE OR THE OTHER.

[ GUNSHOT ]

EL PASO WAS EXPLODING WITH GUNFIRE.

IT WAS TRULY WILD WEST BACK IN THOSE DAYS.

Polk: YOU HAD DESPERATE PEOPLE LEFT OVER FROM THE CIVIL WAR

FLOATING ALL OVER THE WEST LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITY.

Weiser-Alexander: IT WAS A PLACE TO RUN.

IT WAS A PLACE TO HIDE.

EL PASO DIDN'T DEMAND, "WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND?"

YOU KNOW, "WHAT ARE YOUR BELIEFS?

WHAT ARE YOUR POLITICS?" THEY DIDN'T CARE.

Polk: IF YOU WERE AN OUTLAW AND YOU DON'T WANT TO BE CAUGHT,

GO HANG OUT IN THE EL PASO AREA

WHERE THREE STATES AND TWO COUNTRIES MEET.

AND PEOPLE WERE JUMPING JURISDICTIONS ALL THE TIME.

Weiser-Alexander: THERE WAS A MARSHAL

BY THE NAME OF GEORGE CAMPBELL.

HE WAS WELL-KNOWN IN THE COMMUNITY.

-LET'S GET ANOTHER ONE. -ALL RIGHT.

OOH, I WON'T SAY NO.

Weiser-Alexander: THE PROBLEM IS

THEY DIDN'T PAY THE MARSHAL.

MM.

THE ONLY WAY HE COULD MAKE MONEY WAS TO ARREST PEOPLE

AND GET MONEY FROM THE FINES.

AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT

BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS HIS FRIEND.

IMAGINE A WARRANT.

I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS.

[ LAUGHTER ]

DRINK.

Weiser-Alexander: MARSHAL GEORGE CAMPBELL FINALLY

DREAMED UP AN IDEA.

[ SIGHS ]

IF ENOUGH CHAOS AND COMMOTION WAS CREATED

TO SCARE THE TOWNSFOLK, ESPECIALLY THE ALDERMAN

AND THE MAYOR, THEN MAYBE THEY'D SEE

HOW BADLY THEY NEEDED TO PAY A MARSHAL

TO GET HIM TO DO HIS JOB.

THE ALDERMAN MADE PLANS TO HIRE SOMEBODY NEW,

SOMEBODY TOUGHER,

WHO WASN'T FRIENDS WITH THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY,

AND BRING HIM TO EL PASO SO THAT HE COULD TAME THE TOWN.

DALLAS STOUDENMIRE JOINED UP WITH THE CONFEDERATE ARMY

WHEN HE WAS JUST 16 YEARS OLD.

HE WAS WOUNDED SEVERAL TIMES

AND WAS SAID THAT HE LIVED WITH AT LEAST TWO BULLETS

FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

HE'S ONE OF THOSE MEN THAT REALLY HAD NO SKILLS

EXCEPT FOR HOW TO SHOOT, HOW TO BE A WARRIOR.

HE DID HAVE A SOLID BACKGROUND AS A LAWMAN.

HE SERVED AS A TEXAS RANGER.

[ HORSES NEIGH ]

HE ACTUALLY WAS IN MORE GUNFIGHTS

AND KILLED MORE PEOPLE

THAN SOMEBODY THAT ARE FAR BETTER KNOWN,

SUCH AS A LUKE SHORT,

WYATT EARP, BAT MASTERSON.

STOUDENMIRE HAD AN ATTITUDE OF, "RIGHT IS RIGHT

AND I'M GONNA FORCE THEM."

AND I THINK HE WAS THE EXACT KIND OF GUY THEY NEEDED.

THE ARRIVAL OF THE RAILROAD IN EL PASO

WOULD CHANGE THE TOWN FOREVER.

IT WOULD BRING NOT ONLY MORE AND MORE PEOPLE,

IT WOULD ALSO BRING CIVILIZATION.

IT WOULD BRING INVESTORS

WHO REALLY CARED ABOUT HAVING A SAFE COMMUNITY

BECAUSE THESE FOLKS ARE LIKELY TO BRING THEIR WIVES

AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Polk: THERE WERE A LOT OF BUSINESSMEN THAT CAME

INTO EL PASO AHEAD OF THE TRAINS TO SECURE BUSINESS.

THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SAID, "OKAY, WE NEED TO GET A SHERIFF

TO KICK THIS CRAP OUT OF HERE."

EL PASO WAS ONLY JUST A FEW MONTHS OLD OFFICIALLY.

AT THAT TIME THERE WERE NO MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE AROUND TOWN.

Sargent: THEY WENT THROUGH A SERIES OF NO LESS

THAN SIX CITY MARSHALS IN A PERIOD OF A YEAR.

WYATT EARP CAME THROUGH AFTER THE O.K. CORRAL,

WAS OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE THE CITY MARSHAL.

AND HE TURNED IT DOWN. HE SAID IT WAS TOO DANGEROUS.

Portillo: THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE FACING.

AND, OF COURSE, DALLAS STOUDENMIRE,

HE LOVED THE CHALLENGE, WHICH IS WHAT MADE HIM SPECIAL, AS WELL.

Weiser-Alexander: IN EL PASO, THERE WAS A FAMILY

BY THE NAME OF MANNING.

THE MANNINGS, THOUGH NEVER CONVICTED,

WERE WELL KNOWN THROUGH THE AREA TO BE LARGE CATTLE RUSTLERS.

BRIDGE POT -- TWO. GET IN THERE.

Sargent: THE MANNING BROTHERS OWNED SALOONS

AND HOUSES OF ILL REPUTE.

THEY HAD CONTROL OVER DOWNTOWN AREA.

VERY POLITICALLY ASTUTE.

THEY KNEW IF THEY KEPT THE LAW ON THEIR SIDE,

WHATEVER THE CITY ALDERMAN OR THE MAYOR WOULD DO,

THEY COULD PRETTY MUCH DO THEIR OWN THING.

AND THEY COULD CONTINUE TO MAKE MONEY.

ACES AND EIGHTS BEATS KINGS AND QUEENS.

WHAT CAN I SAY, BOYS? I GUESS I'M JUST LUCKY.

Portillo: JOHNNY HALE WAS A FOREMAN FOR THE MANNINGS,

AND HE WAS THE ONE THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING

MUCH OF THE CATTLE RUSTLING FOR THEM.

Sargent: JUST NORTH OF EL PASO WAS A GOOD PLACE

TO HIDE THE CATTLE AND THEN CHANGE THE BRANDS

SO THAT THEY COULD KEEP THEM AND SELL THEM AT MARKET.

Weiser-Alexander: SEVERAL COMPLAINS CAME

FROM THE MEXICANS JUST ACROSS THE RIVER

WHO HAD LOST 30 HEAD OF THEIR CATTLE.

MANY OF THE TOWNSFOLK SUSPECTED

EITHER THE MANNING BROTHERS OR JOHN HALE,

BUT NOBODY WAS GOING TO SAY THAT FOR FEAR OF THEIR LIVES.

[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

Sargent: THERE WERE SOME VAQUEROS THAT WERE LOOKING

FOR STOLEN CATTLE FROM MEXICO.

THEY FOUND THEM.

BUT THEY ALSO FOUND JOHNNY HALE.

[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

WHAT ARE Y'ALL DOING ON MY RANCH?

I DON'T SPEAK MEXICAN.

IF YOU'RE IMPLYING I'M A THIEF...

SI, SI. YOU ARE A THIEF.

THESE COWS ARE OURS.

FINE.

JUST TAKE THEM.

YOU'RE STEALING FROM ME, THOUGH.

[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

THE VAQUEROS WERE VERY GOOD GUNMAN

SO YOU WERE TAKING YOUR LIFE IN YOUR OWN HANDS

WHEN YOU'RE STEALING CATTLE FROM THE MEXICANS.

ALL RIGHT, THEN.

I WILL DO THAT.

THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH THE CATTLE.

WE CAN'T GO ON ANY MORE DRIVES

WITH THESE TWO MEXICANS SNOOPING AROUND MY RANCH.

THEN TAKE CARE OF IT, HALE.

AND HOW DO YOU PROPOSE I DO THAT?

BY ANY MEANS, HALE.

BY ANY MEANS.

MAKE THOSE VAQUEROS DISAPPEAR.

Weiser-Alexander: WHEN STOUDENMIRE CAME TO EL PASO,

HE REALLY DIDN'T KNOW A SOUL

EXCEPT FOR A MAN NAMED "DOC" CUMMINGS.

CUMMINGS JUST HAPPENED TO BE THE BROTHER-IN-LAW

OF DALLAS STOUDENMIRE.

Cummings: DALLAS, OLD BOY. DOC.

Sargent: DOC CUMMINGS LIVED HERE.

HE HAD A BUSINESS HERE. IT WAS THE GLOBE RESTAURANT.

HE WAS THE ONE THAT SUGGESTED DALLAS STOUDENMIRE

TO THE ALDERMAN AND THE MAYOR.

YOU WANT A DRINK? WHISKEY.

Weiser-Alexander: THESE TWO HAD BEEN EXTREMELY LOYAL

TO EACH OTHER FOR YEARS AND YEARS.

[ GLASSES CLINK ]

THAT RELATIONSHIP WAS AS TIGHT

AS ANY TWO BROTHERS COULD POSSIBLY BE.

Stoudenmire: WHERE WOULD I FIND A BILL JOHNSON?

THAT'S THE MAN SITTING RIGHT OVER THERE.

A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF BILL JOHNSON

HAD TAKEN THE PLACE OF GEORGE CAMPBELL

UNTIL THEY COULD GET A REPLACEMENT.

BUT BILL JOHNSON WAS NOT REALLY A LAWMAN.

BILL JOHNSON WAS KNOWN BY EVERYBODY AS THE TOWN DRUNK.

BE RIGHT BACK. ALL RIGHT.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?!

YOU ARE HEREBY RELIEVED OF YOUR DUTIES AS MARSHAL.

THE JAIL KEYS.

ONE OF THESE IS FOR MY HOUSE.

I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE.

GOT TO GO HOME AND CHECK.

YOU BASTARD!

NOBODY DOES THAT TO ME.

NOBODY!

GENTLEMEN.

HE HAD HUMILIATED BILL JOHNSON

IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CROWD AT THE SALOON

AND MANY OF JOHNSON'S FRIENDS.

I'M PRETTY SURE THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE

THAT WERE IMPRESSED.

BUT ALSO THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WERE LIKE,

"UH-OH, WE GOT TO WATCH OUT FOR THIS GUY.

HE'S NOT PLAYING AROUND."

Polk: YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIGHT ALL THESE BAD GUYS

BY ASKING THEM NICELY TO DO SOMETHING.

YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT THEM BY KILLING THEM --

ONE AT A TIME, OR ALL OF THEM AT ONCE IF YOU NEED TO.

Weiser-Alexander: DALLAS STOUDENMIRE WAS A MAN

WHO WAS SERIOUS ABOUT DOING HIS JOB.

AND EVEN WERE HE A LITTLE BIT TOO AGGRESSIVE,

HE MIGHT JUST BE THE MAN THAT COULD TAME THAT TOWN.

Sargent: THEY FOUND THE VAQUEROS UNDERNEATH A SHADE TREE

RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.

WORD GOT OUT RATHER QUICKLY THAT THIS HAD HAPPENED,

AND IT GOT ACROSS THE BORDER VERY FAST.

[ GUNSHOT ]

[ GUNSHOT ]

[ GUNFIRE ]

Sargent: THE VAQUEROS WANTED JOHNNY HALE

OR ANYBODY ASSOCIATED WITH THAT RANCH.

THEY WANTED TAKE THEM BACK TO MEXICO

WHERE THEY COULD HANG THEM -- OR WORSE.

Weiser-Alexander: PEOPLE JUST HOPED THAT THINGS WOULDN'T TURN

INTO AN ALL OUT BLOODY FEUD.

MARSHAL, DO YOUR JOB.

RUN THESE MEXICANS OUT OF OUR TOWN.

MURDERER.

GIVE EACH OTHER SOME SPACE.

GENTLEMEN, IF THERE IS A GRIEVANCE IN THIS TOWN,

IT WILL BE SETTLED BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW.

THE LAW?

COME ON.

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

[ GAVEL BANGS ]

AW, WHAT'S HE TALKING ABOUT? COME ON.

Weiser-Alexander: ONE OF THE CONSTABLES,

A MAN NAMED GUS KREMPKAU, WAS BILINGUAL.

AND SO HE ACTED AS AN INTERPRETER IN THIS INQUEST.

[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

WHAT HE SAID WAS

MR. HALE HAS BEEN RE-BRANDING THE CATTLE...

Hale: AW, HE'S A LIAR!

...BY PUTTING HIS MARK OVER TOP OF THEIRS.

KREMPKAU, YOU SIDING WITH THE MEXICANS?

I'M SIDING WITH NO ONE, HALE.

I'M HERE AS AN INTERPRETER. SIT DOWN.

YOU ARE A MURDERER.

HEY, WHY DON'T YOU PIPE DOWN AND TRY TO ACT CIVILIZED!

[ MEN ARGUING INDISTINCTLY ]

[ GAVEL BANGING ] Judge: ORDER!

[ ARGUING, BANGING CONTINUE ]

GENTLEMEN!

[ ARGUING, BANGING STOP ]

Weiser-Alexander: THE TESTIMONY AT THE INQUEST

BECAME SO HEATED AND SO ROWDY IN THE ROOM

THAT THE JUDGE FINALLY DEMANDED THAT EVERYBODY TAKE A RECESS.

WHAT YOU WANT?

STEAK AND A WHISKEY.

GUS KREMPKAU, THE INTERPRETER AT THE INQUEST,

HEARD YELLING. [ MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY ]

GEORGE CAMPBELL WAS SCREAMING OBSCENITIES

AND MAKING TAUNTS DIRECTLY AT KREMPKAU.

ANY AMERICAN THAT ARE FRIENDS TO MEXICANS

OUGHT TO BE HANGED.

GEORGE, I SURE HOPE YOU DON'T MEAN ME.

EHH, IF THE SHOE FITS.

KREMPKAU TOOK OFFENSE TO IT BUT DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE A GUNFIGHT

RIGHT THERE IN THE STREETS.

WELL, JOHNNY HALE DECIDED HE WAS GOING TO PROTECT

HIS FRIEND GEORGE CAMPBELL.

[ GUNSHOT ]

[ HORSE NEIGHING ]

Weiser-Alexander: STOUDENMIRE SEES CONSTABLE KREMPKAU

ON THE GROUND

AND THE SMOKING GUN IN JOHN HALE'S HAND.

HE TAKES A SHOT AT HIM.

THE SHOT GOES WILD

AND INADVERTENTLY KILLS AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER.

STOUDENMIRE SHOOTS AGAIN...

AND, THIS TIME, NAILS JOHN HALE,

PUTTING THE BULLET RIGHT THROUGH HIS BRAIN.

GEORGE CAMPBELL HAS GRABBED HIS OTHER GUN.

KREMPKAU, WHO IS BADLY WOUNDED, IS STILL ALIVE

AND PULLS HIS GUN...

[ GUNSHOT ]

AND TAKES A SHOT AT GEORGE CAMPBELL, WOUNDS HIM,

BUT NOT ANYWHERE FATAL.

YOU BIG SON OF A BITCH.

YOU MURDERED ME.

ALL OF THIS OCCURRED JUST THREE DAYS

AFTER HE HAD TAKEN HIS POSITION.

HE HAD PROVEN TO THE ALDERMAN

THAT HE WAS SKILLED ENOUGH TO TAKE ON THESE TYPES OF FOLK.

IT'S CALLED THE FOUR DEAD IN FIVE SECONDS GUNFIGHT.

SOON AFTER, IT WAS REPORTED THROUGHOUT MANY NEWSPAPERS

ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHAT A GREAT JOB HE DID.

Polk: THAT BECAME A FAMOUS MOMENT.

IT ALSO BECAME KIND OF A TURNING POINT THAT,

"WE'RE NOT GONNA PUT UP WITH THIS RUSTLING ANYMORE.

WE'RE GONNA GET RID OF THE PEOPLE DOING IT."

Sargent: THINGS STAYED FAIRLY QUIET FOR A WHILE.

WE DIDN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF ACTIVITY WITH WEAPONS DOWNTOWN.

AND A LOT HAS TO BE SAID ABOUT DALLAS

AND HIS INTIMIDATION FACTOR.

KEEP DRINKING, FELLAS.

OUR PROFITS ARE BOTTOMING OUT.

PEOPLE DRINKING OUR BOOZE LIKE CHURCH WINE.

-STOUDENMIRE. -YEAH.

HE'S GOT EVERYONE WORRIED ABOUT BREATHING

IN A MAY THAT MIGHT BE CONSTRUED AS UNLAWFUL.

THE MANNING BROTHERS -- I THINK, FOR THEM --

I MEAN, JOHNNY HALE AND GEORGE CAMPBELL DIED.

THEY DIDN'T JUST LOSE ALLIES. THEY LOST FRIENDS.

SO THEY'RE VERY ANGRY ABOUT THAT.

YEAH.

SO RIGHT THERE AND THEN... GENTLEMEN.

THERE WAS NOT GONNA BE ANY TYPE OF POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP

WITH DALLAS STOUDENMIRE.

WHISKEY.

[ SIGHS ]

Weiser-Alexander: HAVING MADE A BITTER ENEMY

OUT OF THE MANNING BROTHERS,

IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR THEM TO START THINKING

ABOUT HOW THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO TAKE REVENGE

UPON THE BRAND-NEW MARSHAL IN TOWN.

THEY COME UP WITH THE IDEA

THAT BILL JOHNSON MIGHT BE JUST THE PERFECT MAN.

[ SIGHS ]

Man: ON THE HOUSE.

ANOTHER?

GEEZ, JIM.

YOU BOYS SURE ARE NICE TO ME.

A LOT NICER THAN MARSHAL STOUDENMIRE,

I RECKON.

I'LL DRINK TO THAT.

EMBARRASSING -- THE WAY HE TOSSED YOU ABOUT.

Weiser-Alexander: BILL JOHNSON'S PRIDE IS

STILL SUFFERING FROM THE EMBARRASSMENT

AND HUMILIATION THAT STOUDENMIRE HAD MADE OF HIM

WHEN HE TOOK THOSE KEYS AWAY.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HEARD, JOHNSON?

I HEARD HE PLANS TO KILL YOU.

KILL ME?

HE'S THE MARSHAL.

[ Chuckling ] WELL...

THAT'S WHY HE THINKS HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.

HE HATES YOUR GUTS.

HE PLANS TO SHOOT YOU DEAD IN THE STREET

NEXT TIME HE SEES YOU.

BEST KEEP THIS AT YOUR SIDE, JOHNSON.

GET HIM BEFORE HE GETS YOU.

MM-HMM.

Weiser-Alexander: JOHNSON IS DRUNK.

HE'S EASY TO MANIPULATE.

AND THEY CONVINCE HIM THAT WHAT JOHNSON NEEDS TO DO

IS HE NEEDS TO TAKE HIS REVENGE AGAINST THE NEW MARSHAL.

[ GUNSHOT ]

Weiser-Alexander: STOUDENMIRE STARTS TO GET NOTES

AND WORD ON THE STREET THAT IT'D BE A GOOD IDEA

IF HE'D THINK ABOUT GETTING OUT OF TOWN.

DALLAS.

YEAH, I SEEN IT.

IT'S NOT MY FIRST DEATH THREAT.

WELL, WHATCHA GONNA DO?

I'M GONNA DO ROUNDS.

WELL, I'LL COME WITH YOU.

IF YOU INSIST.

Polk: STOUDENMIRE WAS GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR,

CHECKING THE DOORS, MAKING SURE THE PROPRIETORS PLACES'

WERE ALL LOCKED UP.

COME ON, YOU SON OF A BITCH.

BURN IN HELL, STOUDENMIRE!

Portillo: AT THE END OF THE GUNFIGHT

BILL JOHNSON RECEIVED ROUGHLY EIGHT GUNSHOTS,

WITH ONE OF THEM SHOOTING OFF HIS TESTICLES.

Cummings: WE GOT HIM.

IT WAS JUST KIND OF LIKE YOU'RE AN IDIOT

FOR TRYING TO GET THIS GUY BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HIT HIM

WITH THE FIRST SHOT, YOU'RE DEAD.

AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.

BUT THAT WAS NOT THE END OF THE GUN FIGHT.

Weiser-Alexander: THE MANNINGS HAD A GAME PLAN "B"

TO MAKE SURE THAT STOUDENMIRE WOULD BE DEAD

AT THE END OF THAT NIGHT.

[ GUNSHOT ]

STOUDENMIRE DOESN'T RUN.

IN FACT, HE RUNS STRAIGHT AT THE SHOOTERS.

[ GUNFIRE ]

WATCH IT.

SEE ANYTHING?

THEY'RE GONE.

DALLAS, YOU'RE HIT.

Weiser-Alexander: STOUDENMIRE HAS TAKEN A BULLET

IN THE HEEL... [ SIGHS ]

DAMN IT.

AND NO AMOUNT OF CURSING

IS GOING TO MAKE IT FEEL ANY BETTER.

WHEN ALL THE SMOKE HAD CLEARED, DALLAS STOUDENMIRE LEFT EL PASO

FOR A WHILE TO SEE A DOCTOR THAT HE'S KNOWN FOR SOME YEARS.

SOME IN EL PASO DECIDED THAT LAW IS A GOOD THING.

SO, IN HIS ABSENCE, THEY FORM A VIGILANTE COMMITTEE.

LET'S GO, BOYS.

ALL OF A SUDDEN, BAD GUYS ALL OVER TOWN ARE

WAKING UP IN THE MORNING

TO FIND NOOSES TACKED ONTO THE FRONT OF THEIR DOORS --

A VERY REAL THREAT THAT, "IF YOU GUYS KEEP UP THIS,

SOMETHING'S GONNA HAPPEN."

SO, EL PASO WAS BEING TAMED.

IN THE RIGHT WAY OR THE WRONG WAY,

IT WAS BEING TAMED.

GOD DAMN STOUDENMIRE.

Frank: I KNOW.

HALF THE TOWN THINKS HE'S A GODDAMNED HERO.

AND OUR CATTLE BUSINESS IS DRYING UP.

DAMN IT, I KNOW!

WE BETTER PUT A HOLE IN HIM, FRANK,

BEFORE WE LOSE OUR BUSINESS ALL TOGETHER.

DALLAS STOUDENMIRE WAS A LADIES MAN

AND WITH GOOD REASON.

HE WAS VERY POLITE, VERY GENTLEMANLY.

HE LIKED TO LAUGH, AND HE LIKED TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH.

Woman: YOU SEEM TO BE CONVALESCING QUITE NICELY.

WELL, I HAVE A GOOD NURSE.

[ CHUCKLES ]

IS THAT WHY YOU CAME ALL THIS WAY -- FOR A NURSE?

MNH. NO, MA'AM.

NO, I DID NOT.

BEHAVE YOURSELF.

YOU NEED TO REST.

Sargent: ISABELLA, HIS WIFE -- NOT A LOT IS KNOWN ABOUT HER.

HER FAMILY WAS ALSO FROM ALABAMA INITIALLY AND MOVED FROM TEXAS,

WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE REASONS

WHY DALLAS MET HER LIVING IN COLUMBUS

AND KIND OF SET THE TONE OR SET THE BALL IN MOTION

FOR THEM ULTIMATELY TO BE MARRIED.

Weiser-Alexander: WHILE DALLAS IS OUT OF TOWN,

DOC CUMMINGS, ACTUALLY, ON VALENTINES DAY,

DECIDES TO REALLY TIE ONE ON.

AND HE'S ANGRY.

HE'S STILL MAD THAT THE MANNINGS HAD TRIED

TO KILL HIS BEST FRIEND.

HE RUNS INTO JAMES MANNING, AND HE STARTS ARGUING WITH HIM.

Cummings: NOW, DON'T YOU THINK FOR ONE SECOND

THAT JUST 'CAUSE THE MARSHAL IS OUT OF TOWN

THAT YOU AND YOUR BROTHERS WILL BE IMMUNE TO THE LAW.

WILL YOU GET OFF MY HEELS?

OR WHAT?

YOU GONNA ARRANGE TO HAVE ME SHOT?

JUST LIKE YOU DID DALLAS?

YEAH, I KNOW THAT WAS YOU.

I KNOW NOTHING OF IT.

YOU'RE A COWARD, MANNING!

YOU AND YOUR WHOLE DAMN FAMILY!

MOST PEOPLE FELT THAT DOC WAS TRYING

TO BE SOMETHING THAT HE WASN'T AND FORCE THE ISSUE

THINKING THAT HE COULD CLEAN UP THE MESS

THAT DALLAS WAS DEALING WITH.

AND IT DIDN'T QUITE WORK OUT THE WAY HE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO.

JAMES MANNING WOULD BE INDICTED FOR THIS.

HE WOULD BE TRY FOR THIS.

BUT IN EL PASO IN THOSE DAYS, EVERYBODY THAT WAS ON THE JURY

WAS FRIENDS WITH THE MANNINGS.

HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY.

Sargent: YOU GOT TO THINK THAT WHEN DALLAS GOT BACK HERE

HE WOULD EXACT HIS REVENGE FOR DOC CUMMINGS' MURDER.

SALOON?

[ BOTH LAUGH ]

James: DALLAS. Dallas: JAMES.

I'D LIKE YOU TO MEET MY WIFE, ISABELLA.

Isabella: HI.

HOW DO YOU DO, MA'AM?

UH...

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS,

BUT, UH, WHILE YOU WERE AWAY...

YOUR BROTHER-IN-LAW WAS MURDERED.

WHO WAS IT?

TELL ME.

JAMES MANNING.

ONE CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW ANGRY DALLAS STOUDENMIRE WAS

WHEN HE HEARD THAT NEWS.

DALLAS GOES BACK TO WORK, BUT HE'S NEVER THE SAME.

THE GRIEF THAT HE HAS OVER DOC, HE DOESN'T HANDLE IN A GOOD WAY.

[ GASPS ]

ALL RIGHT, NOW.

THIS AIN'T GONNA BRING DOC BACK.

Sargent: DALLAS' DRINKING PROBLEM CAME

FROM PENT-UP FRUSTRATION.

HIS BEST FRIEND WAS KILLED IN A GUNFIGHT

BY PEOPLE HE DID NOT LIKE.

BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO ABOUT IT

UNLESS THEY BROKE THE LAW.

AND THEY WERE VERY CAREFUL TO WALK THAT FINE LINE.

Weiser-Alexander: EVERY TIME HE SEES ANY OF THE MANNINGS,

HE CUSSES THEM OUT,

HE CHALLENGES THEM,

HE THREATENS THEM.

THE ALDERMAN JUST SIMPLY CANNOT TOLERATE THIS ANY MORE,

THIS FEUD BETWEEN THE MANNING BROTHERS

AND STOUDENMIRE.

Sargent: IT GOT TO BE PRETTY HEATED --

TO THE POINT WHERE THEY EVEN HAD A PEACE TREATY

THAT THEY BOTH SIGNED OFF ON SAYING

THEY WOULD NOT SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT EACH OTHER

AND EVERYTHING WOULD BE ABOVEBOARD

AS LONG AS THEY WERE IN TOWN.

Man: ALL RIGHT. GENTLEMEN IT'S ABOUT TIME.

LET'S TO PUT THIS TO BED.

TO A TRUCE IN EL PASO. -HERE, HERE.

[ GLASSES CLINK ]

Sargent: THE FACT THAT HE COULD NOT MAKE AMENDS

TO DOC'S DEATH WITH THE MANNINGS BECAUSE OF THE TREATY

THAT HE HAD WITH HIM --

HE WAS HOLDING ALL OF THAT INSIDE.

Man #2: HAVE ANOTHER DRINK.

I GUESS WE'LL BE SEEING YOU AROUND, STOUDENMIRE.

Sargent: AND THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS FEAR

THAT DALLAS' TEMPER WOULD EXPLODE.

Weiser-Alexander: STOUDENMIRE IS DRUNK ALMOST CONSTANTLY.

HE IS NOT GETTING ANY LAWMAN WORK DONE ANYMORE.

Sargent: HIS DEPUTY MARSHAL, GILLETT, CONVINCED HIM

TO SOBER UP AND RESIGN.

OTHERWISE, HE WAS GOING TO BE FIRED.

IT'S BETTER TO RESIGN

BECAUSE IF YOU'RE FIRED FROM A JOB LIKE THIS,

YOU DON'T GET ANOTHER LAW-ENFORCEMENT JOB.

GONNA NEED YOUR BADGE, DALLAS.

Stoudenmire: [ SIGHS ]

WELL...

[ KEYS JINGLE ]

I KNOW YOU'LL TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT.

[ BREATHES DEEPLY ]

WELL, GOOD LUCK TO YOU.

Weiser-Alexander: AFTER HE STEPS DOWN, WE NEXT FIND HIM

AT A TOWN CALLED HOT SPRINGS, NEW MEXICO,

WHERE HE SPENT SEVERAL WEEKS KIND OF REJUVENATING.

HE WASN'T DRINKING LIKE HE WAS BEFORE.

THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW,

HE'S BEEN HIRED AS A U.S. DEPUTY MARSHAL.

[ HORSE NEIGHS ]

HALT!

U.S. MARSHALS.

Sargent: IF HE WAS COMING AFTER YOU,

CHANCES WERE PRETTY GOOD YOU WERE GONNA GET CAUGHT.

SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL TURN YOURSELF IN.

YOU CAN LIVE IN JAIL OR DIE HERE.

HE TRAVELED A LOT FOR IT.

HE WAS OUT OF TOWN A LOT.

AND I THINK THAT PROBABLY HAD A LOT TO DO WITH HIM NOT GETTING

INTO A MORE SERIOUS ALTERCATION WITH THE MANNINGS SOONER,

BECAUSE HE WASN'T IN TOWN AS MUCH.

Weiser-Alexander: BEFORE LONG HE HAD A WARRANT

FOR A GENTLEMAN HE HAD HEARD WAS ACTUALLY IN EL PASO.

HE WAS COMING BACK AS A U.S. MARSHAL

AND NOT AS THE TOWN MARSHAL,

AND HE WOULD INTIMIDATE PEOPLE STILL.

HE HAD KICKED OUT AND KILLED SO MANY PEOPLE,

HE HAD A LOT OF ENEMIES THERE.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? STOUDENMIRE'S BACK.

HE'S GOT SOME NERVE.

Weiser-Alexander: THE MANNING BROTHERS WERE

ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY SURE THAT STOUDENMIRE WAS THERE

TO START IT ALL UP AGAIN.

DALLAS STOUDENMIRE HAD ARRIVED BACK TO EL PASO

ON SEPTEMBER 17th, AND ONE OF THE PLACES

HE STOPPED AT WAS AT THE FRANK MANNING SALOON.

SO WE JUST THREW THEM RIGHT OUT OF THE SALOON.

[ LAUGHTER ] BOTH ROLLING AROUND IN THE MUD

LIKE A COUPLE OF PIGS.

I TELL YOU -- IT'S THE FUNNIEST THING I EVER SAW.

JUST HERE SERVING A WARRANT.

I AIN'T HERE FOR YOU.

STOUDENMIRE WASN'T LOOKING FOR ANYTHING TO HAPPEN.

BUT THE MANNING BROTHERS, THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.

GOOD DAY. YOU BROKE THE TRUCE.

I BEG YOUR PARDON.

THE PEACE TREATY WE SIGNED --

YOU INTEND TO VIOLATE IT.

I'LL BE DEAD IN MY GRAVE

BEFORE I LET A MANNING QUESTION MY HONOR.

SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE THINKING ALONG THE SAME LINES, THEN.

LIKE I SAID, I AIN'T HERE FOR YOU.

STOUDENMIRE.

THE FIRST SHOT THAT THEY HIT STOUDENMIRE WITH

HIT A BUNCH OF PAPERS IN HIS POCKET.

THEY WERE SEARCH WARRANTS THAT HE HADN'T SEARCHED YET.

AND SO THOSE SAVED HIS LIFE.

DALLAS SHOT DOC MANNING IN THE ARM,

WHICH PERMANENTLY PARALYZED HIM FROM THAT POINT ON.

Portillo: JAMES MANNING FIRED ONE SHOT FROM BEHIND.

THE BULLET ENTERED FROM THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS HEAD

RIGHT IN BACK OF THE EAR,

AND THE BULLET EXITED THE RIGHT TEMPLE.

DROP IT.

Sargent: AND THAT'S WHEN A CROWD STARTED TO GATHER AROUND DALLAS.

THERE WAS RELIEF, SHOCK, DISMAY, AND THEN KIND OF A, "WOW."

THE LEGEND WAS GONE.

DALLAS STOUDENMIRE DIED PENNILESS.

HAD IT BEEN UP TO THE CITY OF EL PASO,

HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE GONE TO A PAUPER'S GRAVE.

HOWEVER, DALLAS WAS A MEMBER OF THE MASONS.

THE MASONS PAID FOR HIS BURIAL

AND MADE SURE THAT IT WAS DONE PROPERLY.

JAMES MANNING IS INDICTED FOR THE KILLING.

BUT EVERYBODY ON THE JURY KNOWS THE MANNINGS.

IN THE END, HE IS RELEASED.

AFTER STOUDENMIRE WAS KILLED,

THE MANNINGS BASICALLY DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO.

THEIR CATTLE-RUSTLING DAYS WERE OVER.

AND SO, EVENTUALLY, THEY ALL LEFT.

Sargent: DALLAS' LEGACY IN EL PASO WAS THE BEGINNING

OF A MORE CIVIL COMMUNITY.

IT LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT.

BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES COULD FORM.

AND THERE WASN'T THE FEAR OF THE NE'ER-DO-WELLS

COMING INTO TOWN QUITE LIKE IT WAS BEFORE DALLAS GOT HERE.

DALLAS STOUDENMIRE, WHEN HE CAME INTO EL PASO,

HE CAME INTO A HARD SITUATION.

HE WAS AN OUTSIDER.

HE HARDLY HAD ANY FRIENDS.

AND THE CRIME WAS PRETTY BAD OVER HERE.

SO IT TOOK A LOT OF GUTS FOR ONE PERSON TO COME

AND TAKE ON THAT CHALLENGE.

Weiser-Alexander: STOUDENMIRE WAS ACTUALLY

ONE OF THE GOOD MEN.

DID HE HAVE HIS CHALLENGES? ABSOLUTELY.

BUT I THINK HIS HEART WAS GOOD.

Sargent: ONE THING TO BE SAID ABOUT DALLAS IS

THAT HE TAMED THE BEAST.

NO LONGER DID THE BEAST RUN RAMPANT

ON THE STREETS OF EL PASO.

TODAY, WE'RE CONSIDERED

ONE OF THE SAFEST CITIES IN THE COUNTRY.