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Charlie, wait up.

My horse has gone lame.

He's finished, Charlie.

Give him your horse, Gristy.

What ya talkin' 'bout?

I'm saying you were just along for the ride.

Charlie, you're the one that brought me in.

You forgettin' I got that stage to stop.

Town drunk could've stood out on that road

and pretend to be in trouble.

Get down.

My cut.

No cut, Gristy.

Now get outta that saddle before I blow ya out.

Get down!

Charlie, he knows too much to be leavin' the posse.

I thoughta that.

Charlie, we go back.

Friends and cellmates...

Ain't nothing could come between us except money.

Why, you lousy...

You emptied my gun.

Six months of sharin' the same cell,

I figured something like this.

Anyone make a move and I'll kill Charlie.

Any shooting started back there I coulda got killed.

Wouldn't that have been a shame.

You're not leaving me here to die, Charlie.

No, sir.

Toss your guns down, right here.

Go ahead.

And you too, Charlie.

Dobie, get them money bags and put 'em on my horse.

Do it.

Now, Gristy, we can work somethin' out.

Dobie, get one of them canteens

and put it on my horse too.

Rest’a you climb down.

Turn around.

Put your hands on your heads.

It's badlands out there, Gristy.

You won't get a day before we're down on ya.

Before you can even catch your horses,

I'm gonna be halfway to the Rio Grande.

Ho, ho.

Ho.

Where's that gun?

What are we gonna do, Charlie?

By now that stage'll be in Dodge

and the law will be on our trail.

Every man's on his own.

Up to each of you to run down a horse.

We'll meet back at the rocks like before.

What about me, Charlie?

My horse is lame.

I said every man for himself.

What are you grinnin' at?

I was just thinking about old Gristy.

He's gonna be a mighty surprised fella

when he takes a drink of my water.

Whiskey?

Even when my luck's good, it's bad.

Ain't enough moisture out there to raise weed.

Less than half a canteen.

I guess we've come through harder times, huh Broomtail?

Two worst things that can happen to a man

is a decent woman and being left afoot.

Come on.

Looky there, Matthew.

Whoa.

Is he lame?

Got hisself a pulled tendon, Matthew.

Be all right if he ain't rode for a awhile, though.

Why don't you unsaddle him and turn him loose.

Footprints all around here, they must have stopped.

Yeah, ain't seen no signs of 'em makin' camp, though.

Well, it's hard to figure, Matthew.

From here on these tracks are scattered out worser

than a herd a spooked cattle.

Footprints mixed in with the horses.

Looks like somethin' spooked their mounts.

Sure won't get far on foot.

We oughta catch 'em 'fore the day is out, Matthew.

Let's go.

Whoa, Ruth.

I gave you all the water we got, Broomtail.

Maybe it's a good thing you can't drink whiskey.

You'd be as lightheaded as I am.

All right boy, all right.

Whoa.

No use lookin'.

Ground's drier than a mummy's pocket.

We keep headin' south, it's only gonna get drier.

There's water north, but so is the posse.

And Charlie.

Ain't exactly what you call a good luck charm, Broomtail.

Well, might as well die walkin' as sittin'.

Mexico's due south,

lessen they moved it.

Stop, get away from it.

Which one are you?

Dobie Gray.

- Where are the others? - I dunno.

An old billy named Gristy got the jump on us.

Scattered our horses.

Gristy?

Charlie's idea to bring him in.

His cut was supposed to be $100.

He took off with the whole 5,000.

Now, this Charlie...

You're talkin' about Charlie Dent, ain't ya?

Yeah.

Gristy, I ain't never heared a him, have you Matthew?

Gristy who?

Calhoun, he's nothin'.

He's somethin' now, mister.

This Calhoun, he the one that rode south, is he?

Yeah, double crossin' scum.

Takin' off with our money.

Your money?

Appears to me like it's Wells Fargo money.

Get him back to Dodge, Festus.

Have Doc patch him up then put him in jail.

Matthew, which way you headin'

with the four of 'em scattered out that way?

I'm goin' after Calhoun, he's the one with the money.

Matthew, I can tie him up some place and ride with ya.

No, you better get him back, Festus.

We don't have enough water for three, anyway.

All right, get up.

Come on, come on.

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

Come on. Come on.

Someone's comin'

Who is it?

Striker.

Thought the world had sent you

to your just reward.

Took me near a day to catch up to my horse.

You see any sign of Dobie?

No.

- What is this? - Gopher.

It was either eat that or dirt.

Ain't you got no whiskey to kill it?

Nope.

Well what do we do now?

Go after Gristy.

He's probably in Mexico by now.

Not unless he's a camel.

His canteen was near empty and mine was fulla whiskey.

A man can drink whiskey easy as water.

A horse can't.

Without a horse a man's nothing in this desert.

Now we went through a lot for that money

and I want it back.

That and a piece of Gristy's hide.

Well what're we waitin' for?

Daylight, Brinker.

Unless you can track a man in the dark.

But it's good to see you boys strainin' at the bit.

A hungry man does better work.

Come one you dang Broomtail.

You can't just lie there and die.

Come on, get up.

There's bound to be water up ahead.

There's bound to be.

Come on.

Get up.

Come on.

Get up.

If you don't get up...

I gotta shoot ya.

I can't just leave ya lyin' here.

If you don't stand up the coyotes'll get ya,

and the buzzards.

I'm sorry old feller.

You done your best.

That's all any of us can do.

Water.

Water.

Hey gimme that.

Gimme that, that's mine.

That's mine.

You have tobacco?

No.

The salted beef?

No I ain't got no food or tobacco, I told ya.

We trade.

Sure, sure I'll trade with ya.

I have a little bit of money, I'll trade with you.

I'll give you $50 for some food, and water,

and one of them ponies.

Paper.

No, no this is money.

It's cash money.

White man's money.

No good to us.

Look, it's all I got.

We trade.

Quanah.

We trade her.

No, I don't want no squaw.

What I need is a horse.

You take woman,

I give you water, food, horse,

with white man's saddle.

I don't want no squaw.

And I been routin' since yesterday,

to know that ain't no trade.

What's she got some disease or somethin'?

Plain from here it ain't blind staggers the blow.

What is it?

She is bad medicine.

Whaddya mean?

She was wife to two braves.

Both have died.

Of what?

We look for buffalo, we have seen no buffalo.

Medicine man say it because of her.

You mean you wanna get rid a her, so...

so your luck can get better...

and mine worser?

I've had my fill of that.

No sir, maybe we can...

maybe we can work somethin' else out.

Unless you take woman, we go.

Throw in a rifle.

No gun.

All right, you got a deal.

But that horse better be a good un.

Her name Quanah.

Means "lost".

What's the word for trouble.

She make good wife for you.

While you live.

It'll be dark in awhile.

After what I been through,

I ain't fit to travel right off.

Squaws are to tote and fetch

and you're mine, 'til I can shake ya.

Fix us some food.

Food.

Eat.

You, you fix.

Slower than wet gun powder.

Slowin' me down squaw.

Could be halfway 'cross the Rio Grande if'n I weren't

weighed down with you.

Squaw always stays behind the man.

That's your way ain't it?

Good way.

'Cept you ain't my squaw.

You and me are like hitchin' a bobcat and a horse.

Ain't gonna take first place at an arguing match, are ya?

Come on up here.

Listen, I got nothin' against you.

It's just some fellas could be lookin' for me.

And maybe the law to boot.

If they find me, there could be shootin'.

You understand what I'm talkin' about?

It ought to be said, you look like you was weaned on a pickle.

You already buried two a your own.

I don't need ya.

Besides, your kinda woman's

got a way a lookin' out for themselves.

Even givin' birth in the brush and all.

So's if I go on by myself, you'll make out all right.

Here, go ahead take it.

Well, so long and good luck to you.

Go on back.

Go on.

Get back.

You'll make out.

Whaddya doin' here?

You coulda got yerself shot.

Don't ya savvy?

I don't want ya around.

Talkin' to you is like talkin' to sheep.

Why are you followin' me?

I belong to you now.

You and the chief you made a trade.

I don't not like it, but I will stand by it.

You can talk.

You been understandin' everything I said.

You don't sound like no Injun squaw I ever heard.

So, you figure on standin' by, huh?

Well, lemme tell you somethin'.

Like it or not, first town we come to,

or anywhere there's folks,

I'm dealin' you off.

And I just hope you stand by that

as fierce as you been followin' me.

I will.

Well, all right.

We'll be pullin' out with the sun.

Sure you got all the ticks shook outta that blanket?

Don't trust Injuns.

Still got a feelin' you're out to make a necklace outta my teeth.

Sleep well.

All right Gristy on your feet.

Where's your gun?

I have them.

Nice work.

Squaw.

You're free to go wherever you want to ma'am.

I can drop you by the Big Springs trading post,

maybe you can find your people.

I have no people.

I am his property.

- I will stay. - I don't want her.

You can tie a can to her as far as I'm concerned.

I'm takin' him all the way back to Dodge City, ma'am.

Then I will go there, too.

Get mounted Gristy.

That old chief was right about you.

You're bad luck.

Why don't you rub some of it off on the Marshal there.

I am sorry.

Sorry?

Is that what you said

to them two braves you put in the ground.

All of a sudden you can't do enough for me.

Why'd you take my gun?

I did it for you.

For me!

If it wasn't for you I'd be drinkin' water

from the Rio Grande now instead of yours.

You would be dead.

You are no gunman.

How do you know what I am?

If I had not taken the guns, you would have been foolish,

and tried to fight him.

And he would have killed you.

Well, even if he did, I ain't afraid to die.

Afraid to die, or afraid to live?

Whoa.

Well he ain't goin' too far afoot.

He ain't out there alone, Charlie.

Somebody followin' on horseback.

Law?

Well if it is the law he'll be doin' us a favor.

He takes the money from Gristy

and then we take it from him, huh?

Let's go.

We stop here and rest the horses.

How come you come after me?

I mean I'm nothin' compared to Charlie Dent.

You got the money.

- How'd you know that? - Dobie Gray.

You mean you caught him?

He's on his way to jail right now with my deputy.

Charlie and the boys'll be comin' after me.

Yeah, I figured that.

Yeah, I guess so.

Well, we'll be runnin' into them any time now.

You don't want that any more than I do.

With me you stay in jail, with him...

I'm dead.

But of that, he is not afraid Marshal.

Now I know why that old Comanche chief

was so anxious to get rid a you.

What woulda happen if there was no takers?

When we returned to the big camp,

there would have been a council to decide.

Decide what?

How I would die.

Left behind without food or water...

or stoned to death by the women of the tribe.

You mean, they weren't leavin' no room for nothin' else?

No.

I don't get it. Why?

I am not a Comanche.

Then how'd you end up with them?

The same way I am with you.

I was traded when I was very young.

They treated me as a slave,

until I became a woman.

Filled out some, huh?

And the young bucks took notice.

Sometimes they fought for me.

The women wanted me dead.

So, you got hitched up twice.

Yes.

The first one died in battle.

The second, when the buffalo stampeded.

I was blamed.

I was a bad omen.

Cursed.

If you ain't Comanche what are you?

My mother was Cherokee,

my father, I do not know.

Figures.

I didn't mean it that way. I was just...

It's true.

My mother's village was raided by another tribe.

When her people learned she was carrying a child,

my mother was shamed from her village.

Weren't her fault.

The child was of the enemy and therefore one of them.

I was born in the brush.

Well, alone with a kid, how'd she make out?

We drifted for a long time.

I do not remember where.

All I remember is hunger.

Until we met buffalo hunters.

One of them took my mother as a squaw, so that I could live.

I was young, yet did the work of man to eat.

When my mother died, the buffalo hunters

traded me to the Comanche.

Is that where you learned English, them buffalo hunters?

Yes.

How old were you when them hunters traded you

to the Comanches?

I was 12.

You know somethin' Wigwam?

You and me are a lot alike.

How?

We're both losers.

- Charlie. - Yeah.

Where you think he's goin'?

Mexico.

How do you know he didn't just say Rio Grande

to throw us off?

I shared a cell with him long enough.

All he could ever talk about was hittin' it big some day

and livin' like a king in Mexico. Giddup.

No thanks, I'm fine.

Quanah, I know that you think you belong to him and all,

but he's gonna be goin' to jail.

What are you gonna do then?

I do not know.

He told me he took the money from a man who stole it.

Well that's true, but he still was in

on the robbery of a stagecoach.

How long will he be in prison?

I don't know, that'll be up to the judge.

He is not a bad man.

A Comanche brave sometimes will talk loud

to frighten the enemy.

The real reason is that he is afraid,

but does not want the enemy to know.

It is a shield.

He does not know how else to talk.

He has been afraid a long time.

Wigwam, come here.

You're still my property, ain't ya?

Then you gotta do what I tell you.

Right?

Yes.

Help me get loose.

Look, you'd be doin' us both a favor.

We ain't gonna make Dodge.

Look, somewhere 'tween here and there Charlie and boys'll be comin'.

With Dillon, I go to prison or die.

Mexico's the only chance I got.

And me?

Take ya anywhere you wanna go.

A loose mare can always find a new pasture.

And the money?

Course I want the money.

Ain't nothin' without it.

How will the money make you better?

How?

Food, clothes, way folks treat ya.

Money makes everybody better.

And after the money is gone?

What will you be then?

The same man I see now.

Money cannot change that.

People change people.

Missionaries musta got ahold a you.

My luck, probably end up dead in a preacher's backyard.

Look, what kinda squaw are you?

Are you gonna help me or not?

Yes.

You mean that?

Well then, get the keys to this.

- I think he's got... - I am not going to help you escape.

The best way I can help you is to do nothing.

Woman, that makes about as much sense

as puttin' a milk bucket under a bull.

Hey, Charlie.

Look.

Hold up.

Can you make 'em out?

One of 'ems Gristy.

- That your friends? - That's them.

The big one's Matt Dillon, Marshal of Dodge,

I seen him before.

Let's get 'em.

Used to be an old prospector's shack right over the rise, let's go.

Marshal, wait up.

The water.

Never mind the water, get up here.

Get inside, hurry up.

Striker get that horse below us.

You got the money?

No, but I got stuff that's just as good, look at this.

Hey, in there.

Gristy, Dillon.

We just brought in that Injun pony you lost back there.

Two water skins on him.

That makes me figure you ain't got any water in there.

No water, you'll be like a hungry calf

lookin for a cow to suck before long.

I'm gonna make you folks a once-in-a-lifetime offer.

You throw out that money,

we leave the pony and the water.

We get rich and you survive.

Now let's be hearin' from ya.

Does he speak the truth?

He's got the need to kid, you're deader than dry bones.

But if he's got the money there will be no need.

Money's not ours to give.

It belongs to Wells Fargo.

If we do not give it to them we could die.

My job's to get that money back.

We're still waitin' to hear from ya.

No deal.

Well there's no need to get frothy about it.

We ain't in no hurry.

Marshal we gotta make a move.

I know Charlie good.

He's got the patience of bird watchin' a worm hole.

If ya could just give me a gun, I could...

No gun.

How long you figure they can hold out?

I dunno.

There ain't gonna be no moon tonight.

If I was them, I'd wait 'til dark, then try to slip out.

We gotta figure a way to flush 'em out before that.

I reckon you were right about money not changin' a man.

You can change clothes, maybe some thinkin',

but you can't change skins.

Loser's always a loser.

A man is what he wants to be.

I had that taken outta me a long time ago.

My Pa cleaned me outta spine and spirit...

like I clean a fish.

My old man, he was the best.

Ride, shoot... wrestle a steer with one arm,

and women...

always first outta the startin' post.

Only second to God in most folks eyes.

And your mother?

She loved him.

And it cost her.

Drove her into the ground as sure as he dug the hole.

I guess that's when I started hatin' him...

and ran off.

When he died, I thought I was free of him.

But even from the ground he's still holdin' on.

I guess I'm still tryin' to prove myself to him.

With money?

Well, at least money'd be somethin' he'd understand.

No.

When my horse fell, you could have left me.

If I had any sense I'da done just that.

But you didn't.

In your place, many men would have.

Yesterday I would.

But this ain't yesterday.

You still...

Figurin' on comin' to Dodge?

Yes.

I don't know how long, how long they'd lock me up.

That is if'n we get outta here.

I will wait.

Unless you trade me.

Hey in there, Dillon.

It's gettin' hot and sweaty out here.

We're gettin' tired of waitin'.

Now you got one minute.

One minute.

What's he got on his mind now?

Give it to them.

Compared to living, money is nothing.

Now listen to me, both of ya.

Dent knows I'm a lawman.

He knows if he leaves me alive

I'm gonna be comin' after him.

Now that's a chance he's not gonna take.

Where's that leave us?

We die rich?

They ain't buyin'.

Let's go.

You think this is gonna work?

You just hit that rock where I told ya

and it'll work.

Them ricochets'll spook them horses sure.

All right, now!

They're makin' a play.

Look no horses, there's no gettin' outta here.

Now will ya give me a gun?

Here.

You gun's in the saddle bags.

Get them horses.

We got him.

Let's go.

It's all over Dillon, you're finished.

Didn't figure you for that, Gristy.

Kinda surprised me too.

Thanks.

What're we gonna do, rush 'em?

Are you crazy?

Two guns down there now.

Couldn't even get close.

But they ain't goin' nowhere, neither.

Get back inside there, Wigwam.

Where ya goin'?

What's she up to?

Give us the horse with the water

and the money is yours.

What're we gonna do?

Well...

We ain't got much choice.

Go on, get the horse. I'll cover ya.

Huh?

I'll cover ya. Get it.

All right, hold your fire.

We're bringin' the horse.

All right, here's the horse.

No, both.

What for?

You have plenty of water.

You leave both, or you will have to shoot me.

And then they will shoot you.

Decide. Now.

All right.

Now gimme the money.

How's your leg?

I guess it'll be all right.

What's the matter with you woman?

You almost got your head blowed off

for a second skin of water we didn't even need.

There was need.

What's she talkin' 'bout?

Only one skin full of water,

I'da had to take both of ya back to Dodge.

There's no way to split it.

This way I go after the money.

You tryin' to tell me she had that all figured out?

Gristy, I think she's been way ahead a the both of us.

Is he really gonna let us go?

I do not think he says what he does not mean.

Good luck to both of ya.

Coming?

No need to stay behind me.

Red or white, a woman's a woman.

I learned that the hard way.

Like everythin' else.

This is all we've got in the whole world.

It is more than we were born with.

What'd you say your name was again?

Quanah.

Wigwam's easier.