Hey, Steve! You got a new girl?
What's the matter? Is it a secret or something?
He's all dressed up. Yeah.
Has he taken a bath? Never.
Boys.
MAN: All right, come on! Get out of there!
Hurry up! Come on, get out of there!
Come on down. Now hit the road.
STEVE: What road?
That's for you to worry about.
A man could starve out there
before he could find a house or anything.
That's something else for you to worry about.
Come on, let's go. Get movin'.
Don't do that.
Why not? Come on!
Uhh!
Get out of there, pard.
Come on.
There you go.
Whoa! Wrong man, kid!
Thanks.
What for?
I was under the wheels.
You asked for that, kid.
You don't turn your back on a man
after you hit him, unless you're sure he's gonna stay down.
Nice saddle you got there.
Mm-hmm.
Single rig, ain't it?
Me, I ride a Brazos double rig.
Better for roping.
That's what I do mostly--roping.
Huh.
That's why I ride a Brazos double rig.
This is a Brazos double rig.
You sayin' I'm a liar?
No, you're sayin' that yourself, kid, not me.
Maybe I was talkin' big.
I never did any roping. I never had the chance.
I always wanted to work cattle.
I always wanted to.
But my folks wouldn't let me go west.
So you took off on your own, huh?
Yep.
You work cattle?
Some.
Why ain't you on a horse?
You ever try to ride a horse
from Kansas City, Missouri, to Wyoming?
No.
Oh...
Oh, it sure is a good old town, Kansas City.
Good eats and good liquor.
Lots of good-lookin' women.
You ever been in Kansas City?
I was born there.
With all them good
What'd you want to leave for?
Why'd you leave?
I run out of money.
You still got your saddle.
You don't sell your saddle, kid.
Using another man's saddle, that's like--
like wearin' his boots or something.
You never sell your saddle.
Come on up out of there!
Come down and get me!
BRAKEMAN: Maybe you think I won't!
Don't use that knife.
Put that knife away.
Get some sleep, kid.
My name's Steve. You don't have to call me "kid".
All right. Get some sleep, Steve.
Hey.
Hey. Come on.
Thanks for the loan of your coat.
What coat?
That one-- the one you got on.
I woke up last night.
Boy, you sure must've been dreamin'.
Go on. It's time to go.
Hit the dirt and land runnin'.
Do what?
Just do like I do.
Like that?!
Stay where you are.
I didn't do anything.
Anybody say you did?
Stay there.
Ease that hammer down. We ain't packin' guns.
MAN: Bring 'em over here!
That's all of 'em?
Yeah, looks like.
All right, boys. Which one of you did it?
Did what?
Where'd you get that?
In a fight. With who?
The brakeman.
He tried to throw me off way back there.
SHERIFF: And you killed him.
I get the reward on account of I turned him up.
Aren't you the lucky one.
Well, I never hung one this young before.
Hoped I'd never have to.
Come on, son. I didn't do it!
Then who did?
I don't know.
Well, I know.
Did they wire ahead and tell you a man got killed?
Didn't they tell you he got cut?
That's right.
This kid ain't even got a knife on him.
So he threw it away.
What would he want to do that for?
Besides, he was with me all the time.
Go on, kid, tell 'em who done it.
Go on, will you?
There's your knife man right there.
And I'll lay odds he's still got it on him.
'Cause I seen you do it,
and he seen it, too.
Hold it!
Take him down to the jail!
Notify the railroad company
we're claiming that $100 reward.
The rest of you boys better get jobs
or get out of town.
Without my $100 reward?
Cut that down to 50 and you got a deal.
The rest goes to my deputies.
Yes, sir.
Uh...
it takes a day or so to collect that money.
I wouldn't wait for that 50.
No?
I'd ride right out of town if I was you.
Not if you was me, 'cause I ain't.
Well, I guess I gotta thank you again.
How come you wouldn't point out that knife man, huh?
I don't know.
You got a lot of un-learning to do.
So, where you goin'?
Toward the sign that says "Medicine Bow".
Or maybe just to get a little of that...
un-learning you were talkin' about.
Spinner, we can't wait for your new owner
to have the spirit move him.
We've got to have his word to go along with it now.
I wired him all the details,
and he said he'd be here as soon as he could.
He should've been here by now-- you know that.
I asked him to come right away, Judge Garth.
Now, another thing--
there's a rumor that you're movin' in more cattle.
Gentleman, I'm only the foreman of this outfit.
You agreed, along with the rest of us in this valley...
Cattlemen's convention?
You might call it that.
Well, I want a room, and I want to take a bath.
$2. In advance.
Oh. Well...
I'll have it for you. Just wait a minute.
JUDGE: So much grass only feeds so many cattle.
That's a fact of our lives.
You've got to go outright, man, same as we do.
Uh, excuse me, gentlemen.
Seeing as how you all need a little cheering up,
I'd just like to make the announcement
that I'm puttin' myself up for hire right now
to the highest bidder.
MAN: How about that?
Don't tell me that a bunch of cowmen like you
don't know a top hand when you're lookin' right at him.
Now, you ought to, 'cause I know you, friend, don't I?
Yeah, you know me.
You betcha. Down the Pecos.
People used to say you was the best foreman
in seven states.
Them same people said you used to be the most trouble.
No.
"Johnny Wade-- born to trouble," they used to say.
Come on, Texas, I'll buy you a drink.
Spinner. Yes, sir?
We're counting on your help.
All right, sir.
Say, I could use a little advance
on my first month's wages.
I don't recollect offering you a job.
But I will give you a small loan.
How much you need?
Hmm, half of it.
Heh.
Thank you. I'll be back.
You look after that saddle.
Look at him-- standin' there,
gawking at us city slickers.
Look, will you go and get yourself some decent clothes?
And while you're at it, get a bath.
You're startin' to stink like a goat.
**
Hey!
Bah-rump-bah!
No! Whoa!
Wait a minute.
Am I seeing straight?
Or is that the Roping Kid?
Yes! It's him! Look out! Hallelujah!
He's dangerous! Go for your shootin' irons, folks!
He's a rootin'-tootin' sidewinder
that eats grizzly bears for breakfast!
Head for the hills now while I hold him off.
Blam!
Blam, blam. Blam.
Boom!
Well, he looks like he's tamed down enough
so he's fit to drink with.
Good thing, too, 'cause I'm about out of cartridges.
Oh, come on. Have a drink with me.
Oh, come on, now! Quit that. Come on.
Now, this is, uh--
Who you are?
Spinner, he's, uh--
Come to think of it, we never did get to know one another.
I'm Johnny Wade, and I come from the Pecos.
And this is Spinner. And, uh...
Here, Roping Kid. Have a drink.
WADE: What?! No!
None of that now.
Sarsaparilla for the Roping Kid.
I drink whiskey.
Not with me, you don't.
There you go.
Now, you drink that. Keep away from whiskey,
and you'll never have no regrets in the morning.
And them is words of wisdom.
Thought I told you to get out of town.
Well, I didn't.
Don't you back-talk me, boy!
Ah.
Nah.
If you're so anxious to use that thing,
I'm just gonna give you a chance at it.
Thanks, Spinner.
Any time you're ready, sport.
SHERIFF: All right, relax-- both of you.
You tryin' to kill my deputy?
That man of yours is real eager with a gun, Sheriff...
when he faces a boy without one.
He's not so anxious
when he faces a man that's got one.
You always were a little gun-happy.
Go back to the office. I want to talk to you.
As for you... here's your $50.
Seeing as you haven't got a job, you'd better get out of town.
He's got a job.
At the Walking Butte?
Yep.
Yes, he's kind of partial to Texans.
I'd rather have them with me than against me.
And that's a fact.
How about you, son?
You got yourself a job?
Do I?
I'm from Texas, too.
What part of Texas are you from?
Um...down on the Texas River.
Yeah, you remember the Texas River, Spinner.
Used to spend a lot of time down there.
Matter of fact, the kid here's my partner.
So, if I'm gonna work for you,
I guess you gotta hire him, too.
All right. You can't fight that combination.
Wade, you buyin' the drinks?
Why, yes, sir! Everybody at the bar!
Come on, now!
I'm a Texas timber wolf, and this is my night to howl!
It's my night to howl.
Here. Wade says you can't have that.
Sarsaparilla.
I think you'll find most of these cattle
back over the hill here.
Tomorrow I'd like to have you push 'em
back down towards Indian Lake.
Don't want 'em eatin' all of Judge Garth's grass.
What do you mean, Judge Garth's grass?
It's open range, isn't it?
Yeah. But we're tryin' to keep it friendly.
WADE: That'll be Judge Garth's place down there.
Hope he's got a well full of cold water.
I can sure use a cupful right about now.
Me, too. Let's go.
Morning.
We was just driftin' a few down by the lake,
and we don't mean to horn in on you.
Glad you stopped by. Step down.
Thank you.
My daughter. Betsy, say hello.
Hello.
Real pleased to meet you, Betsy.
Johnny Wade.
Oh, this here's the Roping Kid.
Steve. My name's Steve.
Um, I'll fix some lemonade.
Well, you may as well join the rest of the company.
We'll make a lemonade social of it.
You can tie up over there.
With pleasure.
I think she likes you.
Who, her?
Who do you suppose, huh?
She got real embarrassed
when you saw her with a dirty face.
She's just a kid.
Tell me something.
What if they'd stretched a rope around your neck?
Would you have told who killed that man on the train?
I don't know. Maybe.
Jeez.
Now, you tell me something.
What's a Texas man like you doing this far north?
They run out of grass down there or something?
You don't run out of grass in Texas, kid.
You got grass all the way from the Pecos to the Sabine.
Tall and sweet.
They brung in the wire.
After that, it was Arizona, Colorado,
and Nevada.
Didn't used to be that way, though.
Used to be all like this--open range.
As far as you could see, as far as you could ride a horse.
Then they brought in the wire?
Every time.
Fence you in, fence you out.
They got me fenced about as far north as I'm gonna go.
Hmm.
I'm Steve. Remember me?
Hello. Hi.
Won't you come in?
Sure.
Put that on.
What, for me?
Well, it ain't for me. Go on, put it on.
Well, I sure thank you, but...
you shouldn't have done it.
You were startin' to look naked
runnin' around without one.
Ah-ah! Quit that!
Come on, I'll show you how to use it.
Come on, now.
Leave it alone. Take your glove off.
You don't need that now.
Now, look at something. That hitching post.
Now, point-- Not with the gun yet!
Point your finger at it, just like that.
No, point at it! Right at it.
Look at it, then point right at it.
Now do it from here, down here.
Say, "There."
There.
Not there. There!
There.
Put your elbow in here. There.
There.
At the middle of it,
not up over the top of it.
there.
Never mind about how fast you're gonna do it.
Just make sure you're pointin' where you're lookin'.
All right?
There.
Now, do up...
and all in one.
But not-- Uhh! Uhh!
But--uhh.
All right? There.
Start it with your thumb up.
As you point, bring the thumb down.
Don't think about that. Just think about what you're pointin' at.
Uhh.
There.
Now do it with a little lift.
Uh-uh.
How come my other finger bends?
Up, out.
Now, the same way.
Grab the butt with these three fingers.
And the hammer with the thumb.
And as you pull it up...
cock it back.
Keep your finger off the trigger!
You'll shoot your leg off.
Just leave that one out there. Forget about that.
These three fingers, that thumb.
And all in one. Up.
When you get it out there, then--
You don't have to keep it there,
but just keep it off of there.
'Cause you can do 'em both at the same time, and boom.
Never mind with the speed.
Just do it real slow.
Leave your hand here.
Now...
Don't get your hand all clawed up.
Just...
Bring 'em around.
Right there, Right there.
Now close it?
Bring it back-- It won't go down now.
You gotta bring it back first, then lower it easy.
Lower it easy, lower it slow.
Okay.
Put it in the holster.
Go on. Shoot?
Yeah.
Let that hammer down easy.
Go on.
Take it out slower.
You'd be all right if you was gonna hit somebody in the feet.
All right.
Leave it alone.
Fancy dan.
Shoot your own toes off.
Now, slow.
No.
Just...slow. Like I showed you.
Never mind shootin' it. Just--
Get it out of there slow.
Go on.
Put your hand up. Ah--put it down.
And down.
WOMAN: Is that what you're paid to do?
What'd you say, honey?
Are you paid to teach children
how to play with guns?
Guns ain't playthings, honey.
Hmm. Now, uh...
if you were lookin' for anybody special, I'm right here.
I'm Georgia Price-- the new owner.
And you are impolite.
You're the new owner?
Spinner said, uh--
Spinner said what?
Well, um--
Well, I guess he didn't know, either.
Say, would you like to look your place over?
I could show you around and...everything.
I'll see you when I see the rest of the hired hands.
Yes, ma'am.
Ain't much of her there, is there?
No, but what's there is prime.
Why did you have to make me out such a fool
with all that fancy shooting?
Kid, nobody can make a fool out of a man except himself--
you know that.
Why didn't you tell me that new owner was a woman, huh?
I found out the hard way. Why not you?
Mm-hmm.
Hey, Spinner, how's that?
All right, I want you to listen to me.
I was born on a ranch.
There's not one thing I don't know about ranching.
I bought this one to make money.
You work hard,
you'll make your fair share, too.
Any questions?
Uh...
that means you're gonna be a workin' boss?
Right.
Now I want to talk to you.
And...you.
Anybody else?
How does it feel to be put in your place, Romeo?
I don't know.
Why, you want to try puttin' me there?
Kind of looks like your top hand
is gonna be a little late for that talk, Miss Price.
No, he isn't.
Come on in.
Thank you.
You, too.
Help yourself.
I guess we ought to drink to the new boss here,
with her 10,000 head of cattle.
20,000.
If you paid for more than ten, you got cheated.
There's a herd of 5,000
on its way from Texas right now.
In six months, there'll be 5,000 more on the way.
You can't do that.
Say that again?
I said, you can't do that.
If you increase your herd,
all the rest of the ranchers will increase theirs.
So? There's enough grass in Wyoming
for a million head of cattle.
All the grass in Wyoming
isn't in this valley. But we are.
This is a section map of this part of the state.
I want you to mark out the best grazing areas.
Well, that's not just yours.
That's all open range, isn't it?
Do you want to tell that to Judge Garth...
and the rest of the people?
Miss Price, these are nice people,
and we've got no quarrel with them.
Fine. But I know the law.
And I intend to exercise my rights.
If your nice people will leave me alone, I'll leave them alone.
But that's just it. You're not leavin' them alone,
bringin' in all these cattle.
Beg your pardon, ma'am. You got some company.
Miss Price, I'm Judge Garth.
We were just talking about you.
Please come in. Drink?
No, thank you. Don't go, gentlemen.
You know Judge Garth?
Yes, ma'am. Judge.
Miss Price, I'll be brief.
The other ranchers and I have been waiting
to hear from you.
A little impatiently, I might add.
Well, I've been busy.
I still am.
Well, then I'll come directly to the point.
I'm here as a spokesman for all the ranchers in the valley
to ask for your cooperation.
The rest of us have agreed
that the only way to save a good percentage of our cattle
from starving to death every winter
is to fence off a mutually agreed-upon area
and to limit the size of our herd
to their present numbers.
In the long run, we can cut down our winter losses
by 80% or more.
We'd like your agreement to that.
I don't agree at all, Judge Garth.
Perhaps you don't understand.
This is the only way
we can assure enough winter feed for all our stock,
including yours.
Oh, I do understand.
Perfectly.
I just don't agree with you.
It's open range.
That is the law of the land.
Well, Miss Price, I'm appealing to you
on moral grounds.
I prefer to stick to the law.
Open range.
It's stated clearly and explicitly.
And I intend to use it
whenever and wherever I need to.
I'm not particularly interested
in "the long run", as you call it.
Maybe ranching is some sort of religion to you, Judge Garth,
but to me it's business.
Like selling yardage.
Or harness equipment.
Well...
so be it.
But this winter,
a section will be opened to your cattle,
along with ours.
And the fences will go up...
with or without your cooperation.
Then you'd better put them up extra strong.
Because in a few days I'll have 5,000 more cattle here
to knock them down.
Miss Price, I hope you won't be that shortsighted.
Or that foolish.
I'm a woman, so don't bet on it.
Good day, Judge Garth.
Miss Price...
you can't keep shovin' these people around like this.
They're not gonna take it layin' down.
You try to stop them, they'll fight.
Mr. Spinner, you are foreman of this ranch,
not its conscience!
I'm not its foreman. I quit...
as of now.
Well, you just lost yourself a good man.
No man's a good man.
Unless he's on my side.
Let's have that iron.
Come on, lay it on there, kid.
Who, me? Yeah, you.
It's time you learned something.
That ain't bad. A couple of years,
you might turn into a pretty good hand.
Come on, baby. Come on, baby.
Go to Mama.
All right, want to go for a dollar?
All right.
What'll it be?
When this hits.
Ready? Go on, go on.
You keep that up, I'm gonna owe you my whole month's pay.
You keep improving,
maybe you'll get a chance to win it back.
Some of it.
Johnny, I want to talk to you.
Yes, ma'am.
Say, take care of my horse, will you?
Before winter, I intend to have 30,000 head of cattle
on the grass.
Well...
that sure is a lot of beef.
But the grass won't last
much more than two or three years at that rate.
That's all the time I need.
Oh.
Get in fast, get what you can,
and get out fast, huh?
Why not?
I've been watching you, Johnny.
I think we want the same things.
For different reasons, but that doesn't matter.
You don't like barbed wire.
As for me...
What about you?
My father had a name all picked out for me
before I was born.
George.
Oh, it must've been quite a spoiler
when he had to change it.
Well, he died a year ago.
My brothers got the ranch...
and nearly 20,000 head of cattle.
All he trusted me with was money.
Ain't that a shame.
So, you went out and bought yourself a spread
so you could show him up, huh?
I know as much about ranching as any man.
More than most.
Fine.
Now...
just where do I fit into that?
I need a foreman, Johnny.
But more than that, I need a man
who feels as I do,
who feels strongly enough about things...
not to back away when there's trouble.
Heh. And you figure that's me?
I figure that's you.
And the best part, Johnny,
is that we're in the right.
Judge Garth and his Sunday School class are wrong.
Oh, they might be illegal,
but they ain't wrong.
What does that mean?
It don't mean a thing.
But let's not kid one another, huh?
Not now.
'Cause what I want to know is, what's in this for me?
You can write your own ticket.
Well, that's fair enough.
A little better than that, I think.
Are you accepting the job?
Are you payin' the wages?
Just how much do you hate barbed wire, Johnny?
Enough so I--
I don't want to talk about it right now.
Heh. Good.
I trust a man who hates better than he loves.
You're my man, Johnny.
Hi, Steve. Hi.
Come on in.
Daddy wants to see you.
Oh, hello, Steve. Good evening.
Why don't you get us some hot chocolate, Betsy?
Oh. All right.
That'll give us a minute together anyway.
Sit down, Steve.
I like to get to know the boys
who call on my daughter.
I'd also like to talk to you about something.
All right, fine.
I wonder if you really know
what it is you're getting into.
I don't know what you mean.
From what I've seen of Miss Price
and your friend Johnny Wade...
there's going to be some serious trouble.
I don't think Johnny's looking for any trouble.
Perhaps not.
But you see he's on the wrong side.
You're on the wrong side, Steve.
It's wrong for someone to come into a new country,
take the heart out of the land for the money that's in it,
leave it dry and useless to anyone else.
It's the fencing.
It's the fencing off that brings the trouble.
A range should be left open,
so a man can-- well, breathe freely.
So he can--
So he can get on a horse
and ride as far as he wants to in a straight line.
When you fence off an open range,
it's like passing a law
that says a man can't go to the church that he wants to go to.
Well, I just want you to be sure
you know what you're doing.
There's serious trouble coming.
When it does...
you're gonna have to decide where you stand.
BETSY: Well, have I been long?
Just long enough, dear.
Johnny, we got work to do. Herd's comin' in.
Where they at?
Across the flats. 5,000 of 'em.
Stung out from here to the horizon.
Well, let's go take a look!
There they be!
WADE: Who bring them in?
Ben Tully-- from the Sabine.
You know him?
No, I don't know everybody in Texas.
Then you're the first Texan I ever heard to admit it.
( men whooping and whistling )
You get around, boss lady.
Who's in charge here?
That'd be me.
What's your name?
My name's Tully.
Ben Tully.
You the boss lady?
I'm the owner.
Things are pickin' up.
I want you to work for the Walking Butte.
You want just me,
or my men, too?
Them, too.
As soon as they finish their fun in town.
I'm payin' $20 a month more
than you'll get anywhere else in Wyoming.
Lady, you just hired yourself a bunch of men.
Make a tally.
Take the herd, drift them up north
along Indian River Flats.
When you do, look out for trouble.
Yes, ma'am.
You heard her. Go on, get goin'.
Indian River Flats.
Isn't that the area the other ranchers want to fence off?
That's right.
I'm gonna do what I'm told,
and that would be a good thing for you to do, too.
We'll both stay out of trouble maybe.
Go on.
Come on, Dowdy.
( men whooping and whistling )
Show him who's boss, Steve!
Ha ha ha!
Hyah! Hyah!
STEVE: Trapped!
Trapped!
Easy.
Ohh.
Ow!
Aah!
Does it hurt bad?
I rode right into it. I Didn't know it was there.
It's not gonna be there for long.
Leave it alone, Dowdy!
Take off your gun belt.
All right, drop it.
Now step down.
JUDGE: Steve ran into our wire.
He'll need a little doctoring.
I'm sorry about the boy,
but I told you what we were doing and where.
Find Johnny.
Do you or any of these men
own the land where Steve was hurt?
You know that we don't.
And we're not closing this range. We're protecting it.
For you, as well as for us.
That's not for you to decide!
Open range means no barbed wire!
We've discussed this before, Miss Price,
without benefit to either of us.
Open range means property held in common.
The law says nothing about barbed wire.
Then you'd better listen carefully this time,
because you've gone too far.
What you're doing is illegal.
And I am justified in taking whatever steps I need
to protect my rights.
Are you declaring war, Miss Price?
That's right, Judge Garth.
Today I hired eight men from Texas.
And I'll hire 100 more if I have to.
Well, then we'll stop you whatever way we have to.
There's too much of our lives put into this land.
How bad is it, kid?
Not bad. I just ran into some wire.
I didn't see it.
Is it Garth?
Yeah, they just brought him in.
It's begun, all right.
I'm gonna shoot me a judge.
Come on, Johnny. It wasn't-- Get off!
Johnny, wait--
GEORGIA: Johnny!
Hold on to that.
Thought I was only supposed to drink sarsaparilla.
You are. It's cleanin' whiskey.
Aaah!
All right. Quit it.
Ohh!
It'll cool off in a minute.
You could cuss a little.
Put on a clean shirt, if you got one.
Whew!
When do you think all this is gonna stop, Johnny?
Hmm?
All this trouble with the ranchers,
with Judge Garth, and us.
I don't know, kid.
I've seen this kind of thing before.
And every time they bring in the wire,
somebody gets killed.
You're the only one that was ready to kill anyone.
Me
What happened outside.
Well, I--
Forget about that.
Kid, how do you want it, then?
I don't know.
You don't know.
No.
It's like that time with that fella with the knife
on the train.
Yeah, like that, I guess.
I'm gonna pull out, Johnny.
You're gonna what?
Well, I think--
I think this is the wrong side.
So that makes anybody who stays...
wrong.
You dumb punk kid.
Who do you think put them scratches on you?
I didn't do it. They did it!
If you'd let me alone, I'd have killed them for you.
You were ready to kill me, too.
All right, then!
You want to leave? Leave.
I'll tell you something.
You walk out of here, don't come on back, you hear?
You leave, just stay gone.
If you're figurin' to join up
with Judge Garth and his bunch...
don't you ever come up in front of me again
unless you're wearin' that gun, you hear?
You hear what I said?
I didn't say I was joining anybody.
I just said I was pullin' out.
Whiskey.
Kid, looks like you're fixin' to go somewhere.
Yeah.
They tell me there's a story goin' around
that you got all kind of hung up
one some barbed wire today.
Is that true?
Hmm?
Excuse me. I gotta go.
Hold on. Wait a minute.
What's the matter, kid?
Going get a little rough for you?
Ha ha! Hey, you know what happened?
The kid got a couple of little old bitty scratches.
And you know what color showed through on his skin?
Yellow!
You take that back.
Now, just take it easy.
Maybe we won't bruise that little--
Ohh!
I thought you Texans were supposed--
supposed to be tough.
What'd you say about Texans?
We're gonna learn you better, boy.
STEVE: Good afternoon, Judge.
Betsy.
I want to work for you.
If you'll have me.
I'd be mighty pleased.
Come on in.
Take care of the horse, Betsy.
Daddy! Daddy, the Virginian's back!
BETSY: Hi!
Come on in. I'll bring you up to date.
Get down!
Bad?
No, I've cut myself worse while shaving.
Get on back down the hill.
Drop it, friend.
Sure.
Gun belt, too.
Take him, Ed!
Get down.
Give me the belt.
You all right? Yeah.
You find any more? No.
I guess this is all of 'em.
Let's deliver 'em to the Walking Butte.
Maybe this'll stop any more of it.
Steve, you'd better get back to the ranch
with Loomis.
Pick 'em up, boys.
Are these your men?
They work for me.
Nothing can be done for them.
But it's not too late for you to change your mind.
A skirmish doesn't make a battle, Judge Garth.
And a battle doesn't mean a war.
All this is needless. We'd like it to end.
It hasn't even started yet.
We'll be ready.
I seen a friend of yours out there today, Wade.
WADE: I ran out of friends.
What do you call that kid?
Where'd you see him?
I seen him out there stringin' up barbed wire
with Garth's bunch.
Hey, you!
You, Garth!
We're gonna take them fences of yours.
We'll show you how we done it in Texas!
You see anything?
There's some dust up over those hills.
No riders, though.
They'll come.
Think they're movin' up a herd?
That's what Wade promised.
Texas style.
When they come, I don't want to be sent away.
I want to ride with the rest of you.
All right, Steve.
Up there!
Tell the men to mount up.
Get mounted, men!
This ain't gonna be no place for a woman.
It will be for this one.
All right.
You ready? Yep.
How about Garth?
He and his bunch are waitin' by the wire.
We'd best not disappoint 'em, then.
Let's spook 'em.
MAN: Hey, Tully! You and your men, get movin'!
They won't stop till they reach the river.
They'll take the fence with 'em.
They'll never make it to the fence.
We'll turn 'em first.
Turn a stampede that's headed right toward us?
You got any better ideas?
It's worth a try.
Come on! It's your grass!
( shouting and whooping continues )
There's the trouble! Where?
The guy on the point is turnin' them away from the wire!
I'll fix him.
Turn 'em north! Keep turning 'em north!
They're turning north! We'll never stop 'em!
You want to go for a dollar?
If you ride out of here right now,
there won't be any need for it.
It'll just be...
finished.
If I ride out of here, I'll be finished.
I've rode about as far as I'm gonna go.
You know, you never did tell me
why you wouldn't point out that knife man on the train.
I guess I'm not ever gonna find out now.
I told you to never get in front of me again, kid.
Didn't you believe me?
I believe you, Johnny.
You didn't have to do that.
Did you have to do that?!
I never knew till now
why I didn't point out that knife man, Johnny.
But now I know.
It's 'cause I never wanted to help a man die.
GEORGIA: Gentlemen.
The Walking Butte Ranch is for sale.