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You ever regret coming out here to Texas, Britt?

Ha! One or two times when the weather's up

and my feet are freezing off, maybe.

Besides that, nope.

Never on a day like this.

Nope, never.

Git up!

Whoa!

Hello, Alan.

How are my friends in Elm Creek these days?

We're all fine, john.

Got a lot of spring calves and three new babies.

How are you doing?

Hello, Mr. Phillips.

Hello, Britt. What do y'all need?

Johnson must be rich.

Bought hisself a pet nigger to trail along behind.

I wouldn't make that kind of talk too loud if I were you boys.

That pair's tighter than brothers.

They about tore the hide off four of my troopers who made

some jokes like that one day.

Hey, Sarge! Who's in charge around here?

You got a commanding officer?

Colonel Mckensie's over at the fort.

Who set your horse on fire?

There's a war on.

Broke out four days ago.

They fired on Fort Sumter in the Carolinas.

Is Texas in it?

Everybody's in it, north and south.

Gonna be a hard rain falling everywhere now,

I reckon.

Yeah, especially around here.

Colonel Mckensie, the news is traveling pretty fast.

This means you'll be pulling out, doesn't it?

The southern states have seceded from the union.

This is hostile territory for us.

But we got a special situation here this close

to indian land.

my command has been ordered east to Fort Leavenworth.

we will depart within 48 hours.

So you're aware, of course, what the Kiowas and

the Comanches are gonna do when they get this news?

Soldiers don't make wars, Mr. Johnson,

we just fight them.

My orders say report to Kansas and that's what we will do.

Colonel, as soon as your troops go out of this gate,

the indian raids are gonna start again.

We're gonna be knee deep in blood.

Mr. Johnson, I really do regret that.

Maybe I know better than you do what you're gonna be up against

without troops here to protect you.

But the south started this war.

Texas chose the slavery side.

You have to look to Texas to protect you.

Well, sir, it's gonna be mighty hard

to find extra soldiers to fight indians with a war on.

You don't feel compelled to fight for Texas in this war?

I left Carolina to get away from slavery.

I don't intend to fight for it now.

Obviously, Britt's not interested.

I admire you for that, sir.

Others might not.

Good luck.

I mean that sincerely.

Sir.

Well, I hope when the war's over,

I can buy you a drink.

After the war, I hope I got no holes in me

so I can hold a drink.

Britt! Hey, Britt!

The troops are pulling out!

Look, we gotta get some more ammo and buy all

the ammunition he'll sell you.

I'm gonna go buy a horse and ride for the ranch

and bring in all the other settlers.

We're gonna have a meeting and work out a plan.

Colonel Mckensie's got no choice but

to pack up his troops.

He got his orders.

And we've got our necessities here.

We've got no time to waste in making decisions.

Well, I for one am goin' back to Louisiana to sign up

and kill as many blue-jackets as the good lord is willin'

to put in front of me.

My name's Tom Fitzpatrick.

That's Irish.

I don't owe nothin' to the north or the south in this scrap.

I'm staying here and fighting for what I've grubbed out

over five long years and no redskin indian's

gonna make me think twice about it!

Daddy! Daddy!

I'm taking my family to the fort.

My son's doing the same.

Kind of a funny choice they're givin' us, go back east

and fight the yankees over a bunch of nigger slaves

or stay right here and kill redskin niggers

right in our own back yard.

Better without either of them, I'd say.

Ralph, maybe we ought to be heading home.

You mind your own place, woman, or I'll knock you

into it!

Don't mind him, Frank.

Pay him no mind.

That poor young Delores.

I wouldn't wanna be held captive to that animal.

Put the sack down over here.

Mey, Mrs. Fitzpatrick.

Hello, Britt.

Need more biscuits, Beth.

Beth, you, Tom and the kids, if you're worried about

being out on your place alone,

you're welcome to move in here with us

'til we see what develops.

Thank you, Sarah.

That's kind.

We have an extra room in the back.

We'd be glad to make room for you.

It would comfort me, but I don't think Tom

would be able to do that.

All right.

Now those of us that are staying need to make some hard plans.

People might wanna double up, live together for a while.

Now I'm gonna ride to Austin and see if I can talk

those politicians into giving us a

company of rangers or some militiamen

to occupy Fort Belknap.

Say, Grady, wanna ride with me?

You know some of those people in the statehouse, don't you?

Yes, sir.

My cousin's one of 'em.

I'll ride with you, Alan.

Those politicians better give us some help

or I'll beat them 'til they do.

Thanks, Tom.

Mckensie should have wiped out all the indians while he had

the horse soldiers here to do it!

Anyone who counts on the government to do his job

for him, well, he's a fool!

Yankee or Texas government, me and my kinfolk,

we're staying on.

We're gonna fight for what's ours like we always did!

Ain't much in this crowd 'cept chicken-gut pig farmers

and nigger lovers anyway!

You know, I hate to spoil anybody's fun at hurling insults

and calling names, but it seems to me we're

all in this together.

That's right.

Right.

For a thousand years, this is Kiowa and Comanche land.

They come to take it back.

I don't think they're gonna waste time

to sort us out according to color.

Oh, you go to hell, tar baby!

If the indians come, you'll be the first

to cut and run!

Ralph, please!

Here! They're gonna

kill each other before we ever see an indian!

Get off this land, Mr. Holtz!

Move!

Take your white trash with you.

Don't think we're foolin'.

My advice to you, girl, is to get as far away

from that beast as you can!

Alan, my wife tells me Sarah invited us and the kids

to huddle up with your family for a while.

We appreciate that.

Well, sure. you can drive your livestock over

and combine 'em with Britt's and mine.

Aw, thanks, but I won't be doing that.

Well, three hands can keep 'em a lot safer

than one can.

No offense to you, Alan, but I can't have the kids

living with "them".

Aw, hell, Tom.

I didn't know you had that disease too.

Maybe you ought to go and fight for slavery.

I ain't for slavery, Alan.

I just can't have my kids living under the same roof as darkies.

Tom, Britt and I grew up together since we were babies.

He's more of a man than most white people I've ever known.

He'd die for me and I'd die for him.

It'd do your children a world of good to be around some people

for a while that don't see color around every corner.

You wanna get your family killed because you're stiff

and ignorant, well, then so be it!

Come on, get up!

Frank, get the gate for me, will ya?

Yeah, that's good, that's good.

Boy, you're gonna make a great cowboy.

Git up!

We getting any help from Austin?

Not much.

They're gonna send us 20 militiamen to garrison the fort.

They say that's all they can spare.

20 men?

That's spittin' in the ocean of what we're gonna face.

You know somethin' we don't know?

We got a visitor.

He just came back from the territories

trading buffalo hide.

Said the indians are all excited about the white eyes

and their war.

They trailed the yank cavalry heading out of here

riding north.

Kiowas or Comanches?

Both. they've all gathered together under

Comanche war chief named Little Buffalo.

They've amassed an army, more horsemen than

he's ever seen before.

Now Little Buffalo's had a vision.

Said he's gonna kill or drive every white man

clear out of Texas.

What do you got to worry about?

Sounds like you're safe.

Hey, Britt, easy!

Now how much time does he say we have?

He just said they're gonna come

when they're ready, but he's sure they're gonna come.

They're pitiful young, just kids.

Too young or too old.

God help us if this is

all that stands between us and those savages out there.

I hope you boys brung your slingshots!

We got a lot of fierce jackrabbit up here!

Where I come from, sir,

most the men have guts enough to go off and fight a war!

Company, at ease!

Most of you haven't met me.

I'm Captain Buck Barry.

I command that mighty army you noble citizens of Texas

greeted so enthusiastically when we arrived.

I'd like to thank you for that.

But the words I'm likely to choose ain't fit to follow

a hymn to God or words from a preacher.

Now I know we ain't the Roman legions,

but I've killed enough injuns to qualify as some

kind of expert.

And my advice to you is get your families

inside Fort Belknap starting today.

Now those of you from the outlying areas

like Elm Creek and such, you better get your as--

your fannies in here right now.

I'm not coming in!

We're gonna protect what's ours.

And if you people want to huddle up and shiver

in your boots in that fort, well, that's your business.

Now I said I was giving advice, making a suggestion.

you want me to make that an order, I can do that.

You gonna enforce orders with that raggedy bunch you brung up

from Austin or are you hiding something I don't see?

Captain Barry?

Captain Barry, with respect, sir, you were sent here

to protect the settlement, but not to dictate conditions.

Now I'm sure we'd all be very grateful

if you would help us to organize a defense.

But I'm certain that my brother and I do not intend to hand over

our livestock and our homes to the indians.

What's your name, sir?

Alan Johnson.

Well, Mr. Johnson, I hate to say this

in mixed company.

Don't you come crying to me when the Comanches get through

amusing themselves with your women

and carrying off your children.

We could still move into the fort.

They'll take the horses and they'll burn these houses.

I don't want to start all over again.

We could scatter the livestock.

Indians won't bother to gather 'em up.

probably find most of them later on.

Folks don't want me and my family inside that fort.

Even if that fort was as big as half of Texas,

they'd still think they was sleeping with niggas

if we was there.

White ones hiding from red ones worried

about Black folks breathing the air inside their walls.

God sure does have a sense of humor, don't he?

We surely must be fools laughing at a time like this.

You know something?

We've been fools ever since we left Carolina,

but we've come this far.

Yes.

We've got the place we dreamed about.

We've lived through indian raids before.

We'll get through this one.

I say we stay where we are.

All right.

All right.

Can we eat now?

Sure thing, Frank.

Sit right down.

Hat off at the table.

You worried about something, Alan?

I don't know.

See, from everything I've heard about these indians,

they get along about as well as in-laws.

Maybe the Kiowas and the Comanches

won't be able to stay together for very long.

Maybe they'll just come down here

in a little raiding party and make off with some cattle

and horses the way they've done before.

That way, we could fight 'em off like we done before

long as we don't panic.

Well, whatever happens, we will deal with

whatever comes our way.

Whatever comes our way.

In fact, I think when we get to heaven, the lord will smile

at us and He will say, "Alan and Sarah Johnson,

- do you know why you are here?" - Uh-oh.

And I will say, "not exactly,

lord, but we will deal with whatever comes our way."

I'm not so sure I'm going to heaven, but I know you are.

Oh? Why's that?

Because you are God's most beautiful creation.

He's gonna want to enjoy your company as much as I do.

If you never get to heaven, it's because you are such

a smooth-talking devil.

I love you, Sarah.

What'd I ever do to deserve a woman like you?

Well, let's see.

You swept me off my feet, dragged me away from a life of

luxury and comfort to live in a log cabin on

the vacant frontier threatened by indians

and wild animals.

Come to think of it, what did you do to deserve--

That's what you did.

You kissed me, you charmed me,

you made me fall in love.

All right, listen up!

The next man I catch drinking inside this fort, I'm gonna

horsewhip personally!

I know it's hard waiting, but they'll be coming.

Probably when the moon starts getting full so they can

see to ride at night.

If not the end of this moon, it'll be the next!

So we gotta hold ourselves together!

Say, Britt.

Couldn't sleep.

Do not like that moon.

Say, brother, you don't think they're going to attack

at night, do you?

Well, they always travel at night.

As far as attacking when it's dark,

it's just those little raiding parties that come

sneaking in at night, 10 or 20 braves stealing our horses,

burning down the barn.

They always come at night for them kind of pranks.

It's not a little raiding party that I'm worried about.

Next time, they won't be coming for horses and cattle either.

Nope.

Well, Captain Barry's got scouts all up and down

the river.

They'll warn us in plenty of time, won't they?

We got six people here who can shoot

and more bullets than God made injuns.

Right.

I'm scared. you scared?

Hell, yes.

I may be brave, but I ain't stupid.

So Britt, you still like Texas, Comanches and all?

It's not much worse than hell,

but it's a lot better than carolina.

Hey, let's wake up the Irishman and drive our stock down

to the river.

we'll let 'em drink their fill and get 'em back here by first

light in the morning and we'll hold 'em here

for a couple nights 'til this big moon goes down.

All right.

You go ahead and wake him up.

All right.

Hey, you know, my wife says that we're gonna credit

in heaven for letting that bigot sleep under our roof.

Sounds right to me.

What's wrong?

They're kissing.

What's wrong with that?

Maybe you ought to kiss me, darlin'.

Well...

why don't I start a fire and make some coffee?

You go get Sarah. She isn't gonna sleep tonight.

Frank?

Come on, children, get up to bed. Go on.

Let's herd 'em up and go get some breakfast.

Come on.

Damn, I'm cold!

This water's freezin'!

Captain ought to at least let us make a fire tonight.

Injuns'll lift your scalp one night,

won't care for a cozy fire no more.

David! David!

Pa! Pa!

Let's go! Let's go!

Pa! Pa!

Gimme that!

Dolores! Come on out here!

Look what we got!

Dolores!

- Must be our place.

Let's go!

Ya, ya!

Want me to run for dad and uncle Alan?

No. if we hear it, they'll hear it.

They'll get here.

We have time to hitch a wagon.

We can all make it to the fort.

That's what Tom would want us to do.

That's if they're all coming from one direction!

We could just as well run into another bunch

heading toward the fort.

Britt said get inside and bar them doors!

- There's rifles on the shelves-- - Oh, my Lord!

Frank, get inside!

Get inside!

Frank, give your mother that gun.

Stay down, son.

Beth, you comfort those kids.

Leave the shootin' to us. We been through this before.

Don't shoot unless they try and break in.

Here they come!

Help!

He's got the gun!

Help!

Help!

God, no!

Beth! My wife, my children!

I'll kill them redskins! I'll kill them all!

Shut up!

No Tom, there's too many.

I'm goin' down there!

You're going to get my family killed.

Now if we stay back, they may survive this.

Get hold of yourself!

Act like a man.

We got work to do. You can cry and blubber later!

They're alive.

That's something.

- Maggie! Get out here!

Those last shots have got to be from the Johnson place!

Grady! Grady!

They got our women and children! There's an army of 'em!

Tom, ride on ahead to the fort,

they probably don't know what they're facing.

Grady!

Move on. Ride to the fort and don't stop 'til you get there!

You're too heavy!

Throw some of that stuff off!

That's right. That's right.

Keep going.

Where the hell have you been?

They've got my family!

The Johnsons and others!

I had scouts out at Elm Creek.

They must have got killed.

How many injuns you see?

Oh, too many to fight, hundreds of 'em!

And I heard shots from the other ranches, too.

You the last one in from down there?

No. Grady Bragg's coming.

The Johnson boys stayed back with him.

All right, let's go! Come on.

Keep going, Grady!

No, don't stop! Don't stop!

Keep going! Gotta get to the fort!

There's nothing much we can do in there.

We flank around those injuns and be patient.

When they rush the fort, they might leave

the captives unguarded.

You fellas coming in or waiting for a Comanche haircut?

Right. There's nothing much we can do here.

You fellas are planning something?

I'm with you.

Irish, if those injuns had you instead of your family,

I'd send 'em whiskey to skin your hide!

You better keep your head on Tom,

or one of us is gonna blow it off!

Come on, get up. hya!

Here they come.

- Let's get outta here.

Fire some cover for those devils out there!

Get that gate open!

They killed fitzpatrick.

Hey, Captain, they're moving!

All right, men, here they come.

Now hold your fire!

i want you to keep your sights locked on 'em and hold your

fire 'til my signal.

Good God, look at that. They're breakin' west.

All right men, hold your fire. They're turning west.

Must have figured it wasn't worth trying to get at us

inside of the fort, captain.

Well, more than likely they just figured there

was easier pickins' at the other settlements east of here.

They'll do the same to everybody along the river

then head back up to the territories to celebrate

and divide up the women and children they took.

Wanna track 'em?

Wouldn't be hard to follow a band that big.

Yeah? Then what we gonna do when we find 'em?

Well, I can't just stand around here, doing nothing.

I'll go crazy.

I can't stand to think about it.

It's all my fault.

- I never shoulda-- - Look, shoulda doesn't

mean nothing!

I'm the only one that can do anything.

What do you mean?

Remember a couple years ago I was out hunting cattle?

I met those two drifters?

Yeah, buffalo hunters.

Yeah. they said they had wintered with the Comanches

along the Washita river.

Right.

One of them had been injured in some kind of scrape.

They fought so well that the indians gave them

women and horses.

Yeah, offered to let 'em join the tribe.

Yeah. They said that indians feel different about Blacks.

They think we got some sort of mojo, big medicine,

whatever they call it.

So what you gettin' at?

Comanches will trade for anything,

if we give 'em enough horses.

I'll give 'em every horse in Texas

to get those women and children back.

Hey, that's worth a try.

You give 'em enough stuff, get 'em interested in talking,

let's try it.

No, no, no.

You ain't goin'.

What?

Look, they see another white man crossing

the red river after all this, they'll kill us and

every hostage they're holdin'.

I got to go alone.

Look Alan, it's gonna take all your talking skills

to make sure these settlers don't try and stop me.

Aw, Britt, I can't let you do that alone.

Alan, the best thing you can do to help is make sure that,

when I get back, if it get back, that you have your hands on

as many good horses you can to trade for those women

and children.

All right.

I'll go talk to the Captain and get him in on it.

Yeah, but don't tell nobody else.

I don't want anybody trying to stop me.

All right.

Frank?

Friend.

Friend.

Friend.

I come in peace to talk to the Kiowa.

Friend.

Friend.

Friend.

Friend.

Friend.

Friend?

Are you lost or are you crazy, buffalo man?

I, uh--

Well, you can't be brave enough to come here alone.

You must be crazy.

I come to talk to the Kiowa and Comanche chiefs.

You come here alone to talk to Kiowa and Comanche?

Where's your army?

Well, if I had an army, I would be crazy.

My family was taken on your raid on the brazos.

I will give many horses to get 'em back.

I see only two horses.

I have many horses on the brazos.

If you had many horses, we have most of them now.

Who is your chief?

The Kiowa chief is Lone Wolf.

Well, take me to Lone Wolf.

Tell him that the Kiowas and the Comanches

would return the women and children, I will give to you

so many horses that the white eyes

at the brazos would no longer have horses

to ride against your people.

We're not afraid of the white eyes

who hide in their forts like rabbits.

As long as you have their women and children

and they have horses, the white eyes will ride here

and seek revenge.

Now you have seen the white eyes' revenge.

They won't even spare your babies.

Lone Wolf asks if you are a shaman.

He sees you brought no horses.

Can you wave your hand and horses appear?

Tell him there will be horses for those who wish to trade.

Throw it high.

For the leader of the Kiowa.

When he speaks,

will know that their names have been called.

Tonight you will feast

with Lone Wolf and tell him how you will make

the ponies appear if he decides to trade with you for

the white-eyed bitches and their mongrel pups.

You know this man?

Mr. Johnson.

Mrs. Holtz.

They call me Morning Star.

So you think Mr. Johnson is crazy?

No. I think he's a good man.

He wants to know how many ponies you are worth to trade.

Have you seen my wife and my child?

No. They're not here.

I think they're with the Comanches.

Sarah Johnson's with them too.

How do you come to speak american so well?

Like you, I once lived among the white eyes.

They raided my village when I was a child.

For a long time, I was a slave to them.

And then one night, there was a buffalo woman and her husband.

They were slaves to the white eyes.

They helped me to escape.

You don't act like anyone's slave.

No. I am a free man.

A free man who lives in a box with the white eyes.

What I propose is that your warriors return

the captives to the brazos and exchange them for

horses at this time.

What is to keep the white eyes from killing my warriors

instead of handing over the horses?

Lone Wolf holds a club over the white eyes' heads.

His warriors could easily kill the captives

if anything goes wrong.

I hear you hope to trade the Comanche

for your wife and your child.

Yes.

Well, if I do this and you betray me, my warriors will kill

your woman and child first.

Ay ha.

You may be crazy, but some of my best warriors

are crazy, too.

I will give you a good Kiowa name.

Among the Kiowa, you will be known as Black Fox.

You ever let it be known

that you came to this name by outfoxing Lone Wolf,

I will slice off your manhood and feed it to the dogs.

And what of the horses, my chief?

Your white-eyed brothers will trade three horses

for each woman and one horse for each child.

That's his final word. We'll hear no more of it.

Lone Wolf makes a just trade and I accept it.

But do not call the white eyes my brothers.

With one exception, they are simply a people

that I walk among.

You know, Black Fox, the thing to remember

about the Comanche is that they are beasts.

It's easy to trick them, but they are quick to slice

your throat if they think you have made a bad bargain.

So you're telling me that I should let them get

the best of me in the bargaining?

No.

If you strike a better bargain with the Comanches than you did

with Lone Wolf, then Lone Wolf will slice your throat.

Sounds like I'm walking a tightrope

with this bargaining.

You're walking on the edge of a knife.

Why did you not attack

the fort when you raided the white eyes?

The fort was not in Little Buffalo's vision.

He saw the Kiowa and the Comanche sweeping

over the white eyes like a storm driving them away.

there was no fort in his dream.

Lone Wolf fought with them because of this mistake.

That's why the Comanche have returned to their hunting

grounds and the Kiowa to ours.

Or we would have come back and killed you all.

Black Fox could trade his three horses

and the gifts he brings and get his family back

from the Comanche.

The others.

I made a promise to the others to bring back their women

and children.

The white eyes would kill me if I came back

without their women and children.

Forget the white eyes.

Walk among the Kiowa.

I will be your brother.

Chief Lone Wolf would not get his horses

if I did not go back.

I gave him my word.

Lone Wolf would test your courage.

If he saw you as a warrior, he might forget the horses.

If the white eyes have taken away your manhood while you walk

among them, you could not walk with the Kiowa.

with Lone Wolf, with me.

No one has taken a knife to our manhood.

No one has made slaves out of us.

The only thing I'm slave to is my family and my word.

Running Dog can test my manhood any way he chooses.

You son of a bitch!

You ain't gonna get me without a fight!

No!

If we go north with an army and catch them injuns nappin',

wouldn't be no more injun trouble!

Wouldn't be no more injuns, we kill every man,

woman and child, huh?

Well, Johnson,

looks like that nigger of yours got hisself

killed or else moved right in with them redskins.

Gentlemen, Britt's only been gone a couple weeks.

It's a long ride both ways.

He could be dead or he could be chasing all over

the indian territory bartering to get your

loved ones back.

Well, I say that he sold us all out for a tepee and some

young Kiowa girl to keep his belly warm at night.

Mr. Holtz, if I didn't sympathize

with what you and all of us here have been going through with

this terrible waiting, I would sure be tempted to put a bullet

through your head right now.

Hold it.

Nobody move.

Long as I'm in charge here, there'll be no shootin'.

From now on, there'll be no more drinkin' neither.

You can start by gettin' rid of them whiskey bottles back there.

Do it!

All right. now let me say something.

I don't have any way of knowing what Britt Johnson's fate is,

but I think it's time we started gathering up

some horses just in case he does come back

with those hostages.

We gotta be ready to make that trade 'cause whatever indians

come back with our families, they're gonna get mighty nervous

if they don't see a herd of horses waiting.

What if they don't come back at all?

Yeah!

I guess we'll have to do whatever we have to do,

but I think we should round up some horses.

it won't hurt anything.

Might keep us from killing each other in the meantime.

Tell him that I come alone.

That I risk my life to be here, that I only want to offer horses

in exchange for my family and the women and children

of the tejanos.

He says any Comanche is free

to trade horses for white eye women and children

if he chooses.

He's a war chief.

Outside of war, the true people are their own masters.

He cares nothing about the women and children of the white eyes.

Tell him I wanna bargain for my family.

We've already spoken.

He says he has more horses than any other Comanche.

He's not interested in trading.

He has to.

The chief told you every Comanche is free

to do as his heart tells him.

I won't leave here without 'em.

I'll take back every woman and child with me,

or there'll be no trade at all.

Among the Kiowa people,

if a man refuses to trade for captives, I don't know any Kiowa

who'd prefer to keep even a buffalo woman and her child

when he could trade for horses.

There would be one way.

what's that?

If you insult him or challenge him

in front of other warriors, he will have to fight.

If you kill him, all that he owns will be yours,

his horses, his wives, all that he possesses.

If he kills you, what will it matter?

Well, come on.

Tell me the worst insult and I'll do it now.

Look, some time ago there was a battle

between my people and the Comanche.

Standing Bear killed 4 Kiowa braves with an axe and a knife.

Black Fox should sleep and think about this.

I will fight him any way he chooses.

Tell him I come in peace.

I wish to trade for my family.

Then tell him I will fight.

Tell him he is a coward

and I will come for my wife and my child in the morning.

Tell him I have hunted and killed many bears

and for a silly man to stand on his hind legs

and roar like a bear does not scare me.

I don't think people are gonna wait much longer.

I know I can't just stay here anymore doin' nothin'.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna ride north, try to find Britt.

What good's that gonna do?

Well, if he's dead, nothin'.

But if he's alive and he's in trouble,

maybe I can help.

Maybe we can convince the indians they'd be bringing

destruction on themselves if they don't

return the captives.

these people here aren't gonna stand

for another raid like that one we had.

Try to convince the indians they'd be getting

a full-scale war and they wouldn't win it.

I'm not sure it'll work, but I'll not try to stop you,

Mr. Johnson.

Good luck.

Thank you, sir.

How will I fight this man?

Knives?

Little Buffalo is not pleased with Standing Bear

for refusing to trade with you who have come in peace.

Because you walk among the tejanos, even though

you are not a white eyes yourself, you displease him.

To-yop-ke says you must fight the cruelest way known

to the true people.

There are no weapons.

you must face Standing Bear over a pit filled with rattlesnakes.

That's too bad.

You would have made a good Kiowa warrior.

You have sworn to kill each other.

This will be done with honor.

The one who lives will claim the possessions of the other.

You must never move past the outer edge of the pit.

If you shame yourselves before the fight is finished,

these warriors will not hesitate to kill you.

There are no other rules.

The snakes will decide the winner.

Here comes your other wife with your horses.

Tell Talking Raven she is free.

Tell her husband was a brave man.

Tell her I'm sorry.

Tell her those horses belong to her.

Take a horse for the boy.

Your chief. I want to speak with your chief.

i want to speak with your chief.

Sarah! Sarah!

What the hell are you doin' here?

I made a bargain!

No! No!

They'll kill us!

She stays!

She's made it this far.

Hang on, we're going home.

Captain Barry!

Captain Barry! Captain Barry!

Britt Johnson's back!

The hell you say!

Honest, Captain, and he's got the women and kids too!

Sergeant, get in here!

Britt Johnson's back with the captives.

Now get on out to where they're holding them horses,

tell 'em to bring 'em to the river.

As many as they got! Go on! Go on! Get a move on!

Britt Johnson. My God!

Don't start nothin'.

Stay back there.

Find out what's goin' on here.

I gotta go down there and see about the horses

- and I gotta go alone.

I will not insult you, but I do not command

the Comanche warriors.

If you don't return by nightfall with the horses,

all these white eyes will die.

Look, there's no way that I can get 70 horses by nightfall.

You gotta give me 'til the morning.

I can't close my eyes to sleep with those

tejano dogs across the valley.

Better be 70 horses down there for me to bring back.

Adios.

Good luck.

Man, you done good work. God bless you.

I need 70 horses.

I got the horses grazing down the river.

I sent somebody after them, but it might be a while.

Well, get all the men you can muster.

We gotta have those horses by the time the sun goes down

or those indians get nervous.

They're gonna kill everybody they got up there.

I ain't gonna let that happen.

Get them horses moving!

Britt Johnson's back with the women and children!

Captain Barry, you better get your men ready and anybody else

that can handle a gun.

If those horses don't get here, I'm gonna ride up there

and talk to 'em.

If I ain't gettin' anywhere and those injuns run

out of patience, they're gonna start shooting.

All right, let's get our horses. Come on.

Let's see how many you can find in this crowd

to chase after them indians once we get the captives back.

Ain't go enough to do it by ourselves.

The horses are coming!

The horses are coming!

We got 'em.

Get those horses moving so the injuns can see 'em.

This is worth a whole lot of lives, boys.

They're coming.

Black Fox, you are a man of honor.

I'm proud to be your brother.

Running Dog will always be my brother.

Ya!

Sarah!

It's all right.

Come on, let's go home.

Dolores?

Dolores, where are you?

Hey, you!

Where's my wife?

I don't know.

Look up there!

You bring my wife down here right now, boy!

I paid good horses!

I brought her back Holtz. Anything else is your problem.

You made a deal with them wild animals for my wife,

didn't you?

She's staying of her own free will, Holtz.

If you didn't beat her and treat her worse than a slave,

she might be in your arms right now.

You sleep on that for a few years

and you get away from my family!

It's 'cause of you that my wife's been dragged off

by them savages!

I mean to ride and get her back.

Who's gonna ride with me, huh?

Ain't but two dozen of them.

We can slaughter the bunch 'fore they gone 10 miles!

They kept their word and we'll keep ours.

We made the deal, Holtz.

The swap's been done.

I gave my word.

You're gonna have to go through me if you wanna break it.

i ain't gonna forget this.