04x18 - Weight of Command

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Yeah.

Yesterday, day before it looks like.

Well, ask me since then.

Major thunderstorm day before yesterday.

Big herd, too.

Looks to me like they're moving north.

On if this was a boy who got me and 1520
miles.

Question is where beats me.

How you can tell all that
from a bunch of tracks and a buffalo wala.

Billy, they're saying all around you.

All you have to do is learn to read it.

You just listen to that
so he can teach you a few things.

I'm going on back to train.

Why don't you follow the Cooley on up?

As far as Molokai,
he knows where the main herd is.

Who's Molokai? You're about to find out.

See you by. Sundown.
All right. Another coffee on.

Signs all around.

All you got to do is read.

It was all around us, so I wasn't Buffalo.

I had my mind on tomorrow's hunting,
and we paid for my blindness.

But that's the way you generally pay
for your mistakes.

West of the 100th meridian,
you pay a blood.

And hey, not a guy.

You got coming.

Malachi Jenkins.

Maybe he ain't home.

No Billy.

Yeah.

You know, he's got a big hunk of buffalo
meat cook on the stove right now.

It's going to come up some

Malachi.

Nobody home?

I guess so.

About ready to eat

crawfish.

Funny to see these out back.

Billy

Malachi.

Malachi. Mm.

No sign of him.

Maybe you didn't yell loud enough.

Malachi.

Malachi.

It's funny.

He have to run off like this early.

Start drinking.

All because somebody come by with a
jug of whiskey is after dropping over,

He's doing
and follow them all the way to California.

Looks at this wet ground.

Here he is filling his bucket less than.



Well, he's not out hunting buffalo,
that's for sure.

Here's his a*tillery.

You reckon something's wrong?

Anybody else but Malachi might.

He's live in this country too long
to get into trouble on an empty stomach.

So we're waiting for him. Let's go inside.

He sit out.

It's a pretty

sign, I'll tell you that.

Where Buffalo Buffalo's concerned
white man knows absolutely nothing.

What do you say, Major?

Well, I mean,
I don't like to sound like a renegade,

but I'm afraid I'd being inclined
to go along with Cheyenne on that.

You know, the good Lord
has seen fit to cover this land

out here with beef running around
on the hoof piece.

It doesn't have to be fed or watered
or cared for when it's sick.

Any time you feel like you want a steak,
all you got to do is get way up

there on a rock and sh*t real quick
and pretty soon they'll come walking by.

Just better end to be eaten.

Shiny fingers.

That's a pretty good way for things to be.

What do we figure?

Oh, we figure that's bad. That's bad.

So we set out to k*ll them all off, see?

So we can cover the ranch with cattle.

Cattle? It's got to be fed.

They've got to be watered and they got to
be taken care of when they're sick.

That's the way
the white man's built on it.

Any time anything gets too easy,
it's immoral.

What's immoral?

Well, that's anything that you and Matilda
would not approve of.

I haven't got any great Aunt Matilda.

And that case, Maybe
you better ask your mama what's a. More.

She won't tell me, most likely.

Whatever I ask her, she says no.

What are you been asking? Anything.

Could I go buffalo hunting tomorrow?

For one thing?

Where?

I'm afraid I'd have to agree
with your mother there.

The always going.

Why can't I?

Honey,
Billy is a boy and he's 16 years old now.

Boys can go buffalo hunting,
but girls can't.

You're a lady. I know, lady.

You will be one of these days.

Besides all Malachi Jenkins
is probably going to go hunting with us.

And that language

is, I assure you, would not be approved
by your great Aunt Matilda.

It's immoral.

Yes, it is.

That I wish I was a boy.

You'll get over that sooner or later. I.

Well, William, it's about time
you got back.

I imagine.

Where's Billy, Mr. Hobbs?

Oh, he stopped by your wagon pretty.

By major combining.

Well,

what you find out from old Malachi?

I didn't talk to him.

Billy and I went in and it suffered.

His table didn't sense.

Stop playing game.

Crazy. I have no idea.

What do you mean, you have no idea.

What looked like.

He took off in a hurry,

left his supper, cooking on the stove,
and his old cow was out

back, bellowing to be milked.

Sharps was outside the cabin.

Why would he do a thing like that,
I wonder?

Well, it's hard to tell.

Saw some fresh horse signs out in front.

Looked like somebody rode up on Malachi.

Was fetching some water.

Robin, old mountain man with a jug.

We hauled ourselves horse and then went in
set dominated supper state to sundown.

No sign of it?

No. It was up to him, by golly,
to start me thinking.

You see any. Sign?

Oh, you don't have to worry
about the Cheyenne.

Not since old Black Wolf put his mark
on that peace treaty last fall.

Did you see any sign on the way back.

At Indian shot horses, Possibly
a troop of cavalry from Fort Willoughby?

Fresh tracks. Since the rain.

And punishing they're doing

up here in this part of the country
just to exercise.

And I suppose.

You get a little fidgety, aren't you?

I like it that way.

Once in a while out here.

Well, you don't have to get spooked over
Gallery Troop.

They come through all the time.

You know, Black Horse sitting down there,


If it isn't a good idea
for you to run down here and have a look.

Is that an order? No, no,
just a suggestion.

What's the matter? Don't you like it?

Not too much.

You know, I to think about missing out
on the best buffalo hunting season

just because Malachi Jenkins
holed up someplace with a jug.

Well,
all right, go get your r*fle cleaned up.

We'll pull out of here and sun up tomorrow
morning.

See, you Get a little mellow
in your old age, aren't you all?

Get out of here
before I give you the back of my hand.

Just before that

battle, Mother,
I was drinking Mountain Dew.

When I saw the rebels
coming through the rear.

I quickly. Flew through.

Refuse to show up yet? Nope.

I wonder where they ran off to.

Mr. Hawks Being a poor, unlettered
man of toil.

I do not try to read the majors mind.

When I rode out this morning, he was gone.

I think he went off someplace
with that new feller.

So you still fretting about Malachi? Well,
I suppose so.

He didn't sleep last night. That's funny.

Not funny when you stop to think about it.

And apparently you wait.

Why do you say that?

Well, you take the job of moving


and you're going to tend
to fret a little bit yourself

of course you don't have a responsibility.

He does. Charlie,
we're in Cheyenne country now.

There hasn't been a shot fired
since we signed a peace treaty last fall.

Oh, come on. No more, Mr. Sir.

Better lay off that Mr. stuff.

We're not used
to much formalities around here.

You see, the major is.
I don't know. One man's got.

Where?

Don't know, sir,
You have to pass up the hunt.

I want you to go on without him.

I try

to tell him what much used to getting all
riled up by the Indians in this country.

That was a mistake. Why not? Yet.

Was he like that all day?

Or just when he rolls out in the morning?

Oh, Duke, he's like that 40 ride whiskey.

The first drink you take.

It's kind of hard to get down.

A little practice gets a lot easier

because I ain't had that
much practice yet.

How about a cup of coffee?
You heard. That?

No, I can't get over him fretting himself
that way about Indians here

on it.

Everybody

looks to me like your mom is going.
Excellent.

Have any other customers for breakfast?

Yes. Might as well be you.

One in a

day at Sister?

No. Lobo.

The woman.

Go away, huh? MAN Go away.

Where do you go? You know.

Come on, let's go. Now,

that's my local search team.

Always.

We're giving reporters

or something

like that.

Sending your boss, our local.

He's got a thirst to maybe.

Well, it goes that notion.

Who's there to blow

the top of a chimney rock

is to go home.

Take your sharps

to me as soon as g*n Burton host

I like This is a like.

Oh, some

cavalry

machine.

BUZZER Oh,

oh, oh, yeah.

There you go.

You know, the nearest I.

Ever came to one of these Bruce
before. Was in the zoo.

You're ahead of me yesterday.

The first time I ever saw one alive.

Oh, you said good and snug.

Then I got a 20 mile ride back

in. Back.

You make a now young fella.

Trying to follow orders.

You've got the makings of a real top hand.

We should tell that to my pa. Yeah. What?

Well, you know,
give me credit for much or anything.

They don't like me.

It's just.

Well, he can't get the idea
through his head that I'm almost a man.

For the most part.

That way you'll get over.

Well,
how is that a bad for a schoolteacher?

A doctor philosophy, you mean?

Oh, well, I'm sorry, doc.
You better get mounted up.

I'll bet you that new bride of yours
has got the skillet ready right now.

Let's go.

Really?

You lead off and I'll fall behind.

Okay?

Cheyenne's.

You think they're friendly?

Yeah.

Right out and meet him.

Stay right alongside my strip

real slow, then stay over the pack.

Horses.

Look st in the books.

What do you mean?

Sign a peace treaty
with her chief last November.

And stuff you see on our faces is w*r I.

We sh**t a steady down and act like this
happened to you every day.

Is your horse around?

It is back to where Dad is.

You know what? You understand me?
All right.

See him. Make a move.

I want you to light up
that old ranch house.

We pass as fast as you can.

You got that?

Yeah.

All right.

You get real easy.

Like quiet.

I come out of here.

With the horses.

They're running. Off.

They're just getting out of range. Really.

I mean, suppose

they're up to Rabbit trying to figure
a way to take us without getting hurt.

Just like any sensible soldier
that tasted you, say?

Yeah. What's it like when they go to w*r?

They're most likely a bunch of hotheads
that took off on her own.

Oh, Black Wolf's going to skin him alive
when he finds out about this.

Here they come. Take. Come.

We got one.

Count on it yet, son.

Watch it.

Keep your eye on him.

Billy,

do you get your tent?

So let's take a look at it.

How long you expect I'll keep this up?

Well, it's hard to say.

Good soldiers, The figure is going
to cost him too much to take us.

They might just quit and write off when

it's something we don't know.

My guess,

should I put nine years old or ten?

It doesn't matter.

How old are you, Prudie?

Nine. Well, then put nine.

But I will finish in time. Ten.

Now you put whatever you want.

The I says put nine and a half,
but I won't fit one.

It's not Billy Sampler. It's yours.





Don't fret.

So. Well, what could be holding them up?

We were supposed to strike out at noon.

Don't you let Major Adams worry you?

That's what he's here for.

I'm sorry I. Let Billy go. George.

Well, I can't help it.

He's too young to go riding off
on a buffalo hunting this country.

Don't use his head.

He's likely to go galloping
through a prairie dog town or something.

Got more sense
than you give him credit for that.

I hope he has no.

Oh, hello, Mrs. Foster.

I've left a few biscuits.

I thought you might like some.

Well, that's real sweet of you.

We'll have them one. Billy gets back.

No sign of them.

Don't worry, Mrs.

Foster. I'm trying not to.

But there's all this talk
going around about Indians.

What about Indians?

Well, they were talking about it
a few minutes ago.

Down by the spring,
Major Adams went off by himself

to Scout left before daylight.

They say he's uneasy about Indians,
that's for sure.

I know it's silly, but.

Well, Dad and I, such greenhorns, we.

We just aren't used to it.

Well, now, don't you worry about it.

They'll. Hawkes knows what he's doing.

He'll see that they get back. All right.

I'm sorry.

I guess I'm just not used to having Dad
out in the wilderness like this.

I hope you enjoy the biscuits.

Thanks, Miss. Foster.

You're welcome.

Indians.

Mrs. Gentry,
your boy Billy is not the first

Buffalo hunter that ever came in late.

And he's not going to be the last either.

What's this talk about? Indians?

Just that. Just talk.

They probably shot more buffalo

than they intended and gave themselves
a lot bigger skin and job.

That's going to be upset about cowboys.

Send someone out to meet him.
Oh, that's not necessary.

You just go on back to your wagon
and get your supper ready

because he'll be barging in here
in a few minutes.

And, boy, yours be hungry as a wolf.

I'm sorry. Just don't worry.

Everything will be all right.

Will you tell her not to worry?

I'll be quiet.

About four days back to Mackenzie in.

Case there's trouble.

We can go back to Fort Mackenzie
as long as there's concern

on the other side of the Golden Pass.

Birds over
there are not going to listen to us

when we start yelling for cavalry escort
either.

Is this whole country here blows up?

They're going to have a lot more to do
than just cried and herd on a wagon

train.

That's trouble.

Maybe nothing to it at all.

Maybe just in my mind,

that's always a trauma.

I don't.

I don't see any sign.

They follow the creek north
about five miles

and hit fresh tracks of the herd country
so stomped on up there.

Lost trail in the Indian side.

All campsites
all howl right after green up look like

a dance.

You get an
awful round up over a stray cavalry horse.

Well, maybe you think that was a stray
cavalry horse, but by golly, I don't know.

I got a notion that whoever was riding
that horse is laying out there

on the prairie, flat on his back
with no hair on his head.

And I'd like to bet you that
it wasn't the cavalry horse militia.

Calvary militia. What's the difference?

There's a whole lot of difference
when it comes to common sense

to look for any smokes.

Yeah, nothing.

Black Wolf was probably sitting down there
on that little blue

under a cottonwood tree
without a god darn mean sight in his head.

And it'll cost me a half a day
to go back and find out for sure.

What got into him.

Just leave me.

How about a coffee,

Charlie? No.

Yeah. Yeah.

Horn should pass out

extra r*fles and ammunition,
make sure each man's got 50 extra rounds.

Major, you're going to upset the folks
with an order like that.

Can't help it.
That's the way it's going to be.

I want every man armed, every wagon ready
to pull out of here on 5 minutes notice.

And what about the hunters?

Well, we're just going to have to pray
that they get back before we leave.

That's all.

Charlie, As soon as you get through
with that ammunition,

you get yourself back here.

You and I going to take a little ride.
Yes, sir.

Hurry up, both of you. Yes.

Come on. Do

hold it.

Hold it.

Now, now

you hit not.

Let me get down to that water.

Hold on purpose. Just plan with us.

Black Wolf gets one of those.

He's going to have their hides.

You can run down there
right around that bend to the right.

Been there ever since last fall
when he signed a peace treaty.

And I don't know.

Where to go find out, I guess

that's what I was afraid of.



What do you think? It happened?

It was still smoking
not more than two days ago.

What do you think? Done.

Oh, some glory hunting militia officer.

I figured.

Well, we got to get back for Sunday.

Let's go.

It always counts.

Not always.

Sometimes as quail or screech.

Owl means the same thing. I expect. I

think they'll move in during the night.

No. When?

Oh, about sunup.

Oh, we ought to have help by then.

Yeah. One of us gets through.

Well, let's see how long it takes.

This fella.

Oh, Ned.

My pa's going to worry something fierce.

Here.

Suppose you'll get ten when you get back.

Figures. I'm still ten in size.

I expect

you've grown some in the last 3 hours.

He's ready.

Oh, take one down.

Already voted.

So did Billy.

Don't give me an argument about this.

Oh, you're elected.

It's not generosity.

You've got the best chance
of getting back.

You heard him.

I'll be back by sunup.
You can count on it.

Give me a hand.

Well,

they're moving around out there.

It's up to you, Ned.

We're not all out till sunup.

We'll be here.

The other.

You're a roll out, Mr.

Foster.

I told you, Mr.

Shannon, I'm not going without Dan.

Afraid You don't have much choice, ma'am.

Major says we roll in 10 minutes
and you can't stay here.

Oh, the major says so.

Jessie, will you tell the major for me

that I'm a grown woman
and capable of making my own decisions?

And I'm not going on without my husband.

You don't mean that.

Oh, really, Mr.

Shannon? I can't go on without Dan.

There's nothing worse in the world.

Yes, there is, ma'am. Out here. There is.

You just have to take my word for it.

I'll be back
to take your wagon for you when it's time.

What time is it?

Hmm? What time is it?

Oh, 5 to 8.

You want the rest?

It's coffee. No.

I want to put it out anyway.

And I hate to spoil a perfectly good piece
of this prairie sod.

You know, one time a centipede ran
through some of this stuff, Major,

and that was the end of the therapy.

Will you shut up, Charlie?

I'm sorry.

Charlie.

I'm kind of just as close as I can.

We got to pull out of here
within 5 minutes.

That only gives us 9 hours
to get through that pass.

You remember what happened last time?

Lead wagon, Broken axle took us 12
and a half hours to fix it.

And that was daylight. You remember that?

What you want me to say. And hit me?

Well, I can't give you the answer
you're looking for, Major.

I wish I could, but I can't.

I know exactly what you want me to say.

Sure, Because 12 and a half hours.

Sure.

It's perfectly
all right for you to push it.

And I need them.

Hundreds behind should be a whole army
to Cheyenne's and to ambush.

It's daybreak in the morning.
If we don't get through.

And I can't say I miss you.

You're the boss.

You're running this outfit.

You do the thinking
and you give the orders

all by yourself to

major.

Oh, really?

Real hard to get all the fires put out.

And I had to.

Go ahead, Duke.

All right,

let's go.

George Hester.

Who is it?

I don't know.

Oh, that.

That's Hawks.

Major Adams.

It's Hawks, Bill Hawks.

Where's Billy? He's taking care.

Come here.

Don't worry.

Is down, all right?

Yes, ma'am. He's all right. Scratched it.

All right. Is

you all right, Bill?

Yeah.

Let's go back out to the others. No.

Where are they?

All off?

A bunch of shy and all the Dobie Ranch
house back on Cottonwood Creek.

It is just before we started back here.

I know.

Renegade dog soldiers about 20 to 25
or 30 of us to run them off.

Cottonwood Creek.

It's a good 6 hours ride from here.

It's more like seven.

I think they can hold out
till we get there.

I'll round up the men.

Well spent hours and 50 rounds
a piece. Wait a minute, Bill.

We're not going back.

You mean we're not going back?

I need every man.

I've got to push us through that pass
before sunup.

You out of your mind?

I said we're going on ahead.

Major.

There's two men

back there holding off 20 Indians,
and they can't last out the night.

I'm sorry for them.

I wish I could go after them.

I can't.

We're going.

I told them I was coming back
and I'm going back.

You're not going anyplace, Bill,
unless I tell you.

Get that through your head.

Those 20 Cheyenne bucks you're
talking about, they're not renegades.

They're part of a w*r. w*r?

What are you talking about?

Black Wolf signed a peace treaty.

That's gone up in smoke.

Black wolves burned out his whole village.

How do you know this?

I taught myself


Who did it? How? Gas with you.

Major, This is no time for guessing.

If we don't get back to that ranch house,
those two men are going to be k*lled.

This I. Know. I'm not guessing.

Are you asking me to gamble
the lives of 386 people against those two?

Is that what you want?

There's no w*r.
You're dreaming this whole thing.

It's all in your head.
Then why. Did Malachi pull. Out?

Because he's a drunk.

That's why he's a drunk.

And he went off with an old mountain
man who had one gallon of whiskey.

When he had four four gallons
in his own cabin,

he went off and left his cow on milk
and his dog with no water.

I don't give a tinker's damn about his car
or his dog.

I'm talking about two men's lives.

They're not talking anymore.
I get. That's where you had Major cut off.

Sure, you're right,

I'm guessing.

But it's my job
to guess at a time like this.

I'm guessing
that the old black wolf was up north.

There was at least a half a dozen other
Cheyenne chiefs

and maybe some Arapaho and Pawnee
and even the Sioux.

I'm guessing that they'll be sweeping
down here in the morning before sunup.

Three or 4000 strong.

God help us if we're in their way.

Sometimes it's
just a matter of arithmetic.

There's two men up there in that house.



An awful choice to make.

But I made it.

It's going to take us
at least 9 hours to get through that pass.

I need every man, Jack mule horse that
I can get to get through there in time.

And we're going ahead, Bill.

All right.

Let's get ready to roll.

Bill,

did you hear me?

Bill.

I just pray to God
that you know what you're doing.

That's all

I do to.

All right, let's roll

right.

How does that pass
any better shape than it was last time?

Yep, Considerable.

We're going to have to double team.

No, I don't think so.

That's a piece of luck.

We can use it.

Better go back and keep moving.

Something else, though. Yeah. What's that?


about a half a mile ahead of us.

You better go talk to them.

Yeah,

you better come with me.

Come on.

Hi. My name's Seth Adams.

Joe Henry.

Bill Hawks here. All right. I'll meet you.

What's on your mind?

Well,
we got a wagon train coming through now.

Yeah.

You generally move by night.

Well, don't. No, not generally.

This happens
to be a special kind of a night.

We thought
maybe you'd like to bring your outfit

and go through with us
as far as Fort Willoughby.

Well, now, that's.

Real hospitable of you.

But just why would I do that, Mr. Henry?

I'm afraid if

you wait to sunup,
you might not get through

shines blue up whole nation.

Where did you get an idea like that?

You run into that bunch of renegade dog
soldiers.

What about them?

Just a bunch of young hotheads.

Broke away from black wolf.

They've been taking nips at the farmers
and the freight wagons here,

but we run them off.

You see, about ten miles out in a flash.

You seen Blackwell? No.

How come you know so much about them?

Well, Charlie, here.

Here's my position.

Tell them about Blackwell.

Charlie.

He signed peace treaty he not break word.

Yeah, I.

I know he did.

How long since you seen him?

Three day.

And you don't know he was burned out?

What do you mean, burned out?

His camp on the little blue.



to me like some militia outfit
might have hit him a couple of days ago.

Ash is still hot,
and we came through this afternoon.

What about that, Charlie?

You say little blow?

Yeah,

that's where his camp was.

That's not black, Wolf.

They call village
black wolf down on Washington.

Oh, When did you move down there?

Two months.

And who burned the car?

Village?

They do.

What are you trying to tell me?

They burned down own village, Mr.

Smallpox.

And it hasn't been a small pox epidemic
around this part of the country

in 15 years.

There is now 40 called die.

They burn down, lodge, move out.

You wouldn't lie to me, would you, Mr..

You better go,

Mr. Henry.

I'm trying to tell you

Black wolf was burned out.

Those were not caught.

Teepees that I saw.

I'll take Charlie's word for it.

That means you're
not going through with us.

Then we'll get through. By sundown
tomorrow.

That'll be soon enough.

Henry,
I'm afraid you might not get through at.

All, Bill.

All in measure.

I want to talk to you.

I know what you're going to say, Bill.

All right, I'll say it anyway, then.

It's pride, isn't it?

Stubbornness and pride.

Isn't that it, Major.

Bill, don't say anything
that you're going to be sorry for.

I can't help it.

I gave my word to two men
that I'd bring them back.

Help!

Listen to me, Bill.

I'd have read over there is liar.

He's led this outfit into an ambush.

Don't
try to make it any easier on yourself.

Don't you think I know a Cheyenne TV
when I see one?

You're afraid to admit it, aren't you?

You're afraid to admit you're wrong.

The great major Adam's wagon master.

You'd rather throw two men to the dogs
and admit you're wrong.

Isn't that it, Major Charles?

Well.

I want you to scout both sides
of the trail down at the foot of the great

couple of stretches there. I don't like.

Looking for an ambush.

They're going to be there waiting for us.

I just want to know what.

That's all,

Bill.

Well, I'm sorry.

I guess I kind of lost my head backstage.

Yeah.

A soldier

named Seth Adams got a wagon train
outside the Colonel, then?

Yes, sir.

They seem to be pretty peaceful
around here.

We have our troubles.

Am. Yes, sir. Black Wolf?

No, sir.

Once you renegades, a couple of dozen.

I've been raising. Cane with the settlers
here, but.

Not a black wolf storms.

Oh, he's a.

Good Indian,
if you can say that about anything.

I'll tell the colonel.
You're here, sir. Thank you.

I don't

know anything about a raid on the science
major.

Black wolf was camped on a little blue,
wasn't he?

He was last week.

Couldn't move the course.

Why should he move?

He's been camped ever since last fall.

Short of game, for one thing, the Southern
herds moved down around the washtub.

He usually picks up and follows
the buffalo this time of year.

Anybody else been camped
on the little blue?

Two or three villages? Of course,
that's all.

I heard of.

Any smallpox town?

No, but it's possible.

ADAMS If horse soldiers hit Black Wolf's

village, you'd hear the expl*si*n
cleaned up to the Upper Missouri.

Colonel That's exactly
what I'm trying to tell you.

The fuze has already been lit.

It couldn't be cavalry
or I'd know about it.

Who else could it be?

Militia. Maybe one militia.

I don't know.

You tell me.

All I can tell you
is that one of my men picked up

Scharnhorst tracks
near Malachi Jenkins place yesterday.

That would be the Colorado volunteers.

A couple of hundred of them
went through on their way to Denver.

You know who their commander was?

Neuman Parkinson.

I think his name is. I wasn't here.
How about Laramie?

You know, Adams, If I were you,
I wouldn't conjure up an Indian uprising

without having more to go on.

I wish I could help you,
but except for those renegade dog

soldiers, that's been pretty quiet.

All right, Colonel, thanks.

Sorry to give you time. Now to. Stop

by Adams

Granville.

We're going to get a bunch of manager
back to that pass

and told all you men

what we might run into in that pass.

Well, our people are safe here,

so it's only our own necks
that we're risking by going back.

I just hope I was wrong.

If I was.

I've got no excuse.

I only did what I felt I had to do.

I made a mistake.

And it cost us the lives of those men.

There's
nothing I can do about bringing them back.

All I can say is

I'm sorry.

That's got got on.

I had some idea there.

Maybe some of them still around.

And I say.

Nothing.

In a man on earth that can.

Measure up to. You out of one.

Except the burying end.

Bill, you got a long ways to go.

Yeah.

Five boys break out your shoulder.

Let's go to work.

Make sure you got them all
well covered with rocks

from Major,

I. Yeah, Judge,

I'd like to go back to the fort.

If it's all right with the others.

We found Billy like this.

I don't think I got George.

I understand.

I ain't holding anything against.

You, Major. Thanks, George.

You finish this up now. Certainly.

The others want to go back with you.

George.

George?

Billy.

Billy.

You want to wait.

Just for sunup?

We're about done.

They want to wait.

You are a man after all, Billy.