Dead Man's Walk (1996): Season 1, Episode 2 - Episode #1.2 - full transcript
A series of decimating disasters overtakes Colonel Cobb and his ambition to annex Sante Fe as dust storms, prairie fires, Indians, the Mexican army, and his own bad judgment and megalomania takes a toll of attrition on his expeditionary force.
[Music]
....sometimes
I feel
Like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel...
Like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel...
Like a motherless child.
A long ways
from home
You see the look on Falconer's
face when the colonel shot him?
Why he was
puzzled that's for certain.
We was all puzzled.
You don't expect to see a man shot down
like that just to please an indian.
I mean he was a captain.
You'd at least think he'd get a trial
before he had to be shot.
He got a trial.
The colonel's trial.
I wonder what happens in an army when
the colonel goes crazy?
He had to make a show for Buffalo Hump.
He wanted to show him he had "sand".
Once the engine thinks you don't have
sand...
he don't show no mercy.
Now that one don't show no mercy sand or not.
I think the colonel's insane.
Killing somebody don't mean you're
insane.
You can think what you like...
I think he's insane.
Sometimes I feel...
like I'm almost
Gone...
Sometimes I feel
like I'm almost gone. Sometimes I feel
like I'm almost gone.
A long
ways
from home.
A long ways
from home.
Sometimes I feel...
like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel...
Like a mother this child. Sometimes I
feel
Like a motherless child...
A long ways...
from home.
Shad?
What?
Did you ever get hitched?
Me?
Depend on the gal I guess.
What if I was the gal?
I thought you had a notion to get to
California Mattie.
What'd you want with me?
I'm an old berry.
[Laughing]
My pod's drying up.
I do want to go to California. I...
I want to go more than anything else.
but...
could we both go together?
I hear the grapes is real sweet in
California.
There's a lot of young scamps in this
camp Mattie. What are you doing with a
woolly old dog like me?
I just would Shad.
I'd get hitched with you in a minute.
[Music]
You're a fine gal, Mattie.
Sure... I'd get hitched with you.
Maybe we'd find a preacher up the trail.
Good luck boys.
Long way back.
Long way to come to go back where you was.
If I eat another plate of beans I'd
float back to Austin.
This team would have never made it to
Santa Fe mall.
You're the one that wanted to come on
this dern expedition.
They're going home boys.
These wide-open spaces don't appeal much
to greenhorn.
There go the bankers and the card sharks.
And the whores.
All except the "Great Western".
Mattie's retired ain't you heard?
Retired?
I didn't know whores retired.
Mattie has.
She's Shad's woman now.
Don't you go making no suggestions, you hear.
Hiya
Why, what if I do?
Well, Shad'll box you.
Shad don't mind striking out.
Shadrach's an old man I can whip him in a minute.
Maybe.
Hey!
Are you my friend or ain't you?
I didn't say I wasn't your friend...
I just said maybe.
Oh...ah... Mr. Wallace Oh...ah... Mr. Wallace.
Do you happen to have anything for bites?
Bites?
Yeah, I was out answering the call
of nature when I had the grave
misfortune to be attacked by a scorpion.
Well I think you're cursed Carson.
First you have to trip over your
suitcase and get stickers in your face...
and now you got a stinger in your ass!
Sir...
Everything in this country is sharp.
Well let's go see Sam. He's got a lotion
that cures all ills.
Oh don't be picky boys.
If you can't find no buff bring us
back a nice fat pig.
Where did all the buffalo go?
Wasn't but a week ago and there were
thousands of them.
Well them rains caught us and we had to
wait a week to cross the Brazos.
You had to wait...
but the buffalo did not.
There were thousands of them.
You'd have thought...
one or two had lagged behind.
We done killed the last of our base
We'll be eating mush all the way to
Santa Fe now.
[Music]
You got the best eyes; who's coming?
It's three horses.
No, one buffalo, two horses.
[Music]
Bill?
What?
Bill!?
What!!
[Music]
Indians!
[Music]
It's gonna be some kind of record.
Two red indians chase a buffalo all the way
through camp and nobody shoots them.
Well it seemed a harsh thing Colonel.
They're so tired and hungry they hardly
even notice us.
Well they would have noticed you if
you'd have been tied to a torture post.
Shad's right about that.
At least we got us a buff. It means a few
days off the mush.
Well let's carve him up.
Yeah!
That buff would got clean away if you
wasn't such a fine shot Shad.
That's it for me I'm going home.
You're headed back to Austin, I'm with you.
[Music]
Keep it moving.
Keep it moving.
Look sharp! You damned fool!
Steady on the wagon!
[Music]
It's gonna be a passion of trouble to
pack this grub on our horses.
Damn it! I knew we should have used
oxen instead mules and horses.
Oxen are slow Colonel.
Colonel...
Look.
Now who would that be out here in the breaks?
Buenas noches.
What's he talking about? It ain't night.
If there's anything good out here I don't
know what it would be.
He means Charlie Goodnight.
Who's Charlie Goodnight?
Never heard of the man.
You'll find out soon enough.
Howdy, I'm Charlie Goodnight.
This is Dylan, this is Bose
Why you trying to take wagons through
this country? It ain't meant for wagons.
Won't you get down and take coffee?
We don't get many guests out here.
We can't pause. These girls were stole two weeks
ago. Their folks won't have no peace of
mind until we return them.
You didn't answer me when I asked about
the wagon.
Sir don't you know who we are?
No. I recognize General Lloyd though.
Should have left him. He's too drunk for
travel.
We're the Texas Santa Fe expedition.
We're on our way to New Mexico.
We mean to annex it.
We may have to hang a few Mexicans but I
expect we'll soon whip them back.
No, they'll hang you...
if you make it there.
And why wouldn't we make it sir?
That's the cap rock.
Once you get on top of it...
there's nothing.
I'm sure there's something there.
There's grass at least.
Oh yes sir lots of grass.
But I've been a Texas ranger for over 15
years.
And I've rarely met the man who can live
on grass...
and I've rarely met the horse who can
travel 400 miles without water.
400...?
I was told there was a passage along the Red River.
Yes it's shorter.
but that's not the Red.
Not the Red?
Nope, that's the Big Wichita.
Big Wichita?
I told that fool it wasn't the Red.
Ain't sandy enough. Red's got that bed
of quicksand.
I never did trust that damn Pawnee.
He's got us lost and now he's
going to try to steal our horses if we
don't keep an eye on him.
Hello Shad. You turn 100 yet?
I've growled it Charlie.
(Goodnight) Morning Miss Roberts. (Mattie) Morning Charlie.
Wallace, why would you walk all the way
to New Mexico to get hung. Ain't there
enough hang ropes in Texas?
I ain't planning on no hanging Charlie.
You'll all get a lot worse than hanging if
Buffalo Hump catches you.
This here's the Comancheria.
Comanches belong here, you don't.
I only came to get these young captives back
and now I'm going home and I advise you
do the same.
Here's some viddles for them youngins.
They look like they could use a bite.
(Goodnight) Much obliged.
Set a close watch.
Don't let Kicking Wolf steal your horses.
You'll need to eat most of them to get
to New Mexico.
(parrot) rrrawk...go to Boston, go to Boston.
If was you I'd take the birds advice.
That's Charlie Goodnight!
He's salty.
I noticed.
[Music]
Ten.
Ten.
Bad news Colonel.
No other kind out here in the wastes.
What is it now?
Bes Das and Alchise are gone.
They took about 10 horses with them.
Curse those scoundrels!
Can you catch him? Cause if you can I'd
like to hang him from a yard arm if I
had a urine arm.
Go on get him!
Take those two young corporels with you.
That's bad isn't it?
Yeah that's bad.
Where we going?
Come on.
[Music]
Boys, out there is a Palo Duro Canyon.
Might go down for nearly forever.
Enough meat there to get us to Santa Fe.
We'll let those horse thieves go...
Comanches'll take care of them for us.
Woodrow, you head on back
and tell the Colonel.
Gus and me be looking for a way
going down.
Whip up now. We got to havesting
these buffs.
[Music]
Uh
[Music]
Come on!
Get, Get!
[Music]
Lord have mercy.
[Music]
(neighing)
Come on!
[Music]
Colonel!
Colonel!
Ahhhhhh!
Colonel, I see some indians.
Bunch of Comanches.
We struck a big canyon. There's
buffalo in it hundreds of them. Gus and
Bigfoot looking for a trail down.
Good news! Sam.....!
Sam, see if you can pull that toothpick
out of your arm then and we'll go kill
us some meat, huh?
I don't know how many
Comanches there might be.
That's alright.
We're on our way to the rescue.
It's a fine morning for a fracas.
Let's kill some buffalo!!
[Applause]
We've seen about 20 indians, but I doubt
that's all of them. There could be a
thousand.
We can whip 20 I don't know about a
thousand.
I hate to pass up that meat.
This canyon's awful steep Colonel.
I wouldn't want to have to climb out of
there with Buffalo Hump after me.
What do we do sir?
We camp. Set a good guard.
Maybe the red boys will have hoisted
anchor by morning and we can go kill us some
buff.
Come on.
[Music]
You tell the colonel.
No... you tell him.
Uh, Colonel?
Colonel...
Colonel!
What?!
Uh, we lost 20 (20) horses last night.
It was like they...they...
got sucked up into the air.
Ah, they didn't get sucked up into the air.
Kicking Wolf got'em. He could steal
horses out of a storm.
If I could catch that rascal I'd tie him
to a horse's tail let that horse kick
him to death... with a name like Kicking Wolf
that'd be appropriate.
Colonel. look! (Colonel Cobb) What?
[Music]
Fire!
We better make it back to the last creek boys.
Back up!
Pack it up, let's go.
[Music]
Whoa!
[Music]
[Neighing]
[Music]
By God, they've culled a circle!
They're backing us into the canyon!
There's fire everywhere.
Looks like it's jump or fry.
Shadrach, can we start a backfire?
It's too late, we're trapped!
Well that cliff ain't that sheer.
Come on men, we'll climb down and hang on!
(Col. Cobb) Maybe we won't burn.
Head for the cliff boys, head for the cliff.
Come on Beelzebub.
(parrot) arrrrk... go to Boston, go to Boston.
[Music]
Ah
[Music]
Watch out... I got you... I got you.
[Music]
[rocks falling]
[Music]
[yelling]
Oh God.
Sam's gone.
Just lost a dentist.
Better take care now and not get no
toothaches.
Look.
It's that Buffalo Hump.
Damn, that was our powder.
Yep.
That's the end of target practice.
Buffalo Hump.
[Music]
Ugh
I wonder where them indians went?
They set another fire...
we could get fried up like that rabbit
the Colonel ate.
Don't it worry you not?
You think too much.
You think about the wrong things too.
I thought you wanted to be a ranger till
you met that girl.
Now I guess you'd rather be in the dry
goods business.
I wasn't thinking about no girl, I was
thinking about getting burnt up!
Well being a ranger means you can die
any day.
You don't want to risk it...
you ought to quit.
DAG!
Hellfire you didn't even need to shoot it..
you could have hit it over the head with
your gun.
Well that little buck was only half
growed.
I doubt it'll run more than a mile or
two.
When he's on after it we might be able
to kill it yet.
I'm game.
Matilda, I'll be back in a little while.
Shadrach!
Wallace!
Where the hell are you going!?
[Music]
Uh
[Music]
Ah
[Music]
Mattie... probably just camped out and fell asleep.
It's hard enough to find your way on
this plane in the daylight.
How could anyone do it at night?
They only been gone one night.
Maybe they ain't coming back.
Maybe they just...
left.
Left to go where?
We're on the state planes.
No place to go except to wander.
But if he ain't dead, I'll shoot him.
Him or Wallace one.
Why it would take two scouts
to track one deer is a conundrum.
A what?
It's a conundrum. It's a thing that you
can't figure out.
Like two scouts tracking one deer.
Well two's better than one out here.
I wouldn't go off walking out here
without somebody with me who'd find
their way back.
Shad had never been lost.
Not a day.
If he ain't back it's cause he's dead.
That humpback man got him I know he did.
If he did leave... I...
I guess he just didn't want to take me
with him.
Love's a terrible price to pay for
company, Mattie.
[crying]
[Music]
Maddie says you two's getting hitched as
soon as you
come across a preacher.
Yeah, we good as hitch now.
Preachers just be frosting.
Risky business retiring whores.
Especially when you're
traveling with a rough crew like this one.
Mattie retired herself Bigfoot.
And any man it interferes with is going
to have me to deal with.
Too old to be bunking in the chill by
myself.
Besides, I like Mattie... always did.
Yeah, I guess you've known her a while.
Yep.
I met Mattie the
first day she set foot on the Missouri
shore about 10 years ago.
I was guiding the party into Santa Fe
out of St. Louis.
Me and a few boys from the fur company.
And um
Her daddy was a drunkard.
And he got drunk one night and fell in
Arkansas river and drowned.
Then her mama got the chills a few days
later.
And...
Mattie was orphaned out.
There's about 50 men in that party and not
one angel among them.
So the wagonball set her straight a few
days after her mama died and told her to
be a whore, or
be left.
That was a rough time Shad.
Yeah
Lord no place for church going ladies in
the west-end.
Just a place for
whores.
Not many of them lasted either.
Now Mattie lasted.
Maddie's got grit.
You remember that big old snapping
turtle she caught!
[Laughter]
Scared the hell out of everybody.
She's a strong woman.
So you're hitched Shad!?
That's that.
Yep, hitched, that's that.
I aim to bide by Mattie till the day I die.
[Music]
Oh Shad!
That's my girl.
I feared you was dead.
Naw, that little deer was
speedier than we thought.
It took us a little while to catch up.
(Col. Cobb) Where the hell have you been?
Well where do you think?
Nobody told you to go chasing deer. If I
had irons, Wallace, I'd put them on you
right now!
Oh you won't be putting no
chains on me I guess.
(Cobb) Then you get a bullet for your insolence.
I'm the Colonel here.
I won't have my command ignored.
You ain't no Colonel. You're
nothing but a land pirate. They run you
off the scene now you're out here trying
to pirate Santa Fe. I took my last order
from you Cobb. Shadrach feels the same.
Let's see how hard you are to chain.
Once I carve your liver!
[Music]
No cuttin'!
Crazy fools. We need every man we can get
if we're to survive.
Best be saving up to
fight the comanches and not be running
at each other.
Put the knife down. Put it down Big.
Put it down!
All right.
But I still give the orders here;
you understand?
We'll give better ones then.
I wouldn't waste a fart on your damn
orders.
What set them off?
Hunger I figure. I'm so hungry I could
stab somebody myself.
When can we eat the deer?
As soon as we cook it Johnny.
[Music]
We won't last more than another
day without food Colonel.
I'm gonna take these two young
corporals and see if
I can't scare up some game.
Do what you damn please Wallace.
You will anyway. But I'll caution
you on one thing.
If you get captured, keep quiet. Don't
tell them our numbers.
Let them think they're a thousand men
coming.
Well I won't be bragging on no mighty army
Colonel.
Getting captured might be the only way
some of us stay alive.
I'd get captured right now if whoever
caught me had some grub.
Come on boys!
(cough)
By dern boys; it's a buff.
Now hold on, hold on, go slow now.
No one spook him.
I'll take the first shot.
If he don't drop then you boys shoot.
Aim right behind the fore-leg.
Damn! Why don't he drop? I hit the brute
solid two times.
I hit him too.
How do you know if you hit him Woodrow?
You're as blind as a mole.
Let's go.
You insolent fool.
The mountains are that way!
Where there's mountains there's snow.
Where there's snow there's water!
Well you're thinking about heading
There's nothing. You'll all die.
There's the South Canadian. There'll be water in the
South Canadian this time of year.
The South Canadian's at least a week's walk
Turner.
What are you planning to drink for a week?
You can yap all you want to Colonel.
We're leaving; and we're leaving now.
You're crazy!
If you don't starve the comanches will
get you!
[hawk]
You're a fool Turner!
You're all fools!
Ah
Those some fat birds.
Damn son.
Gus....Gus.....Gus!
Why don't you stop we already got three.
Dangit Gus, hold your fire.
You got three.
I expect you'll hoard them all.
Where'd you learn to chuck rocks like
that Woodrow?
Anybody who practices can hit what they
throw at I reckon.
If you're so good at throwing rocks you
should have chunked one at that buffalo.
I never seen nothing like that buffalo.
Must've been some kind of witch buffler.
Something.
[Music]
Now why do you expect
everyone else like that?
I expect they think we're devils.
[Music]
My god maybe Caleb could conquer this state.
If he gets here. These folks don't
look like fighters.
Agua?
Si
[Music]
Certainly you may drink.
It's a long walk from Texas mi Capitan Salazar
Put down your weapons and you'll come to
no harm.
Now that's a fine welcome.
Senor...
It is not a welcome,
it is an arrest
[Music]
We should have never let ourselves be chained.
I would rather be chained and shot.
Soldiers ain't nothing but boys. I expect
we could whip them if we hadn't walked
into a darn ambush.
Well that captain wasn't a boy
and he had a big pistol.
It's just a mud building.
I imagine we could
dig our way out if we tried.
Dig out and go where Woodrow?
Were chained.
Nearly starved to death getting this far.
So far we've been a disgrace in every
encounter.
(Gus) Well...
(Gus) We ain't dead.
We still got time to learn.
I guess this is the part of New Mexico
that ain't filled with gold and silver.
(laughter)
I told you not to expect gold and silver.
[Music]
Try to sleep Mattie.
We have to be up marching early.
I can't get to sleep for wondering about
the boys Shad.
Gud and Call...
They're young.
I'm scared we'll never see 'em again.
Oh, no doubt they'll get thirsty, but who
don't out here?
Just don't worry about them though.
They left with Bigfoot Wallace and he's
as good a plainsman one as I know.
I expect he'll bring him back safe.
Bigfoot...
He's skillful.
But he ain't the best plainsman but I know.
The best plainsman I know is laying
right here with me.
[Music]
(snoring)
(snoring)
(snoring)
I guess he'd sleep like that if they was
about to hang him.
Well if he's about to be hung, he might
as well snooze.
(spanish) Get up!
Beunos dias senores. I hope you're refreshed.
We have a long way to travel.
What's the delay sun's been up for an hour.
To conduct a trial. We're bringing
the scoundrel in now.
Why it's Bes Das
What'd that horse thief do?
Stole a ring from the governor's wife.
The finest silver.
That is why you made your long walk is
it not... to steal our silver and gold?
Well...
I guess that Colonel was right about
there being silver out here.
He didn't mention the firing squads though.
At least we'll get to see Santa Fe.
Heard it's a fine town.
You will never see Santa Fe.
We're going south to catch your friends.
Then you will be marched to San Lazaro.
Where's San Lazaro?
Below El Paso del Norte
I've never been there but I believe it's
About 500 miles.
How far?
About 500 miles.
[Music]
Dern it's cold.
Yeah.
You boys been living too soft a life.
This ain't cold.
We're still in these parts in a month or
two you'll see some cold weather make
this seem like summer.
What is that a buffalo?
That's a bear!!
(growling)
That ain't just a bear, that's a grizzly!
Run Boys!
[Music]
(growling)
I can't believe that bear knocked down
the captain's horse.
Grizzly can knock down anything.
He's done us a fine turn.
Maybe march us till our feet come off
if he hadn't come along and scared him.
I just hope he's content to eat that
horse, maybe he won't track us.
Well why did he track us?
Well maybe he's had Texans before.
Maybe he likes the way they taste.
Well he'd have to eat Woodrow then he's
a Texan.
Myself, I'm from Tennessee.
We better stop here and wait for it to
clear we could be headed for Canada for
all I know.
I think I see somebody.
Something's moving over there.
Hope it ain't that that grizzly.
I think with that bear would already
have ate ya.
Two of Salazar's boys.
Well now what do we do?
We shoot 'em or take 'em with us?
Well they ain't armed.
I can't shoot two boys in cold blood.
And one of them give us coffee Big.
They ain't got any fighting them anyways.
They're just trying to get away from
that bear, same as us.
You ought to go on home! Go! Get!
Go on now. Vamoos. We ain't got time for
conversation here; now go on get!
Ah hell them... come on.
Come on.
Hope we're moving away from that bear.
It won't matter which way we're moving
if he wants us.
They can track you by smell.
If he wants us he could be 10 feet behind
us right now.
They move quiet.
Unless they're mad like that one was.
I hope he ain't back there.
My friend Willie got ate by a bear up on
the Trinity river.
Figured it out from the tracks.
Now so he got ate. So what's the story?
Well he got ate, that's the story.
S-S-So tell us, was he torn up bad?
Well, he was sitting there fishing.
That bear came up behind him so quiet.
He had no notion that
bear was anywhere around.
That's how quiet they are when they're
stalking you.
He was mostly ate.
Even ate his belt buckle.
His belt buckle?
Yep.
He had a double eagle made into a belt buckle.
I always admired that buckle and I meant
to take it. I mean he was dead anyway and
didn't have no kin but...
that dern'd bear ate it.
While it was eating Willie.
And that was that.
[Music]
I seen the light up ahead.
Looks like campfires.
[Music]
Yes, but who's campfires?
If it's indians they'll scalp us.
If it's Mexicans they'll shoot us.
We'll squat here and wait for morning.
Squat here and wait for that bear you mean.
Myself, I'd rather get shot
than clawed to death.
Gus, Gus. Don't you get too far ahead,
you'll get lost.
Y'all can squat here and wait for that
bear to eat you, but I ain't.
Shut up! They can hear you.
I was whisper'in.
You shisper loud enough to wake the dead.
Hold on who's there?
Billy!
It's us don't shoot.
Boys is that you?
Shush Bill we're coming in.
Wait...wait a minute now wait a minute.
I need to think about this.
Billy it's us why would you need to
think about it?
Because I've heard Comanches
can imitate white folks's
voices. You might be Comanches.
I ain't Comanche, I'm Gus McCray.
Well, I guess you're you Gus.
Excuse my nerves.
I'm a little... little jumpy!
Come on in boys.
[Music]
Buenos noches senor.
[Music]
You mean there ain't no grub at all?
No.
We ain't ate in two days.
Shad's getting poorly too.
Where's your bird colonel?
Beelzebub?
We ate him.
Made a fine soup.
[Music]
Looks like they raise a whole country.
Uh huh.
How many of us are left?
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:53,480
Now that your back.
But numbers ain't the problem.
We're low on bullets.
You'd have to kill 10 of them with each shot.
The truth is
I haven't felt the same about this
enterprise since we made soup out of
Beelzabub.
It's just like it was the first time we
went out nobody knows what to do.
We're worse off now when we were
with Major Chevallier.
Vamos, Vamos, Vamos!
I believe I'll walk on over there and
have a little parley with that general.
We still have that flag?
What do you need a flag for?
But we brought the damn rag,
why not use it?
It might impress him.
I got it Colonel.
Corporal Call...
You tie that to your musket. You and
Corporal McCrae come with me I need some
attendance.
Now if that general has
any manners at all...
he'll invite us to breakfast.
Come on
Gus
If they feed you breakfast snatch me
some bacon. I'd sure like a bite of bacon.
Good luck to you boys.
Oh Shad,
What if they kill them?
They're just boys.
Maddie don't you worry none.
They're waving the flag of the republic there.
They ain't gonna kill them.
[Music]
There's only three of us.
They'd be behaving like cowards if they
took advantage of us.
Maybe they are cowards.
Yes, take note of the infantry.
Ignore this rabble.
We're heading straight for the effort.
[Music]
Congratulations gentlemen you two
escaped the bear.
Ordinarily I would shoot you for
escaping, but no one can be blamed for
running from a grizzly bear.
I guess you soldiers are acquainted.
We travel together.
I'm Colonel Cobb.
I want to see the General.
Hablas espanol?
Un poco
I'll introduce you.
You put that flag down.
I'm pretty sure they know who we are.
Would you gentlemen like some breakfast?
We have eggs.
No thanks we've ate.
In that case may I offer you some coffee?
Well, yeah I'll take some.
Senora, tres les cafe porfavor.
How come you say we ate?
We ain't at nothing since them prairie chickens.
These mexicans they got plenty.
Our men ain't got plenty. I won't sit down
and feed myself with the enemy when our
men are about ready to eat their belts.
It ain't our fault they didn't get to be
escorts.
Now drink that coffee and think about
that food you ain't going to eat.
Gracias
Well men? They feed you?
They offered but I said no.
I won't eat with skunks when my friends
are starving.
I see.
That's the noble view Corporal.
I'm better at the selfish view, I had an
excellent breakfast. The eggs were tasty.
I'd like to leave.
Oh you can't leave.
I just surrendered to General Dimazio.
I have his word if we lay down our arms
not a man will be killed.
I expect to keep my weapons unless I'm shot.
Now that's brash, Corporal.
When I give an order I expect it to
be obeyed.
Now you're a young man. I won't have you
dying over foolishness.
I'd rather die fighting than be
put in leg irons again.
If you are determined to die...
I will oblige you myself. Now I shot Billy
Faulkner for disobedience and
I'll do the same for you.
[Music]
Give up your gun Woodrow.
I despise you for a coward.
Capitan...
Would you put this man under heavy
guard until he cools down.
He's too reckless for his own good.
Corporal McCrae. March back over to that
ridge where the troop is.
Tell them to lay down their guns.
Tell them they won't be hurt
and tell them they'll be fed
just as soon as they surrender.
Colonel, I'll go - but they might not like
the news.
We're not having an Alamo or a
Goliad; not here.
Colonel Travis was a fool. Though a brave fool.
But at least he had a church to
fight in.
We don't have anything!!
This little war is over.
Well go on.
The sooner you go the sooner
they'll get breakfast.
Texans!
[Music]
Where are you running off to?
Why to Santa Fe, Corporal.
For this fine army.
General Dimaggio says that the governor
wants a meet me.
I think he plans to give me a little banquet.
(laughing)
[Music]
Aye!
(foreign)
[Music]
Put the gun down Colonel.
He's our prisoner, not yours.
Ugh
[Music]
So what's the orders?
The orders are to surrender our weapons.
Caleb's a pure out
skunk surrendering for us.
What do you think Shad?
Well, we could run for them hills, shoot
our way through.
I doubt more than a few others that make it.
Give them a scrap at least.
Not a one of us would make it.
Though they might spare Mattie.
Well I don't want to be spared if Shat ain't.
I'm damn hungry. (I wonder if they
got any that bacon yeah)
I might surrender to them rascals
if I could get me some bacon.
I expect they'll line us up and shoot us.
But I'm for breakfast.
I hope they got a good cook.
All right boys,
there are too many of them.
Let's lay our guns down.
You're brave but foolish.
The Colonel had no choice but to surrender.
You men have no ammunition
and they have no food.
He hadn't surrendered
we'd have killed all of you.
I despise Caleb Cobb.
At least he won't look so pretty at the
Governor's banquet.
I'm afraid neither will you...
after we've given you a hundred lashes.
If you'd like to speak
to your friend, Corporal McCrea,
I will permit it.
No, I'll talk to him later.
Corporal, there may be no later.
I expect to live
If Call don't live.
I'll kill that snaggletooth bastard
that's doing the whipping.
Cambiense (change it up)
Lord
Suerte lo (lucky)
Oh
My God, he's alive.
It's remarkable.
Few men survive that many lashes.
He'll live to bury you.
[Music]
He is a strong one, this one, if he lives
three days. He will survive and walk to
San Lazero.
You don't listen.
I said he'd live to bury you.
Adelante! (forward!)
[Music]
He dead?
No,
he's alive.
But he ain't out of danger.
Woodrow...
You ain't gonna die.
Tomorrow the corporal walks.
This boy can't walk.
Look I carried him off that wagon and I
put him here to keep him warm.
Shadrach don't need to be walking either.
We must burn the wagon.
But some of us will freeze.
All men must walk now.
The Corporal will walk.
[Music]
Apaches.
The old man is correct.
We are in Apache country now.
Cuidado (careful).
This is the work of the Apache warchief.
Gomez.
Only Gomez would treat a general like this.
Most apaches would sell a general.
But he knows no law.
Ain't his law.
Expect he don't mind breaking.
I do not see your colonel anywhere.
I wonder what happened to him.
The coward, I expect he escaped.
Boys!
Colonel?
Boys?!
Is that you... is that.. is that you?
These Apache devils...
They blinded me with thorns.
They ham-strung my leg.
They left me to starve.
Come at us... at dawn.
We're on the edge...
The Jornada del Muerto
The Dead Man's Walk.
It's a terrible journey even for a
healthy man.
Many of us will die crossing it; perhaps
all of us will die.
We cannot take you with us.
We have to look to ourselves.
I'm only crippled.
I won't be left.
Give me a horse
I'm a soldier. I can make it to Santa Fe.
I can't take you with us...
and I can't send you back.
If I give you a soldier and a horse
Gomez will find you again and this time
he'll do worse.
I'll take my chances.
But I won't.
You're a brave officer.
It's time for you to end it yourself.
I'm a seaman
I never expected to die
in the middle of a desert.
I ought to be on my ship.
What the hell am I doing here?
I know that you're a great pirate Colonel Cobb.
You stole much treasure from The King of Spain.
Yes
Lost it all to cards.
Give me the pistol,
then you may be on your way.
Give me the pistol.
You know those...
wild Texas boys are all mad at me for
surrendering.
I expect they'd hang me if they got the
chance.
It'll amuse me to cheat them...
by shooting myself.
Wallace, didn't you say through the
eyeball was best?
Yeah.
Bad luck day for me.
Fresh out of eyeballs.
I guess the air hole will have to do.
Capitan...
Adios.
Adios Colonel.
Woah Colonel, you shootin at us!
Lay still Shad.
You ain't hit bad are you?
I'm killed Mattie.
No you... no you ain't... you you just need
to rest here and I'm gonna nurse you
back. I'm gonna I'm gonna nurse you.
You're a fine woman Mattie
and don't you forget that.
Just sorry we didn't get hitched proper.
Before I got myself killed.
Never you mind.
We was hitched proper enough Shad.
Go on leave but you're mine.
Oh Shad... Oh God why'd it have to be you?
Now Mattie.
It's the sad truth.
No Big, I can't. I can't bear it. I can't.
He was all I had.
Now Mattie, it's...
It's sad.
But it might be providential.
Now Shad was poorly.
He'd have to cross the big drive.
I doubt he would have made it.
And he'd have died hard.
Like some of us will.
[Music]
Ah
[Music]
We have no luck today.
You had plenty of luck.
That bullet had hit your neck another
inch over you'd be dead as Shad.
Life's a peculiar business Captain.
Old Shad's been shot at by some of the
best marksmen in the west.
Now there he lays...
Killed by a blind man.
I guess you know him a long time.
My Shad?
I knowed him since I was 14.
Ma ,and pa, and me, we...
had just started west
on the Santa Fe trail.
Shad was one of our guides.
He's about the most handsome man I ever
seen walk that trail.
Then mom...
and pa died.
And it was Shad who took care of me...
mostly.
If it hadn't been for him I would never survived.
He'd give me a buffalo hide or
I would have froze.
Well...
He was a fine shot.
And he could track most any critter.
That he could.
But that ain't why I loved him, Woodrow.
My Shad was honest.
You just don't find many honest men.
Not out here on the planes.
I don't expect I'll ever be that lucky again.
[Music]
(crying)
[Music]
Captain...
I'm fearful we'll all die if we have to
sleep out in the open in weather like this.
How far is it to that village?
I've never been to the village of San Saba.
I just know it's there.
You go ahead and leave me
I'm slowing you down.
Hush Woodrow, we ain't leaving you.
How'd it get to be so cold Bill?
I never been no place was this cold.
My foot's paining me.
I don't know if I can keep up.
I'm with you Johnny.
If you fall behind I'll go get you.
[Music]
Why don't you let us go Captain?
We ain't all gonna survive this.
I cannot let you go Mr. Wallace.
I have my orders.
Foolish orders.
Your men are dying too.
I never said my orders were intelligent
Mr Wallace.
I've been a military man for 20 years
and most of my orders have been foolish.
I've almost been killed because of
foolish orders.
And now I've been given an order so foolish...
I would laugh if it wasn't that I was
in such pain.
I cannot let you go.
[Music]
[end captions]
....sometimes
I feel
Like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel...
Like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel...
Like a motherless child.
A long ways
from home
You see the look on Falconer's
face when the colonel shot him?
Why he was
puzzled that's for certain.
We was all puzzled.
You don't expect to see a man shot down
like that just to please an indian.
I mean he was a captain.
You'd at least think he'd get a trial
before he had to be shot.
He got a trial.
The colonel's trial.
I wonder what happens in an army when
the colonel goes crazy?
He had to make a show for Buffalo Hump.
He wanted to show him he had "sand".
Once the engine thinks you don't have
sand...
he don't show no mercy.
Now that one don't show no mercy sand or not.
I think the colonel's insane.
Killing somebody don't mean you're
insane.
You can think what you like...
I think he's insane.
Sometimes I feel...
like I'm almost
Gone...
Sometimes I feel
like I'm almost gone. Sometimes I feel
like I'm almost gone.
A long
ways
from home.
A long ways
from home.
Sometimes I feel...
like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel...
Like a mother this child. Sometimes I
feel
Like a motherless child...
A long ways...
from home.
Shad?
What?
Did you ever get hitched?
Me?
Depend on the gal I guess.
What if I was the gal?
I thought you had a notion to get to
California Mattie.
What'd you want with me?
I'm an old berry.
[Laughing]
My pod's drying up.
I do want to go to California. I...
I want to go more than anything else.
but...
could we both go together?
I hear the grapes is real sweet in
California.
There's a lot of young scamps in this
camp Mattie. What are you doing with a
woolly old dog like me?
I just would Shad.
I'd get hitched with you in a minute.
[Music]
You're a fine gal, Mattie.
Sure... I'd get hitched with you.
Maybe we'd find a preacher up the trail.
Good luck boys.
Long way back.
Long way to come to go back where you was.
If I eat another plate of beans I'd
float back to Austin.
This team would have never made it to
Santa Fe mall.
You're the one that wanted to come on
this dern expedition.
They're going home boys.
These wide-open spaces don't appeal much
to greenhorn.
There go the bankers and the card sharks.
And the whores.
All except the "Great Western".
Mattie's retired ain't you heard?
Retired?
I didn't know whores retired.
Mattie has.
She's Shad's woman now.
Don't you go making no suggestions, you hear.
Hiya
Why, what if I do?
Well, Shad'll box you.
Shad don't mind striking out.
Shadrach's an old man I can whip him in a minute.
Maybe.
Hey!
Are you my friend or ain't you?
I didn't say I wasn't your friend...
I just said maybe.
Oh...ah... Mr. Wallace Oh...ah... Mr. Wallace.
Do you happen to have anything for bites?
Bites?
Yeah, I was out answering the call
of nature when I had the grave
misfortune to be attacked by a scorpion.
Well I think you're cursed Carson.
First you have to trip over your
suitcase and get stickers in your face...
and now you got a stinger in your ass!
Sir...
Everything in this country is sharp.
Well let's go see Sam. He's got a lotion
that cures all ills.
Oh don't be picky boys.
If you can't find no buff bring us
back a nice fat pig.
Where did all the buffalo go?
Wasn't but a week ago and there were
thousands of them.
Well them rains caught us and we had to
wait a week to cross the Brazos.
You had to wait...
but the buffalo did not.
There were thousands of them.
You'd have thought...
one or two had lagged behind.
We done killed the last of our base
We'll be eating mush all the way to
Santa Fe now.
[Music]
You got the best eyes; who's coming?
It's three horses.
No, one buffalo, two horses.
[Music]
Bill?
What?
Bill!?
What!!
[Music]
Indians!
[Music]
It's gonna be some kind of record.
Two red indians chase a buffalo all the way
through camp and nobody shoots them.
Well it seemed a harsh thing Colonel.
They're so tired and hungry they hardly
even notice us.
Well they would have noticed you if
you'd have been tied to a torture post.
Shad's right about that.
At least we got us a buff. It means a few
days off the mush.
Well let's carve him up.
Yeah!
That buff would got clean away if you
wasn't such a fine shot Shad.
That's it for me I'm going home.
You're headed back to Austin, I'm with you.
[Music]
Keep it moving.
Keep it moving.
Look sharp! You damned fool!
Steady on the wagon!
[Music]
It's gonna be a passion of trouble to
pack this grub on our horses.
Damn it! I knew we should have used
oxen instead mules and horses.
Oxen are slow Colonel.
Colonel...
Look.
Now who would that be out here in the breaks?
Buenas noches.
What's he talking about? It ain't night.
If there's anything good out here I don't
know what it would be.
He means Charlie Goodnight.
Who's Charlie Goodnight?
Never heard of the man.
You'll find out soon enough.
Howdy, I'm Charlie Goodnight.
This is Dylan, this is Bose
Why you trying to take wagons through
this country? It ain't meant for wagons.
Won't you get down and take coffee?
We don't get many guests out here.
We can't pause. These girls were stole two weeks
ago. Their folks won't have no peace of
mind until we return them.
You didn't answer me when I asked about
the wagon.
Sir don't you know who we are?
No. I recognize General Lloyd though.
Should have left him. He's too drunk for
travel.
We're the Texas Santa Fe expedition.
We're on our way to New Mexico.
We mean to annex it.
We may have to hang a few Mexicans but I
expect we'll soon whip them back.
No, they'll hang you...
if you make it there.
And why wouldn't we make it sir?
That's the cap rock.
Once you get on top of it...
there's nothing.
I'm sure there's something there.
There's grass at least.
Oh yes sir lots of grass.
But I've been a Texas ranger for over 15
years.
And I've rarely met the man who can live
on grass...
and I've rarely met the horse who can
travel 400 miles without water.
400...?
I was told there was a passage along the Red River.
Yes it's shorter.
but that's not the Red.
Not the Red?
Nope, that's the Big Wichita.
Big Wichita?
I told that fool it wasn't the Red.
Ain't sandy enough. Red's got that bed
of quicksand.
I never did trust that damn Pawnee.
He's got us lost and now he's
going to try to steal our horses if we
don't keep an eye on him.
Hello Shad. You turn 100 yet?
I've growled it Charlie.
(Goodnight) Morning Miss Roberts. (Mattie) Morning Charlie.
Wallace, why would you walk all the way
to New Mexico to get hung. Ain't there
enough hang ropes in Texas?
I ain't planning on no hanging Charlie.
You'll all get a lot worse than hanging if
Buffalo Hump catches you.
This here's the Comancheria.
Comanches belong here, you don't.
I only came to get these young captives back
and now I'm going home and I advise you
do the same.
Here's some viddles for them youngins.
They look like they could use a bite.
(Goodnight) Much obliged.
Set a close watch.
Don't let Kicking Wolf steal your horses.
You'll need to eat most of them to get
to New Mexico.
(parrot) rrrawk...go to Boston, go to Boston.
If was you I'd take the birds advice.
That's Charlie Goodnight!
He's salty.
I noticed.
[Music]
Ten.
Ten.
Bad news Colonel.
No other kind out here in the wastes.
What is it now?
Bes Das and Alchise are gone.
They took about 10 horses with them.
Curse those scoundrels!
Can you catch him? Cause if you can I'd
like to hang him from a yard arm if I
had a urine arm.
Go on get him!
Take those two young corporels with you.
That's bad isn't it?
Yeah that's bad.
Where we going?
Come on.
[Music]
Boys, out there is a Palo Duro Canyon.
Might go down for nearly forever.
Enough meat there to get us to Santa Fe.
We'll let those horse thieves go...
Comanches'll take care of them for us.
Woodrow, you head on back
and tell the Colonel.
Gus and me be looking for a way
going down.
Whip up now. We got to havesting
these buffs.
[Music]
Uh
[Music]
Come on!
Get, Get!
[Music]
Lord have mercy.
[Music]
(neighing)
Come on!
[Music]
Colonel!
Colonel!
Ahhhhhh!
Colonel, I see some indians.
Bunch of Comanches.
We struck a big canyon. There's
buffalo in it hundreds of them. Gus and
Bigfoot looking for a trail down.
Good news! Sam.....!
Sam, see if you can pull that toothpick
out of your arm then and we'll go kill
us some meat, huh?
I don't know how many
Comanches there might be.
That's alright.
We're on our way to the rescue.
It's a fine morning for a fracas.
Let's kill some buffalo!!
[Applause]
We've seen about 20 indians, but I doubt
that's all of them. There could be a
thousand.
We can whip 20 I don't know about a
thousand.
I hate to pass up that meat.
This canyon's awful steep Colonel.
I wouldn't want to have to climb out of
there with Buffalo Hump after me.
What do we do sir?
We camp. Set a good guard.
Maybe the red boys will have hoisted
anchor by morning and we can go kill us some
buff.
Come on.
[Music]
You tell the colonel.
No... you tell him.
Uh, Colonel?
Colonel...
Colonel!
What?!
Uh, we lost 20 (20) horses last night.
It was like they...they...
got sucked up into the air.
Ah, they didn't get sucked up into the air.
Kicking Wolf got'em. He could steal
horses out of a storm.
If I could catch that rascal I'd tie him
to a horse's tail let that horse kick
him to death... with a name like Kicking Wolf
that'd be appropriate.
Colonel. look! (Colonel Cobb) What?
[Music]
Fire!
We better make it back to the last creek boys.
Back up!
Pack it up, let's go.
[Music]
Whoa!
[Music]
[Neighing]
[Music]
By God, they've culled a circle!
They're backing us into the canyon!
There's fire everywhere.
Looks like it's jump or fry.
Shadrach, can we start a backfire?
It's too late, we're trapped!
Well that cliff ain't that sheer.
Come on men, we'll climb down and hang on!
(Col. Cobb) Maybe we won't burn.
Head for the cliff boys, head for the cliff.
Come on Beelzebub.
(parrot) arrrrk... go to Boston, go to Boston.
[Music]
Ah
[Music]
Watch out... I got you... I got you.
[Music]
[rocks falling]
[Music]
[yelling]
Oh God.
Sam's gone.
Just lost a dentist.
Better take care now and not get no
toothaches.
Look.
It's that Buffalo Hump.
Damn, that was our powder.
Yep.
That's the end of target practice.
Buffalo Hump.
[Music]
Ugh
I wonder where them indians went?
They set another fire...
we could get fried up like that rabbit
the Colonel ate.
Don't it worry you not?
You think too much.
You think about the wrong things too.
I thought you wanted to be a ranger till
you met that girl.
Now I guess you'd rather be in the dry
goods business.
I wasn't thinking about no girl, I was
thinking about getting burnt up!
Well being a ranger means you can die
any day.
You don't want to risk it...
you ought to quit.
DAG!
Hellfire you didn't even need to shoot it..
you could have hit it over the head with
your gun.
Well that little buck was only half
growed.
I doubt it'll run more than a mile or
two.
When he's on after it we might be able
to kill it yet.
I'm game.
Matilda, I'll be back in a little while.
Shadrach!
Wallace!
Where the hell are you going!?
[Music]
Uh
[Music]
Ah
[Music]
Mattie... probably just camped out and fell asleep.
It's hard enough to find your way on
this plane in the daylight.
How could anyone do it at night?
They only been gone one night.
Maybe they ain't coming back.
Maybe they just...
left.
Left to go where?
We're on the state planes.
No place to go except to wander.
But if he ain't dead, I'll shoot him.
Him or Wallace one.
Why it would take two scouts
to track one deer is a conundrum.
A what?
It's a conundrum. It's a thing that you
can't figure out.
Like two scouts tracking one deer.
Well two's better than one out here.
I wouldn't go off walking out here
without somebody with me who'd find
their way back.
Shad had never been lost.
Not a day.
If he ain't back it's cause he's dead.
That humpback man got him I know he did.
If he did leave... I...
I guess he just didn't want to take me
with him.
Love's a terrible price to pay for
company, Mattie.
[crying]
[Music]
Maddie says you two's getting hitched as
soon as you
come across a preacher.
Yeah, we good as hitch now.
Preachers just be frosting.
Risky business retiring whores.
Especially when you're
traveling with a rough crew like this one.
Mattie retired herself Bigfoot.
And any man it interferes with is going
to have me to deal with.
Too old to be bunking in the chill by
myself.
Besides, I like Mattie... always did.
Yeah, I guess you've known her a while.
Yep.
I met Mattie the
first day she set foot on the Missouri
shore about 10 years ago.
I was guiding the party into Santa Fe
out of St. Louis.
Me and a few boys from the fur company.
And um
Her daddy was a drunkard.
And he got drunk one night and fell in
Arkansas river and drowned.
Then her mama got the chills a few days
later.
And...
Mattie was orphaned out.
There's about 50 men in that party and not
one angel among them.
So the wagonball set her straight a few
days after her mama died and told her to
be a whore, or
be left.
That was a rough time Shad.
Yeah
Lord no place for church going ladies in
the west-end.
Just a place for
whores.
Not many of them lasted either.
Now Mattie lasted.
Maddie's got grit.
You remember that big old snapping
turtle she caught!
[Laughter]
Scared the hell out of everybody.
She's a strong woman.
So you're hitched Shad!?
That's that.
Yep, hitched, that's that.
I aim to bide by Mattie till the day I die.
[Music]
Oh Shad!
That's my girl.
I feared you was dead.
Naw, that little deer was
speedier than we thought.
It took us a little while to catch up.
(Col. Cobb) Where the hell have you been?
Well where do you think?
Nobody told you to go chasing deer. If I
had irons, Wallace, I'd put them on you
right now!
Oh you won't be putting no
chains on me I guess.
(Cobb) Then you get a bullet for your insolence.
I'm the Colonel here.
I won't have my command ignored.
You ain't no Colonel. You're
nothing but a land pirate. They run you
off the scene now you're out here trying
to pirate Santa Fe. I took my last order
from you Cobb. Shadrach feels the same.
Let's see how hard you are to chain.
Once I carve your liver!
[Music]
No cuttin'!
Crazy fools. We need every man we can get
if we're to survive.
Best be saving up to
fight the comanches and not be running
at each other.
Put the knife down. Put it down Big.
Put it down!
All right.
But I still give the orders here;
you understand?
We'll give better ones then.
I wouldn't waste a fart on your damn
orders.
What set them off?
Hunger I figure. I'm so hungry I could
stab somebody myself.
When can we eat the deer?
As soon as we cook it Johnny.
[Music]
We won't last more than another
day without food Colonel.
I'm gonna take these two young
corporals and see if
I can't scare up some game.
Do what you damn please Wallace.
You will anyway. But I'll caution
you on one thing.
If you get captured, keep quiet. Don't
tell them our numbers.
Let them think they're a thousand men
coming.
Well I won't be bragging on no mighty army
Colonel.
Getting captured might be the only way
some of us stay alive.
I'd get captured right now if whoever
caught me had some grub.
Come on boys!
(cough)
By dern boys; it's a buff.
Now hold on, hold on, go slow now.
No one spook him.
I'll take the first shot.
If he don't drop then you boys shoot.
Aim right behind the fore-leg.
Damn! Why don't he drop? I hit the brute
solid two times.
I hit him too.
How do you know if you hit him Woodrow?
You're as blind as a mole.
Let's go.
You insolent fool.
The mountains are that way!
Where there's mountains there's snow.
Where there's snow there's water!
Well you're thinking about heading
There's nothing. You'll all die.
There's the South Canadian. There'll be water in the
South Canadian this time of year.
The South Canadian's at least a week's walk
Turner.
What are you planning to drink for a week?
You can yap all you want to Colonel.
We're leaving; and we're leaving now.
You're crazy!
If you don't starve the comanches will
get you!
[hawk]
You're a fool Turner!
You're all fools!
Ah
Those some fat birds.
Damn son.
Gus....Gus.....Gus!
Why don't you stop we already got three.
Dangit Gus, hold your fire.
You got three.
I expect you'll hoard them all.
Where'd you learn to chuck rocks like
that Woodrow?
Anybody who practices can hit what they
throw at I reckon.
If you're so good at throwing rocks you
should have chunked one at that buffalo.
I never seen nothing like that buffalo.
Must've been some kind of witch buffler.
Something.
[Music]
Now why do you expect
everyone else like that?
I expect they think we're devils.
[Music]
My god maybe Caleb could conquer this state.
If he gets here. These folks don't
look like fighters.
Agua?
Si
[Music]
Certainly you may drink.
It's a long walk from Texas mi Capitan Salazar
Put down your weapons and you'll come to
no harm.
Now that's a fine welcome.
Senor...
It is not a welcome,
it is an arrest
[Music]
We should have never let ourselves be chained.
I would rather be chained and shot.
Soldiers ain't nothing but boys. I expect
we could whip them if we hadn't walked
into a darn ambush.
Well that captain wasn't a boy
and he had a big pistol.
It's just a mud building.
I imagine we could
dig our way out if we tried.
Dig out and go where Woodrow?
Were chained.
Nearly starved to death getting this far.
So far we've been a disgrace in every
encounter.
(Gus) Well...
(Gus) We ain't dead.
We still got time to learn.
I guess this is the part of New Mexico
that ain't filled with gold and silver.
(laughter)
I told you not to expect gold and silver.
[Music]
Try to sleep Mattie.
We have to be up marching early.
I can't get to sleep for wondering about
the boys Shad.
Gud and Call...
They're young.
I'm scared we'll never see 'em again.
Oh, no doubt they'll get thirsty, but who
don't out here?
Just don't worry about them though.
They left with Bigfoot Wallace and he's
as good a plainsman one as I know.
I expect he'll bring him back safe.
Bigfoot...
He's skillful.
But he ain't the best plainsman but I know.
The best plainsman I know is laying
right here with me.
[Music]
(snoring)
(snoring)
(snoring)
I guess he'd sleep like that if they was
about to hang him.
Well if he's about to be hung, he might
as well snooze.
(spanish) Get up!
Beunos dias senores. I hope you're refreshed.
We have a long way to travel.
What's the delay sun's been up for an hour.
To conduct a trial. We're bringing
the scoundrel in now.
Why it's Bes Das
What'd that horse thief do?
Stole a ring from the governor's wife.
The finest silver.
That is why you made your long walk is
it not... to steal our silver and gold?
Well...
I guess that Colonel was right about
there being silver out here.
He didn't mention the firing squads though.
At least we'll get to see Santa Fe.
Heard it's a fine town.
You will never see Santa Fe.
We're going south to catch your friends.
Then you will be marched to San Lazaro.
Where's San Lazaro?
Below El Paso del Norte
I've never been there but I believe it's
About 500 miles.
How far?
About 500 miles.
[Music]
Dern it's cold.
Yeah.
You boys been living too soft a life.
This ain't cold.
We're still in these parts in a month or
two you'll see some cold weather make
this seem like summer.
What is that a buffalo?
That's a bear!!
(growling)
That ain't just a bear, that's a grizzly!
Run Boys!
[Music]
(growling)
I can't believe that bear knocked down
the captain's horse.
Grizzly can knock down anything.
He's done us a fine turn.
Maybe march us till our feet come off
if he hadn't come along and scared him.
I just hope he's content to eat that
horse, maybe he won't track us.
Well why did he track us?
Well maybe he's had Texans before.
Maybe he likes the way they taste.
Well he'd have to eat Woodrow then he's
a Texan.
Myself, I'm from Tennessee.
We better stop here and wait for it to
clear we could be headed for Canada for
all I know.
I think I see somebody.
Something's moving over there.
Hope it ain't that that grizzly.
I think with that bear would already
have ate ya.
Two of Salazar's boys.
Well now what do we do?
We shoot 'em or take 'em with us?
Well they ain't armed.
I can't shoot two boys in cold blood.
And one of them give us coffee Big.
They ain't got any fighting them anyways.
They're just trying to get away from
that bear, same as us.
You ought to go on home! Go! Get!
Go on now. Vamoos. We ain't got time for
conversation here; now go on get!
Ah hell them... come on.
Come on.
Hope we're moving away from that bear.
It won't matter which way we're moving
if he wants us.
They can track you by smell.
If he wants us he could be 10 feet behind
us right now.
They move quiet.
Unless they're mad like that one was.
I hope he ain't back there.
My friend Willie got ate by a bear up on
the Trinity river.
Figured it out from the tracks.
Now so he got ate. So what's the story?
Well he got ate, that's the story.
S-S-So tell us, was he torn up bad?
Well, he was sitting there fishing.
That bear came up behind him so quiet.
He had no notion that
bear was anywhere around.
That's how quiet they are when they're
stalking you.
He was mostly ate.
Even ate his belt buckle.
His belt buckle?
Yep.
He had a double eagle made into a belt buckle.
I always admired that buckle and I meant
to take it. I mean he was dead anyway and
didn't have no kin but...
that dern'd bear ate it.
While it was eating Willie.
And that was that.
[Music]
I seen the light up ahead.
Looks like campfires.
[Music]
Yes, but who's campfires?
If it's indians they'll scalp us.
If it's Mexicans they'll shoot us.
We'll squat here and wait for morning.
Squat here and wait for that bear you mean.
Myself, I'd rather get shot
than clawed to death.
Gus, Gus. Don't you get too far ahead,
you'll get lost.
Y'all can squat here and wait for that
bear to eat you, but I ain't.
Shut up! They can hear you.
I was whisper'in.
You shisper loud enough to wake the dead.
Hold on who's there?
Billy!
It's us don't shoot.
Boys is that you?
Shush Bill we're coming in.
Wait...wait a minute now wait a minute.
I need to think about this.
Billy it's us why would you need to
think about it?
Because I've heard Comanches
can imitate white folks's
voices. You might be Comanches.
I ain't Comanche, I'm Gus McCray.
Well, I guess you're you Gus.
Excuse my nerves.
I'm a little... little jumpy!
Come on in boys.
[Music]
Buenos noches senor.
[Music]
You mean there ain't no grub at all?
No.
We ain't ate in two days.
Shad's getting poorly too.
Where's your bird colonel?
Beelzebub?
We ate him.
Made a fine soup.
[Music]
Looks like they raise a whole country.
Uh huh.
How many of us are left?
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:53,480
Now that your back.
But numbers ain't the problem.
We're low on bullets.
You'd have to kill 10 of them with each shot.
The truth is
I haven't felt the same about this
enterprise since we made soup out of
Beelzabub.
It's just like it was the first time we
went out nobody knows what to do.
We're worse off now when we were
with Major Chevallier.
Vamos, Vamos, Vamos!
I believe I'll walk on over there and
have a little parley with that general.
We still have that flag?
What do you need a flag for?
But we brought the damn rag,
why not use it?
It might impress him.
I got it Colonel.
Corporal Call...
You tie that to your musket. You and
Corporal McCrae come with me I need some
attendance.
Now if that general has
any manners at all...
he'll invite us to breakfast.
Come on
Gus
If they feed you breakfast snatch me
some bacon. I'd sure like a bite of bacon.
Good luck to you boys.
Oh Shad,
What if they kill them?
They're just boys.
Maddie don't you worry none.
They're waving the flag of the republic there.
They ain't gonna kill them.
[Music]
There's only three of us.
They'd be behaving like cowards if they
took advantage of us.
Maybe they are cowards.
Yes, take note of the infantry.
Ignore this rabble.
We're heading straight for the effort.
[Music]
Congratulations gentlemen you two
escaped the bear.
Ordinarily I would shoot you for
escaping, but no one can be blamed for
running from a grizzly bear.
I guess you soldiers are acquainted.
We travel together.
I'm Colonel Cobb.
I want to see the General.
Hablas espanol?
Un poco
I'll introduce you.
You put that flag down.
I'm pretty sure they know who we are.
Would you gentlemen like some breakfast?
We have eggs.
No thanks we've ate.
In that case may I offer you some coffee?
Well, yeah I'll take some.
Senora, tres les cafe porfavor.
How come you say we ate?
We ain't at nothing since them prairie chickens.
These mexicans they got plenty.
Our men ain't got plenty. I won't sit down
and feed myself with the enemy when our
men are about ready to eat their belts.
It ain't our fault they didn't get to be
escorts.
Now drink that coffee and think about
that food you ain't going to eat.
Gracias
Well men? They feed you?
They offered but I said no.
I won't eat with skunks when my friends
are starving.
I see.
That's the noble view Corporal.
I'm better at the selfish view, I had an
excellent breakfast. The eggs were tasty.
I'd like to leave.
Oh you can't leave.
I just surrendered to General Dimazio.
I have his word if we lay down our arms
not a man will be killed.
I expect to keep my weapons unless I'm shot.
Now that's brash, Corporal.
When I give an order I expect it to
be obeyed.
Now you're a young man. I won't have you
dying over foolishness.
I'd rather die fighting than be
put in leg irons again.
If you are determined to die...
I will oblige you myself. Now I shot Billy
Faulkner for disobedience and
I'll do the same for you.
[Music]
Give up your gun Woodrow.
I despise you for a coward.
Capitan...
Would you put this man under heavy
guard until he cools down.
He's too reckless for his own good.
Corporal McCrae. March back over to that
ridge where the troop is.
Tell them to lay down their guns.
Tell them they won't be hurt
and tell them they'll be fed
just as soon as they surrender.
Colonel, I'll go - but they might not like
the news.
We're not having an Alamo or a
Goliad; not here.
Colonel Travis was a fool. Though a brave fool.
But at least he had a church to
fight in.
We don't have anything!!
This little war is over.
Well go on.
The sooner you go the sooner
they'll get breakfast.
Texans!
[Music]
Where are you running off to?
Why to Santa Fe, Corporal.
For this fine army.
General Dimaggio says that the governor
wants a meet me.
I think he plans to give me a little banquet.
(laughing)
[Music]
Aye!
(foreign)
[Music]
Put the gun down Colonel.
He's our prisoner, not yours.
Ugh
[Music]
So what's the orders?
The orders are to surrender our weapons.
Caleb's a pure out
skunk surrendering for us.
What do you think Shad?
Well, we could run for them hills, shoot
our way through.
I doubt more than a few others that make it.
Give them a scrap at least.
Not a one of us would make it.
Though they might spare Mattie.
Well I don't want to be spared if Shat ain't.
I'm damn hungry. (I wonder if they
got any that bacon yeah)
I might surrender to them rascals
if I could get me some bacon.
I expect they'll line us up and shoot us.
But I'm for breakfast.
I hope they got a good cook.
All right boys,
there are too many of them.
Let's lay our guns down.
You're brave but foolish.
The Colonel had no choice but to surrender.
You men have no ammunition
and they have no food.
He hadn't surrendered
we'd have killed all of you.
I despise Caleb Cobb.
At least he won't look so pretty at the
Governor's banquet.
I'm afraid neither will you...
after we've given you a hundred lashes.
If you'd like to speak
to your friend, Corporal McCrea,
I will permit it.
No, I'll talk to him later.
Corporal, there may be no later.
I expect to live
If Call don't live.
I'll kill that snaggletooth bastard
that's doing the whipping.
Cambiense (change it up)
Lord
Suerte lo (lucky)
Oh
My God, he's alive.
It's remarkable.
Few men survive that many lashes.
He'll live to bury you.
[Music]
He is a strong one, this one, if he lives
three days. He will survive and walk to
San Lazero.
You don't listen.
I said he'd live to bury you.
Adelante! (forward!)
[Music]
He dead?
No,
he's alive.
But he ain't out of danger.
Woodrow...
You ain't gonna die.
Tomorrow the corporal walks.
This boy can't walk.
Look I carried him off that wagon and I
put him here to keep him warm.
Shadrach don't need to be walking either.
We must burn the wagon.
But some of us will freeze.
All men must walk now.
The Corporal will walk.
[Music]
Apaches.
The old man is correct.
We are in Apache country now.
Cuidado (careful).
This is the work of the Apache warchief.
Gomez.
Only Gomez would treat a general like this.
Most apaches would sell a general.
But he knows no law.
Ain't his law.
Expect he don't mind breaking.
I do not see your colonel anywhere.
I wonder what happened to him.
The coward, I expect he escaped.
Boys!
Colonel?
Boys?!
Is that you... is that.. is that you?
These Apache devils...
They blinded me with thorns.
They ham-strung my leg.
They left me to starve.
Come at us... at dawn.
We're on the edge...
The Jornada del Muerto
The Dead Man's Walk.
It's a terrible journey even for a
healthy man.
Many of us will die crossing it; perhaps
all of us will die.
We cannot take you with us.
We have to look to ourselves.
I'm only crippled.
I won't be left.
Give me a horse
I'm a soldier. I can make it to Santa Fe.
I can't take you with us...
and I can't send you back.
If I give you a soldier and a horse
Gomez will find you again and this time
he'll do worse.
I'll take my chances.
But I won't.
You're a brave officer.
It's time for you to end it yourself.
I'm a seaman
I never expected to die
in the middle of a desert.
I ought to be on my ship.
What the hell am I doing here?
I know that you're a great pirate Colonel Cobb.
You stole much treasure from The King of Spain.
Yes
Lost it all to cards.
Give me the pistol,
then you may be on your way.
Give me the pistol.
You know those...
wild Texas boys are all mad at me for
surrendering.
I expect they'd hang me if they got the
chance.
It'll amuse me to cheat them...
by shooting myself.
Wallace, didn't you say through the
eyeball was best?
Yeah.
Bad luck day for me.
Fresh out of eyeballs.
I guess the air hole will have to do.
Capitan...
Adios.
Adios Colonel.
Woah Colonel, you shootin at us!
Lay still Shad.
You ain't hit bad are you?
I'm killed Mattie.
No you... no you ain't... you you just need
to rest here and I'm gonna nurse you
back. I'm gonna I'm gonna nurse you.
You're a fine woman Mattie
and don't you forget that.
Just sorry we didn't get hitched proper.
Before I got myself killed.
Never you mind.
We was hitched proper enough Shad.
Go on leave but you're mine.
Oh Shad... Oh God why'd it have to be you?
Now Mattie.
It's the sad truth.
No Big, I can't. I can't bear it. I can't.
He was all I had.
Now Mattie, it's...
It's sad.
But it might be providential.
Now Shad was poorly.
He'd have to cross the big drive.
I doubt he would have made it.
And he'd have died hard.
Like some of us will.
[Music]
Ah
[Music]
We have no luck today.
You had plenty of luck.
That bullet had hit your neck another
inch over you'd be dead as Shad.
Life's a peculiar business Captain.
Old Shad's been shot at by some of the
best marksmen in the west.
Now there he lays...
Killed by a blind man.
I guess you know him a long time.
My Shad?
I knowed him since I was 14.
Ma ,and pa, and me, we...
had just started west
on the Santa Fe trail.
Shad was one of our guides.
He's about the most handsome man I ever
seen walk that trail.
Then mom...
and pa died.
And it was Shad who took care of me...
mostly.
If it hadn't been for him I would never survived.
He'd give me a buffalo hide or
I would have froze.
Well...
He was a fine shot.
And he could track most any critter.
That he could.
But that ain't why I loved him, Woodrow.
My Shad was honest.
You just don't find many honest men.
Not out here on the planes.
I don't expect I'll ever be that lucky again.
[Music]
(crying)
[Music]
Captain...
I'm fearful we'll all die if we have to
sleep out in the open in weather like this.
How far is it to that village?
I've never been to the village of San Saba.
I just know it's there.
You go ahead and leave me
I'm slowing you down.
Hush Woodrow, we ain't leaving you.
How'd it get to be so cold Bill?
I never been no place was this cold.
My foot's paining me.
I don't know if I can keep up.
I'm with you Johnny.
If you fall behind I'll go get you.
[Music]
Why don't you let us go Captain?
We ain't all gonna survive this.
I cannot let you go Mr. Wallace.
I have my orders.
Foolish orders.
Your men are dying too.
I never said my orders were intelligent
Mr Wallace.
I've been a military man for 20 years
and most of my orders have been foolish.
I've almost been killed because of
foolish orders.
And now I've been given an order so foolish...
I would laugh if it wasn't that I was
in such pain.
I cannot let you go.
[Music]
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