"NARRATOR:" "A thousand miles from El Paso to the border of Louisiana, 1, 000 miles from the gulf along the winding, colorful waters of the Rio Grande, from Mexico to the Panhandle," "Texas," "Across this vast empire moved first the shaggy buffalo and then cattle in great herds, raiding red men and marauding white men, and later, as the 19th century was nearing its end, the settlers who had established themselves in this frontier wilderness were beset by desperadoes and outlaws," "and it was in order to make life safe, to ensure prosperity and progress, that, early in the American occupation of Texas, an organization known as the Texas Rangers was formed," "Throughout their history, the Rangers have been men of exceptional character, unyielding courage, rare physical endurance," "Hard riding, fast shooting," "Their service was to a state they loved," "For an ideal, they were willing to give up their lives, and gladly," "To the Texas Rangers, this picture is dedicated," "Come on, donkeys." "(WHOOPING) Get up there, Ginger." "(WHOOPING)" "Bandits." "Whoa." "Put up your hands." "Throw down that express box." "AII right, get down." "Open the door." "Get out peaceably, folks." "The gentlemen will keep their hands up." "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "You in the hat, bring me that express box." "Don't do it, son." "Don't do what?" "Hold up this coach." "This isn't a holdup." "We're just resting our horses." "Pass your hat." "This is for charity, folks." "We want money and jewelry." "It's a vile outrage, a shame." "These people paid their fares." "They're entitled to my protection." "Shut up." "I haven't killed a stagecoach driver in a Iong time." "You're my witnesses." "I'm doing this against my will." "Tourist." "My passport." "Put it in." "WOMAN: (SOBBING) Oh, dear." "Oh, please." "Snap it up, blubber puss." "I'II warm you up with some hot lead." "This is an heirloom." "AII right, keep it." "Oh, thank you." "I'II take that watch instead." "Aw, listen, my grandpa give me this watch on his deathbed." "I told him I'd never part with it." "You're parting with it now." "Ah." "AII right, get back in line." "Everybody face the coach." "Keep 'em in the air." "AII right, amigo," "(WOMAN GASPING) (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "The dirty, thieving, robbing, Iying sons of coyotes." "So they rob my stagecoach, huh?" "I'II show 'em." "Killing's too good for 'em, but I'II get 'em." "I'II get 'em if it's the Iast thing" "I ever do on this earth." "I'II shoot 'em on sight quicker than I'd shoot a rattlesnake." "The dirty, Iying, thieving buzzards." "(SINGING) I lived up on the square" "I never had any pocket change" "And I thought that hardly fair" "But out upon the highway I went to rob and steal" "And when I met a stagecoach" "How happy I did feel" "ALL:" "How happy I did feel (SCATTING)" "Boy, what voices." "Ah, grandfather's turnip." "Give it to me." "Here you are." "And there's your collection plate, Deacon." "Look, Jim, I'm very easy to get along with, but you're going too far." "These two, I don't mind, but, look, today, he tried to put a permanent part in my hair." "Now, listen, will you cut it out?" "Sure, you want to be more careful." "Jim, you're liable to kill Wahoo." "Then we'II have to break in a new man." "I Iike to miss him close." "It's good practice." "Yeah, I get a Iot of sympathy here, don't I?" "I got a mind to save this one for Maria." "Say, I'd give everything here right now just to have that little 'enchilady' sitting in my lap tonight," "looking at me with those big brown eyes and running her fingers through my hair, saying, 'Mi dulcito pepecito, '" "I'm keeping this little trinket for that same Maria." "Who, you?" "Of course, I've never seen her yet, but then she's never seen me, either." "Well, I got something here." "She never seen me, neither." "How far is it, Sam?" "Just across Arkansas, skip or two down Texas toward the Rio Grande." "Rio Grande?" "Too far." "I tell you, you boys go down and meet the enchilada." "I'II take all the money." "Wait here till you..." "Hey, wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "MAN:" "Stay where you are, fellows." "MAN 2:" "Put up your hands." "We've got you surrounded." "(HORSES APPROACHING)" "Don't try nothing funny." "You ain't got a chance." "They'II hang us, sure." "Let's take a chance and run for it." "close in on 'em, boys." "We can't make it." "Being shot's better than hanging." "They're all around us." "They'II be scared of hitting each other, Jim." "Make a run for the horses when I douse the fire." "MAN 1:" "Let 'em have it, boys." "MAN 2:" "They're making" "Don't let 'em get away." "There goes one of 'em." "Get 'em." "Go get 'em." "(SINGING BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE)" "How do you expect to find Sam down in this country?" "Texas." "No towns, no ranch houses, no gals, no nothing." "We ain't seen a jackrabbit in two days." "Boy, you can't tell me we're still in the United States." "We'II find Sam if I have to shove you down every prairie-dog hole in Texas." "He always swore he'd go back to his Maria." "Maria." "We've talked to 60 Marias." "Every Mexican gal's name is Maria, but none of them know Sam McGee." "Buenos dias, señorita, We are the good friends of Sam McGee." "Have you seen him?" "Do you know him?" "(IMITATING WOMAN) No, señor, I do not know this man you call Sam McGee, but I have a cousin, Maria Theresa, who lives in Casablanca." "She is very pretty." "Maybe she know him, because she likes the americanos, Sí, señor," "Gracias, señorita, Will you tell us how far it is to Casablanca?" "(IMITATING WOMAN) Oh, señor, it is not far." "Oh, about 100 miles, maybe 200 miles." "That's all." "That's all, 200 miles." "She didn't tell us that her cousin Maria Theresa in Casablanca was married and had six kids, did she?" "No." "How much money we got left?" "Don't be foolish." "You saw me spend that last cartwheel at the bar." "Well, seems like we ought to go to work." "Now you're talking sense." "(SINGING BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE) (WHOOPING)" "Them little mules sure is running fools, ain't they?" "Takes a good strong man to hold them." "Yes, sir." "Been driving long?" "Practically all my Iife, practically." "Texas?" "Texas, Missouri, Kansas." "To me, stages is stages." "Get up there, CIancy." "Ever been shot at?" "Some." "Why?" "You might be held up today." "What makes you think that?" "We ought to know." "Who's 'we'?" "Rangers." "Rangers?" "What's them?" "You ain't been in Texas long if you ain't heard of the Texas Rangers." "Oh, somebody's fooling you, neighbor." "Ain't nobody gonna hold up this coach today." "They'd be crazy if they did." "Come on, get up there, Gabe." "Comes real trouble, I shoot first and ask questions afterwards." "You mean that?" "You ain't got nothing to worry about." "You just keep a hold of them lines." "Still and all, ain't no use shooting to kill if you can help it, is there?" "We'II see." "Whoa." "AII right, folks." "You can get out and stretch your legs if you want to." "Thank you." "Hello, stranger." "always got room for one more passenger." "What's the matter with you?" "You daffy?" "Get up on that seat and be ready to throw down that express box." "Who, me?" "No, sir, the only time" "I was ever late was when one of my mules threw a shoe." "Don't start nothing now." "Get in that stagecoach and sit tight." "I'II explain to you later." "You'II explain nothing." "Get up on that seat." "That man up there, riding with me..." "Hey, driver, you've watered those mules long enough." "Let's get moving." "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "Right away." "Yes, sir." "I'II have you in Junction City in no time at all, my friend." "Come right in here." "AII aboard, folks." "Wait a minute." "I ain't riding in this shoe box." "$3.60, right to the penny." "Get in." "Get in." "Come on, boys." "Get going." "What a day." "What a day, neighbor, just to be alive." "I feel so good" "I think I'II sing a song." "Would you Iike to hear me sing?" "I don't care for music." "It's your loss, my friend." "I think I'II sing anyway." "(SINGING OH SUSANNA)" "Come on there, Jasper." "Bang." "Leave the gentleman's gun be." "Mustn't touch things like that." "MAN:" "Put up your hands." "(GUN FIRING)" "That's what I was trying to tell you." "Texas Rangers." "Texas Rangers, huh?" "If that's the way they work," "I'm gonna stay clear of 'em." "They got no sense of humor." "I motion we adjourn to the nearest saloon and talk over this episode at length." "I second the motion." "JIM AND WAHOO:" "Therefore, as a member of the Ranger Force of Texas," "I do solemnly swear..." "To make the peace and preserve law and order." "BOTH:" "To make the peace and preserve law and order." "To the best of my ability." "BOTH:" "To the best of my ability." "AII this to the end that the State of Texas may be a safe place in which to live." "BOTH:" "AII this to the end that the State of Texas may be a safe place in which to live." "So help me God." "Well?" "BOTH:" "So help me God." "Sign right here." "We don't ask too many questions when a man joins the Rangers." "Courage, a good head and a better aim, that's about all that's required." "Those men died with their boots on, not for the small wage they receive, but for an ideal, the determination to make this state a civilized place in which to live, and so, Hawkins, Jones," "you enter into a service which holds a fine heritage." "If you're worth two hoops in Hades, it'II bring it out of you." "If you're not, it'II bring that out, too." "Fair enough." "Oh, here's some regulations you boys better be looking over." "That's all, boys." "Hiya, Ranger." "He doesn't know it yet, but he's got a couple of star boarders for the rest of his life, the old buzzard." "Look, hard head, there's a Iot more to this job than 40 bucks a month and chuck, a Iot more." "You tell me." "I'm all ears." "I can't tell you just yet." "I gotta figure it out first, but listen, there ain't a game in this world that wasn't made to be beat if you're dealing the cards." "AII right, my proud beauty, when you get around to it, deal me in, will you?" "Meantime, I'II take these rules and regulations and put 'em next to my heart." "Don't let it worry you, son." "'Rangers are instructed to return all stolen cattle to their rightful owner." "'When a Ranger is assigned to protect a shipment of gold...'" "And hen I meet a stagecoach How happy I would feel" "How happy I would feel" "How happy I would feel" "Hey, boy, put a Iittle sow butter in them beans." "I'm kind of hungry today." "'To make Texas a safe place to live in.'" "What's the matter, Ranger?" "What are you so happy about?" "Hey, Walrus, did you ever see this one?" "Fake low, catch you with the backhand." "Never misses." "Oh, boy." "A hammock." "Say, I think I'II take me a nap." "Call me when dinner's ready, friend." "In my time, you had to be a man to join the Rangers." "Hey, anybody home?" "Just want to use the hammock." "Rules and regulations." "I never had no pocket change" "I thought that hardly fair" "Way up on the highway I met a stagecoach there" "Peeking." "Hey, you new men, get your horses." "We're going out." "Who?" "Me?" "Yes, both of you." "Where you going?" "We ain't ate yet." "Never mind that." "Mount your horses." "I ain't been here for five minutes, and he wants to go out riding." "We've been riding for days." "Oh, the big mallet head." "Wants to become a Ranger." "You certainly get some great ideas." "Texas Rangers." "You're still a Iittle punchy from bouncing around on those stagecoaches." "Oh, yeah?" "Hold it." "The Major figures that the rustlers will try to cross the river between Del Rio on the north and Eagle Pass on the south." "Johnson." "Yes, boss." "McBride." "Coming." "You'II take the north cut to Del Rio." "Introduce yourselves to Marshal Bill Gree." "Adams, we suspect the Hamblin" "Iand-and-cattle company." "Pick up all the information possible." "Right, captain." "Peters." "Yes, sir." "Lee." "Yeah." "Ditson." "Yeah." "Stake the country between Comado and Pinto Creek." "We will, boss." "Yes, sir." "Hawkins and Jones, you'II patrol the river from Comado South, a distance of 20 miles." "Yes, sir." "Rodriguez." "Come with me." "Bien, Capitán," "Throw up your hat." "I want to get in a couple of wing shots." "Throw up your own hat." "I'm not gonna get sunstroke for you." "I don't know why they sent you along anyway." "I can handle all them rustlers myself." "Ha." "I'II nail more rustlers than you." "Bet you two bits." "I'II take that bet." "Want to pay me now?" "I wouldn't pay you even if I had two bits." "(SHUSHING) (MEN SHOUTING) (CATTLE MOOING)" "I'II bet you if I shot right..." "Take it easy." "You want to stampede them cows?" "I was only fooling." "I got a better idea." "I'II circle them and come in on the other side." "You go down and head 'em off at the river." "That ain't such a good idea." "You're in the back." "I'm down front where they can shoot at me." "Oh, no." "AII right, I'II head 'em off, and you circle 'em." "AII right." "Wait a minute." "Why should anyone want to head 'em off?" "Them fellows got a right to make a living, ain't they?" "Guess that's right." "My pappy always told me to love your neighbor." "Right now I'm the friendliest man in the world." "That's right." "It's a pretty spot, ain't it?" "Yeah." "Hey, wait a minute." "Hurry up." "We haven't got all day." "Yeah." "(BOTH WHOOPING)" "Head 'em off there." "What's the matter with..." "Sammy." "Jim." "Wahoo." "Where have you been?" "Why, you old son of a..." "Hey, Iet go of me." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "Can't you two be glad to see a guy without breaking his neck?" "No." "Let go of me." "Sam, don't tell me you're in charge of those steers." "Why, sure..." "That reminds me." "I gotta get 'em across the river." "Come on, give me a hand." "Sure, we'II give you a hand." "(SINGING IN SPANISH)" "Ain't she a honey?" "What'd I tell you?" "Ain't she everything" "I told you?" "You're just crazy about your little Sammy, ain't you, darling?" "I guess you're the head man of this outfit." "More power to you." "Thanks." "Listen, we can get 1,000 heads together in no time." "This country is crawling with cattle." "What do you say?" "What's the matter?" "Ain't a three-way split fair?" "You tell him." "Tell me what?" "It's this way, Sam." "We couldn't help it." "Honest, we couldn't." "We was broke." "And hungry." "We spent so much time looking for you..." "I'II tell him." "Sam, you're gazing at two of the finest Rangers in the state." "Not Texas Rangers?" "Two of the best." "No fooling." "Law and order, that's us." "My pals." "(LAUGHING)" "Rangers." "(LAUGHING)" "Listen, Sam, we'II quit whenever you say the word." "We'II quit right now." "You quit and I'II shoot your teeth out." "Amigo, I got it." "I'm way ahead of you." "Protection plus." "Sure, you give me the information." "I do it." "There's not a chance for a slipup." "Like spearing fish in a barrel." "You can't miss." "You get one every time." "I don't know." "We're all drinking the same stuff, but I don't feel it." "allow me." "No, Iet me do it." "I beg of you, Iet me." "Maybe this stuff hasn't had a chance to sink in yet." "Look, you're a Ranger, ain't you?" "You got me so daffy I don't know what state" "I'm in." "You are a Ranger." "We three are gonna work together just like the old days." "I get it." "Me and him is gonna tip you off." "A house don't need to fall on you." "You catch on quick." "When a stage carries gold..." "And big cattle men." "Don't forget those railroad payrolls." "And gold shipments in and out of the state." "Don't tell me." "You Rangers get the inside on everything." "You can get the dates, amounts, if and when they're protected." "We've really got us something here." "AII you gotta do is sit tight till you hear from us." "Right." "Salud." "Salud." "To the beginning of a profitable career." "Here's what I'II say to the Major." "'Major,' I'II say, 'we ain't seen hide nor hair of them rustlers." "'We ain't even seen a cow." "'We want to be good, honest Rangers, 'but the first shot out of the box, you pull a dishonest trick on us... 'and send us out looking for rustlers and cows what ain't." "'Is that fair, Major?" "I ask you.'" "You think he'II swallow that?" "He'II be apologizing to both of us." "Yeah." "(GUNS FIRING)" "Down in the flat." "Come on, boy." "Here we go." "Right behind you." "Marthy?" "Marthy?" "Pa." "Pa, I got two Indians." "Pa, I got two of 'em." "Oh." "Is that all of your party?" "What's the matter?" "They said in Tennessee that Texas was the land of opportunity, a safe place to raise a family, but I reckon we come too early." "Marthy didn't want to come." "Said it was foolish." "But I reckoned different." "I should have listened to her." "I should have come a Iittle later." "The savage still rules the plains." "Ma." "Ma, don't die." "Pa." "Pa, don't leave me like this." "Come on." "Come on." "Let me alone." "Let me talk to 'em, please." "You're a brave little man." "Let me go." "The Lord said, 'I am the resurrection and the life.'" "It seems like he also said something like, whoever believes in him, even if he was dead, will still live and that whoever lives and believes in him will never die and that..." "Amen." "Where's your nearest kin?" "There they be." "Got no others." "No friends nowhere?" "Only some folks back in Tennessee" "Ma used to speak about." "What are we gonna do with him?" "I'm going with you, Rangers, and shoot all the Injuns I can lay eyes on." "We ain't got no time to traipse around the country with a sawed-off, sniveling runt." "I ain't sniveling, and I ain't sawed off, and I'm going with you, Rangers." "We'II take you a Iittle ways, but the first chance we get, we're gonna unload you." "Thanks, Ranger." "You, too, partner." "You're all right, son." "(SINGING OH SUSANNA)" "Wahoo." "Jim." "What?" "That woman over at the Major's house," "look what she done." "Cut off my fingernails." "Said they look like bear claws." "And that ain't all." "No?" "No, she's teaching me how to read and write." "I have to study every day." "I have to brush my teeth and wash my hands." "Now she's gonna cut my hair." "I ain't gonna let her." "What's more, you're gonna protect me." "I've heard enough." "No, sir, we ain't gonna stand by and see that woman make a sissy out of you, Davey." "We'II tell that spirit of cleanliness a few things." "If she don't like it, you can move out." "Come on." "Wait here." "(HUMMING)" "Hello." "Davey, go upstairs." "Wash your face, and brush your hair for supper." "Go on." "That's her." "Did you want to see my father?" "No, I wanted to see you." "Well, here I am." "Well, Davey's been telling us that he's not awful happy here." "WAHOO:" "When we turned the boy over to the Major, we thought..." "You thought what?" "Well, we..." "AII that business about making Davey brush his teeth every day..." "Guess that's all right..." "It's not a woman's place to be cutting a man's hair." "Makes him out a sissy." "We got our ideas about bringing up a boy." "If you think that brushing Davey's teeth every morning and combing his hair and washing his face and seeing he gets an education is gonna make a sissy out of him, I pity you for your amazing ignorance." "Ignorant?" "Who's ignorant?" "I can read and write." "That's probably all you can do." "We're gonna settle this thing about Davey once and for all." "I know more about a boy's welfare and education than you will ever learn." "There's no reason for discussing Davey further." "He's staying here with us." "That's all there is to it." "Now go on upstairs, Davey." "(DOOR SLAMMING)" "That's what you say." "Is that so?" "AMANDA:" "It is so." "We'II see about that." "If you wasn't a woman, I'd..." "Oh, fudge." "(CLEARING THROAT)" "Hello, Hawkins." "Hello, Jones." "Hello, Major." "Hello, darling." "Hello." "I think it would be nice if you'd ask the gentlemen to stay for supper." "Well, yes, we're having a baked Virginia ham, black-eyed peas, hot biscuits, homemade apple butter and sweet-potato pie." "Well, sure..." "It's mighty kind of you," "Miss, but..." "No buts about it." "You will stay." "Smells mighty fine, that ham does." "If you don't stay and help us eat it, we'II have ham for a week." "Thanks, but we haven't quartered our horses yet." "You've got plenty of time for that." "Don't coax them, father." "If they want to stay, they will." "If they don't want to, well (DOOR SLAMMING)" "I'II bet that's good ham." "Go upstairs and wash your face." "I don't want to see you with dirty fingernails anymore, understand?" "I might have knowed it." "That ain't all." "You got a Iot of studying to do, too, understand?" "Mr. Hawkins, you forgot your hat." "Thanks." "Meow." "What a Iong tail that cat's got." "Sure know how to make yourself unpopular." "Mind telling me why you traded ham for beans?" "Couldn't you see what was back of that invitation?" "Yeah, good eating." "I've stayed clear of her kind this long, and I'm satisfied." "What's the matter with her kind?" "She's the home-building, settling-down-for-Iife kind." "Once a gal like her gets her apron strings around a man, that's his finish." "She's a right smart-Iooking little gal." "When's your birthday?" "I'II make you a present of her." "I still don't know why we didn't stay for supper." "I see where Colonel Drake collected 18,000 gold for them Ionghorns he sold in Mexico yesterday." "MAN 1:" "Yeah, I trailed along with him most of the way, just to keep the bandidos from stopping him." "MAN 2:" "There's too much money coming into Texas all of a sudden." "It's gonna cause trouble." "Who's the Major sending with the paymaster for the new railroad they're building?" "MAN 3:" "I drawed that job last night." "Don't notice the Major slipping us none of them juicy deals." "I'm leaving this afternoon." "MAN 4:" "What's up, Neal?" "That new bank in San Angelo is shipping a Iot of gold to Fort Worth." "They asked for a man to go the whole way just to act as chaperon." "Next assignment we get, we'II prove to the Major we're the best Rangers this camp has ever seen." "That'II make him sit up and take notice." "(KNOCKING AT DOOR)" "Excuse me, Daddy." "When Jim and Wahoo go on trips, can I go along with 'em?" "We'II talk about that later, son." "Father, it's a telegram from the Attorney General in Austin." "The operator said it looks mighty important." "Anything serious?" "I thought the Indian trouble had been settled once and for all." "Apparently, it's to break out again." "Men." "The Indian troubles have broken out again." "They're on the warpath." "Murder, depredation." "We've got to subdue them." "Put them on the reservation for good." "I know what is in all your minds." "The odds against every Ranger company will be 50 to one, but if Texas is to be a state, if families are to build homes, if there's to be any future for our people," "the sacrifice of lives will be worth it." "I expect every man to be saddled and ready to move out in half an hour." "ALL:" "Yes, sir." "(DRUMS BEATING) (CHANTING) (ALL SHOUTING)" "Traton." "The other one must be that railroad paymaster." "Them Indians sure is dirty fighters, ain't they?" "What did you expect?" "This is no picnic we're on." "Get those shovels, men." "We've got about five seconds." "It's our only chance." "Rush 'em." "(SHOUTING)" "MAN:" "They've got him." "Run for it." "(GUN FIRING)" "AII right, boys." "Let 'em have it." "Major." "But two of them is down." "This is Fred." "Bob." "Bob." "Better work your way up here." "I think you can make it if you crawl along the cliff in back of you." "Thanks, Major." "This will do." "At least until we catch our breath." "How about admitting I'm a better shot than you?" "I admit nothing." "I apologize." "The drinks are on me." "I accept your apology and the drink." "Thanks." "Boys, Ranger Company C is about 30 miles south." "If we can hold out here until night, and I see no reason why we can't, one of us can go for help." "Sí, amigo," "Let me have a chaw of tobacker." "Nothing doing, Hank." "You owe me three plugs already." "I told you I'd pay you back the minute we got to camp." "You cross your heart?" "Cross my heart and spit." "AII right." "That's four plugs you owe me." "I'II remember." "I'm gonna bring Bob and them other fellows up here." "Wait." "(GUN FIRING)" "They got Hank." "Pobre amigo," "Sure is funny what lengths some fellows will go to keep from paying their debts, ain't it?" "Yeah." "(GRUNTING)" "Did you say something about being safe?" "Nobody but an Indian could think that up." "Nice, eh?" "They pay you off with peanuts." "If I ever get out of here alive," "I'm finished." "Quit bellyaching." "You've seen everything." "I ain't done everything." "Rodriguez." "I go to get them, amigos, Adiós." "(GROANING)" "Madre mia, Adiós," "There never was a finer man." "Look, we might be smashed to pieces." "Every man stay where he is." "Let me go after them, Major." "You're married, Frank." "You got children." "Let me go." "What are you talking about?" "You got a wife in Dallas, ain't you?" "Well, I got no offspring following me around." "Yeah, you don't see no blond squaw sitting on my lap, neither." "Look out." "Did it get you?" "My leg." "Stay here." "I'II be back." "Where do you think I'm going?" "To a dance?" "(SCREAMING) (GUN CLICKING) (SHOUTING) (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) (SHOUTING)" "I wonder what happened to Jim." "Maybe I ought to say a prayer, if I knowed one." "Sun stays up late this time of year." "That's our bad luck." "(SHOUTING) (WHOOPING)" "Ranger Company C." "Hooray." "(WHOOPING)" "glory be." "(WHOOPING)" "Now that we've placed the Indians on the reservation for good, the people can look to real progress, a state marching forward to its rightful destiny, but there's one stumbling block, trouble from our own citizens." "As soon as a community becomes rich, a town important, corruption springs up, thieving cattle barons, organized gangs of cutthroats, crooked judges, sheriffs, district attorneys." "Take this section here." "Kimball, Mason, Sutton." "They should be the most prosperous in the state, instead of which they're the most corrupt." "Of them all, Kimball is the most flagrant example." "What's more, it's ruled by one man who grafts on everybody." "He could commit murder and get away with it." "clean up Kimball, and you throw fear into every other county." "Major, I'd Iike the honor of tackling that job." "I'd already made up my mind to give it to you and Gillis." "If you don't mind, I'd Iike to handle it myself." "I got some ideas of my own." "That is, if it's all right with you, Jake." "You're biting off a pretty big chaw, but I reckon..." "Thanks, Jake." "Well, Major, what about it?" "Seems to be all settled, but no gunplay unless it's absolutely necessary." "Here are some Kimball County reports you can look over." "Thanks." "Weren't you afraid for him when he started up the canyon wall?" "No, he was in the softest spot of all." "I had him covered all the time." "He didn't have a thing to be worried about." "Between me and you, I was the real hero." "Why didn't you go all the way with Jim?" "I wanted to, but that dang foot stopped me." "It would have stopped anybody." "If it wasn't for Jim, you and the Major wouldn't be here, would you?" "The way you talk, you'd think Jim whipped that bunch of Indians by himself." "I was in there." "I never shot so fast in my Iife." "Indians was dropping around me like rotten apples." "There ain't many Rangers like Jim, are there, Wahoo?" "No, I guess..." "Say, ain't you got some arithmetic to do?" "(KNOCKING AT DOOR)" "Oh, hello, Davey." "Hiya, cripple." "Hello, Jim." "We was just talking about you." "That's all he ever talk about." "I thought you was coming early." "Say, Davey, do me a favor, will you?" "Sure thing." "Turn Baldy loose in the pasture and see he gets plenty of grass." "You bet." "(DOOR CLOSING)" "I'm expecting Sam." "When?" "About sundown." "What for?" "What do you think?" "To talk a Iittle business." "Yeah?" "Yeah, that Indian fight did the trick." "We're aces with the Major now, and I picked a sweet job." "I'm off single-handed on one of the biggest assignments the Rangers have had in a Iong time." "Say, what's eating you?" "Come on, out with it." "Listen, Jim, you know I ain't getting mushy." "You know me better than that." "But we haven't had things so bad here." "They like us." "We're among right people, real friends for the first time." "We've had a good time together here, haven't we, Jim?" "We've always had a good time no matter where we've been." "That's not what I mean." "I'm thinking of Rodriguez when he climbed that cliff, knowing that he's gonna get killed." "Wasn't that one of the finest things you ever saw in your life?" "Yeah, I guess he had what it takes, all right." "Poor old Hank, begging me for a chaw of tobacco." "I'II bet he's up in heaven right now, spitting down on them Indians." "Captain Stafford, Neal Evans, they were fighting fools, too." "You never heard me talk like this before..." "What are you trying to do?" "Break me down?" "You make me sick." "You turn my stomach with that cheap sentiment." "What's being a Ranger ever gonna get you?" "If you're not shot by the time you're 50, you end up without a nickel." "I want all I can get while I can enjoy it." "Me and Sam's gonna get it." "It's a two-way ticket from now on, and I'm dealing you out." "So long, pudgy." "Oh." "Hello, Amanda." "Hello." "How do, Miss Bailey?" "I didn't know you were here." "I was just leaving." "Just leaving?" "Seems you're always just leaving." "What are you afraid of?" "The measles?" "I had them when I was a child." "I had them, too." "Well, I guess I'd better be going." "Must you?" "Yeah, I got to." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Nice fellow, that Jim." "Why doesn't he like me?" "Don't fool yourself." "He does." "Got a funny way of showing it." "You know what we was just talking about?" "Uh-uh." "We was talking about you." "No." "When we was looking for Injuns, he did nothing but talk about you all the time." "Wahoo, you're joking." "Tell me what he said about me." "Oh, he talked about your hair." "My hair?" "The color of your eyes, and the way you walk, and your talk and stuff like that." "He likes everything about you." "Oh, you sure could have fooled me." "Well, he's a very shy fellow." "He'd probably live to be 100 years old and not even mention it to you." "Really?" "Oh, another thing he told me." "What?" "That if he ever settled down, it would be with a girl just like you." "Oh." "Well, what am I supposed to do?" "Sit and yearn?" "Not if you're the kind of girl" "I think you are." "It's mighty sweet of you telling me all that, Wahoo." "Shucks, I don't mind helping out a friend, especially a fellow can't talk for himself." "Here, drink your buttermilk." "Sweet." "(SQUEALING) (CHURCH BELL TOLLING) (ORGAN PLAYING CHURCH MUSIC)" "Go on." "I had to fight half the Indians in the state to sell myself to Major Bailey and get this job, but it's gonna mean money to us, plenty and quick." "Now you're talking." "Kimball County's the richest spot in the state, and one hombre runs it." "He collects tribute from every saloon and gambling game." "He's got men rustling horses and cattle." "Sounds like a good businessman." "He's got a hand in everything," "legitimate and otherwise, mostly otherwise." "And he gets away with it?" "What about the Iaw?" "Law?" "He's the Iaw." "He's had the good citizens buffaloed for a Iong time, but some of 'em finally screwed up enough nerve to ask the Rangers for help." "Well, if he's the Iaw, where do you come in?" "I'm the Iaw, too." "You get it?" "Sure, I get it." "It's a very pretty picture." "First you kick this fellow out, then I step right into his boots." "Sam, you got a very understanding brain, for larceny." "I found out early in life that the honest dollar is the hardest one to make." "It's a pleasure working with you, Sam." "You expect any shooting?" "Oh, there's liable to be a Iittle justifiable homicide, but it'II all be very Iegal-Iike." "How big's your outfit?" "And as many more as I want." "Adiós, amigo," "Adiós," "Oh, hello, Major." "Here's your expense money." "If you make good time riding tonight, you'II be able to catch the train at Bixby at 8:00 tomorrow morning." "I'II make it all right." "Best of luck." "Thanks." "Oh, thanks." "Thanks." "Thanks." "I guess that's about all." "Oh." "Oh, no, here." "Thanks." "Jim." "What's the matter with me?" "I don't know as how anything's the matter with you." "Well, do you think I'm pretty?" "Yeah, I guess a man would call you pretty." "Well, Jim, why don't you tell it to me instead of going around telling other people." "What are you talking about?" "So you Iike my eyes." "I bet you don't even know the color of 'em." "Right now I'd say they were a Iittle greenish." "Oh, and my hair and the way I walk and talk." "You like everything about me, don't you?" "Answer me." "Aw, Jim, why don't you face the truth," "like me?" "What truth?" "That we love each other." "Oh, that's nonsense." "It's not." "It's beautiful, our love, the way it happened." "It's all the more beautiful because we didn't go after it." "Jim, it just happened." "Oh." "Say, don't you believe in love?" "No." "But you do love me?" "No." "But don't you know I Iove you?" "No." "Do you?" "Jim, I do." "I do, and I mean every word I said." "You made me say it." "Oh." "Jim." "(SINGING LI'L LIZA JANE) (SCATTING)" "Well, so long, partner." "Good luck." "I'II need it." "Do me a favor, will you?" "Sure." "Brush those things off my back." "I don't see nothing." "That's funny." "I had a feeling apron strings was squeezing the life out of me." "I'II be glad to get out in the wide open spaces again." "So long." "So long." "How do you do, gentlemen?" "I'm Jim Hawkins, Ranger Company D." "I'm Colonel Price." "glad to know you, sir." "glad to know you." "Where's the rest of your men?" "I'm all there is." "Only one?" "Only one fight, ain't there?" "That's right." "Well, Iet's get started." "Hello, Jake." "Hello." "Dave." "Yeah?" "Meet Mr. Hawkins." "Mr. Twitchell's our District Attorney." "Welcome to Kimball County." "Thank you." "What can I do for you?" "I got a murder warrant here for Jess Higgins." "(COUGHING)" "Say that again?" "I said, Jess Higgins." "You must've heard of him." "Yes, yes." "Jess Higgins, yes." "Very big man." "Known him all my Iife." "Ain't I, Jake?" "Yeah." "Yeah, well..." "Who issued this warrant?" "The Sheriff here, at the request of the Texas Rangers." "Uh-huh." "Well, was this a blanket warrant or any particular killing?" "It's for the murder of the Hartford brothers." "I want the case heard this afternoon." "(STAMMERING) Oh, that's impossible." "I can't prosecute a case like that on a minute's notice." "Nobody's asking you to do it in a minute." "You got a whole hour." "Uh-huh." "My dear Twitchell, may I presume on your hospitality to the extent of three fingers of rye?" "I've had atrocious luck at the hands of Lady Fortune." "Never saw so many small cards in my Iife." "Why, certainly, Judge." "I want you to meet Mr. Hawkins of the Texas Rangers." "Judge Snow." "pleasure, sir." "How do you do?" "If you're looking for justice, you've sure come to the right place." "Hawkins here holds a murder warrant for Jess Higgins." "What'd you give me?" "I asked for rye, not coal oil." "We're holding court in an hour." "You're officiating on the bench." "Why..." "Why, yeah." "Of course." "I..." "I'd be mighty proud to do so, but the courthouse has been abandoned, used for a storehouse for years." "Fact is, it's full of green hides right now." "I might add, Mr. Higgins' hide, so..." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Well, what's the matter with this place?" "This ought to make a good courthouse." "Judge, your bench will be right there, in back of the bar." "We'II twist the roulette table around, the jury can sit there." "The prosecution can sit at the stud table there, the defense back there." "And where do I sit?" "Hear you got a warrant for my arrest." "You Higgins?" "Let's have it." "Brought my lawyer along to see that everything..." "You don't mind, do you?" "No, the more, the merrier." "You know, I never been in court before." "Ought to be kind of interesting." "Yeah, it ought to." "Let's have a drink on that." "You bet." "Yeah." "Yes, sir." "You, too, Ranger." "No, I gotta go dig up one first-class witness." "Casper Johnson, now, it has come to my attention that you publicly stated that you saw Higgins enter into the livery stable on the afternoon in question." "Now, is that so?" "Dave, that ain't fair to put me on the spot" "like this." "TWITCHELL:" "Your honor," "I insist you make the witness stop beating around the bush." "Oh, he's a bit confused, but he's doing the best he can." "Yes or no, Casper?" "Well, I was up in the loft, but you can't see good from there, and I had a fork full of hay at the time." "Never mind that." "Did you or did you not see Higgins go into the livery stable?" "Well, it's nearly a year ago." "I've..." "My memory ain't so good anymore." "My wife said to me only yesterday, 'Casper...'" "(ALL LAUGHING) (GAVEL BANGING)" "JUDGE:" "Order." "Now, look here, Casper, murder is a pretty serious business." "Unless you can state positively that Higgins is the man that entered the livery stable and shot the Hartford boys, you'd better get down off that stand." "That's a good idea, Judge." "I shouldn't have come here in the first place." "Far be it from me to convict an innocent man, so, if you don't mind, I'II just toddle along." "Just a minute, Judge." "I wanna ask the witness a couple of questions." "TWITCHELL:" "This is most irregular." "You can't do that." "Who says I can't?" "Get up there." "Casper, I'm advising you to tell the truth... 'cause if you don't, your address is gonna be the state prison in Huntsville." "Now answer direct, yes or no." "You saw the defendant, Jess Higgins shoot and kill" "Dick Hartford, didn't you?" "Well..." "Come on." "You did, didn't you?" "I merely thought that..." "Yes." "Yes." "Say, who's running this court?" "I am, from now on." "Sit down." "Then Fred Hartford came in the stable, and Higgins shot and killed him, didn't he?" "Well, in a way..." "Didn't he?" "Yes." "Yes." "That's all, Casper." "Thanks." "Whew." "The court has heard all the witnesses it needs to hear." "Right." "Sum up, Mr. Twitchell." "Gentlemen, it's up to you to bring in a verdict." "A just verdict." "Conviction." "Now, if Mr. Higgins is guilty, he should be punished, but no one but Casper Johnson saw the shootings." "Now, we have here the rather incoherent story of a man who affirms, then denies, then affirms that he saw the killings." "It seems to me he shouldn't be a witness at all." "Therefore, we don't want to hang or send to jail an innocent man, so you must weigh the evidence very carefully." "(CLEARING THROAT)" "There is only one verdict." "You know it as well as I do." "Forget what the prosecuting attorney just said." "I object." "Sit down and shut up." "There's only one way to clean up a county" "like Kimball." "Get rid of men like Higgins for good." "If you don't respect your own courts of law, you'II never get rid of lawlessness." "You all came to Texas to better yourselves and to make homes." "You want law and order, don't you?" "Sure." "Yes." "The Rangers can make arrests, but when a man is guilty, it's up to you to send him to jail." "Are you cowards, afraid to say what you think, or are you citizens of a great state?" "Wait a minute, Ranger." "You're not running this town." "I am." "Just a minute." "Don't reach for that gun, Ranger." "Move over, Jess." "I wanna hit him right between the eyes." "No, you don't." "Higgins, get back to your chair." "Keep an eye on him, Sheriff." "(ALL MURMURING)" "Sit down, Jess." "Thanks, stranger." "I can't understand men that have such little regard for law and order." "As judge and coroner both of Kimball County," "I find that these worthless skunks through their own willful negligence." "Just a Iittle slow on the trigger." "(ALL LAUGHING) (ALL CHATTERING)" "AII right, Iet's proceed." "Order." "Jury, have you reached a verdict?" "Yes, sir, we have, and we find the defendant guilty." "(ALL CHEERING)" "JUDGE:" "Order." "Order." "Does that mean I have to go to jail?" "Now, don't worry (GAVEL BANGING)" "Jess Higgins, stand up." "I sentence you to 20..." "Fifty years of hard labor at Huntsville Prison." "Court closed." "Fifty years?" "(ALL CHEERING)" "Of all the murdering, high-handed tricks." "Come on, Jess." "Fifty years." "Congratulations, Judge." "Thank you, my boy." "Thank you." "Thank you." "(PIANO PLAYING SALOON MUSIC)" "You had a grand chance to snuff out Higgins there." "Why didn't you do it?" "It's better the way it happened." "I didn't want any shooting." "When I take over the county, I'II show 'em what a piker Higgins was." "I'II take everything away from these worthy citizens but their eyeteeth." "Sam, I want you to do something for me." "We're calling the whole deal off." "We're what?" "The deal's off." "You're joking." "You're going your way, and I'm going mine." "You're not gonna do business in Kimball County." "You're leaving it the way I'm leaving it." "(CHUCKLING) Jim, you scissorbill." "Sometimes I think I know you, and then again maybe no." "I don't know what's happened to me since I come down here." "I guess it's kind of like when a fellow gets religion even when he don't want it." "Well, I don't know what it's all about, but if that's the way you feel, it's good enough for me." "Thanks, Sam." "Ranger Hawkins done single-handed what we all were afraid to do." "There he is now." "Mr. Hawkins, you've brought law and order to Kimball County for the first time." "We, as citizens, have kind of made a Iittle pool and bought the Hartford brothers' ranch to give to you as a token of appreciation." "(ALL CHEERING)" "Well, gentlemen, that's mighty nice of all of you." "If I ever do settle down," "I wouldn't want a better place than Kimball County." "That's right." "The town needs such men as you." "Yes, sir." "Well, boys, I guess the drinks are on me." "(ALL CHEERING)" "Well, Jim, Iet's drink to our own finish." "May we never meet again." "Oh, I'II keep out of your way, Jim." "Success." "And good luck." "MAN 1:" "Polka-Dot Bandit Gang robs First National Bank in Wichita Falls, escapes with $18,000," "MAN 2:" "Outlaw gang believed to be led by notorious Polka-Dot Bandit terrorizes citizens of Concho County after stealing money, cattle and horses," "MAN 3:" "Daring train robberies in last month net bandit gang close to $40, 000," "Sheriffs of 20 counties pursue notorious Polka-Dot," "MAN 4:" "Citizens stage running battle with bandit after daylight robbery of Wells Fargo Express Office, in which agent and two bystanders are killed," "MAN 5:" "All law enforcement officers in southwest Texas are warned to be on the lookout for Polka-Dot Bandit, who is trying to take the law into his own hands," "This man is a dangerous character," "Don't take any chances with him," "Jim, when did you first convince yourself that I was the only girl in the world?" "The day you made me kiss you." "Made you?" "I had to fight to get away from you." "I was scared to death." "Yeah, I bet." "Well, I was a Iittle scared." "Jim, what are we going to do about it?" "I haven't figured it out yet." "Do you think I'II make a pretty bride?" "Well, I haven't asked you yet." "Yes, but if you did ask me, and I did answer yes, and we did get married, now, mind you, I'm just supposing, where would we live?" "Well, we couldn't live much any place on $40 a month, but I got my eye on a ranch that..." "Oh, Mr. Hawkins." "That's just what I was thinking." "Where?" "Have you got one?" "Yeah, it's in Kimball County." "That's the best grazing land in the state." "Here." "It's 18 miles north of..." "Somewhere." "And it runs five miles down here along this wrinkle here and..." "Well, anyway, it's a Iot of land." "Oh." "But aren't you afraid of apron strings?" "I used to be afraid of the bogeyman when I was a kid." "You're not afraid anymore?" "Uh-uh." "Look." "See?" "(WHISTLING)" "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Will I see you tonight?" "You will unless they break my arms, my legs and my neck." "(WHISTLING)" "Sam." "Yeah." "He's getting pretty big." "Yup." "I don't like it." "Me, neither." "(WHISTLING)" "Hawkins, Major Bailey." "What's it now, Major?" "Another Kimball County?" "No, that job of yours did the trick." "This is something else, a real manhunt." "I leave the whole thing up to you." "Handle it any way you see fit." "Sounds big." "It is big." "The man's the one whom all the newspapers in the state are calling Polka-Dot." "We're out to get him." "One sensational crime after another." "He's making Iaughingstocks out of all of us." "You're to bring him in dead or alive." "I didn't reckon on anything like this." "You'd better explain that." "I'd rather not take the job, Major." "Why not?" "Well, I..." "I been working pretty hard." "So has this outlaw." "I know, but I'd been hoping for a vacation." "Never mind that now." "We'II talk about that after you clean up this job." "You'II start in the morning." "That's an order." "Take four men." "Pick them yourself." "I'II have to resign, Major." "I'm sorry to hear you say that, Hawkins." "You've been getting along pretty well lately." "You're about first in line for promotion." "Here's the resignation form." "Sign it." "Ditson." "Hawkins, you're under arrest." "What for?" "The Polka-Dot Bandit and Sam McGee are one and the same." "Not so long ago, you were outlaws together." "You were and you still are pals." "You're not hiding anything from me, Hawkins." "How long have you known this?" "It came while you were in Kimball County." "I don't mind telling you it was hard for me to believe it." "This was to have been your real test, bringing in Sam McGee." "I hoped you'd come through." "I'm sorry, sir." "So am I." "Let's go." "Hello, Davey." "I said, hello." "Oh, look what I got for you." "Some Iicorice." "Say, I oiled up my gun." "Sure works good." "You wanna try it?" "What's the matter with you?" "Nothing." "Oh." "Thinking about Jim, huh?" "Supposing I am?" "Say, Jim ain't a-scared of that Polka-Dot." "None of the Rangers around here are." "I know I ain't." "I was wondering." "Well, I ain't." "Seems if you was a good Ranger, the Major would've given you the job." "Sent three or four other fellows, but he didn't send you." "Is that so?" "Well, it ain't gonna do him no good, 'cause he ain't gonna find him." "It's gonna take brains to ferret out that Polka-Dot." "Yes, sir, brains." "I'II bet you I could find him." "I'm from Missouri, Wahoo." "Say, Davey, supposing I went out and got the Polka-Dot and brought him in here, would you be proud of me?" "You know I would." "Everybody'd be proud of you." "Why, you'd be the biggest Ranger of 'em all, even bigger than Jim was." "That settles it." "Honest?" "Honest Injun." "You're gonna take me along with you, ain't you?" "Don't be daffy." "It's bad enough me going without the Major's orders." "They find out I'm missing, things'II be popping." "They won't miss me, either, till it's too late." "What are you talking about?" "You'II slow me down." "Besides, Polka-Dot is a pretty tough hombre," "I gotta figure out a way to bring him in." "Maybe you'd better not go." "I'm one of the finest trigger men in this country." "This is gonna be between me and you, understand?" "Man to man." "Man to man." "Shake." "Be a good boy now." "You're gonna be awful careful, aren't you, Wahoo?" "What do you mean, son?" "Well..." "Oh." "Don't you worry none." "Nothing's gonna happen to old Wahoo." "You know that." "Be a good boy." "Stick up your hands." "Gotcha." "So long, Davey." "Yup." "(HORSES APPROACHING) (SINGING OH SUSANNA)" "Wahoo." "Hey, Wahoo." "Holy horse cars." "You." "What are you doing here?" "I been following you all day." "You have, huh?" "Well, turn around and get home as fast as that nag'II take you." "I am not." "Listen, Davey, I told you this is a man's job." "I'm a man." "You said, 'Man to man.'" "Besides, if you got in a tight spot," "I could go for help." "Don't worry about me." "I ain't gonna get in no tight spots, either." "Now get home as fast as you can, understand me?" "Go on." "Get out of here." "Get out of here." "Scat." "I mean it." "I said get out of here." "Oh, all right." "You wanted to send a message, you wouldn't have anybody to send it with unless you took me along." "Maybe so, but I'd have a tougher time explaining what you was doing with me." "Well, you could say you saved me from the Injuns." "That was a Iong time ago." "But you don't have to tell them that, do you?" "Davey, come here." "Dadblast your little hide." "You really got a head on your shoulders." "Someday you're gonna be a big lawyer, I bet you." "Then can I go, Wahoo?" "Let's go, but don't fall off now." "Let's go." "We're practically there." "Come on, boy." "(SINGING OH SUSANNA)" "Six of clubs." "That's all I needed." "You beat it." "Yeah, I beat it." "You know, that makes me sore." "That's something I never been able to do." "Ah, Sam, I gotta hand it to you for getting along so well." "Simply because I got nerve, imagination and a steady hand." "Huh." "Don't I know it." "Wahoo." "What?" "I wouldn't be a bit surprised if people was writing books about me 20 years from now." "Twenty years from now?" "Listen, you're famous already." "You can't pick up a newspaper, you don't see something about you." "No." "Yeah." "You think" "I'm fooling?" "Stay here." "I'II show you." "Look, take this note to the telegraph operator in town, and tell him to send it to Major Bailey right away." "You understand that?" "I got you." "Hurry back here, and be careful." "Don't worry about me, Wahoo." "AII right, get." "Be careful now." "(NEIGHING)" "Un momento, my friend." "Where do you go?" "Let go of my horse." "Oh, no." "It is not so good to be in such a hurry." "Let go." "Let go of me." "I'II kill you." "I don't think you can kill anybody for a couple of years yet." "Take it easy." "You're liable to get hurt." "Give me that." "That's mine." "Don't let him get away." "Listen to this one, Sam." "'Express office in Cedar Crossing robbed." "'Polka-Dot Bandit and gang accused of executing robbery.'" "Cedar Crossing?" "That's news to me." "I ain't been near Cedar Crossing since I was 1 2 years old." "That's one you missed, Sam." "Yeah." "(DOOR OPENING)" "Sí, Sí, un momento," "The little boy tried to leave camp." "I take this piece of paper from him." "What does the note say?" "Nothing important." "Go on." "Take care of young Paul Revere." "Sí, señor," "What do the cards say, Wahoo?" "Huh?" "Oh." "That's a Iot of horse hair about telling fortunes with cards." "Oh, no, that's where you're wrong." "I can do it." "You can?" "Sure, watch me." "Jack of hearts." "That's a romantic young fellow." "Ah, king of diamonds." "Maybe the jack thought that he could beat the king, huh?" "Uh-oh." "The old Polka-Dot himself, the ace of spades." "That means trouble for somebody." "Whose fortune are you telling?" "Yours or mine?" "There's an old Mexican saying, 'Quien sabe, '" "And it means, 'Who knows?" "'" "What'd you come up here for anyway, Wahoo?" "I come up to take you..." "Oh, sure, sure." "I remember." "You wanted me to help you get Jim out of the hoosegow, didn't you?" "That's right." "Uh-huh." "You sure that you didn't want the boys and me to change places with Jim?" "Looks like you got me, Sam." "But I'II lay my cards out on the table." "I'II shoot straight." "So will I." "(GUN FIRING)" "Did you have to do that, Sam?" "(GROANING)" "Looks like you and Jim will have to break in a new man now." "(GUNS FIRING)" "That looks like Wahoo." "Ed." "He's headed off into the hills." "They got Wahoo." "Hold the horse." "Major Bailey." "Oh, Major." "Major." "Major." "What's the trouble, Neal?" "Here's a note." "'This is what I think of the Rangers." "'Better keep out of my way, or I'II kill the kid." "'P.S. Jim, I'm sending Wahoo back... 'so that you can give him a first-class funeral." "'Sorry I can't attend in person." "Sam.'" "That's the rottenest thing I ever saw." "Rotten?" "It's cold-blooded murder." "elliot." "Russell." "Grayson." "You three start pronto for EI Paso." "Get in touch with the Sheriff there." "We're on our way, sir." "I give you free rein, only get him." "Major." "Major Bailey." "Percy." "Baxter." "McGuire." "Right here, Major." "You three go with Captain Stafford." "Right." "Yes, sir." "Strike south through Concho County." "Major Bailey." "What is it, Hawkins?" "You've got to release me, Major." "Release me until I can get McGee." "You've got to, Major." "How do I know you don't mean to join McGee?" "I give you my word." "AII right." "Bob, open it up." "Yours?" "Yes, and it won't fail you." "Bring my horse now." "(HUMMING) (DOOR SQUEAKING)" "Jim." "Hello." "I'm so happy to see you." "Is Sam here?" "Oh, Sammy?" "You know him." "He will not be back for maybe a month, I think." "Where's Davey?" "Davey?" "I don't know, Jim." "He go away yesterday." "Oh, he did." "Davey." "Jim." "Open the door." "I have not the key." "I knew you'd come, Jim." "I'II have you out of there in a minute, Davey." "What you do?" "Maria." "You stay here." "Sí," "(BANGING)" "Jim." "Gee, I'm glad to see you." "I'm glad to see you, Davey." "Where's Wahoo?" "Well, Davey, I'II tell you about Wahoo later." "(DOOR OPENING)" "Hello, Sam." "Keep 'em up, Jim." "Get back in the room, and shut the door, Davey." "I wanna stay with you, Jim." "Do as I tell you." "Maria, get his guns." "Haven't you heard that a Ranger never gives up his guns?" "I got the drop on you, kid." "I see you have, but it ain't gonna do you any good." "You mean I have to kill you standing there like that?" "Not till I've killed you." "You're all through, Sam." "You're all washed up." "There ain't no more room for your kind in Texas." "I always liked you, Jim." "You, too, Sam." "Why'd you kill Wahoo?" "Killing was too good for him." "I'II say for you, you state your case plain." "I'II state it plain again." "I quit the Ranger service because I didn't wanna go out after you." "Wahoo took my place." "But I'm not quitting now." "Either you come along with me peaceable, or I'm gonna kill you Iike you killed Wahoo." "Ah, Jim, you always was the craziest maverick" "I ever did know." "You stand there talking about killing me." "AII I gotta do is press my finger, and I blow you right through that door." "That don't mean nothing, Sam." "Soon as I hear a shot," "I'm gonna pull both my guns and start pumping lead into you as fast as I can." "Hey, Jim, remember that gal I took away from you in Saint Louis, huh?" "Arabella?" "Yeah, Arabella." "Remember?" "I'II tell you what I'II do." "Maria here, she's a great gal." "She's a good cook." "She's on the level." "Me and the boys have been thinking about moseying out California Way for a Iong time." "I'II promise you." "We'II get out." "We'II stay out." "I've made a good stake." "You'II get your cut as usual, and I'm leaving Maria behind me." "Come on, now, what do you say?" "I say you'd better put away those guns and come with me." "I don't want to kill you." "Drop your gun, Sam." "I'II kill you." "So help me, I'II kill you." "Jim?" "Jim, quit following me, or so help me," "I'II kill you." "I'II kill you sure as a rattler throws poison." "Listen, Sam." "There might be some chance for you if you let me take you in." "Sam, either you come out of there with your hands up, or I'm coming in after you." "AII right, here I come." "(COUGHING)" "Well, Sam, it had to be either you or me, and I guess you lost." "I hope maybe you let him in up there." "He just got on the wrong train." "That's all." "Henry V. Jones, whom we affectionately called Wahoo, died bravely." "His final home shall be close to us here and to the service that he had come to love." "Jones vindicated his errors, and I say that the soil of Texas shall be all the more fertile for the blood he shed to the benefit of those who come after him." "The men who have died for Texas have not died in vain," "Unsung though their names may be in future years, it shall be known that in the turbulent years of a state's transformation, it was their deeds of individual sacrifice, their acts of dauntless courage," "that made possible the changing of a lawless frontier into a civilized land," "These are the men called Texas Rangers, molded in the crucible of heroic struggle, guardians of the frontier," "makers of the peace,"