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- Hello, Talley. - Hutch.

Ain't the day just polished fine for playin' school now.

Seems they don't have too much confidence in you, Hutch.

Well I'd rather've done it alone,

and I reckon you know that.

I know.

You wanna take him first, I'll wait.

If I'm still standing, Hutch, he won't be any problem.

Any man who can't look another man straight in the face

can't be too sure of himself, can he?

The way I see it, too.

Wondered how long it'd be before you and me

come up against one another.

Had to happen someday, Hutch.

You're always hiring out to the wrong side.

All these people have legal water rights.

Mr. Rickoff don't feel it that way.

Guess I'm gonna have to kill ya Talley.

But you always was mule stubborn.

Mr. Talley, you are as good a they say.

It won't solve anything, Mr. Morris.

Bullets never do.

Papa.

Papa you're back.

I always come back, don't I.

Yes, but well I miss you a lot.

Momma wanted me to come right on home.

We got packin' to do.

You women folk got packing to do.

You see a man can put his fixings in a shoebox.

What's Dodge City gonna be like, Papa?

Just bigger and busier.

Is it a town that's got roots?

You know what?

Down to the middle of the earth.

Oh, Mr. Talley.

May I see you for a moment, please sir?

It's my teacher, Papa.

- I'll see you at home. - You run along.

I'm George Nichols, sir.

Hello, Mr. Nichols.

My manners are lacking.

Ronilou has talked a lot about you.

Ronilou is a very exceptional you lady.

Well, it seems that the woman folk from both sides

of the family take a lot of sunrise with them.

And the men, sir?

I beg your pardon?

Mr. Talley, your line of work is not well known.

Specially Appointed Sheriff is the kindest title I've heard,

and that depends on the side one hears it from.

Well now, Mr. Nichols, any work I get involved in

has a legal statute as its birthright.

Which is often.

Orphaned at an early age by a six-gun, I've heard.

Oh we live in strange times, Mr. Talley.

I struggle to improve minds, and you blow them apart.

But I suppose it's according to one's viewpoint.

Mr. Nichols that is according to whether the point

has a view at all.

Is that what you came to tell me?

Mr. Talley, we're both cultured men.

I can tell that of you,

which, I confess, confuses me more than a little.

Culture and weapons aren't exactly a marriage.

Opposites make the best marriage, Mr. Nichols.

And my respects to you for showing

so much concern for Ronilou.

Now you, you sir have the physical requirements

that I lack to make this a purposeful land

if you wish to do so.

Your daughter wrote this as a going away present to me.

She asked me to show it to no one.

I said I wouldn't, but I feel in this case

by betraying her confidence has a virtue

that far out-weighs the transgression.

Read it.

Aloud if you will.

Please.

"Stay with me God.

"The night is dark.

"The night is cold.

"My little spark of courage dies.

"The night is long.

"Be with me God and make me strong.

"I am but the daughter my father wrought, my mother bore.

"And a simple girl and nothing more.

"But God of strength and gentleness

"Be pleased...

"to make me nothing less."

That is simple beauty, Mr. Talley.

A beauty of a depth this land needs.

A beauty that came from a daughter "my father wrought."

I thought you'd like to know that.

Good luck to you, sir.

What we need's a gunfighter.

Yeah.

The only thing that sings the right prayers

for the likes of Anderson and that cavie of corn-fed baboons

of his is a six-gun, a Winchester,

in the hands of a man who knows how to use 'em.

Right.

Like this Talley fellow them boys had 'em up to Nilo.

The way I hear it Rickoff had him two men

with reputations high enough to hide a stork behind.

And this Talley, he tacked them flat as frogs

at a cow gathering.

Now that's the kind of man to have Anderson standin'

straight as 12 o'clock and singing any song

you want his lips to pucker.

What I hear is, is Talley ain't no ordinary gun pointer.

He got himself tight ways and ideals and such.

Might be he won't find our doin's ideal to his ideals.

What do you say, Mr. Burdette?

Well gentlemen...

we're all under the same tent of survival.

Very reason for our meeting here,

the very reason for this little grain of history

transpiring at this point and time is survival.

Now survival sometimes demands the shedding of blood.

And if we must shed it at least we know we're in the right.

Now, I've checked out each of your land titles.

Your water rights are legal.

The point is, Mr. Burdette, Shaw Anderson don't give

a boot in a barrel about what's legal and what ain't.

And he ain't got just one or two gun pointers

out there at his spread.

Every man he's got workin' for him is married

to a Winchester.

Everyone of 'em can thread a needle with a bullet

'cause that's the way he hires 'em.

You ain't even seen Talley shoot Randolph.

Have you?

I already told you that.

All right, all right.

Look, I ain't sayin that a fast gun slicker than first ice

won't make a difference, but this Talley,

how do we know he ain't choosing sides with Anderson

right now?

Why that Anderson's a Reb,

and this Talley's a Confederate War hero.

Because Talley fights on what he believes

to be just principle.

And only a man who fights on just principle

would've conducted himself the way he did in Civil...

In the late war.

Well, if it was just principle

and not cows and water we were talking about,

maybe I'd buy it sack and saddle, Burdette.

This Anderson brands with lead along with iron,

and that's a principle worth considerin' ain't it?

And like I said how do know he'll even choose our side?

Because I sent him a wire, and I received this reply.

"If conditions prevail as you stated,

"you may consider me at your service,

"signed William E. Talley."

Whoa.

Now you women folk do what you have to do.

I'll tend to business, all right?

All right.

Oh, I am dead sorry.

I hada come in lookin' if me and General hadn't been

so deep in conversation here.

My fault, ma'am.

Well, if that don't hop a hill.

How's that?

Gentleman tipped his hat.

Most of the whities around here act like

they was born with them tacked to their ears.

I'm Mignon Anderson.

I'm Ellie Talley. This is my daughter, Ronilou.

Oh, I wouldn't.

I'm most pleased, ma'am.

Oh, well, if somebody told me that I'd call them a liar

and lost a friend.

I've never seen General take a stranger, lest I tell him.

You new here abouts?

Yes, we just arrived.

Oh well, then come on, we'll all go shopping.

Haven't been shopping with ladies for a long, long time.

General, stay!

I seen him.

He just rolled in plain as a barrel on a skyline.

Who's that?

Talley, the William E. Talley that's who.

I thought he was up in Alsworth.

No, he's where the money is,

and the money is where the trouble is.

And seein' as he's here, it's sure as wings to a bird

that they's trouble around someplace.

Is he alone?

No, his wife and his daughter appeared-like.

Well now Festus, that doesn't exactly sound

like a hunting party, does it?

Well, Matthew I don't give a hoot if he rolled into town

on a wagon-load of Bibles.

You know what his reputation is.

Sometimes a man's reputation and the facts don't gibe.

You know what I mean, Matthew, bad apples.

I know what you mean,

but if I hazed everybody out of Dodge with a bad reputation,

I'd have half of Kansas standing out there.

I'll check in on him later.

Right now I want you to mail these letters for me.

Still an' all Matthew, bad apples.

And you just gonna keep standin' around

I don't know Burdette.

How can you be so sure he'll even show up.

He mighta had second thoughts.

As I'm told, William Talley's a man of honor...

Honor?

These days that and a penny will get your kid a gumball...

Come in.

Mr. Talley?

Yes, sir.

I'm Cauley Burdette.

This is George Chandler and Arnold Rolfing.

Talley.

Gentlemen.

I hope you'll find these accommodations satisfactory.

Just fine.

Mr. Chandler and Mr. Rolfing were selected

by the other ranchers to represent them.

And I represent the legal aspects.

How many ranchers are there?

Three short of a hundred,

and nothing less than a section per ranch.

And all legally filed on waterholes?

Central, every one, all legally valid.

And each and every rancher's willing to contribute

$50 to keep it valid.

That makes a fee just short of $4,900.

That's a lot of money.

Is that your idea?

Well the West is changing, Mr. Talley.

It's the day of the little man seeking his place in the sun,

and our government has proclaimed his right to do so.

Ranchers today must be prepared

to defend themselves legally.

Then what I am doing here, Mr. Burdette?

Well the West hasn't changed

quite that much yet, Mr. Talley.

This is Shaw Anderson territory.

I've heard.

Not quite like Rickoff and his Nilo spread.

This is the Lazy W.

Anderson hires his men for the workin'

of the levers of Winchesters just as much as a rope

or ridin' a rough stream.

So I've been told.

We've got boys who can shoot, too.

George here, Arnold, Charlie Sobeleski.

And some others.

I appreciate your thoughts, gentlemen,

but I don't need anybody.

I get the work done is if it's legal.

Oh, it's legal all right, sound as a gold bar.

Then I can go to the courthouse and check the filings?

Why yes, of course, you wanna go to that trouble.

A good conscience, it's no trouble at all, Mr. Burdette.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Well thank you, Mr. Talley.

Mr. Burdette.

Do you collect a fee for helping out these folks?

A small one.

You can check that out, too.

Now these are decent pioneer folks just trying

to get their wedge of the wilderness.

You know Mr. Talley, I think I'd have hated

to have been under your command.

But you are, Mr. Burdette.

You are now.

Well, I can say one thing.

You could wear it to Hell and wouldn't be noticed.

O'Roarke, I aim to go to St. Lou or New Orleans,

maybe even Frisco.

I need something to make this old trap and trash

look like a lady.

Now we better do some more huntin'.

You've seen most of the little I have.

What about this?

This?

Why Ellie, I am just a breed Kiowa girl.

One part of bow and arrow.

What would the likes of me do in finery like this.

Nothing of the sort, Mignon.

You have a natural beauty which would be most fitting.

That's a fact, Mrs. Anderson.

I was sayin' the same thing myself, ladies.

Well, Ellie, you're high-bred.

Easy to tell.

And I always turn trust youth.

But you're Irish, and I wouldn't trust you

if you had the blarney stone gift-wrapped in the back room

in a gold box.

Think it don't look too toney?

Oh no, not at all.

It's quite continental, see for yourself.

Stitch her and a tuck there, and I have some jewelry

if you'd honor it.

You'd go to those three cities,

and the eyebrows wouldn't lower for a calendar year.

Think so?

I guarantee it.

You've got a way of puttin' things.

And you'll have a way of wearin' 'em.

Well, some days is meant to happen.

And meetin' the Talleys is one of 'em.

All right stone heart, thanks to two ladies

you done sold the dress you done ordered by mistake.

I'm so glad we talked you into it.

Can I take you anywhere?

No thanks.

We're staying at the Dodge House until we get settled.

And what line of work did ya say your husband was in?

He's what you might call a business advisor.

Well they ain't a lot of businesses hereabouts,

but I suppose any door can use a better handle.

Well, when you get settled you gotta come out to the ranch.

It's the Lazy W.

Anybody'll tell you.

We'd be delighted, Mignon.

Yes, I'll say it again.

Some days is meant to happen,

and meetin' the Talleys was one of them.

It was lovely meeting you.

- Bye Bye. - Bye Bye.

Talley?

We haven't met before,

but my guess is Matt Dillon.

That's right.

Heard a lot about you, Marshal.

What do ya say you and I have a little talk?

It's warm enough for a beer.

I believe it is.

I think I understand what you're doing in this, Talley.

It's Cauley Burdette and his ranchers, isn't it?

Squatters, some people call them.

As far as I can see every inch of land is legally filed.

Yeah, and all selected by Burdette.

Meaning what, Marshal?

I guess there's some men who like to push others around

for supposedly unselfish reasons.

I just find it a little bit hard to believe

that Burdette is that kind of man.

Well, I had similar thoughts, Marshal.

But, you know, I think I see him pretty clearly now.

I've been in the military long enough to know when

to walk out a door backward.

You know Talley, there's not much I can do about a man

that comes to town with a set of law books

and a line of talk.

But gunfighters are my business.

Well they're not mine, Marshal.

That's not the way I hear it.

Hayward Valley feud, Wallace war, the Nilo

and now this Alton.

That's a lot of front sights lookin' at you Talley.

None that I wanted.

I came home from the war in a prison

without a cent, Marshal.

Yankee owned by land who couldn't even read or write.

"Reclamation" they called it.

The print was still wet with the blood of the people

who thought they had died for principle.

I came home to a wife who thought I was dead,

a daughter I didn't even know was born.

No one wanted to hire a Confederate

who had hurt a Yankee once or twice.

So, I simply did what I know best.

A gun has been a part of me all my life.

Well, you're getting yourself a large reputation,

and the word comes from men that I know and respect.

You know what that means?

The short ones come and try you.

Hill, gully, bed, bath, even church.

That's one of the reasons I'm asking ya

to step out of this thing.

What's the other reason, Marshal?

Shaw Anderson.

What about him?

Well in the first, second and third place,

he's a long cut from the others.

Not from what I have heard.

They tell me that every man he hired is practically

married to his gun.

That's just on the surface.

His grandfather was with Lewis and Clark.

His father was one of the first cow men Kansas ever saw.

Shaw Anderson knows this country better than anybody

that's ever crossed it.

In the big die up in '69,

half this country had to start over from new seed.

Not Anderson.

He didn't lose more than a third of his herd.

In fact, it was him that provided the seed

for most of them to start over.

Memories are short.

Let me tell you this, Marshal.

This is gonna be the last thing I'm gonna do.

I think I've saved enough money to start again somewhere.

Tell you somethin' else.

I aim to meet this man Anderson

before any more dust kicks up.

When a man becomes my enemy, I like to know him.

Good. If you talk to Anderson you'll see what I mean.

Marshal, nice to meet you.

Talley.

I woulda introduced him to you Kitty.

Oh I know.

"Men's talk", if you can call two wolves

sizing each other up men's talk.

Well he's goin' out and have a talk with Anderson.

You know two honest men talking

can save a lot of spade work.

The only trouble with that is the two honest men

can give you two different answers to the same question.

Yeah, I'll see ya later.

Oh Bill, she was the sweetest woman you can imagine,

just the sweetest.

She certainly was, Papa.

Well that's nice.

We helped her pick out a dress,

and she's our first friend in Dodge.

We've been invited to their ranch when we get settled.

That's really nice.

What's their name, Ellie?

You know here I go, I can't remember.

What was it Ronilou?

Mignon Anderson?

Anderson?

Where?

Someplace called the Lazy W.

Well, I'll be in the vicinity.

Might be I'll pay my respects.

Oh, do that.

She was so pleasant.

I think I've got everything.

All right, my princess, give me a kiss.

Do you have to go?

I have to go.

Possibly, I'll be back tonight.

Take care.

Don't worry.

- Bye. - Bye

That'd be a decency for your father

to pay respects to the Andersons.

Yes, that'd be a nice decency.

Mr. Talley.

Mr. Burdette.

That has the appearance of travel.

It serves that function.

Well, it's worth the trouble to see the country.

The prairie this time of year

day or night's like heaven unfolds.

I'm not gonna see the country, Mr. Burdette.

I'm on the way to see Anderson.

Ander... What in God's name could that do?

Anything in God's name could do something.

Now, if you'll excuse me.

Mr. Talley,

I'm only a lawyer

with a dream of the future,

but I have an ear and an eye.

Shaw Anderson's a man cold as polar ice.

Oh, he'll be cordial enough, and he'll have heard of you.

There can be no mistake.

You go there alone, you'll be dry-gulched.

Shot from cover, Talley. It's his way.

It's won him this country that way.

A smile, a promise, then before you know it,

lead coming like it was, like it was rainin' rocks.

Let me get you some men to ride flank

if your mind's made fast, that at least.

Thank you, Mr. Burdette.

I best travel alone.

Good day.

Talley's going to see Anderson.

I want the three of you out there this afternoon

on the Humboldt Wash where it narrows to the road.

Talley doesn't stop to water coming down,

he'll cross slow.

I want you to graze him.

Just do it surface meat, left arm.

You do it.

The rest of you start the fourth of July.

That'll change his thinking.

But why? He's our man, ain't he?

He's ours. I aim to keep him that way.

He'll think Anderson ambushed him.

Get yourselves a jug.

It'll be cold out there just waiting.

See me when you get back.

All right.

Mr. Anderson.

Uh-huh.

There's someone here to see you.

Who is it?

He says his name is Talley.

Talley. Here.

Now, ain't that something.

You want me to send him away?

No. No, I wanna get a look at him.

And Lynit, speak soft to the man.

Talley.

Anderson.

Johnny Reb, himself.

The grave and beyond.

Can't tell it by the sound of you.

Didn't know it was a sound,

I thought it was a way of life.

Somehow heroes never do look

just like you expected 'em to.

More than likely because they weren't heroes to being with.

No, that ain't the way I heard it, Talley.

Battle of Lookout Mountain, the wilderness.

Stories I heard your name wrapped around

made you sound more like a giant than a man.

Stories get twisted in the tellin'.

I guess you know why I'm here.

Cauley Burdette?

Wanted to talk to you first, hear your side of it, Anderson.

Educated, a hero, modest

and honorable to boot.

Almost too much to ask of any man.

You wanna talk or not?

We might,

but not for long.

Water titles are legal.

The men are all prepared and determined.

Prepared, huh?

So all-fired prepared they sent for a hired gun.

You got any idea how many men we got on this spread, Talley?

A hundred, maybe a hundred and fifty.

And there ain't a one of 'em couldn't hit a thin thought

sailin' through a fog.

How many men's Burdette got?

Forty or 50 maybe, that can hold a gun that is.

Then that's no war.

That's a turkey shoot.

Turkey shoot in which a hundred men could die.

Now, if it were just two men...

"Just two men..."

Now what's that supposed to mean?

You and me, Anderson.

I've heard of you, too.

Oh, I didn't know.

Oh Mr. Talley, what a pleasure.

How are you?

Shaw, this is the man whose family I told you about.

Oh such a sweet wife you got, Mr. Talley.

Thank you.

And that daughter, like the moon and the sun

in the same basket.

They helped me to pick out this gown, Shaw.

All right, go own now, Mignon.

What?

I got short talkin', Mignon.

I told your wife and daughter we'll expect you down here

for a visit once you're settled.

Thank you, Mrs. Anderson.

You ain't playing poker with a hollow-headed man, Talley.

I don't know how to play poker, Anderson.

In fact, I don't know how to play anything.

We'll, you're sure drawing to it.

One man representin' cow-pushin' carpetbaggers

expects me to meet him head on when I've got enough men

to march on Hell.

This Cauley's been out in the sun too long, Talley.

So the answer is no.

The answer, Talley, is that the water rights

on this land belong to them that was right on 'em.

And them's Kiowa.

My wife's half Kiowa, daughter to the chief Satanta,

and that's every drop of water and every blade of grass

from the Dakota's all the way to the Rockies and back.

That's before the people were moving out West, Anderson,

bringing the white man's law with them.

A law that respects the masses and no morality.

The tides are comin' in Anderson,

and there's nothing that you can do about it.

Can they go back out again?

Not these tides.

They're here to stay with more behind them.

You give up a piece of your empire

or they'll swallow it whole.

And choke on my Winchesters.

On both sides.

Now if it's just the two us,

meeting at any point you choose,

it's gonna be a simple death.

The matter settled neatly.

If I'm gonna kill somethin', Talley,

it's the killin' I care about and not how it's done.

And I done it enough different ways

to sprain and owl's head.

Besides, how do you know you're gonna be seeing me

face to face?

Because I trust you, Anderson.

You're a damn fool.

I've been damned half my life, but I'm not a fool.

Neither am I.

You've lived this long, Talley,

because you're one of the best with a handgun.

But I'm one of the best with a Winchester.

And I figure that'll even the odds up some.

Fair enough.

All right. You choose the place and time.

Tomorrow at sunup,

at long mesa at the fork of the Humboldt.

Goodbye, Talley.

I don't have to go to St. Lou or New Orleans.

No you go ahead.

It'll do you good, Mignon.

Don't bother you I might meet some sweetly handsome man?

Not unless he's got nails like Cavalry sabers

and fights like a burnt bear in a cave full of hornets.

I thought, I thought maybe if I got me

something pretty to wear

I could take your mind off all this rucktion,

till you get yourself level some.

Shaw, Shaw we could start Christmas tomorrow.

Or you go with me and we'd pull down New Orleans

nail by nail like we used to.

What I'm looking at now is just plain honest man

who just turned himself into a plain fool.

What are you gettin' at woman?

You and Talley.

Like two little boys sassing each other in a sandbox.

I don't told ya to take your trip, Mignon.

And what for?

Water rights?

Whose water rights?

Yours? Theirs?

Those rights are Kiowa rights.

And before them they was Pawnee rights.

And before them they was Ricory rights.

You think I don't know that, woman.

Maybe I don't know what you know, Shaw Anderson.

But what's important is what I'm sayin ain't comin'

for your ears.

It's their time, all them folks moving west

with dreams in their eyes.

There's no stopping them, Shaw.

And those that are coming got Talley to stand for 'em.

Them little apple-nosed plow-pushers,

they ain't this land.

They make as much sense in this land

as an elk wearing a corset.

They can learn if that got the sand to 'em.

And you'll find they do.

But, the point is, the two of you aiming to go out there

and trade lives like they was leaves.

I won't hear of it.

Mignon.

Now I ain't never told you before

to stay out of my business, because you ain't never needed

to be told.

But I'm telling you now.

Don't get no fancy notions into that head.

Now, do ya hear me?

I hear you, but I ain't necessarily listening.

Tell me, woman.

I can't tell you anything I haven't already said, Shaw.

Accept maybe no.

Tommy Lynit?

Yes ma'am.

Hitch up my buggy and bring it around to the back.

Yes ma'am.

And tell Mr. Anderson I forgot something in Dodge.

Yes ma'am, Mrs. Anderson.

Two men could've been brothers

and fixing to kill each other.

Land's going mad.

Mr. Talley, you took me by surprise.

Anderson and I are going to meet tomorrow by the Humboldt

just the two of us.

Make sure you tell your men.

You've been shot, Mr. Talley.

Just buck.

How'd it happen?

Quickly, Mr. Burdette.

He bushwhacked you, like I said.

He bushwhacked you, didn't he?

Make sure you tell your men about it.

Goodnight.

'Help us be heroes, Oh God, when death is near

"To mock the haggard face of fear.

"That when we fall, As fall we must,

"Our souls shall Triumph in the dust.

"And then, and perhaps then only,

"May we ask where was the Iron blood of courage?"

You know something?

I swear that the summers in Dodge are gettin'

longer and hotter, don't you think so Kitty?

No.

You don't?

Hmm.

Maybe I'm just getting older and colder.

Say, Matt, by the way I understand that Anderson

tried to bushwhack Talley.

Yeah, I heard that.

Wait a minute.

You know, about two hours ago a couple of fellas

came up to the office with another fella that'd been shot.

I took care of him and he's gonna be all right,

but before they left I just kind of inquired about a fee.

They said see Burdette about it.

- Burdette? - Yeah, you know something?

Ever since that fella got in town, Matt,

everything's been all lopsided.

Matthew, it's all over town now.

What?

Well Anderson and Talley's fixing to shoot it out

betwixt thereselves.

Where?

Ain't nobody knows.

Those two fellas you were talking about,

now they say where they were headed?

Yeah, the livery stable.

Just a minute.

Coming!

Who is it?

Mignon.

Mignon? Come in, come in.

What are you doing here so late?

I didn't have time to worry about the hour.

What is it?

Hello, dear.

What I gotta say might sound harsh.

Well, Ronilou knows a sight more than her years, I'm afraid.

Ellie, you know what those two hay heads

of ours intend to do?

Hay heads?

Our husbands.

They gonna stand on a lot of flat rock

and shoot at each other.

Bill and...?

My Shaw. Course I can understand Shaw.

The only thing he likes better than a fight

is a fast horse.

And come sunup, one of them is gonna be plain flat

deader than last week, unless we do something.

But why?

Well, your Bill was hired by the small ranchers

who claim water rights to our land.

The law, that is the Army,

claims it's both Kiowa land by treaty

and free land by open-range title.

We gotta stop the, Ellie,

or one of us is gonna lose a husband.

I'll get dressed.

I will too, Mama.

No, Ronilou,

Mama, Papa looked in on me tonight

thinkin' I was asleep, but I wasn't.

And the I looked in on him readin' something I wrote.

I know what he's thinkin'.

I can't explain it but I just know what he's thinkin'.

I gotta go, Mama.

Is there room in the buggy?

We'll make room.

Out here, us girls gotta stick together.

All right.

This is intimidation and rank hearsay

of the most scurrilous order,

and I demand a retraction.

Toey. What's he a

Your man confessed to everything, Burdette.

It wasn't hard when I told him what Talley'd do to him

if he found him.

The same thing goes for you.

You know, you were right about one thing.

This country is changing,

but it's gonna be done legally.

I want you out of this state.

Next time I find you here,

I'll hang enough charges on you to paper a barn.

- Is that all? - Not quite.

I wanna know where Talley and Anderson are meeting.

I never lay my hand down first, Talley.

You can now at any time you want.

Bill, turn back. Don't do this.

Ellie it won't make any difference.

If it isn't here it'll be someplace else, sometime else.

Papa.

Papa.

Don't do it.

Please.

"The girl my father wrought, my mother bore.

"Oh God of strength and gentleness

"Be pleased to make me nothing less."

Did I get it right?

Yes, Papa.

Come here.

Well, I never figured it like this.

Anytime you get three women together,

two men just don't have a chance.

Shaw, it's about time women stopped letting men

make fools of themselves.

Is that so?

Shaw, you might as well get used to it.

Things are gonna be just the way they used to be

before all this bloodshed.

With a little peace for change.

Is that so? Is that so?

Oh, Mignon.

All right, Marshal.

You can have that printed and post it.

All waters on my holdings north of the Black Wolf Buttes

to be declared open graze.

Then south to my post lines to be declared the land

of William E. Talley.

You know,

my pa told me, "Son, you get a slippery man

you can't shake, make him a neighbor.

Then you can keep your eye on him."

Well that there works out plum good.

What would you have did if they'd have shot, Matthew?

I mean what would you have did with the winner?

There wouldn't have been one, Festus.

There never is.