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Whoa, Sugar. Hold still, Sugar, I ain't gonna shoot you.

Watch out! Watch out!

It's shot. It's ruined.

Well, I'll say one thing for you fellas, you get to work early.

Bet some of you ain't even had breakfast yet.

- Not big talkers, are you? - We're trying to do our work.

Oh, you can go home right now then because you done finished working here.

This land was ranched by my family a hundred years.

I will not turn it into no coal pit.

Ain't you Hoyce Guthrie's wife?

- That's right. - Ms. Guthrie,

you oughtn't shoot at us. Hoyce told us himself

to come and run a test.

We ain't no trespassers. We got his signature here on the papers.

Hoyce ain't the governor, mister. And this land ain't his to give away.

Well, here's his signature, ma'am, right here.

Ma'am, now don't do that. You might hit that nitro.

Now, let's all try to keep our damn heads.

We'll go back to the office to see if we can solve this.

It's straight now.

No drilling, no leases, no running your trucks over my grass.

And if Hoyce don't see it that way, he can just change his glasses.

Shut them gates behind you, will you? This here's my bull pasture.

Wouldn't want my bulls out roaming around.

Eat one of them short stacks then,

cover up them skinny ribs.

- Hey, where is Hoyce? - Right over there.

Hey, Hoyce, I thought we had an agreement.

Yeah. So?

- What is wrong with your wife? - Nothing so far as I know.

She is shooting at my drilling crew.

Bess?

If we don't get those tests back

by Saturday, we will have to go to Wyoming.

We can't afford two mining sites.

I expect that was her way of pointing out

you had agreement with me, not her.

Damn it all, this is Wednesday.

I need those tests by Saturday.

I thought you old cowboys were honest.

I reckon I'm more honest

than one of your companies.

I knew you was getting old, but not so over the hill

that you can't control your wife. If you can't make her mind you,

you ought to get that crazy woman of yours locked up!

Watch your language talking about my wife,

I ain’t so over the hill I’m gonna let a man cuss her.

Clyde. Clyde?

My God, it's the lady vet!

Well, I was just down showing Laveta the big city of Billings.

- Laveta Cox, my sister, Peg. - Hello.

We was over to the Mall.

I figured we'd pick you up, save you a bus ride, fly you home.

So, Clyde says you go to college?

Yeah, but two days a week is about all I can manage now.

Laveta ain't going to school now,

got a diploma from a well known academy,

the school of hard knocks.

I think it's safe to say Laveta's knocked against many a hard one.

Clyde, just suppress

your asinine tendencies until we get home?

Speaking of home, Mom and Daddy

- had a big fight. - Not the first time.

First time daddy ever moved out. In the old bunkhouse.

- Come home as he gets hungry. - Daddy wants divorce.

- So, you wanna be a vet? - Yeah.

Why now? They are married and fight for 34 years.

For 34 years, there was no one to buy the coal under our land.

I wouldn't be a vet for nothing. I'd be scared.

I knew one that got bit by rabies dog.

- You and Daddy wanna sell. - And you and Momma don't.

In case you're wondering, my wife is off

in San Francisco right now buying fur coats.

- Chinese doo-dads. - I wasn't wondering.

I did go to college over in Rapid City one semester.

But I mostly just took them business courses.

Then I run off, got married

and I forgot that damn shorthand faster than you could say scat.

Oh, look, a mine.

Is that Swallow Creek Mine or...? Which one is it?

Don't talk about coal with my sister here.

She's liable to push us both out.

Oh, I see, you're one of them that's fighting it.

That is the understatement of the year.

Peg would set the clock back a hundred years.

Why don't you just stick it, Clyde?

Listen, you two don't have to argue.

I makes no difference to me

if you're for or against coal.

It's not my business, but let me tell a thing about Clyde.

He's for himself, period, finished.

Yeah, us selfish bastards always get the prettiest girls.

Hey, we're not going down in it, are we?

That's right, I can't resist it! Right down with that demon coal!

Don't forget to wave, girls.

Whoa, Jimbo, whoa!

- Did you see that crazy lunatic? - That's Clyde.

- He's my brother-in-law. - He's crazy, right?

You really do have to show off, right?

Well, I thought you'd like a chance to wave at your husband.

He's down there working his tail off to put you through school, you know?

- Oh, my God, that was Pierce. - Oh, my God!

- You think he see me? Clyde? - Unless the man's blind, he'd see you.

I don't know why I done this.

Had I known we'd fly through a coal mine.

One where Pierce works. Damn!

That dragline's about it, Montana.

Barely room up here to graze a goat.

Why do mind? You got a rich wife

and half interest in a uranium mine.

Don't this family harmony just warm your heart, Laveta?

- Get back in. - Are we going somewhere?

To town. Try and keep Daddy out of jail.

Roy called twice. Dad already been in one fight

and been kicked out of three bars. Come on, hit it.

- Mom, do you wanna come along? - Oh, why would I?

- He's still your husband. - Yeah, well, not to hear him talk.

He's already told half the neighbours that I kicked him out.

- Ma, who cares? - I care.

I don't run to the neighbours,

blabbing all about my private life just because I'm a little upset.

- And I didn't kick him out, he left. - But you told him not to come back.

I told him not to come back unless he intended treating me better.

He don't aim to either. That's why he ain't been back.

You could come to town, it might help.

No, he'd just chew off twice as bad.

Watch Little Jim while we're gone!

- Sure. - Let's go.

I'll heel him this time for sure.

- That's wrong. - Damn!

- Come on, do it again. - All right, all right, all right.

- Are you convinced? - Hell, no, I ain't convinced.

Go on, try it again.

I'm burning a lot of gas going up and down this road.

- Fifty bucks this time. - Fifty?

- You mean 50 bucks on what? - That you can't catch me.

You got yourself a bet.

By God. He just made himself a fatal mistake.

He said I had to catch him.

He didn't say nothing about me having to heel him!

Come on, you!

Come on, get that thing turned around.

I'll wait for you.

All right. Yeah, come on.

- Come on. - Come on. Come on! Come on.

Way to go!

- Daddy! Daddy. - Where you been? You missed the rodeo.

- It's just getting active. - No, wait a minute.

Hoyce, why do that? You know this guy?

- No, he never introduced himself. - Hey, man, it's Sarge.

Drunk boomers hit on his wife last year. He gutted them like pigs.

Daddy, let's go. This one is too big for you.

I won't leave until I collect my 50 dollars.

- 50 dollars. - He don't mean to pay anybody.

He better not try to welch on me. I hate a cheater.

He will have to box me. I'll fight him.

- Come on. - Hey.

Watch you're pointing that pig sticker.

Unless you want me to ear mark you with it.

Give me my 50 dollars.

Hey, watch it, mister.

- Watch where you're pointing that knife. - Sarge, he's drunk, man.

- Let it go, okay? - He can sober up in hell!

Give me the 50 dollars.

Grandpa? Grandpa?

Come on now. I wanna get my...

It's over. Let's go get a beer.

I ain't gonna get no beer, nothing.

- Get in the truck! - I want my 50 dollars.

- I'm going to get my 50! - Let's go get a beer.

- Now, listen to me! - I want my 50 dollars!

- I'll get it. - No! Daddy, it's over!

- Come on! - I ain't got my 50.

I want my 50! Give me that! Give me that!

Damn, I'm so busy saving your life,

I'm about late for my date.

Have nothing to do with me again.

Then, get yourself another woman then.

Now I have to start looking

- for one for myself. - You ain't been divorced.

I've been kicked out. It's the same thing.

It ain't the same thing.

I kick Jimbo out 3-4 times a week,

but I let him back 'cause he's useful.

That's you, not me. Being kicked out is like divorce and I go by that!

Well, you ought to try my book, you might be a whole lot happier.

You all cost me 50 dollars out there, so you just pay for my damn drinks.

- Have you seen Fran? - Well, she was here.

I don't know where she went.

Ain't we kicked you out of here, Mr. Guthrie?

I sobered up. I'm starting over.

Hey, Willie.

Let loose of me. You tear them jeans.

You're out 15.95 you didn't mean to spend.

Your dirtier than a hog, ain't you?

She's a sweet one, all right.

Well, I didn't have time to get to the showers.

These here are my friends. This is Peg. And this is Jimbo.

And this is old ornery bastard here is Hoyce.

- This is Fran. - How are you?

Hey, don't forget we're cowboying tonight.

Don't Willie know nothing? That girl's just a whore.

Watch your mouth, don't get drunk either.

- You'll be of no good tomorrow. - Tell him that, not me.

You tell him. You're married to him.

I don't know why you gotta get so soused.

This may be my last chance. Bess may shoot me in the morning.

- Oh, Hoyce. - Well, she might.

She shot the core drillers after I signed the papers.

She's trying to keep a ranch, and that is fine.

Ain't nothing wrong with selling the damn place neither.

I'd like to be out of debt just once before I die, just once. One time.

Hey, Hoyce.

Why did you tell that big Indian I was crazy?

If I hadn't, he would have killed you.

I'm too old to walk home.

You and your people would sell that coal, you'd be rich in no time.

You could buy yourself a great big old purple Cadillac.

You won't have to ride in the back of this smelly pickup truck no more.

And that way, I'd have someone to ride me home

when I finally go broke.

Oh, you're as bad as my wife.

Neither one of you got any sense.

Why not sell it? Why in the hell not sell it?

They'd make a mess out there.

The leaves would fall too soon.

I don't know what the grass would say.

Yeah, well, that's what the whole damn mess.

Bess married the wrong man.

You and her could have lived happily ever after

just talking to the grass.

All the grass ever said to me was,

"Hell to you, you broken down old cowpuncher,

you ain't gonna make any easy living off of me."

Think I'm a fool for going to veterinary school, Jimbo?

What are you talking about?

- Clyde been on your case again? - Yeah.

I guess what I mean is

do you think there's a future in cattle?

Prices is up 8 cents a pound this month.

It was up 11 last month.

What do you think the future in coal is?

There's enough coal between here and Kentucky

to keep this country in energy for the next 600 years.

You smile like the Patriots at home. Brogan, too.

We'll pick so next week. L.A. Rams out with the Dallas Cowboys,

- need I say more? - I'll take the Rams.

Okay, let's go on to Miami, Kansas City.

The Chiefs are playing well. Defensively, they're tough.

They are believing it. So I know this Kansas City...

I came to see you. Why? Damn...

Hi, Pierce. I thought you was coming in to eat.

Hi.

Say hello to Mommy. Say hello to Mommy. You're cute.

Are you hungry? Are you hung...?

Honey, you in a bad mood or something?

I didn't know you took no flying lessons.

Flying lessons?

I wouldn't want flying lessons, I just...

I got a chance to go shopping down, down in Billings.

They say them little planes is the safest kind.

Yeah? Well, those little planes is the kind that's gonna get you killed.

There's our crew coming. Dad's in the lead.

Yeah. In the lead of being hung over most likely.

- Hey, sorry I was so pesky last night. - Good-looking women are always pesky.

Hell, sometimes I can't tell whether this is a cattle outfit or a cat outfit.

- Git! - Here, don't chouse my cats.

I don't know why you asked that Willie. He's just gonna be in the way.

He talks cowboy. Thought we give him a chance to try it.

Why don't you stick a tent on your head?

If that monstrosity blows off, we will have a big stampede.

Hoyce, come on, this is my new hat.

- Who am I riding? - Right here.

We call him Peanut.

Our lazy neighbour finally showed up.

I guess we can get started.

Yeah, boy, ho! Hold there.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Hoyce, if you'd asked, I'd brought a forklift

and we wouldn't had a wait for half a morning.

Oh, hey! Hey!

Jiminy Cricket, Willie, you tried to kill my Cadillac.

Damn, that's a relief. I hate a hat that ain't been broke in.

Clyde and Jimbo, work the east side of the Crick.

Me and Chester and Little Jim here, we'll ride this country.

And the ladies and Willie, I want you

to check that pothole over the ridge see what we got there.

We'll see you back here.

Willie! Willie!

We get paid by the pound around here.

We walk them. We sure as hell don't run them.

If a fella was to ease there just below Chester,

he could bring the cows down this draw.

There's an old hussy needs selling.

Yeah, a good cow, though.

I have nothing against her character, I just said she needed selling.

Sell her then!

I run into some core driller ain't too fond of you, Mama.

Of course, he ain't never ate your cooking.

Her cooking won't plug no bullet holes.

I gave those men the go ahead.

That's when I thought I had some rights here.

You had the right to let them come,

I had the right to run them off. That's equal rights for me.

I can do without the "equal" myself.

Me and Chester are old enough to recall when somebody

wore pants around the ranch.

Hear you've been roping Indians.

I roped one Indian, for your information.

I may rope that Indian again if I catch him. He welched on me.

Going around town making a spectacle of yourself.

I wasn't no spectacle.

Jimbo, pass me the beans.

I never shot nobody neither.

I didn't shoot nobody. Just run off some boomers.

How did you come to get into that core driller Donley?

How did you know about that?

I met with Donley's bosses yesterday

after bringing Peg home.

You seem anxious to take on

- what ain't your business. - Now, Mama those core drillers

want a decision by Saturday. I asked for more time. I did that. Me.

Daddy, they said you kneed Donley in the guts.

Of course, I thought you just loved them fellas.

- I don't kneed his guts. - If you had to beat up on someone,

Glad it was Donley. Had you tried higher.

- it will cost millions. - Don't chose our future..

- It ain't your right. - A blind man could see

we get no living off this land unless we sell.

There are other choices.

Old Farley Slater, he turned his place into a dude ranch.

Nephew, come here. Come here.

- What, Unc? - What do you think?

How about a dude ranch?

The whole family giving hayride parties and changing sheets for a living.

So Molly Boudreaux and her Frank

did sell a little of their property to developers.

Yeah, crazy old fools, too.

They used the money they got to lose it on more cows.

There is another choice, if I could just mention it.

Joe Olsen's ranch is for sale.

The one the movie fella bought?

- The very same, Mama. - Good.

Glad to be shed of him and his kind.

Well, we better sort those cows.

Chester and Little Jim will do the job.

We ought to take a look at that ranch. Maybe we could buy it.

You gotta be out of your mind, Clyde.

The house is worth a million. We'll buy it with coal money.

The ranch will be big enough or us. Jimbo, you could stop welding dragline.

It's a big place. Mama could live on one end. Daddy on the other.

In case of a fight, take a bus to Miles City for it.

I won't be out much bus fare,

I can count on that.

I'd hate to be a slave to a piece of country myself.

That's what you two have done. Slaves to a grass patch.

What they thought was big for them ain't near big enough for all of us.

You're right about that. I've been in this valley for 40 years,

still don't know what it is like to have no debt.

At least I know what it feels like to have a good life. Debt or no debt.

It's not too good enough, it couldn't be improved.

You just don't give a damn about this place.

Land's land, sweetie pie.

Next cow. That's it.

It's Clyde, isn't it? He's got you all upset again.

One thing about Clyde,

he always makes me think about things I don't want to.

Come on, Mom, you don't want this valley filled up with smoke stacks, do you?

No, of course not.

- He's right about one thing, though. - About what?

About it not making a living. This land, he's right about that.

You and Daddy did just fine.

Yeah, but that's when taxes was different. Money was cheap.

The damn pickup didn't cost as much as a Cadillac.

I don't know what you and Jimbo are gonna do.

It's not up to you to worry about us.

We'll take care of our own money problems.

I don't know what I'm thinking.

Your daddy's got me half crazy moving out on me like that.

All right, get some hot ones ready. We're ready to brand.

Pull it out.

The changing nature of accounting in the workplace

is evoking conflict of interest problems from the accounting standpoint.

- Hey, I was watching that. - I thought you was reading.

I can't read with somebody watching me.

Good.

You are in for it.

I was reading how to make money off of grazing land.

How?

Striking oil underneath it.

You're a very clever boy.

Thank God you got through, Willie.

What I remember most is

how you always wanted to do nothing but cowboying.

Me too. I always wanna be right there with you.

You were. You still are.

Every year, you're getting further and further away from ranching.

Half the ranches here did no business

in the last 10 years.

Maybe I just got the wrong dream.

If I have to do welding and coal mining,

then by God, that's what I'll do.

Times change. I'm not much at changing with them, Jimbo.

Peg, if the ranch gets sold, we'll get a place of our own.

I wanna live only here.

It's your mama's land. I married into it same as Hoyce.

You're my husband.

This ranch is as much yours as it is mine.

I've always felt that way and you well know it.

I'm asking you to take a stand with or against me.

Don't be swinging in the wind.

Damn, I ain't swinging in the wind on this, Peg.

I'm telling you the truth, what I know. Now we both love this place,

and we do dream of a place of our own,

but I gotta have money to do that.

Now, you gotta, you gotta be able to afford having and owning that dream.

You need money to pay the damn grain prices

and pay the damn utility bills

and borrow from and pay back the damn bankers.

That ain't swinging in the wind, Peg, that's just the real truth of it.

Here I am, buck naked, making a damn speech.

First speech I ever heard you make.

Damn, I love you.

What in the hell happened here?

Oh, some fool knocked down our fence.

It must have been boomers. A rancher would at least

have been neighbour enough to call us.

Any cattle get out?

If yes, they must have flew, I see no tracks.

Right. I only see a mess of barbed wire

and a woman who'd argue with a fence post.

There's one thing to be said for fence posts.

- Yeah, which is? - They're predictable.

They don't get the sulks and move out on you.

Here. Got any wire cutters on your saddle?

I lent them to you. They're in your pickup.

That's where they'd be if I hadn't lent them to Jimbo.

It is no surprise. Never knew you to have a tool when handy.

A man lives with you makes good sense

to carry many blunt instruments. I lose it and whop you

or you lose it and whop me.

Who thought we'd make to be such a wild pair?

Yeah, I'm a surprise here. I used to have a sweet disposition.

You were never a lot tamer like you are now.

- Where you going? - See if I can stir up

a post hole digger and some pliers.

That's good.

We should build a fence every day.

- I know. - We're nearly peaceful

when we're both worked out.

Yeah, I like peaceful, but not as much as I hate fences.

Give me that. Just load him on the truck and I'll drive you back.

Thank you, much obliged.

Hell, you don't have to thank me. We're still married, ain't we?

Yeah, well, we was the last time I heard.

Wait, hey, wait, you two know each other, don't you?

Two of the best dancers in Rosebud County, I hear.

Leastways, Mama was.

Well, you still dance, don't you?

Well, I'll give it a go.

Why don't you try it?

Hey, you keep the beer, bud. I'll just borrow the lady.

Now ain't this cosy?

- Cosy? - Yeah.

Are you crazy?

He'll kill me this time. He's got a gun on him, you know?

We better scrunch down so he don't find us.

Where did you get the black eye?

I remember somebody else rode his horse over a dance floor.

That night in Ennis you asked me

- to marry you, remember? - Yeah.

I wouldn't be likely to forget that,

because ma and pa had been having a fight over you.

Leastways your ma never wanted your pa to hire me.

She gave him hell about that for the rest of his life.

Ma was hard, but she wasn't dumb. She knew it was coming.

- So did you, didn't you? - Of course not.

Well, I don't believe, of course not? You married me, didn't you?

Yeah, I done it,

but not until I got used to the way you looked.

I thought you was kind of repulsive at the time.

If you didn't like anything about me,

then how come it happened?

Never said I never liked nothing about you.

- So, what was it you did like? - I liked the way you handled horses.

You got a nice gentle touch.

Be gentle with horses. You gotta be,

you gotta be patient with young horses.

- What about old women? - Well, what about them?

They ain’t so different from young horses?

I ain't talking about you.

You're a lot different than any horse I ever broke.

I don't need breaking, Hoyce, I just need a whole lot of patience.

You know, a person's just got so much.

Maybe I run out.

Laveta?

Laveta, you better come out here!

My God, you're right.

That old boy's got a streak of violence in him.

Greyhound bus, right on time.

- You paying with fence posts? - They're not for you.

- Well, who are they for then? - A man building a fence.

- How much apiece? - Three dollars.

By God, that's a slow way to get rich.

I don't have time to get rich.

I just wanna sell these fence posts.

That fella will be at it awhile

if two posts a week is the best you can do.

Married just 13 months, from Minnesota, please welcome...

Maybe we could go on that show if we was married.

You offering to take me to L.A.?

Last time, you was proposing you was only offering Denver.

Fran, I'd take you to damn China if you'd marry me.

The reason you come around now is because I'm a fresh piece of tail.

We ought to wait three years,

- see if it's true love or what. - Three years? Fran?

I can't wait that long. What will happen then?

We'll be three years older.

No, more than that.

It's not like I have a permanent job now.

I could get laid off any time.

And the Guthries might not need a cowboy right.

With no work here I'd have to move

or go to Ohio. I don't want that.

If we was married, then we'd be a couple.

Hell, I know how to work. I mean, I ain't no bum.

And help you. I mean, my salary would be better.

You wouldn't have to bar hop no more.

From California, please welcome, Jill and Marvin Gaynor. All right.

Yeah, maybe I could open myself up a little beauty salon somewhere, huh?

I always kind of wanted a little beauty salon.

You'll get one, I promise.

Hello.

Pete Brawley used to work here. Remember Pete?

He's the one who roped the wolf.

Yeah. We ain't lost our memories, we just lost our senses.

We done the dumbest thing in 10 years.

- All right, I heard that. - Well, it's your stupid idea.

Artificial insemination. That's the big business.

We use our Hanoverian stallions.

We got clients in 42 States, 16 foreign countries.

How many foals you get from a stud horse?

A dozen. I don't know for sure.

- Tell him how you make the big bucks. - Oh, yeah, over here.

This is the way we breed our thoroughbreds. We...

As I said, we re-did plumbing in the entire ranch,

so with the new plumbing, I got myself a new toy.

Now this is a lot of fun.

You and Peg will die and go to heaven in there, Jimbo.

Be a real comfort in the winter.

Security, of course, we have a 24-hour Instant Alarm System.

It's hooked up to the sheriff's office.

The outbuildings and machinery are burglar alarmed, too.

I remember when this place was a ranch.

I rode in the Olsen waggon one spring

before I come down to the Rosebud.

- What are you grinning at? - Your suspenders.

I recall Pa nearly didn't hire you

because of the suspenders you used to wear.

He said nobody with suspenders could be a good cowpuncher.

Well, if I'd known that, I'd worn the damn things every day.

I might have got fired.

- What did you say? - You heard me.

Might have been better.

Because you stayed someplace where you ain't wanted.

Oh, you was wanted.

I wanted you.

Hoyce, if you was going, you should have left years ago.

Isn't this ranch something else? I mean, this is real living.

This is fine, expensive living.

I only like the jacuzzi about it.

I didn't see one thing I liked, not one thing.

Just calm down, Daddy.

You stay out of this. You're half the damn trouble.

Without you I could've talked your mum into selling coal 5 years ago.

You'd played hell.

Peg's trying to help you keep your best thing.

- Yeah? What? - Your way of life.

I don't need no help. I've had it for over 60 years

without your help. I need help to get rid of it.

Nobody's keeping you on the Rosebud.

Nobody's keeping you on McCrary land.

You just wanted to rid of it right as we moved in on it.

I don't know about the Rosebud, but I'd like to shed of you now.

What if you did leave? I'd like to see you get hired at your age.

You're slow. I'm scared something gonna run over you.

What the hell you care?

- You'd be better off if I was dead. - That's enough, Daddy!

You marry some rich dude. Give him everything I busted my butt for.

Can you believe them? That place is ours for the asking.

You liked it, did you, Clyde?

I ain't taking no bath in no gold hot tub.

And if I was you, I wouldn't count on it neither.

Daddy, If this thing don't go through, I could be in a little trouble.

- What are you talking about? - Money.

Oh, hell, you got Ellie to buy you out of trouble.

- Well, that's part of it, she's gone. - What?

She left me 3 weeks ago. I ain't had the stomach to tell no one.

Getting a little low on funds.

So why in the cotton-picking hell did you buy this crap?

Don't you get on me now.

You should be glad you got a child with sense.

Sense? Your wife left you, you're up to your eyeballs in debt.

You got only steer manure for brains!

Oh, come on, Daddy, I'm living in your footsteps, taking chances.

You and me never worked in no coal pit! Hell, no!

Maybe I'm wrong, is that it?

I shouldn't have pointed at a chance.

- Tell me, where did I go wrong? - By God, I don't believe it.

Worked my whole life so I could ride down the rode

in a red Cadillac sitting with a grown son hitting me up!

This coal thing is gonna make us worth something.

- We was worth something! - I mean money!

You always mean money!

You're starting to sound like some women I know.

Stop this car right now!

I want you to stop this car right here now!

Let me out of this damn pile of junk! Stop and let me out!

Damn you, Clyde. Damn you! Damn you!

Get the hell out of here! Go on, go on, go on!

What's the matter, girl?

Ain't feeling too good? Yeah.

What's the matter?

We'll just give you a shot here.

Oh, now, calm down, Mama.

Calm down now. Go on, back. You take after me.

I'm gonna whip your...

Go on, yeah! Get back there! Get back there! Go on!

Easy, girl, easy. Easy now.

That's it. Yeah. There.

Get back there! Stop it! Stop it!

Get the hell off! Get off!

- Is them the same two posts? - No.

Well, they look like the same posts to me.

You needn't get your dander up.

- Who'd you sell them other posts to? - A man building a fence.

- When did your wife die? - Twenty-one years.

- You probably forgot her then, huh? - I'm not forgetful.

- She gave you much trouble? - No. She did not like to talk.

- You better drive. - I don't know how to drive.

Well, I hope you didn't bring me nothing crumbly.

This bed's already got loads of crumbs.

You could turn anything into a crumb sloppy as you eat.

- Can't you prop up no better than that? - Oh, yeah. Well...

- There. Try not to dribble on the quilt. - I don't dribble.

I don't dribble. I am no basketball player

and I ain't no 90 years old neither.

- Seems funny, don't it? - What?

Me ending up back in this bunkhouse.

First night I ever spent on this ranch, I spent here. Remember that?

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

- Ashamed of what? - Living like this.

It worries the children.

Oh, what do they know?

They'd be in worse shape than we are.

- Ain't you listening to me? - I think they already smoke dope.

Come back down to the house where you belong.

I'm asking you if that's what you want.

I hate this business of you

being up here at the bunkhouse, me being down there.

- It ain't seemly. - Well, sit down, hon.

Come on, just sit down.

- You really want me to move back in? - Yeah, I do. It's where you belong.

- Are you sure you don't want no divorce? - Divorce?

When did I say anything about a divorce?

I don't think you ever said it,

but I sure couldn't blame you for thinking it.

It wouldn't take you very long

to find another man.

What would I want with another man?

Well, I don't know, I just...

You might want one a shade... Well, a shade younger.

- Why? - Oh, I don't know, maybe just...

Well, whatever a woman

- would want one for, I guess. - Look, I don't get you.

You know, I ain't got a whole lot of mustard these last years.

And sometimes I think it was that hernia operation threw me off.

That's what's going on around here. That's it! That's...

You don't cut a whole lot of mustard no more,

so you figured I'm in the market

for some young stud.

You moved out on me because you was afraid

I would hit you up for what ain't got.

I ain't said that.

Just you don't have as much as I might want!

Maybe. That's been this whole mess.

Let's not take on like that!

You don't want to leave this place and the miners

started this fighting. That started it.

We fight about leaving here since marriage!

This is just your damn vanity, that's all, you old rooster!

I swear, Hoyce, I... This is getting me crazy.

Stuck together all these years,

we've done all these things and you don't think I'm in it

for anything more than the pleasuring?

Don't you know you're my whole life?

You just take it on yourself to decide that I don't care about you no more

so I trade you in for some young smart aleck

because you're slowing down a little bit?

Hold on now. Now, Bess, I mean this nice.

Nice? Nice... That's the worst insult you ever give me.

Don't you really think I care about you no more?

You got a funny way of showing it if you do.

Well, you know I do.

Well, you know, the way I look at it?

We've been married for so damn long

we're past having any choice in the matter.

I... Does this mean the deal's off?

- What deal? - You know, me moving back in?

I don't know. I... We've been saying a lot of things here,

but if you had liked that movie fella's ranch,

we'd had moved if you'd had your way?

Hell, I told you how I felt about that place.

- I told you how I felt! - I'm talking about us.

If you didn't like that place, don't mean you've changed!

Is moving down to the house with me

gonna change how you feel?

Thought you had me, didn't you?

You was just gonna fly me up there

and we was gonna lap up that fancy ranch

and you was gonna twist my arm into selling,

only you didn't like it no more than me.

You're a sow's ear, Hoyce, just like me.

All the coal money in Montana

ain't gonna make you into a silk purse.

Hey, Pierce, whoa! Wait, wait, wait! Hey!

If you do nothing Saturday night, come to our trailer!

Fran and I are having us a little wedding party.

- Well, whose wedding is that gonna be? - Ours.

You should come, you can get drunk,

because you're gonna hear the noise anyway.

You're marrying that ugly little whore?

Willie, you must be getting really hard up.

Fran ain't ugly.

Get your face out here and I'll kick it, man!

Now, hold on there now, son.

You don't wanna mess around with me. You won't even get time to sneeze.

She ain't a whore. Get out here

and fight like a man, coward!

Then get out here, come on!

The only reason that broad ever let you move in

with her in the first place was to save money on rent.

I live right across the street from you, dummy!

As I leave for work every morning,

there's six or seven pickup trucks in front.

They ain't waiting to trade green stamps.

Do you know what I'm saying, Willie?

I'll be seeing you.

Hold it!

- Oh, Jesus! - Damn!

- Stop it! - Willie, what are you doing?

Bastard, Willie, stop it!

Willie, what the hell are you doing?

The wedding's off, Fran! I wanted to stop

- and let you know that. - Willie!

Anybody up?

I'm up, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm awake.

Why out so early? Stock get loose?

No, just got the heebie-jeebies.

Can't sleep past sun-up no matter what I do.

I'll fix you breakfast.

Oh, no, don't bother.

- You do too much as it is, Jimbo. - What's wrong? Daddy?

- No, it ain't Hoyce. - Well, what is it then?

Yeah, in a way it is.

I guess what it comes down to is the moving.

- Moving? - That's right.

- Getting a new place. - You mean sell the coal?

That's the one thing you said you'd never do.

Yes, well, folks ought to be careful using the word never.

You say never to something, you will end up doing it.

You ain't said why. Is Clyde behind it?

I think you just worry about it so much,

you got yourself all confused.

No, I ain't confused about coal.

I begrudge the coal companies, every acre they get,

whether it's mine or somebody else's.

I hate strip-mining. I just hate it with a passion.

I hate even the thought of leaving this ranch.

But hate it or not...

I finally come to think it's the best thing for the family.

Best thing for your daddy.

I don't know how you can think that, Mama.

For the family me and Jimbo wanna raise Little Jim

right here.

I know that. It's... Hell, you two are the hardest part of it.

I know you love it the way I do, but Clyde don't love it.

Hoyce downright hates it.

Mama, I remember when you and Daddy were happy.

You had some fights, but you were happy.

Yeah, we was, wasn't we?

But he always wanted to leave,

he just dogged me about it the whole time.

Well, he was just a hired hand, you know?

My folks never did approve of him.

My ma was just... She was just downright mean to him.

Partly, it was because he got me.

And leaving was always what Hoyce wanted.

It never was what I wanted and I won.

And after my folks died, the land we was working

was mine, you know, and...

He worked it, though. I mean, he worked it good.

He just could never get it in his mind that even an acre of it was his.

He was downright jealous of it, you wanna know the truth.

He used to say I was a bigamist, you know, for marrying him

when I was already married to the ranch.

Old Hoyce can't carry a grudge.

Yeah, that's the truth.

But he is an old man,

isn't it a little late for him to move?

That's the very excuse

that I've been using this whole last 10 years.

I mean, we've been arguing about coal, I've been saying it's too late,

but it ain't an honest argument.

Hoyce and me could have some real good years

if we could just the two of us stop this fighting all the time.

Well, this is it.

Sorry to disturb you so early.

I owe him, honey. I really do.

What do you think?

It seems funny,

the first resentments always end up being the last resentments.

Do you really think you could get your price for the coal?

I know I could get my price. Why?

Well, if you can get your price, I think you ought to sell it.

- What did you say? - You heard me.

I said, go ahead and sell.

- You mean it? - Yeah, I mean it.

Well, what brought you to your senses?

Well, I wouldn't exactly call it sense.

Why are you looking at me cross-eyed like that?

I'm exasperated, that's why!

I thought this was gonna be your happiest day.

At least the happiest day since you won the bareback in Cheyenne.

You just think your whole life

would have been better without me.

It would've been better

if none of us had happened. If we never had nought!

I never said nothing against the kids.

That's one thing we done. We had a nice family.

So it's me that ain't been worth it.

- I ain't said it. - That's what you meant, though.

Well, well, I don't know how to get along with you no more!

I offered you all you wanted.

- What do you want? - The only reason you give in

is because you think it's too late!

I won't live to see the end of this place.

I'll die here, you'll take that money, marry a man your age.

You'll be the happiest widow woman in Montana.

Don't you dare say that to me!

- I'll teach you to throw at me. - You ain't teach me

because you ain't smart enough to teach me!

Oh, yeah, of course, yeah, I forgot. You're a McCrary.

And nobody was ever smart

as no damn McCrary. I should have dragged you off

here when we married. And if you wouldn't drag,

I should have just left you!

I'll tell you one other thing.

Your daddy never dared criticise me.

He couldn't rope a stud if he had 10 throws.

He couldn't ride a horse three jumps!

Don't you talk to me about my dad.

He had 50 years behind him before you ever met him!

He could sit in a rocking chair and be a better man than you!

At least he never held no grudge all his life!

- Grudge? What grudge? - Your grudge.

This grudge we're fighting about!

Your grudge against me for not leaving the ranch!

That I never loved you. I never loved nobody else!

I never looked at another man!

Where are you going?

Off this ranch. And I ain't coming back!

I never wanna spend another night on McCrary land!

You own it, you damn jackass!

No, I don't own it! No, I just worked it.

I just worked this land

- for you and your goddamn dad! - You scumbag!

You weak little rodeo bum!

You come here from nothing and you walk

on one of the finest ranches

and all you can do is drink and whine

and try to get everybody to feel sorry for you!

I wish I did have another man, any man!

Because you won't even let yourself find out what being a man's about!

I know I'm not gonna stand here all day

and let some old woman insult me.

You go to hell!

I'd go and pay the rent if I knew they wouldn't let you in!

We gave that boy of yours a reprieve. Your time is running out, Guthrie.

Did you hear me? You're gonna lose the whole deal.

We'll be moving on to Wyoming.

The deal's off. You can go to hell.

You're a stubborn, ignorant old man.

You're just as dumb as your wife.

Hey, Hoyce, how you doing?

Hey, Sue. Slip me a turkey, will you?

Hi, Hoyce. Good to see you around.

I heard about that hoof. With the mother cow there.

Well, I'm up, but I ain't exactly around.

Thought you was in jail.

Heard you stole a trailer park or something.

I stole a hauler and I paid a visit on someone I know.

Oh, well, yeah. Thank you.

- Where's your woman? - You know, live and learn, you know?

I run into a woman smarter than I was.

They're all smarter than we are, all women.

God never made a dumb one I've run into.

If there is a dumb one,

there's a hundred old boys that's twice as dumb as she is.

This is depressing. You know, I mean,

if we can't outsmart them, what can we do?

Yyou gotta whip them or leave them.

They ain't so easy to whip neither.

Let me give you some advice, son. Don't ever marry the boss' daughter.

Because somewhere it just ain't gonna work out.

Hoyce, I don't even have a boss. If I had a new boss with a daughter,

I couldn't get my hand between her legs.

We sure are a gloomy pair.

Somebody ought to take the both of us out and just shoot us.

You got a little fight with Bess?

It wasn't exactly little. More like a Custer battle.

What's a fight? Probably nothing.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

In your age we'd probably be fighting about getting in one another's pants.

But we're not your age.

When you're old, fights get serious

because you got something to fight about.

- What? - Goddamn lifetime, that's what.

I don't believe it. I damn well don't believe it!

What? Show me, I'll believe anything.

Pierce just walked in with my little whore.

That's not so hard to believe. She's a whore and he's a male.

He makes fun of her. He said

she was the ugliest in Rock Springs and now he's with her.

Go get me a pack of smokes.

Cigarettes.

- Hi, Willie! - You ain't nothing

but puke with lipstick.

You ain't nothing

but puke with lipstick!

- Hey you, Laveta. - Pierce, it's over!

It's gonna be over when I get through with you.

- Get up! - Hey, hey, hey! That's not...

- What the hell you're doing there? - Hey!

- Leave it be, Hoyce. - Hey, somebody do something.

- Hey! - That's enough. That's enough.

Somebody's gotta stop this. Hey, hey, look out!

All right, son. Stop, that's enough now! Stop it!

Come on, get up. Get up, come on.

I said that's enough!

Don't you get up!

You're a crippled old man. You're messing with death.

I've messed with it many a time, boy.

I ain't so busted up and so old I can't whip manners into you.

Like hell you will. You are too old.

Yeah, lookie who's here. Just in time.

Takes a real chicken sort of a man to hide behind a gun, Pierce.

Is that a fact?

Put that away, Pierce. Put it away!

- Oh, my God! - Pierce, for Christ's sake!

- Call the cops! - Call the cops, sir!

- Somebody! Pierce... - Oh, my God, you killed him.

He come at me.

- Somebody take that gun! - He tried to jump me!

- Somebody's... - You bastard, you killed my old man!

- Could you wait a minute, sir? - Who are you?

I'm just his wife.

You old cheat.

You never even give me time to make it up.

- Let's break it up here. - Get back now.

Go on home now. Give us some room.

- Get inside, Louis. - Come on,

give us some room here.

- Frank? - Come on. Go home.

This here the man that shot my old cowpuncher?

This is him, Ms. Guthrie.

You better hope they keep you awhile, mister.

Because I aim to live a lot longer yet.

They let you out,

you come around anyplace I can get a bead on you,

ain't nobody gonna stop me.

- Come on. - Come on, folks.

Come on, Mama. Come on.

OLD FAITHFUL BAR