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No lights.

What do you think? Too quiet.

Ma? Pa?

Happy birthday, Clint! Happy birthday, Clint!

Surprise! Oh, we couldn't resist it.

Why, even old pacer, he jumped a little. Where you been?

Well, this sure is a surprise, seeing my birthday was last week.

Well, it's the first chance we all had to come out.

Hurry and wash up. Supper will be on.

You boys sure put in a full day's work with them cows.

We thought you was never coming. I'll take care of the horses.

Well, whoop her up, kids. We'll do that. Will, play us some music.

Come on, will. How about this one?

J'j'

Hey, Dorothy, never mind those dishes.

May I? Oh, thanks.

J“ cowboy, cowboy, marry me I'll bake you a cherry pie j“

j“ well, thank you very kindly, ma'am j“

j“ but I'm too young to die j“

j“ hi, ho, do-si-do j“

j“ stay single and save a dollar j“

j“ come Saturday night I'll court a pretty gal j“

j“ in a cane and a high starched collar j“

j“ cowboy, if you marry me j“ let's go around this way!

J“ I'll be your darling Jenny j“

j“ now, why should I drink from just one well j“

j“ when I can drink from 20? J“

j“ hi, ho, do-si-do stay single and save a dollar j“

j“ come Saturday night I'll court a pretty gal j“

j“ in a cane and a high starched collar j“

hey, let's promenade!

J“ cowboy, cowboy name the day j“

j“ July'd be nice, I reckon j“

j“ I'll gladly meet you at the church j“

j“ July the 32nd j“

j“ hi, ho, do-si-do j“

j“ stay single and save a dollar j“

j“ come Saturday night I'll court a pretty gal j“

j“ in a cane and a high starched collar j“

j“ you sleep all day and spoon all night j“

j“ and eat your favorite chow j“

j“ then why should I get married, ma'am j“

j“ that's what I'm doing now j“

j“ hi, ho, do-si-do j“

j“ stay single and save a dollar j“

j“ come Saturday night I'll court a pretty gal j“

j“ in a cane and a high starched collar j“j“

Suppersready. Vvhoalsupped

that sure is a fine-lookin' cake. Oh, I could eat a buffalo.

You dance like one.

Whole supper was just great, Mrs. Burton.

'Course, like will and me always say, when it comes to cookin',

no one would ever guess it was any different from, well, our ma or anybody else.

I'm really proud you liked it, Tom. Just a little more cake?

No, ma'am.

What have we here? From me.

Well, now, that, uh...

That... sure is fine.

What is it?

Well, you hang it on the wall and...

And you put hot water in here.

It's mostly for a man to shave by,

but you can comb your hair in it or...

Or anything.

It sure is fine.

Roz is tryin' to civilize old Clint against the day that he proposes.

If he ever gets around to it.

Seein' as how you wear the britches, roz, maybe you ought to do the proposing.

Maybe pacer and me can look more presentable now when we come to the crossing.

I want to thank you, all of you, for everything.

More coffee, anyone? Oh, I sure would like some,

but I think we'd best be going.

We could make room if anyone wants to stay.

Oh, no, thank you. We better be getting on too. Ten miles can be a long haul.

Ten miles? Me and r02 got to go all the way to the crossing.

Well, the way she rides, you'll make good time.

That is, if you can keep up with it.

We'll ride along with you a ways. Thank you, miss Burton.

Thanks for dinner. Good night, all.

J“ hi, ho, do-si-do j“

j“ stay single and save a dollar j“

j“ come Saturday night I'll court a— j“j“

Honey, I'll see you at our weddin' next month.

Oh, you better see me before that. Oh!

Hyathyah! Good night, friends!

Good night, Tom. You take good care, Tom.

We better get going too. We won't be home before mornin'.

Thanks again. Good night, Clint.

Good night.

Good night, roz. Good night, pacer.

What's that look for? Oh, just thinkin'.

With that fancy gadget to prep in, you'll be about the prettiest fella in Texas.

Yah!

J“ hi, ho, do-si-do j“

hyah! Yah, mare!

J“ hi, ho, a-do-si-do j“

j“ stay single and save a dollar j“j“

whoa! Will you two be quiet?

No use waking everybody up.

I'll put up the rig. I'll get some coffee.

J“j“

J“j“

J“j“

Shh! Quiet!

J“j“

Whoo, will, I tell ya.

You gotta stop all this foolin' around, will.

Makin' all this noise. I'll tell ya, the old man's gonna be...

See him? Uh-huh.

Hunter? Uh-uh.

Hot out there.

Indian came up on that hill just now.

Uh-huh. Pacer says he's no hunter.

Tie up the horses.

What is it, Sam? Not sure yet.

All he did was look like he was trying to figure something out.

Nobody said anything about any trouble at the party the other night?

No, sir.

A lot of things can happen in three days.

Neddy, last time you went up to see your sister, you hear anything?

No. It was just about like always.

- Didn't you think so, pacer? - Uh-huh.

Pa, if trouble starts, who do you think will hit us first? Your folks or ma's?

Shame on you, Clint. More likely neither one will bother us.

I must say that ain't been my experience about people in the middle.

Maybe it's the new chief.

- What new chief? - The kiowas got a new chief now.

Since when? Maybe a month.

What about ol' lame crow?

He's the old man of the tribe now. How long you known this?

Since it happened.

Don't you ever tell anybody anything?

Not if they don't ask me.

Sometimes I'll be doggoned if I don't think you're more than half-Indian.

He told me. Maybe you're the other half.

Maybe your ma was Indian too. Didn't let me know it.

One horse.

Are you my brother beyond the wall?

Yes.

Then why light go out when friend come in peace?

Why does a friend who comes in peace...

Wait until the sun has gone?

Warrior ride when stars are alive.

Only against his enemies.

In the world of white men,

there are men who are not enemies nor friends.

- That is what I come to talk. - Without giving your name?

I am known from one end of the earth to the other.

I have the strongest magic,

and I lead many, many warriors.

I am buffalo horn. Buffalo horn!

We cannot be enemies to the kiowas in this house...

Without being enemies to ourselves.

Buffalo horn should know that.

I must see your eyes when you tell me this.

Do you come out, or do I come in?

Neither. We will talk to our brother only in the sunlight.

Your answer is honest.

I will return again at a time when the sun has killed the stars.

That was him.

The new chief? Uh-huh.

Was he by himself? The others were over the hill.

What do you think?

Well, he was carrying a war spear with scalps on it. Uh-huh.

They wouldn't do anything to us.

Maybe not.

I wouldn't be too sure. You know what some of them still call you, neddy?

One of them Indian traders said they got an Indian name for you.

It means “the thin woman who deserted her own people.”

Yeah. After more than 20 years.

I don't believe it.

You boys better go to the crossing tomorrow anyway...

And stock us up on supplies and ammunition just in case.

That's fine. Fine.

Not so fine. Won't be any time to daily with roz.

I want you back here by nightfall.

You heard what pa said. No horsin' around with roz.

Now, just a minute. What do you mean, horsin' around?

Well, ain't that what you're doin' with her? No, it ain't.

You mean you mean it? And what if I do?

With a gal that wears britches?

What's wrong with a gal that wears britches?

Well, ain't nothing wrong, but, uh, on second thought,

you might look pretty good with skirts on.

Where is everybody?

Anybody here?

I been thinking about you, Clint.

What's the matter with you, Angus?

Well, I decided that you're my friend no matter what.

But if that half-breed brother of yours sets foot in this store, I'm gonna kill him!

You're not gonna kill anybody.

Don't make me shoot you, Angus! Put it down, Angus!

He means it!

You better get out of here, both of you!

You both crazy?

No, we're not crazy. Maybe just smarter than before.

Oh, what are you talkin' about?

The kiowas hit the Howard place the night of the party.

And of the whole family, you know how much the men found in the ashes?

One hand!

One of Dorothy's! Stop it!

Now he's out makin' a coffin for her.

Just to Bury herhandin.

Oh, my god.

They didn't hit your place though, did they?

And you ride out the same way. No.

Roz, I don't know what you're talkin'...

Pa's out with the men now chasin' buffalo horn,

and for all we know, they'll get killed too.

But you don't have to worry about it, I suppose.

You'll always be safe from 'em!

Let's go.

No. Not till we get our supplies and ammunition.

Everything all right?

Nothing's all right.

What happened?

Buffalo horn hit the Howard place.

Killed 'em all.

Dear god. If you hadn't tended them for the fever,

they'd have been dead four years ago, ma.

This is the kind of time when I wonder if we did the right thing.

We did exactly the right thing.

I wish you wouldn't say such things.

What does everybody want anyway? There must be a million miles around here.

Room enough for them and us and a million more.

It was their land, Sam,

and they don't like anybody else taking any part of it.

It ain't their land anymore.

We've been workin' this place for over 20 years, and nobody can tell me it ain't ours.

Did those pierces say somethin' about us?

Nothing much.

Whatever they said, it's my fault...

For being what I am.

Neddy, now you listen to me. I'm speaking for the boys and me.

We don't want to hear such things said ever again.

Whatever happens, it'll be with us as it's always been.

This family will stick together and will not be swayed.

If we have to live alone on the face of the earth,

or if we have to become a power unto ourselves,

we'll resist whoever and whatever comes against us.

Hey, Clint!

Dmdeme

we want to talk to you, Clint.

They're not gonna do anything.

What do you want, dred?

The kiowas hit the Howard place Monday night. Wiped 'em out.

Yeah, we heard about it. It's a terrible thing.

How'd you hear about it?

Me and pacer was at the store this morning.

Oh. You sure them injuns didn't stop by and tell you about it?

Matt, I don't want to hear another word like that.

Looks like there's gonna be a lot of trouble.

Young injuns comin' in here from everywhere.

More than a hundred already, I've been told.

We've been tracking the ones that hit the Howard place...

Since yesterday morning, but we lost them.

- Get to the point, dred. - The point is,

if it comes to a real showdown, are you with us or not?

Well, that's the most foolish question I ever heard.

- Not with your family, it ain't. - Watch yourself, Matt.

You're liable to open your mouth once too often.

You gonna answer the question?

A question like that don't need an answer.

What did I tell you? [ Dred 1 I think it does.

Yeah, and you know what I think?

I think we got all the answers already,

- with all the reds and half-reds in this family. - Hold it!

First man tries for his gun will get a buffalo slug in him. Come back here, son.

Dred, you tryin' to make out that the death of old friends like the Howards...

Don't mean anything to us?

Sam, that ain't the question. Then what is it?

Well, it's a question of loyalty, you might say. Go on.

You know what I mean, Sam. Your wife is kiowa, full-blood.

Pacer there is half-injun. Clint's the only real white man in the family.

Well, this looks like it's gonna be a real bad war.

Everybody in this whole part of Texas is gonna be in it sooner or later.

Now, are you gonna give Clint the chance to consider the situation,

decide for himself just what he ought to do about it?

I don't need to do any considering.

I told you we wouldn't get any straight answers from him.

Now, you listen here, Matt.

Buffalo horn's our enemy because of what he done to the Howards.

He broke the laws of god and man.

You all know that me and my family will always be ready to fight our enemies.

Now, is that straight enough for you?

And I'm supposin' that you mean us too.

That's up to you, Ben.

We're just as ready to be friends with anyone who's friendly with us.

But this visit tonight ain't been friendly.

Yeah. Well, who wants to be friendly with a man with a kiowa squaw?

Don't shoot! Nobody else shoot!

How is it? I'm bad hurt.

- You're lucky it wasn't me. You'd be dead. - Bring him in here.

Maybe I can do something for him.

I wouldn't let a dirty Indian touch me!

I think we got about all the answer we need from these folks.

Then get goin'! All of you!

So what's the matter? You shoot too quick?

No, I pulled off. I couldn't just kill him, just like that.

What are they doing? Stampeding the cattle.

No, wait! No use now. There's a couple of them...

Pacer! Stop him, Clint.

Pacer! Pa don't want you to.

How come you don't want to go after them?

Because we'd be too few out there.

Harm's done anyway.

Come on in.

These are what we call our white friends, I suppose, hmm?

May take more than one day.

So don't get worried if we don't get back tonight.

Stay close to the house. Keep everything locked.

What about them fellas from the crossing, if they come back?

You just think about ma. You take care of her regardless of who comes.

Pacer

what's up yonder?

What was it? Just for a second it looked like,

like a man on foot way off up there.

Didn't you see anything?

If it's somebody, he might need help.

Maybe you should go see.

Idontsee anything, ma.

Pa said stay near the house.

You think about what dred Pierce said,

aboutjoinin' up with his crowd?

Ihavent paid it any mind.

Well, maybe you better think about it.

I didn't aim to, but I brought you boys to a bad situation.

Didn't matter when you were younger.

Now that you're men, you're gonna think about it more and more.

So... if you want to ride with dred and them,

I'll try to understand, and you'll go with my blessing.

You already said it, pa. There's not but one side for us.

You and ma and pacer and me.

- Oh, no. - They shot 'em.

I should've killed Matt holcom.

We should've cut them all down.

They're worse than Indians.

An Indian will Rob you blind if he can, but this is pure waste and meanness.

It's done.

Let's find the rest of the herd.

Ff

Pacer, you ought to get a little sleep, at least.

I'll be all right, ma. You go on back to bed.

Good night, pacer.

What is it? I don't know yet.

Strangers.

Hey, in there.

Yeah?

Can you maybe, uh, spare a bite?

- Who are you? - We're trappers.

We got chased out of the hills.

Too much trouble brewin' up there for safety's sake.

We're getting out of this country, and we're half-starved.

Let them in.

I ain't sure, ma. We can't turn them away hungry.

Sure mighty neighborly of you.

Hey, you Indians? Yeah.

You two work here?

This is our home. How do you like that?

Injuns livin' in a house like this.

Well, how about getting us some supper, red boy?

I'm fixing something.

That your ma? Uh-huh.

What are you making in that pot, honey?

Meat stew. I'll have to warm it up a little.

Get me another log, will you, pacer?

You'll sit down at the table.

Didn't you hear your ma, red boy?

What's the matter?

Nothing. Then hurry up and get it.

Where's the, uh, heap big chief?

Your husband or whoever he is.

He'll be back soon. But he's not a chief. He's white.

Oh? That's it, huh?

You like 'em white?

I like my husband. That ain't all, is it?

I mean, uh, just one man for a good-looking squaw like you?

Please.

Come on. I know you red babies.

Please, mister. What are you afraid of?

Joe will watch the door. Please! Let me go!

All right, I'll tell you what.

You just give me one little kiss and see if you don't want a few more.

Pa and Clint are back. They'll be in in a minute.

These men can't wait. They're leaving now.

Pacer

pacer!

Pacer?

If it hadn't been for that kid...

All right, get off your horses.

Did you hear what I said?

Uh-uh. Drop your gun belts.

Come on. Hurry it up.

If you're aimin' to Rob us, red boy,

you're wasting your time 'cause we ain't got anything.

Oh, I ain't gonna Rob you. I may kill you, but I ain't gonna Rob you.

Now, look here, Sonny, we've had enough trouble with Indians already!

All he asked for was for a little kiss.

I'm tellin' you now, boy.

That's a little better, red boy.

Please! I'm done!

Don't! Stop!

Pacer

I wanted to make sure they went away.

That's all? Uh-huh.

You're bleeding. I'm all right.

Tripped in the dark.

You landed awful hard on your knuckles.

Inside, ma! Inside, come on!

Two moons with 'em. Kiowa pacer.

Yes.

It is a new time. The sun has killed the stars. Come out and talk.

I will talk with you, but I will not come out among your warriors.

You know I am your friend, pacer.

Nothing will happen to you if you come out.

Nothing will happen to me if I stay behind my walls either, two moons.

Now you come out.

Wait a minute. Give me your rifie. Put this on.

If anything happens, bolt the door.

This is the way for men to talk,

their eyes seeing if words are true or false.

You talk. I will listen.

Ineed many, many more warriors.

The white man is thick from the rising sun to the setting sun.

We have no place to go.

We have to fight or we die. You understand?

This is the great war our gods have spoken to us in our dreams.

Soon we will have the power to take whole white villages.

You say you are not our enemy. Then you must be friend.

Will you ride with us?

You have many warriors. One more warrior is not important.

You are of the greatest importance to me,

for if a half-white leaves his father's people...

To fight for his mother's people,

it will make the strongest magic that I can have.

And if I say no?

Not being my friend, you will be my enemy,

and this house and all in it will die,

for I will not have a half-kiowa against me!

Come in here a minute, pacer.

I must talk to my mother.

We are going to go back with him.

Back where? To their camp.

I going to talk this over with lame crow. You mean about me?

About the whole thing. All this warring and everything.

Lame crow's my father's brother. Maybe he can do something to stop it.

You're crazy, ma. They wouldn't give two hoots about what you said.

I've got to try it anyway.

Just can't see all these people being killed...

Without at least trying to stop it.

Write something to pa where we're going.

Ma, you ought to wait and talk to pa first.

No, he would lock me up or something.

Tell him we'll be back by midnight.

I can't let you do it, ma. It's too dangerous.

But they wouldn't hurt us, pacer.

They're our own people.

No, ma. They ain't my people.

To tell the truth, I don't know who's my people. Maybe I ain't got any.

But I couldn't ride with those fellas, burning and killing and all that.

I know you couldn't, pacer. That's what he's asking me to do, and I gotta answer him.

You can say no, can't you? I can say no here in this house.

What if he asks me there, right in the middle of them?

He wouldn't do that. You'd be his guest.

Ma, you don't know this man. You haven't seen his eyes when he talks about this war

he'll ask me, all right, guest or no guest.

And if I don't answer him the way he wants me to...

Then I don't think you ought to go either.

I'll go alone.

This is too important for us to decide.

My mother thinks we should talk to her family about it.

You will come to the peace and safety of our camp?

Yes. Your mother is wise.

We will ride with you.

What do you think about this war?

Buffalo horn say it got to be.

He say if we wait any longer, it will be too late.

It must be harder for you, half-white, half-Indian.

It is not easy.

White man treat you well?

My father and brother do.

If anything starts, you take my horse and ride out fast.

Welcome, n'edd'ee-pahs.

I come to you with love and with gifts, ph'sha-knay.

Take her to lame crow.

She want talk to him.

Come.

Sit.

Pacer is brother.

We make him welcome.

Speak, anyone. Kiowa pacer.

Is true, earth, round like ball,

white man live all sides?

That is true. Tell me.

Why men on bottom not fall off?

Never been there. Maybe they do.

“Dear pa and Clint,

ma took a notion to go see her sister.

I told her not, but you know ma.

I think we will be back by midnight.

I tried to make her not go, but you know ma.

Respectfully yours, pacer.”

Now, why do you reckon she'd want to do that?

I'll go saddle the horses and we'll go after them. Wait a minute.

10:00. Maybe we better give 'em the two hours...

Rather than take a chance on missing them in the dark.

If they ain't back by midnight, we'll go after them with the scatter guns.

They do anything to your ma and pacer,

scatter guns can make an awful mess before they get us.

Many moons back, I see white man book.

In it was great mountain lion with stripes painted on fur

speak me this, kiowa pacer.

Why white man paint stripes on mountain lion?

That was a great, strong animal called a tiger.

White man did not paint the stripes on it.

Could be then this great tiger paint on own stripe,

which make tiger brother to my kiowa warriors, huh?

We did not speak about the thing I came to talk about.

Yes.

My spirit reached out and touched you,

and I knew it was not good to speak of it now.

It will be hard for you to come back to us.

You are not yet ready.

If I ask you now to say yes or no,

you might say no,

or you might lie to me and say yes.

But I would know that you lie,

and I would have to kill you.

We are close in spirit now.

I want you to come back to your people. You think about it?

I will. Think of this too.

Whose land is this?

Who has lived here since the beginning of time?

Do we go out to take their land? No!

They come against us,

forever cutting deeper and deeper into our land.

Forever taking, forever pushing.

We will speak of it again. Soon.

I hope your blood will be one with ours.

Two moons.

Take me to lame crow.

I will ride part of way back with you.

Ready, ma?

I go in goodwill.

It's all right, ma.

They wouldn't even listen to me.

None of them. They said I wasn't kiowa anymore.

Nor white either.

My own sister said I was... nothing.

You done the best you could, ma.

Come on.

Kill 'em!

Will?

It's will Howard!

Pacer

no, ma. I'm dying.

I can feel, close to me,

the flaming star of death.

Stop talking like that, ma. I don't think it's too bad.

You'll be all right.

Who is it? It's me and Clint, pacer.

Ma's hurt.

It's will Howard that done it. Will Howard?

Two moons tried to stop him.

Honey? Neddy, honey?

Let's put her in the back.

Clint? We're all here, ma. You're gonna be all right.

We're going home, honey.

That's all we can do for her now.

Now tell me what happened.

Will justjumped up and started shooting.

He must've been stumblin' and crawlin' around ever since the raid.

You think he knew what he was doin'?

All I think he knowed was that we was three Indians. That's all he wanted to know.

He must've been out of his head with all that pain,

after what happened to his family.

Especially the girls. You making excuses for him?

No. If you didn't kill him, me and pa would've.

We've got to get a doctor I'll go get doc Phillips.

What if he don't want to come?

He won't have any choice.

Folks at the crossing are pretty mad. I better go with Clint.

Try not to have any trouble, but get him.

We'll get him.

Dred, they're comin'.

They're here, Ben.

No need to fear about what you did to our cattle.

Don't come no closer, Clint.

We don't want to see either one of you boys here ever again.

We want doc Phillips. We need him.

You don't need him any more than we're liable to.

Any hour of the day or night now, and you know what I'm talking about too.

- We got to have him right away. - What's wrong, Clint?

Ma's hurt. You go on back inside, honey.

But what happened to her? Will Howard shot her.

Now what are you talkin' about? Will Howard's dead.

He's dead now, but he shot ma first.

Well, now, if he's just dead, who killed him?

Me.

Hold it! Everybody, hold it! Just keep 'em covered!

If shootin' starts, I'll live long enough to kill you.

Look here, Clint, will Howard's been dead for nearly a week,

and everybody here knows it.

Will wasn't far from dead,

but he was live enough to shoot ma, and she's real bad off.

Pa, we got to help her.

He's just plain lying, honey, the both of them.

Hey, doc! Doc Phillips!

All right, come on out, doc.

Ain't nobody gonna do anything to you.

Ma needs you, doc.

You— you know I want to help her, Clint, but...

Well, it's a free country, doc.

If you have trouble makin' up your mind though, maybe we can help you.

Let's put it to a vote, everybody! I vote no!

And I go along with dred!

- I say don't go! - I say no!

- I vote doc don't go. - I speak the same.

I say no too, but I can give you some advice.

Get a medicine man for her.

Cover me. I'll get him.

Two dead men aren't worth anything.

You see how it is, Clint?

Cmm come on.

What are you doin'? Igotanidea. Don't look back.

You saw that kid playin' back of doc's house?

I can do it.

Soon as you make it, I'll come in fast.

Now, we're gonna have a tea party.

How many lumps of sugar would you like? Two?

Okay. There's two for you and two for my baby. I think we'll have three.

Dorothy, you mind you don't get dirty.

You hear? I won't. It's clean dirt.

Now, would you like some cream?

Oh, okay. I want some cream. Here's some cream for you, baby.

My baby's been kinda sick. I think she's got a temperature.

She's probably cuttin' a tooth.

Poor thing. I don't know what I'm gonna do with her.

I'll probably have to put her to— it's just me, dottie.

I want to play a little game with you, okay? Sure, pacer.

Did ya have to scare me? We're gonna get your pa in on it.

Oh, he don't play too good. Hey, doc! Doc Phillips!

Put her down. Leave her alone.

Get your horse and bag and make it fast.

Just don't hurt her.

Go on. Do like he says.

If you hurt that child, I'll get you, you godless savage!

Stay where you are, Pierce!

You heard dred, Indian!

Any harm comes to that girl and you're dead in a minute!

You just keep talkin', Ford, and you'll be dead now.

Grown-ups never know how to play, do they? This is funny playing.

I don't like it much.

You know I won't hurt you, dottie.

Doc's gonna come with us.

Oh, my baby! Oh!

If anybody follows us, there'll be pure hell to pay.

I'm sorry the way it happened, Clint.

I wanted to come with you from the very first. Shut up!

They followin' us? Just one.

Come on. This way.

Keep quiet now.

Can I help you with her, Clint?

You need her, doc? Well, she knows what to do, all right.

She's helped me before. All right, let's go.

Neddy?

Neddy!

Neddy!

Neddy, honey!

Answer me!

Honey!

Neddy.

Neddy, honey. Honey, why did you do it?

Sam, I saw the flaming star of death.

Oh, no.

Neddy. Neddy! Ohh!

S.

One thing from the Bible she liked:

“And Adam called his wife's name Eve...

Because she was the mother of all living.”

To me, neddy, you were the mother of all living.

You were life itself.

God, just one thing.

Take care of this woman.

Amen.

Why don't you two go ahead and eat before everything gets cold?

I'm gonna wait for pa.

He wouldn't want you to wait for him.

You know who done it, don't you?

You.

Oh, that's not gonna do any good, pacer.

Wasting all that time, you and them other people at the crossing.

Well, I-I couldn't have done anything anyway, pacer. I saw that wound...

You didn't want to do anything! None of you! That's not true, pacer.

And you neither, for all I know. Stop that.

But you saw him. Arguing and stalling all the time ma's dying.

Keeping us there more than an hour.

It was five minutes before we got here that she died.

If we'd got here just a little bit sooner, she may be alive now!

You know it's his fault.

Put that knife down! Get out of the way!

She was worth a thousand of 'em, and they let her die.

I couldn't save her if we'd got here ten minutes after she was hurt.

The woman was bleeding internally. The woman?

- Hasn't she got a name like white people? - Pacer, please.

Well, I meant Mrs. Burton.

Don't you see? All she was to all of 'em was a squaw.

This is not gonna bring ma back.

A white man shot her and white men let her die.

Drop it!

Please, pacer, drop it.

Please.

You all right? Well, you're both crazy.

You ought to let me kill him.

No good could be done. It wouldn't help.

The people that held us up at the crossing,

I want to see every one of them dead.

Now you're talkin' foolish. When you talk like that, you sound like a...

Kiowa?

Well, that wasn't what I was gonna say. But that's what I am.

That's what ma was, and that's why she's dead.

That's what I'm gonna be from now on.

You know I didn't mean it that way.

You don't feel it like I do about ma's death.

I'm Indian,

and I'll never forget that whites killed her because she was Indian too.

Will was dying. He was crazy.

I don't want no more excuses for him.

All ma and me ever got from whites was mean looks and “don't get uppish with us.”

Oh, that's not true.

You were the worst. You made me feel it the worst.

When I was little, I liked you a lot.

You were the only girl I ever liked a whole lot.

But ever since you been old enough to know, you never looked at me once...

Without saying somewhere in the back of your head, “he's a kiowa.

Clint's all right, but watch out for pacer.”

- Well, I didn't know. - I didn't know it either.

Nobody knew but ma and me.

Where you going? To join up with buffalo horn.

Good god, pacer, you're a civilized human being.

The folks at the crossing are civilized, not me.

I can't let you go out that door. Now, look,

we already had one fight, the first one we ever had in our lives.

I won't lose this one.

Pacer

this ain't a thing to fight about with fists. I'm changing my whole life.

Put that gun down. Huh-uh.

All right, if you can draw that gun and cock it,

then get out.

And the hell with ya. Just don't come after me.

This good-bye?

Yes, sir

back to ma's folks? I'm sorry.

So am I, but I understand.

It never come to my mind that it'd be like this when I married neddy.

But I guess folks ain't never been fair with you, pacer.

They take a man for what they think he ought to be, not for what he is.

I ain't blaming you, pa. Oh, I know.

You're a good boy. I've always been proud of you.

You do what you have to do and with my blessings,

no matter where you go, whatever happens.

Good-bye, son.

Good-bye, pa.

Funny how things turn out.

When I got here, all I had was you and me.

You were just a baby.

Then I gave neddy's father a mennin and hulbert shotgun...

And a pound of black powder for her.

What a pretty little thing she was too.

The day we got married, there wasn't a prettier girl in Texas.

And...

I just can't tell you how much I came to love her.

Now, after all these years, another little baby...

And all the work we've done to make a home and get us a herd,

we're right back where we started.

Just you and me again.

I will fight in his place.

Who did this? A white man.

He also killed n'edd'ee-pahs, the woman who was my mother.

My words are dust, but my heart is with you.

One thing you must know. I will never fight my father nor my brother.

Your father, your brother and your home...

Will be safe from attack as our own people.

When we go into battle, I will think of my mother...

And of how two moons tried to help her.

And I will be strong.

Very strong.

I'll be back to see ya, pa. Well, you do that, roz.

We'll do the best we can anyway, won't we?

We'll sure try.

That bay of yours is still limpin'.

I'm givin' you the sorrel. We'll get your horse back to you later.

Bye, pa. Bye-bye.

Don't go too far from the house. Let the herd take care of itself.

I'll be all right.

I won't say anythin' about what pacer had in mind. He'll be back.

I don't know. He's been pushed a long way.

I wonder if you'll be back. I said I would, didn't I?

Yeah, but it's just plain hate now,

and everybody ready to kill anybody who isn'tjust like 'em.

I'll be back, all right.

Get down off that horse and get in the house.

Don't talk to me like that. I'm no little girl. I'm a grown woman.

You want me to pull you down? I don't.

Do you know neddy died?

I know a lot of things. I know that his brother went after doc with a knife.

And what's more, I know that the thomases died last night.

All four of 'em. Nothing left but ashes.

- I'm sorry to hear that. - Yeah, I'll bet.

You know as well as I do Phil Thomas was my best friend.

Then why didn't you warn him?

Good-bye, roz. Hey, dred!

You got room for us?

We'll make room for ya.

That's the fifth wagon in this morning.

They're all scared to death out there now, but I guess you got nothing to worry about.

Hyah! Haa!

He's alone. Let us kill him.

Maybe it would be best if we ride on and try to find buffalo horn's camp...

- Before we do any fighting. - The gods are making us a gift of this enemy.

Go both sides hill!

Hang on, Clint!

I thought you were so tough.

Feels like you're trying to torture me to death, you damn savage.

Ohh! Can you hear me?

Uh-huh. We got to get out of here.

You go. I'm too tired.

We still got about an hour before daylight.

What are you doin'?

I'm gonna try to draw 'em over the other way. They'd recognize this.

You crazy?

Maybe now, in the dark, I look Indian enough.

Your hair's too short.

If we're not out of here by sunup, it'll be a lot shorter

We're never gonna get a better time than this.

Think you can hold on again? I can make it.

Here.

Come on. Watch your head.

They still comin'?

Yeah, but they're in no hurry about it anymore.

Why?

They know who we are now, where to find us.

Hey, pa! Pa!

Pa's dead.

Kiowas.

We're all the family we got left now.

That's right.

We got to get in the house and get ready.

Pacer?

Pacer?

Pacer?

Come on.

What's the idea? You're gonna take a ride.

What are you talkin' about? I'm goin' no place but in the house.

We got to get ready.

What do you think you're doin'? Roz's horse will take you to the crossing.

You comin' with me? Nope.

Well, that's crazy. There are too many of 'em. I know it.

If it's gonna be like this the rest of my life, to hell with it.

Let me meet 'em with ya. That's the way I feel.

You'll be doing good to make it to the crossing. Hyah! Go on!

Pacer!

How long have I been here? Since last night.

Get me a horse. Doc Phillips says you shouldn't move.

You think I'm gonna stay here?

But you're still too bad off, Clint. You can't ride in your condition.

You gonna get me that horse or not? But I can't...

Well, you feelin' that much better? Never mind. I'll get it myself.

Now, lookee here, clint— You want to get shot?

Rider comin' in! Looks like he's bad hurt!

Don't come no closer

I just want to make sure you're all right.

Don't try to help me, Clint.

I been killed already.

Just stubborn about dying.

Let me get the doc. Too late.

Too late. The only thing to do now is to die.

Oh, pacer, for god's sake.

You live for me, Clint.

Maybe someday,

somewhere, people will understand...

Folks like us.

Oh, you'll be all right.

No. When I was fighting off the other kiowas,

I saw the flaming star of death.

I got to last long enough to go into the hills and die.

I'll trust you not to follow me, Clint.

Pacer

hey, pacer!

Pacer!