"Come on, boys, yah, yah!" "Let's go!" "Look at 'em, Cage!" "Ready to bust loose!" "Pretty soon they'll be jumpin' fences" "Tomorrow we'll let 'em run, not today" "A little rustle in the air, boys, time to get inside!" "Ain't they something', Billy?" "Have you ever seen horses like 'em?" "Not quite" "Come on, get inside!" "Let's get into town and out before this hits." "Jacob!" "How's the missus?" "Glad to see ya!" "Hey, sir." "Hey!" "Hello, Mr. Ballard" "Howdy" "My God!" "Looks like half the association's shown up." "We appreciate it, gentlemen" "Mr. Ballard, we're gonna win this fight!" "Thank you!" "And you, sir" "Good luck to ya, Ballard, for cuttin' Carey Sartin off from water." "You just bought that tract to spite him" "Morgan!" "Pete!" "Well, lookey here" "Ya didn't need it!" "Hope it makes ya fell good" "You sayin' a man can't buy land when he wants to?" "I'm sayin' Carey's hard workin'" "I think you've gone a little bit too far this time Ballard" "Now come on, Shelby" "Let's be friends, huh?" "Nobody wants that old rock garden of yours anyway" "Be friends." "Hm?" "C'mon!" "Kermit Dover!" "Get out here!" "Excuse me a moment on a sweet Sunday when I oughta be home resting' my poor old bones and you makin' a fuss over a petition for statehood" "Where'd you get this idea?" "Oh, it's in from Cheyenne, all official" "Henry" "Who says it's official?" "Judge Wilkins seen it, that good enough for you?" "There's a delegation comin' in from Washington in a month to make Cheyenne the capital city" "Look who signed up, Slater!" "Hunter Jarvis" "Big and bold like a John Hancock" "That Slater Morrison looks like he's sideways on alcohol" "Now you suppose he just forgot the good turn we done him when he got flooded out last Spring and the bank said no?" "Hunter?" "I need to remind you of somethin', Hunter!" "Hunter has gone!" "Oh, he probably heard I was gonna come and reason with him" "What do you think about that, Ollie?" "Look like a three-dollar bill to me" "Mr. Ballard" "Uh, Myrl, how 'bout you?" "You're a smart young man with a future, where do you stand?" "Statehood ain't worth fussing' over" "Cora, let me help you" "Thank you" "Is that so?" "It's gonna happen." "No matter what next year, five years from now" "I wouldn't waste your sweet Sunday worrying' about it, wait it out is my thought" "And the vermin'll sweep in like a grass fire" "The only people I see around here are hard workin' Eye sores and riff-raff" "You talkin' about me?" "Whadya say, Cora, do I look like an eyesore?" "No, sireeee, you're a handsome man and my sweetheart forever" "Smart little lady" "Honey, Cage is waitin' for us." "We gotta get movin'" "Hey, you're a horse trader?" "You pull your weight in town unlike some other folks" "But I don't need no strangers from Cheyenne come in and tell me who I got to neighbor with Where to put my road, my fence tell me what's mine, and what ain't" "I founded Rawlins, I made it!" "I thought Indian traders and trappers come here first" "I put my roots and my law done here, boy, when you still just a pup" "I got a wife and two sons in the ground" "Now your bein' new to the territory" "Maybe you oughta plant your feet and take a stand" "Well, to say the truth, I wasn't gonna... sign the petition for statehood" "I didn't think it was that important" "But since you put my character to the test, y'hand me that paper you got there," "Kermit, and a pencil" "Sure" "Here you go" "I'm a free man like you, Ballard" "I can say yes, and I can say no" "I say yes to statehood" "I bought a lot of horses from you, boy" "From now on, maybe you oughta try to sell 'em in Cheyenne" "If you can get there" "Doesn't matter one way or the other where I sell 'em, Mr. Ballard" "I give you the same fair price I give everybody." "Now if you got some other stand you'd like me to take I'd be more than glad to accommodate you" "Let's go, Myrl." "Will ya, please let's go!" "Good afternoon" "Thanks, Myrl" "Myrl" "See ya, Myrl" "Bye, Cora" "Take care, Myrl" "You didn't sell no horses today" "I said what was true" "You don't always have to say what's true" "I'll do better at the auction in Casper" "That man's sure got a bug up his twirl" "He's runnin' for somethin', isn't he?" "You showed him up in front of town, he ain't gonna forget that" "Ah, he'll get over it" "Come on, boys." "Right over here!" "I know how ya feel" "But that's the way it is with the horse trade, Cage" "Grow to love the animals you raise but there comes a time when you gotta sell them" "We need cash to run the farm, pay wages, y'know?" "That's the way it is" "You got it, that's the way it is" "But be happy with what you and Billy did, theses are beautiful stallions, beautiful horse flesh" "You're gonna make Clay Williams happy and we're gonna earn a profit to buy the land we need" "Right?" "Yeah" "Y'see that dog?" "You wash him" "I'll sell him, too" "Come on, now!" "Get on it!" "Safe trip" "Be back in few weeks, sooner if the weather holds" "Take care of your momma, Cage" "Sure, Pa" "Surprise me with a present, Myrl" "Like what?" "Ooh, like, uh, uh, some nice soap uh, maybe something sweet, and, uh..." "Oh, uh, uh, a bicycle!" "And, and some of those fancy bloomers from the Sears Roebuck catalog!" "And, and an Otis elevator like they have at the World's Fair in Paris" "Oh!" "And don't forget lamp oil!" "What?" "Don't forget lamp oil!" "Lamp oil!" "Otis Elevator!" "Come on, now!" "Step up!" "Hey, Myrl!" "Has Woody always been a dusty old cuss?" "As far as I know" "Hey, Billy, I was thinkin'when I get to Casper, I just might grab me a bath" "Come on now, step up!" "Here we go!" "Step up now, come on!" "Straight on through, come on now step up!" "On time, straight on through now" "Step up!" "Come on, get on up there!" "How you figure that, Myrl?" "C'mon" "Good lookin' fence you got, Slater, what's it for?" "Keep rustlers out, mistah" "I didn't know Ballard owned this land" "Yeah, he bought a new parcel, it's all official." "Paper 'n all" "It's cost you ten dollars to come through" "Ten dollars?" "Yes, sir" "This pass is closed, Mr. Redding" "You ought not got too far, Ballard" "How's that?" "Puttin' up a fence and chargin'" "Well, rustler like to slip in pick off strays" "I get the fence, all right but what about the ten dollars?" "Keeps the riff-raff out" "You're makin' trouble, is all" "Look, I got no cause with you horse traders, you come and go as you like" "Where are you headed?" "Casper, for the auction" "Mind if I, uh, take a look at what you got?" "Lookin's free" "How much for these blacks?" "They's sold" "A little knot-headed, but put a pistol to my head," "I'd give ya... fifty each" "What do you think, Ollie?" "We need work horses" "Yeah, we do, and since you ain't heard the new rules 'till now" "I'd be willing to let you come and go two no three times, for one of them blacks" "No sale" "Then it'll cost you ten dollars to pass, pay Slater" "I ain't got ten dollars to give cause" "I gonna pay for food and lodging' in Casper" "Then go around" "I go around and the auction's over before I get there!" "That ain't my doin'." "Ten dollars" "Ooh, I near forgot" "You're gonna need a permit" "You gotta have one, gotta be... official" "I musta crossed here fifty times without a permit, where am I supposed to get a permit?" "Well, you can see Judge Wilkins in Rawlins, or you could, uh get one in Casper" "Yeah." "Elmo Whitaker in Casper he'll write you one up" "You know Elmo, dontcha?" "I'll give you five down, the rest when I come back." "Good enough?" "How do we know you're comin' back this way?" "Because I said I would" "Maybe the horse dealer could put up some security" "Hm." "Now that is a good thought, Ollie" "You know, uh, I try to be a reasonable man" "I'll go along with ya." "Just leave the two blacks and pick 'em up on your way back" "Take it or leave it, I ain't got all day" "Billy, cut the blacks off the string and leave 'em" "Don't leave the stallions here, Myrl" "You can put up the roans if you have to the blacks is promised to Clay Williams" "Leave 'em, or go the long way around" "Don't do it, Myrl" "I ain't got no choice" "I ain't got the money, and the auction's in a week" "You stay with them, Billy we'll pick you up on the way back" "I ain't feeding' no Crow" "Naw, he gotta sleep in the barn" "Take what you need from the pack horse" "Been a real pleasure doin' because with you, Mr. Redding" "Let 'em through, Slater" "Son of a bitch!" "Hey, come on now!" "Let's turn this thing over and get this outta the way!" "Mr. Redding's gotta come through" "No way!" "He's gone too far" "Pretty soon we'll be goin' around the Rio Grand to get to Casper!" "I mean, if he thinks..." "Hey, Myrl?" "What?" "Y'know, there ain't no use payin'" "Attention to that old man" "Whadya make of all this?" "Like a church with no roof" "Got the Almighty braggin' his head off" "Yeah." "Whadya figure he's sayin'?" "Remember who did this?" "Don't get too big for your britches." "I guess" "Fair enough" "CASPER" "Hey!" "171, 80." "Look at this..." "Now 80, now 90!" "One, two hundred dollars..." "Howdy, Browder!" "Myrl!" "Seen Elmo Whittaker?" "He's over there, somewheres" "Whadya say, Partner?" "Woody!" "Good to see ya!" "Here we go, there it is" "Hey" "Yes indeed-y" "Yes" "Where's the stallions?" "Henry Ballard got 'em" "I thought Myrl promised them to Clay Williams" "Oh, well Ballard's holdin' onto them as security 'till Myrl pays him a toll for crossing' his property" "I heard about that gate." "That one's crazy tryin' somethin' like that" "Yeah." "Myrl's pretty angry about it" "I don't blame him" "Hey, Browder, you you ever hear tell of one of them English dogs, one of 'em" "Jack Russell Terrier dogs?" "Can't say I have" "Well, they say, if'n you get 'em riled up enough, and they sink their teeth into ya, well now you're just gonna have to saw theirjaw apart 'fore they let go" "Well, that right there is Myrl Redding right about now." "A man with a bull head and a Jack Russell jaw" "Quite a sight." "I'll see ya" "Come on!" "See ya later" "He told you to see me?" "That's what he said" "He's fuckin' the dog on ya, Myrl" "There ain't no such thing as a pass for a pass." "He owns the land, all right, he been buyin' land like it's goin' outta style, but I don't know what this permit crap is all about Including' that parcel around the pass?" "Oh, yeah" "So he can do what he wants with the land?" "Unless the Governor steps in, but that's a long wiggle down the road" "How's business, Elmo?" "Pretty good" "Cheatin' the hell outta them, are you?" "Only them that tries to cheat me" "Take care" "One hundred twenty five and one half, one sixty, one seventy.!" "Hundred and fifty seven, hundred and sixty, hundred and eighty..." "One hundred, two hundred and fifty" "That's it, and I got mine" "Okay" "What'll I tell Clay Williams?" "Tell him I'll be back in the Spring, I'll have the horses for him if he still wants them" "He still wants 'em all right" "Tell him I mean to keep my word" "All right" "Pleasure doin' business with you" "Have a safe trip" "Take care, Woody" "Browder" "Browder" "Slater!" "Slater!" "I come for the horses, Slater" "You owe me five dollars!" "Pay him" "Billy!" "Billy!" "Where are they?" "They're around" "Billy!" "They ain't in here, Slater!" "I said they're around!" "Woody, check the corral" "Billy!" "Easy now, easy." "Easy now boys" "Bastards" "Easy now, boy, easy." "Easy, easy" "It's gonna be all right, it's okay, all right" "It's all right." "Easy now." "Easy now, boy" "Ho!" "Easy now, boys" "Come on, come on." "It's okay." "Com on" "Oh, Christ!" "It's alright" "Easy now" "Slater!" "Come out here, boy, I wanna talk to you!" "Those are not my horses!" "What'd you do to my horses?" "Oh!" "Jeez!" "Huh?" "What'd you do to my horses?" "I didn't do nothin' why don't you ask your Crow!" "I will when I find him, where is he?" "Jesus, I don't know!" "He was makin' trouble!" "They have sores on them!" "Tied to a pig sty!" "Cause your Crow took off" "I can't take care of 'em by myself" "You been workin' in the fields, Slater!" "What's the trouble here?" "Listen, I shoulda put the dogs on him, boss!" "What did you do to my animals?" "Now, he's bitchin' about me workin' his horese too much" "He says they ain't his." "Maybe he wants you to buy 'em" "I wouldn't sell you a coyotel!" "Did you get his five dollars?" "Yeah, he's paid up" "Then get your horses and git" "I can't move 'em cause they can't walk and" "I ain't gonna injure them any more!" "I left you with well fed and healthy horses" "Ballard, and I want 'em back that way" "Them is all you gonna get!" "These are not my horses!" "I don't even recognize them!" "You got two weeks to put back into condition!" "Two weeks!" "Two years!" "I ain't gonna condition nothin'!" "Two weeks, old man!" "You got somethin' you wanna say to me?" "Yeah, I'm tired of your statehoodin' mouth in your spitting' image" "Ballard, healthy and fat!" "Git!" "Myrl..." "Where's Billy?" "He's inside" "Where is he?" "He's, he's in the kitchen" "Billy" "Myrl, sorry about the horese" "What happened?" "Slater." "Sl-, Slater run me off" "Why?" "Long as I was there he couldn't work the blacks to death" "I told him they were young and and they'd never been in harness" "He, he tied them to a pig sty in the mud wouldn't take the harness off" "After a week they were filthy" "And one day I came out, and he had 'em hooked up to a log pull" "Come on, now!" "For Chrissakes!" "What the hell is goin' on here?" "Get over here!" "What the hell is goin' on!" "Then that old Slater and Ollie they beat me" "Then he set them dogs on me" "Get him!" "Get him!" "No!" "They mighta killed me if I'da went back there" "You did rigth leavin'" "Why don't you let Billy eat" "I oughta kill him" "Boy!" "What?" "Why don't you let Billy eat" "Yeah" "Rest easy" "DAMN IT!" "What're ya gonna do?" "Get my horses back the way I left them" "And damages for Billy" "Ballard ain't gonna do that cause you tell him to, and pay Billy to boot." "He'd be the laughing' stock of Rawlins" "You're settin' yourself up for a fall, Myrl" "Ballard ain't gonna do what you want him to he just wont'!" "Yes he will!" "You got chores to do, boy?" "Yes, sir" "Then get to 'em!" "I dunno, Myrl." "Ballard's got a lot of friends" "I wanna know what the law says I can do" "Well, you could sue him" "Then I wanna sue him" "It's not as simple as that" "Why not?" "Well, you gotta figure on things like how much it's gonna cost you, can you win?" "I don't care what it costs" "Myrl, you go up against Ballard in this town you're gonna go through Judge Wilkins" "Now Wilkins got shares in Ballard's cattle association" "I want my horses back in the condition I left them in!" "And damages for Billy!" "Do you wanna handle it?" "Jesus, Myrl!" "You're askin' Wilkins to rule for you against Ballard in an Injun against a white man?" "I believe that God is to man as man is to animal" "You treat them with respect" "You set dogs on a man, you pay for it" "Now the law upholds these ideas" "And I mean to see the law has its day" "Do you wanna handle it?" "I'm tryin' to tell you somethin' here if you'll listen." "You're wastin' your money!" "I'll file if you want me to file." "It'll cost you twenty dollars in advance" "Twenty dollars" "In advance" "Half now, and the rest when I see what you come up with" "Now you file it!" "Sure" "Two boxes, here we go, Myrl" "Good to have you back" "I think you paid up last time so we're gonna start fresh" "Okay" "Mr. Redding!" "You got two swaybacks stinkin' up Mr. Ballard's stables" "I appreciate it if you pick 'em up real soon, y'hear?" "Otherwise, we're liken to... chop 'em up for slop or somethin'" "All right, Slater" "You wanna take it on back to the room?" "Kermit, next time Ballard or one of his fools comes in, tell him the law will take care of Ballard." "And if the law don't take are of him, I'm gonna take care of him" "One way or the other, there's gonna be justice I will have it." "Ballard himself is gonna feed and groom my stallions, make 'em shiny and beautiful, just like I left them" "And no matter what it cost me that's gonna happen." "Sure as sunshine" "Will you tell Mr. Ballard that if you see him?" "Yeah" "Hear me, I speak the truth!" "And poker as usual, at my place" "Tuesday night" "I appreciate the help, Judge" "Ah, you're welcome" "Oh, Judge!" "Judge Wilkins" "I was just comin' up to see ya!" "I don't have time for you today, Rayborn" "Come around next week" "But... but I'm w-, w-, waitin' on your decision, Judge" "It's been a couple of weeks, now" "It's been a coupla weeks now, Judge" "My client's getting' awful nervous about this" "Sit down, Rayborn, you make me nervous" "Yes sir, Judge" "Just waitin' for you decision, Judge" "I uh, I hope the petition is in proper legal form and where a justice of your integrity is used to seein'" "Nothin' special, it was okay" "You talked this petition over with Redding?" "Yes, sir" "Seems like a pissy ant fuss to me" "Redding wants to file a suit or is that your idea?" "Oh well, no" "I gave him counsel to the contrary, Judge" "His mind's made up" "Tell him to take his horses home and forget it" "Well, you see, my client views them as prize stallions, Judge" "Prize is in the mind, counselor" "Ballard don't want 'em, so what's Redding gonna do, leave 'em there?" "Well, it's like the charges says..." "I know what the charges say" "Yes, sir" "Follishness, prideful follishness is what this is" "If I was you, I'd talk sense into him" "I got five towns to cover, counselor and you bring me this" "I don't have time for a hearing Fifty dollars for Billy Redwood, a Crow?" "Jesus" "Yeah, well, I gave him honest realistic counsel on that" "You did, uh huh" "Uh huh." "He wants it filed" "Uh, just, uh, just wondering when you want a hearing, that's all" "Uh, well, you don't have to decide right now just when you get a chance" "Ain't gonna be one" "I'm throwing the case out, lack of evidence" "I advise you to tell Redding to pick up his horses and get on with his wife" "Yes sir, Judge" "And I advise you to pick your clients more carefully if you want to do business in this town" "Yes, sir" "You're haulin' shit up a mountain, Rayborn" "Careful it don't spill on you" "Shit up a mountain." "Thank you, sir" "Hey, Myrl, word is Ballard's still workin' them horses out in the field" "Where'd you hear that?" "Mac Turnage comin' through Casper" "Says he saw 'em, thought they were yours maybe not, though" "Just take him longer to put 'em back into shape" "Well, there ain't nothin' more I can do, Myrl" "Except, maybe... uh, Billy!" "Leave the room, would ya" "I wanna say somethin' private" "Anything you got to say to me you can say in front of Billy" "Well, word I get is Ballard wants to do business with you" "He wants to settle with you on the horses but he won't pay Billy" "Why not?" "Well, Billy gave him trouble and run off" "Billy didn't run off!" "Ballard's fools run him off!" "The suit stands the way it's writ" "Well, then he won't settle with you it's gonna be a standoff" "Not to my mind" "Well, what else you gonna do?" "Whatever it takes" "Cage, you want more stew?" "Please" "Are we ever gonna get our horses back?" "I don't know, Cage" "Now you sleep tight you let me worry about it" "I'm goin' to Cheyenne to see the Governor before any of this happens" "Or whoever runs the law and... if that don't work, I'm thinkin' about it" "Doin' it all over again, ain't ya?" "Don't ya know me?" "You know there's no way I can let a man do what that man did" "That is not possible!" "I know you" "If people are gonna kick me" "I'd rather be a dog than a man, Cora" "So if justice is to be done don't deny me the freedom I need to get it!" "No!" "This is not just about you and what you think is right!" "I'm a part of you and so is Cage" "We just get thrown in, is that it?" "Cora, please, keep you voice down" "Cage is listenin'" "I'm not sayin' you shouldn't go after Ballard but... you're doin' exactly what he wants you to do... to scare people away" "Let me try somethin', Myrl." "My way." "Lf, if it don't work, then" "Then you do what you have to do" "I'll stand with you, no matter what" "What are you talkin' about, Cora?" "You know I'm better at politicin' than you are" "Let me go to Cheyenne for us" "I know the Attorney General's wife Judith Metcalf" "I met her at the Statehood Rally last year in Casp" "I spent the whole afternoon with her" "She'll get the petition to her husband" "That'll be the end of it" "You get the horses back the way you want 'em, and somethin' for Billy..." "Cora, this is not your fight" "IT IS MY FIGHT!" "It's my family!" "Look out that window" "If you don't stay here and fix the barn we're gonna be livin' hand to mouth before you know it" "I've been prayin', for a miracle" "So there'd be peace between Ballard and me" "But nothin' comes back." "No answer" "No ways to go, nothin'!" "I'm your miracle." "I'm what you prayed for" "What sort of woman is she the Attorney General's wife?" "She's a fine woman" "Her husband?" "Mm, I'm sure her husband is fair" "I don't know, Cora, what you're askin'..." "The truth is..." "I got a terrible fear you go off chasin'" "Ballard, I'll never see you again" "You're getting' sassy with your old man is what I'm hearin', you better watch that" "So it's all decided" "I'll be back in two weeks" "I'll take Woody with me" "I'll see the Attorney General and I'll get the lamp oil you always forget" "Two weeks is a long time" "Mm, nothin' like a little separation to make the heart grow fonder" "Also, I'm smarter than you when it come to politicin'." "Di..." "Or did I say that?" "Yeah, I think you mentioned that one" "You're a miracle, all right" "Take care of my bride, Woody" "You betcha" "If I meet a handsome cowboy, I may go right on to Phil-l-del-phi-ay" "Well, if you do, send Woody back" "I need him for the roofing" "Wouldn't be jealous, would ya?" "No" "Better come back, hurry up, lose my man" "Get down offa there, son!" "Cage, kiss your mother, get off there!" "Cage, go on now, get outta here." "Go on, now!" "You go work on that barn" "See ya, Myrl" "Bye boys" "Come on, come on" "Haul it in before you let go!" "Push it up again!" "Cora, I'm gonna go over to the blacksmiths" "All right" "I'll come find ya" "I'll be here" "These the original documents in the case?" "Excuse me one moment, Mr. Crawford" "You're next!" "Now, okay" "I will take these under consideration for the Attorney General" "You are Mr. Wakefield, is that correct?" "Mr. Wakefield?" "Okay" "You might wanna take a seat, we'll get to you as soon as we can" "Look!" "Look!" "We started to, we started to go off to the one side as we were comin' up over the last hill" "Hey, I think we gotta go visit an old neightbor of ours" "Mr. Metcalf, please" "You have an appointment?" "No, I don't" "All these folks have appointments, ma'am" "You need to write ahead so we can give you a time" "Mrs Lipton, you're next!" "I come from Rawlins to see Mr. Metcalf" "Do you, do you think you could make an excption in my case?" "This week is outta the question" "He's across town with the statehood people" "Judith Metcalf said any time I was in Cheyenne to come look her up" "Sorry." "Nothin' I can do" "My name is Cora Redding, from Rawlins" "My husband is Myrl, the horse dealer" "Maybe you know him" "No ma'am, I surely don't" "Well, Mrs. Metcalf does" "And she would want to know that I'm in Cheyenne" "So, could you please see that she gets this?" "I'm staying at the Wainwright Hotel" "It's important that she get this message" "Thank you, Captain" "No end of 'em" "Yes?" "Well, we rode that up a little way, didn't we?" "You okay there, hoss?" "Hey!" "Hey, get the hell outta here!" "Woody!" "Someone get a doctor!" "She's still breathing" "Cora?" "Call Doc Patterson" "What happened?" "She got run over" "Who is she?" "Her name is Cora Redding, from Rawlins" "She come here to see the Attorney General" "Well, sir, I'm the Attorney General" "She come here... to give you this" "Hands are warm" "Okay." "Okay." "Okay" "Crazy bastards out there!" "It hurts awful, Woody" "Oh, I know." "I know." "I let you down, Cora" "I'm so sorry" "Don't let me die here" "Oh no, you ain't gonna die" "I won't let you die." "We gotta go home" "Hang on, and go home" "Everything's gonna be okay now" "The Attorney General's go Myrl's petition" "Everything's gonna be okay" "Uh, this petition doesn't belong here" "It's under, send it to Wilkins" "Judge Wilkings in Rawlins" "Yes, sir." "Private!" "Yes, sir?" "Put that in the pouch to Rawlins" "Hey, everybody!" "Ma's comin'!" "Hey, yeah!" "Look at that, right on time!" "I swear, your mother clocks better than Union Pacific, Cage" "What happened to my wife?" "!" "Oh..." "Cora, Cora..." "Cora?" "What happened?" "I'm so sorry I wasn't there for her" "I'm so sorry." "I should never have left her" "It's all right" "I'm so sorry." "I'm so sorry" "You weren't lookin' for trouble" "I'm so sorry" "Be, be praised my Lord for those who forgive through your love and bear sickness and tribulation" "Blessed are those whoe endure in peace for they will be crowned by you, Most High" "Be praised, my Lord for our sister bodily death from whom no living thing can escape" "Blessed are those whom she finds doing your holy will for the second death cannot harm them" "Ante up!" "Nickel ante" "Mr. Ballard, five-card draw" "Then what happened, Ollie?" "Woody started it" "He said I smelled like pig slop" "I stroked him a good one" "Oh!" "It woulda pleasured me to have been there to see that" "Yes, sir" "Take my advice, you steer clear of Redding" "Sent his own woman to Cheyenne to beg for him" "Yeah, yeah" "What kinda man do a thing like that?" "Keep buying' as we been doin' and next year there'll be nothin' but pasture form here to Landers" "No way they can stop us, even the statehood" "Accordin' to you, Mr. Ballard" "Keep the land rollin' in, that's the ticket" "Calm everybody down" "That means you, Ollie" "You and Slater." "Good things are happenin' we don't need trouble" "Uh, is that a quarter to me, or to the Judge?" "Your quarter" "A quarter to you, Judge" "Another one?" "Shelby!" "Hey, bro" "How are you?" "Shelby, this is your chance" "I know you been wantin' to expand" "You wanna sell out?" "Maybe" "After all you put into it?" "Well, yeah" "I'm interested, Myrl, I'd be a fool not to but I gotta, I gotta think about it" "You come on me all of a sudden" "The whole lot" "You seen this you know what I'm talkin' about" "I know it's prime, all right" "The whole lot" "Gimme a hand" "All right, Hattie" "You're serious" "I got Rayborn workin' up the papers now" "You've been a good neighbor, Shelby" "I wanna give you first crack" "You're talkin' the whole spread?" "And what's on it" "Well, Myrl, I am gonna tell you up front" "I don't have a need for all them horses" "No, no, the horses ain't part of the deal" "I got plans for the horses" "So what we're talkin' is the price of the land" "And what's on it" "I come up with three dollars an acre" "Three dollars an acre?" "Tha's a fair price, Myrl" "You betcha, that's awful good" "As long as you understand." "Cash on sight" "Why are you doin' this, Myrl?" "I mean, you got water." "You got one of the finest tracts of land in Rawlins" "I mean, if it's all because of Ballard, hell" "I mean that land is your future" "There rae bigger things than land" "I'll haop you out" "Want a cup of coffee?" "Thanks" "Myrl" "Edsel" "Hello" "Hello, Mr. Rayborn" "Cage" "What did he say?" "Well, Attorney General sent you petition back" "I mean, he's awful sorry about Cory and everything, but he had to turn you down" "He says it's a local matter and it's up to Judge Wilkins to decide" "That's the law, see, and he's gotta obey it" "Just like you" "What are you tellin' me?" "Well, uh, Wil" "Wilkins already ruled, so... that's it" "I put in a lot of time on this, Myrl" "Have you?" "Yeah" "How much do I owe you?" "Twenty-five" "Plus what you already owe" "Hi, boys" "That's all I got, I'll give you that rest later" "I won't be needin' you any more" "I'm awful sorry about what happened to Cora" "That's an awful thing to happen" "Just awful." "Whole town's upset about it" "If there's anything I can do, just..." "I wrote somethin' I want you to read" "Tell me what you think" "I, Myrl Redding, by authority in... born in me as a free man..." "A free man living in a free territory ...demand that Henry Ballard within seven days of receiving this not bring to my stables the horses he took from me, groom and fatten them with your own hands to the condition I left them!" "And to injuries caused to Billy Redwood who did nothing to you, pay him fifty dollars!" "It is signed Myrl Redding owner of the horses!" "Let the law take care of it, Myrl" "There's no way Ballard's gonna do what you tell him to do just because you say so" "Yes he will." "And if he don't" "I got plans to convince him" "Anyone want to hear the particulars come to spread at sundown and I'll spell it out for you" "I hold no man responsible for the death of my wife but me." "I let her go" "And I gotta live with that the rest of my wife" "Judge Wilkins!" "In a town where there's no law, a man is obliged to make his own" "Isn't that the way it works around here?" "Wouldn't you say, Judge Wilkins?" "Seven days" "Henry Ballard!" "Come talk to me!" "I'm delivering a notice of law on you!" "You got sever days to read it, and answer it" "Seven days, and I'm comin' for ya" "I shoulda killed him" "Now, Shelby'll deposit the rest of the money in your name in the bank in Casper" "If I need any, I'll come to you" "But remember, it's your money" "Why can't I just go with you?" "Well, I need you to stay here with Mr. And Mrs. Dykes do I don't worry" "All I want is to go with you, Dad" "It's yourjob now to hold down the fort 'till I get back." "I mean somebody's gotta take care of the spread" "Now that's a big responsibility, do you understand?" "Sure" "Cage, do you understand?" "Well, but, but all I want is to help you" "I know." "I know" "Hell, we all know it!" "Ballard's gone too far" "Yes, he has" "Puttin' up a toll gate" "Decidin' who's to pay, and who ain't" "If he can get away with what he done to Myrl then he can do whatever the hell he wants" "It's time we all woke up!" "I know you're all real busy so I'll get right to the point" "I'm inviting' you to ride with me against Henry Ballard" "No." "Wh-, what Ballard did to Billy and your horses sure was bad." "Now I'd like to help, but this ain't my quarrel" "You're right, Dewey, it ain't your quarrel" "But there'll come a time and this toll gate is just a start of things when Ballard decides to box you in some more, maybe take some of your land or cut you off from water like he did Cary Sartman" "Then you'll come and say" "Looky here, Myrl, look what Ballard's doin'" "I need you support." "And I could say to you" "Dewey, it ain't my quarrel" "I run a horse farm." "I live over there" "Two hour ride" "But until statehood comes along all we got is Ballard's law!" "That's right!" "And there's no future in it!" "And I did not come fifteen hundred miles to tolerate that!" "I ain't lookin' for a shootout!" "Well, neither is Myrl!" "That's right!" "Overpower him with numbers that's the idea scare him into doin' right" "Folks like you and me comin' after him" "No bloodshed" "What if he runs?" "Let him." "We'll follow till we find him" "Damn right" "How long will it take, Myrl?" "Maybe a day, maybe two, maybe longer" "I don't care, I'll provide the horses and grub as long as it takes!" "It takes money, Myrl" "My spread's for sale" "Shelby and I worked out a deal" "Every man Jack of ya gets fifteen dollars a month for as long as it takes to bring that man in alive and workin' in these stables!" "Myrl means business!" "I'm for it!" "I'm sick of Ballard beating' us!" "I know men who'd ride against him" "Bring them along." "Now if you don't wanna go, it's okay with me" "I'm goin' after Ballard anyway" "And if you don't wanna go on principle then go for money, cause I pay cash on the barrel head!" "Fifteen dollars!" "He ain't comin'!" "Who's he gonna come with?" "Well, he's got Woody, and an Injun" "He shows, he goes home in a pine box" "Hey!" "Hold up there!" "Mr. Ballard!" "It's Redding and he's got a whole army with him!" "He's got a hundred men with him" "Mr. Ballard, get outta here!" "Go!" "Get 'em up in the bunkhouse tell them to et their guns on!" "Hurry up!" "Go on!" "Get the hell outta my way!" "Git!" "Git!" "Hey, get back here!" "Get back here!" "Get back here you sons of bitches, where you goin'?" "Come on son!" "Gome on, son!" "Come on now!" "Get up there, that'll do" "Anything?" "Nothin' Myrl" "Slater and Ollie?" "They high-tailed it" "Any man who treats an animal that way he don't deserve a stable, wouldn't you say, Billy?" "Get the other animals out... and burn it" "Ballard!" "Henry Ballard, you in there?" "Come out!" "Get off my property, Redding" "Check inside" "We ain't been introduced, how come you know my name?" "I don't want no trouble" "You been hidin' a fugitive that's a crime, accordin' to my law" "Where is he?" "Gone" "Where did he go?" "I got nothin' to do with your grudge against Henry" "Where and when did he go?" "Come on" "While you're thinkin' about it" "Billy, light me some fire" "I'll ask you one more time" "Where and when did he go?" "You get the hell off my property, Redding" "To back where you come from" "You're ridin' with Crow!" "If I knew where he was, I'd hide him..." "TOSPITE YA!" "Would you?" "Burn him" "lm lookin' for a man named Henry Ballard, do you know him?" "Is there a printer around, I got a job for him" "I pay cash" "Pardon me, ma'am." "Miss." "You a printer?" "Yes, sir." "I do print" "This is what I need printed two hundred copies." "How much?" "Ten dollars" "I'll give you fifteen." "I need it right away" "I'll see what I can do" "Big, as big as you can make it" "Yes, sir." "Yes, that's what I do." "Big." "Always" "As I said before, I'm looking for a man named Henry Ballard who cheated me outta my horses injured 'em bad and beat up my man" "If you hide him or help him in any way" "I'll burn you out!" "I, Myrl Redding, by authority in... born in me as a free man A free man living in a free territory demand that Henry Ballard within seven days of receiving this not bring to my stables the horses he took from me," "groom and fatten them with your own hands to the condition I left them!" "And to injuries caused to Billy Redwood who did nothing to you, pay him fifty dollars!" "It is signed Myrl Redding owner of the horses!" "Hey!" "I need a room!" "All right, men, let's mount up!" "Ya better leave some men at Redding's place, Sheriff" "Ballard ain't goin' there he went to his brother-in-law's house!" "If Redding finds Henry, he's sure as hell coming back" "Maybe, but I ain't splitting' my men" "I need all I got if you expect me to get Redding" "Let's go, men" "Terrible situation, Judge" "I tried to control as best I could just no turnin' him." "You know" "He tried to pay me for my work" "I wouldn't take his money" "Y'know, there's a funny smell around here" "Governor, I think you should look at this" "Henry Ballard" "M hm Where is he?" "Well, he was at the Wainwright Hotel" "He keeps moving" "Myrl Redding?" "He's outside of town somewhere" "Clear him out" "I can't." "I've got a hundred men on escort duty" "So go with what you've got" "And what I've got is ten men, sir" "Redding's got forty, fifty guns, and Crow" "Every out of work drifter in Cheyenne is signing on with him so I need at least a company" "Great." "Just what we need" "With the statehood delegation comin' in from Washington" "What's the Attorney General doing in all this?" "Mr. Metcalf sent Redding's petition back to Judge Wilkins" "And?" "Well, uh, Wilkins kinda works for Ballard is what it comes down to, sir" "Got shares in his association" "I hear this is what caused the trouble" "Ballard don't sing our song on statehood" "I don't care where he stands" "He's entitled to protection until the matter's cleared up" "Tell Metcalf I wanna see him on Redding's petition" "Yes sir." "It's a mess" "When do your troops get back?" "Two, three days" "Find Ballard" "Tell him we ain't guarantee his safety" "Tell him he's on his own" "Tell him for his own good, he ought to leave Cheyenne" "Is there anything you can do to calm things down?" "'Bout the only way to calm Redding down is to shoot him down" "Follow the Sheriff, let me know where he camps" "Wake up, Sheriff!" "Strip him!" "Now quit, Myrl!" "You've gone too far!" "Far enough's when I get satisfaction, Sheriff" "No animal's worth what you're doin'" "In your opinion" "Well, you're goin' to jail... for torchin'" "Ballard's spread" "As long as he's in there with me" "You'll get this back as soon as I find him" "You remember me, coward?" "!" "Remember me?" "Yeah, yeah" "Damn!" "You stinking' savage!" "You all seen what happened" "Slater drew first, and he was gonna shoot Billy in the back" "Y'all seen it, right Sheriff?" "Slater moved... but Billy had the upper hand" "Slater drew first!" "Right?" "Slater moved first" "You all heard the Sheriff don't forget what he said" "Dammit!" "Ollie, Ollie, listen to me" "You gotta get to Judge Wilkins" "Tell him that Redding shot Slater and he burned down Ballard's barn" "Tell him to file charges Go on, go on, get goin'" "I know, when the statehood delegation arrived" "We will all show them the hospitality and friendliness that" "Wyoming people are known for" "Yeah!" "Here, here!" "We are not separate ranchers farmers and settlers of the Wyoming Territory but united today as citizens of the" "FUTURE GREAT STATE OF WYOMING!" "Yeah!" "Where's Ballard?" "Apparently he's still holed up in the hotel, sir" "Refuses to leave town" "Do I have that correct, Colonel?" "Yes, I posted two soldiers with him" "That's the best I could do" "It's just a matter of time before Redding finds him" "This has gone too far." "Jail him" "Who?" "Thanks for you support" "Jail who, Governor?" "Ballard..." "On what charges?" "Any charge you want" "Any charge he'll agree to:" "Disturbin' the peace, see if he'll buy it" "He wants protection?" "Jail is the safest place for him" "Thank you" "Colonel, find Redding and tell him" "If he quits goin' after Ballard the Attorney General will reopen his case" "I don't know, Governor, people are upset" "The delegation arrives in two days" "I want the streets clear" "Yes, sir" "Amnesty for what Redding's done is he quits goin' after Ballard, put it on paper" "Colonel, find him and give it to him" "This is nonsense!" "The Statehood of Wyoming will not be held up by a piss fight over two horses and a Crow Indian!" "Understand me?" "I want this settled now!" "You understand?" "Governor?" "Let's get a picture" "You know the ladies!" "Yes, I do" "All right, smile everybody!" "Oh, great!" "Thank you for comin', everyone" "Let's go eat!" "Billy!" "Billy!" "Come with me!" "Woody, go on around, we'll catch up later" "Git!" "Hold your fire!" "Hold your fire!" "Hold your fire!" "Don't shoot!" "Hold your fire!" "Hold your fire!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Daisey!" "Daisey!" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry" "It's getting' so I don't recognize none of these guys any more" "Yeah." "Hey" "I didn't think it out." "I shoulda known they'd draw fire comin' in outta nowhere" "It was wrong to kill Slater for what he did to us" "And I still can't believe Cora's dead, Billy" "...I keep hopin' a miracle'll happen and she'll come back to life" "God forgive me for lettin' her go" "I'm comin' after you anyway, old man" "I'm comin'" "What day do you suppose it is?" "I don't know" "Riders comin'!" "The Governor wants to make a deal" "I'm listenin'" "You lay down you arms, come in peaceably he'll reopen your case against Ballard" "You do this and we'll drop all charges against you" "Where's Ballard?" "He's goin' to jail for disturbing' the peace" "Maybe your boss don't read too good" "I don't want him in jail" "I want him workin' in my stables" "Well, that's soemthing' I can't negotiate" "Governor promises a hearing' right away" "And if I say no?" "Well, then I go after you." "With the Army and you lose" "Billy's part of this." "I gotta talk it over with him" "They say they'll drop the charges if we come in" "I don't trust them." "That's what they say" "Rivers are not to be trusted" "Neither are white man's armies" "It's a trick" "Maybe" "You decide for you" "And I'll decide for me" "Take care, my brother we'll see each other again" "Just not on this road" "Good bye, little brother" "Good bye, Billy." "Good bye" "Hold it, hold it, hold it!" "Stop the work!" "Take it outside, boys, I got a hearing' to run" "Hear ye, hear ye, the court of the Territory of Wyoming is now in session" "The Honorable Joe B. Tolliver presiding' Judge, it is a real honor..." "Mr. Ballard, this is a legal hearing and you will get your chance to be heard when you are addressed." "Be seated" "Redding and Ballard, remain standing" "Everybody, take your seats!" "Raise your right hands" "Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth'n nothing but the truth so help you, God" "Yes, sir" "Please be seated" "Are all the parties in this dispute here?" "All but Billy Redwood" "Where is Billy Redwood?" "He left Cheyenne, your Honor he refused the offer of amnesty" "Murderin' bastard" "Keep your mouth shut or I will have you jailed for contempt" "We'll get to the bottom of this in two hours or less of my time" "Now, Mr. Redding, this is your petition" "Do you wish to change any of it?" "Is that the one for my wife?" "Yes" "No" "Will you accept cash for the horses?" "No." "I accept what the words say" "Since Billy Redwood has refused amnesty you may drop him from this petition" "The suit stands the way it's written, Judge" "So be it." "Mr. Ballard, let's start with you" "What's your side of this mess?" "Well, Your Honor, this, uh, troublemaker," "Reddin' come on my land on his way to Casper to sell some horses." "And I made a neighborly offer that he could pass pay me ten dollars" "Well he had a near fit, said he didn't have no ten dollars" "Now, still tryin' to be helpful, I told him" "Sir!" "I can understand you from over there" "Uh, that if he'd just leave two of his animals when he came back, he could pay me pick 'em up, it'd be all right" "Uh, and he left me, uh two swayback old bone, you know and when he did come to get 'em he said, thses are not my horses." "I said, Of course they are." "He cursed me and left" "Now that's all there was to it" "You can ask Ollie, cause he was right there and poor old Slater..." "Slater ain't part of this hearing', Ballard" "Now, even before we hear Redding's side of the story," "I got to tell you," "I don't believe the part about the two swayback old bones" "Oh, but that's what they was" "Ain't no dealer I know would travel a hundred miles to sell a five-dollar nag" "I know horse flesh..." "So do I" "Now..." "You put up a toll gate on your property?" "It's my land" "Did Redding know it'd cost him ten dollars for the crossing?" "Whether he did or not's nothin' to me" "You charge everybody the same ten dollars to come and go?" "You bet" "You're under oath, Mr. Ballard" "Some do, and some don't, is that it?" "Well I am a cattle rancher, I have..." "Judge Wilkins over in Rawlins just filed two counts of murder and one count of insurrection against Myrl Redding!" "What?" "!" "Anything you want on your property, including a damn toll gate..." "Excuse me, gentlemen... would you take it outside of my courtroom please?" "Sorry, Judge" "Apologies" "Thank you" "Although, puttin' up a toll gate to my mind is a hostile act" "And if it happened to me in my travels you would feel the lash of my tongue" "He says the Governor didn't have the power to grant amnesty for murder" "Murder, what murder?" "A rancher's wife named Daisy Mathes one of Ballard's men, Slater Morrison" "What's relevant here is the law" "I judge cases on law!" "Law is the king with me" "Cause if it wasn't, this territory even if it becomes a state wouldn't be fit for a prairie dog" "Now Redding, what's your story?" "He's lying" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Order in this courtroom!" "Please, take your seats!" "Continue" "Wilkins claims Redding shot them both and" "Burned down Ballard's barn" "He says all this happened before the amnesty agreement" "Before the amnesty!" "Godammit we didn't know anything about any shootings" "No!" "No!" "Does the Governor know about this?" "I thought I should tell you first" "We need to figure how best to take this to the Governor" "Come in peaceably and all charges will be dropped." "Who wrote this, you?" "No, sir..." "I did, sir" "You did?" "What the hell's he doing writing a legal document?" "Well, that's... the way it" "It just worked out, sir" "He doesn't know the first damn thing about law!" "Much less amnesty" "Francis, I've been attending the statehood delegation..." "You are the Attorney General!" "And you allowed this this... him to write an amnesty agreement" "Sir, there was no one else, if I did not do it" "It was not gonna get done, so..." "Do you realize the position you've put me in, Hoyt?" "I am on public record forgiving murder" "We were unaware of that at the time, sir" "When did these murders happen?" "As near as we can figure, sir a couple of days... before Redding's amnesty" "So, we covered him" "Is that what you're saying?" "Well, that's a legal question" "If a legal mind had prepared the amnesty we wouldn't be in a legal mess" "You're right, sir" "This sir all your fault, Hoyt." "Judge Tolliver" "Well, he's in court right now" "I would not advise bothering Judge Tolliver right now, sir" "GET HIM ANYWAY!" "NOW!" "Yes, sir" "And them horses were promised to me" "And I went to Casper to pick them up" "But was told that Myrl didn't bring 'em" "That surprised me" "Myrl, he don't do business that way" "Myrl gives you his word, and that's it" "What, in yourjudgment was the value of these horses?" "Well, they was matched stallions, Your Honor" "I was willin' to pay two hundred dollars each for 'em before?" "Yeah." "When they was yearlings" "You're dismissed" "Thank you, Your Honor" "Anyone else have an opinion in this matter?" "Anyone?" "All right, Mr. Redding you will have guard with you at all times until this case is over" "I don't need a guard, Your Honor" "There's angry people all over Cheyenne about this business you can either have a guard or you can share a cell with Mr. Ballard it's up to you" "I'll take the guard" "Hearing is adjourned" "That's everything, Mr. Baron, you're all set" "You know, all this is over two horses!" "Two horses, and I think... three men, four people dead" "Now, now, this is madness, excuse me" "And this man Redding was threatening to burn down the Wainwright Hotel" "This place is not ready to be a state" "I can tell you that right now" "Well, we can talk all night long but the people want something done" "Something will be done, Conrad but it's gotta be according to the law" "The question is can Redding's amnesty be revoked?" "You signed an executive agreement forgiving a man for something he had already done" "And you put a date on it" "I gave my word, I'll honor it" "But, if Redding violates the terms of his amnesty, you can revoke it and try him for murder" "But you've got to do it legal" "If he doesn't violate his amnesty you got a problem." "You gotta prove in court what you knew, when it was granted" "In the meantime, gentlemen, if you will excuse me, I gotta go pee" "Mm, I think it's time for me to retire, Frances" "Thank you" "Good evening Hoyt, Colonel" "Small thing, Governor, if you don't mind" "Good night, gentlemen" "Good night" "Ballard wants to see you" "No, not with the trial coming up" "Well, if he feels wronged, sir he does own a lot of land" "Just a, a word, sir" "He, he ain't gonna plead his case, just a word, sir, a moment, no more, Governor" "Show him in" "Yes, sir" "Mr. Ballard" "I think the Governor will see you now" "Sir, this is, uh, Henry Ballard" "Mr. Ballard" "What the hell is goin' on here?" "!" "You got a murderer runnin' loose in Cheyenne, free as a jay-bird" "I ain't done nothin' and I'm locked away in jail" "Now I'm one of the biggest cattlemen in this territory." "I ain't getting' no respect" "I ain't getting' no protection" "Now, you're talkin' about statehood for this tin-horn shanty ain't worth a shit city the hell with that!" "Where's my protection?" "Where is the Army?" "We don't have an army" "What?" "The army we have is on escort duty protecting the folks from Washington coming here to take this tin-horn shanty ain't worth a shit city and turn it into the capital of the State of Wyoming" "Under the circumstances you can hightail it outta town and take your chances on the road which would suit me fine" "Or you can cool your ass in jail until things blow over" "Either way..." "GIT!" "Yeah" "Conrad!" "Well that wraps up a good productive day" "Hell, you can't just go into somebody's house and burn down their barn!" "You can't just ride up and see somebody's wife and" "Where's the army, that's what I wanna know where's the army?" "He just goin' around..." "He need to be stopped" "Billy wants to know how the trail's goin'" "Judge ain't decided yet." "How is it for you?" "It's bad for us." "If we get caught they'll hang us." "Billy wants to know if you will join us" "I'm keepin' after Ballard" "I better spell it out for him" "Sit down" "Take this to him" "Good luck, friend" "Judge, how does this affect the amnesty?" "I don't know how it will go with me but if I lose ...God willing" "I have the strength to continue my fight" "And with your help and friendship, I will." "If Redding wrote this it means he intends to break his part of the agreement and continue his fight with Ballard." "You can revoke the amnesty" "I say we arrest him and announce it to the crowd" "That'll be the end of it" "There's a trial comin' up" "Mr. Metcalf, in which you as chief legal officer of this territory will have to consider all of the facts including murder and armed insurrection and not just part of it" "That will be the end of it" "Sir." "Somebody owes you an apology" "I never quit, old man, remember that" "You'll find out, boy" "Order!" "Order!" "Let's get on with this" "The Injun moved first" "I seen it with my two eyes" "Billy stalked Slater with a knife while Slater was on the ground" "Redding watching all the time he didn't say a word" "Didn't say Hold on, Billy Redwood!" "Wh" " Wh-, what are you gonna do what are you up to?" "See, Redding knew that it was Slater who beat up the Indian" "It was Slater who got in the fight with Woody on the day that Redding's wife was killed" "So when Slater moved to defend himself..." "Myrl shot him dead" "It was premeditated murder" "They come ridin' up, of a sudden." "The Injun out front, and..." "Well winged the Crow pretty good and then, then for no reason" "Redding started firing" "And then Daisey... she, uh, God have mercy on her, she, uh..." "She heard the shootin' and then she came runnin' out to protect me" "And, and then, and that man, that man shot her" "I didn't know nothin' about a quarrel" "All I know is" "Daisey and me had nothin' to do with it" "And now she's gone" "I'm sorry for your wife." "But you're a liar" "Mr. Redding, I have here in my hand a letter" "Which may seem familiar to you" "Did you write this letter to Billy Redwood?" "Yes, I did" "Would you do me the favor, sir, please, of reading it aloud to the jury" "If you like" "Dear Billy, I'm sorry I got you into this doesn't look good for you" "The Judge says you have no claim because you didn't show up" "I don't know how it will go, but if I lose" "God willing" "I have the strength to continue the fight and with your help and friendship, I will." "With your help and friendship, I will." "Will what?" "Continue to burn people's barns and property continue to murder innocent people?" "Is that what you're saying?" "No." "That's not what I mean" "I said I will continue the fight against Ballard and I will." "But I didn't say how" "And I never said I done everything right" "And I take responsibility for that" "But Grady's lyin' when he says I killed his wife" "And the Sheriff is lying about how I killed Slater" "I didn't go lookin' to kill anybody" "It's justice I'm lookin' for and it's justice I'll get" "I'll track it as long as I'm breathin'" "And even if it cost me my life" "Hear ye, hear ye!" "The Court of the Territory of Wyoming is now in session" "The Honorable Joe B. Tolliver presidin'" "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury" "Have you reached a verdict?" "We have, Your Honor" "Thank you, Miss Haydn" "Myrl Redding, please rise" "Mr. Foreman" "On the charge of killing Slater Morrison we find the defendant" "Myrl Redding not guilty" "On the charge of two counts of armed insurrection and the killing of Daisey Mathes we find the defendant, Myrl Redding guilty as charged" "Order!" "Thank you, Mr. Foreman" "Myrl Redding, Henry Ballard please approach the bench" "Hoo hoo!" "We got him" "I told you we'd get him" "How you like this justice, boy?" "Wipe that smile off your face" "Mr. Ballard, this is serious business!" "You first Mr. Ballard" "The petition of grievance against you by Mr. Redding has been upheld" "You are to, with your own hands restore the health, in good condition of the two horses left in your care by Myrl Redding" "Further, in your testimony to this court you lied when you described the condition of the horses as swayback old bones..." "Nothing could be further from the truth as testified by those who knew the value of the horse" "Lying under oath is a serious offense!" "I therefore sentence you to two years in jail for perjury, three months of which will be spent working in Myrl Redding's stables" "Get your hands off me!" "Order!" "Myrl Redding." "You have been found guilty of armed insurrection and murder" "Do you have anything to say before this court passes judgment upon you?" "I took the law into my own hands" "I did it because there was none in Rawlins" "I wrote my own law, but I didn't create it" "I used what was there all along." "In my mind" "That law was there before we were born" "I am sorry for Daisey Mathes" "When we rode off" "I never knew she had been shot" "For my pardon" "I beg her husband's forgiveness" "I'm a horse trader, Your Honor" "All I was doin' was takin' my horses to market" "That's it" "You wanted justice, you got justice comin' to you" "Ready" "The horses misused by Henry Ballard will be restored to their former condition and to your satisfaction" "Following that..." "Aim!" "It is the sentence of this court that you be taken to a place of execution and hanged by the neck until you are dead" "Fire!" "And may God have mercy on your soul" "Court is adjourned" "Die, you son of a bitch, die!" "Can I just take, a moment with my son?" "Yeah" "Hey, come on, now" "Hey, you're the man of the house, come on" "Your mother and I will always be with you you're just gonna have to make it on your own for awhile" "Why are they doin' this to ya, Pa?" "Two people died, me chasin' Ballard somebody's gotta pay" "But why, you didn't kill nobody?" "I killed Slater alright" "But I didn't kill Daisey, it's important to me that you know I didn't" "Her husband must've shot her by mistake" "But I casused it" "Did ya see the horses?" "How do they look?" "Great Promise me somethin', son?" "Sure, Pa" "Don't ever sell 'em" "I'll never sell 'em." "Never" "They're the best two you and Billy ever raised" "Shelby" "A lot of pride in those stallions" "They come from a great line you can build on them" "So how much money you got in the bank?" "Maybe two hundred dollars" "Well you got the rest of the money Shelby owes" "He's a good man, you can trust him" "He'll take good care of you" "Sh-, Shelby says that there's we could bust out." "There's a lot of folks in town and they're talkin' about..." "Cage, no." "It's time to put an end to it" "There, there's still time we could do it together" "Cage, they'd find me sooner or later" "I don't want any more killin' in my name" "Do you understand?" "Now listen to me..." "Somebody steps on your rights you go after them" "Never give up, ever!" "Just be smarter than I was" "All right?" "Come on, let's go look at the horses" "Mr. Redding, here's your horses" "Well, sir?" "These are my horses" "Beautiful animals, wouldn't you say, Judge?" "You want 'em?" "You got 'em!" "Hey, you'll burn in hell!" "You son of a bitch!" "You got nothin' from me!" "You did what I said you'd do" "YOU GOT NOTHIN!" "NOTHIN'!" "NOTHIN'!" "THAT'S ALL YOU GOT!" "NOTHIN'!" "I DID WHAT HE SAID ANYWAY..." "Want a cigar?" "I worry... about you and me, Judge Wilkins" "Swear to God, I do" "Cause if this country gets ruined it'll be ruined by people like you and me" "It's a territory of unimportant people" "Most folks around here can't even write their name" "You and me, we're the important people" "Trouble is, there not enough of us important people to go around, we're spread thin" "So sometimes important things get ignored or don't get said" "Like Take care of the little fellar see to it that he don't get ignored or cheated or insulted" "Make sure that his dignity does not get trampled on." "Now you're feelin' bad right now and by God, you ought to, seein' as what just happened to a decent man" "Myrl Redding did not fail the law the law failed Myrl" "Just so you'll know who's behind it this is a copy of a letter that" "I wrote to the Governor asking that a committee be called to evaluate your fitness as a sitting Judge" "It is my earnest hope and desire that that committee finds you wanting and that articles of impeachment be drawn to remove you from the bench" "I'm doin' this out in the open" "Everything's on the table, up and up" "So you'll know who this sonbitch is that is gunning' for your ass." "It's me the Honorable Joe B. Tolliver" "Oh, we're closed, Judge" "Out of respect for the condemned man" "But for you, Judge" "I'm willing to make an exception" "Ten bucks a shot, if you got a permit" "Gotta have a permit, Judge" "Good-bye, Cage" "Be strong, as I know you are." "I love you" "I love you, Pa" "It's okay, it's okay" "No!" "Take care of my son." "I know you will" "Don't wanna quit" "I'm sorry for the pain I caused but so help me, God" "I could not have done otherwise" "In my heart I am just" "Let's do it" "You created the moon to count months the sun knows when it must set" "The truth is subtle, His law complete" "His justice, absolute" "Let my words be rooted in honesty and my thoughts be lost in your light" "Unnamable God" "My essence, my origin, my life blood" "My home" "Cover this!"