04x30 - The Duke Shannon Story

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Charlie, There ain't nothing
like a couple of old budgets like that.

Couldn't do with all it go.

How come nobody ever worked
this Midas touch such a good start?

Because they couldn't find it.

That's why

I. Am talking about the last Baldwin mine.

The one that's supposed to be up

on Outlook Mountain
now, one that is up on a mountain.

You're just joining me.

Oh, Henry.

Hannah.

Now, my Josh is about gold.

You know where I got this man? No,

from old man Baldwin himself.

The one that made the strike.

Did you know him? No.

I helped him pack up in the mountains.

First time he came down for supply.

Of course.

He always went in alone
after he got nary a dig in.

But I kept the map,

and I

drew in the
last part where I figured the mine to be.

I'm not that person ever to see old man
Baldwin alive.

He never came back.

And now I ready
to put my own hands on all that gold.

But I figure I'll need a little help.

That's why I'm offering.

Half of it to you, Charlie.

Well, that's very nice of you, Henry, but

I just couldn't go off
prospecting to meet the wagon train.

You mean to sit there on that law
and say that you would rather ride

back and forth across this wild iron
civilized country, fighting Indians,

being hungry, thirsty, and working

for the rest of your natural life.

Why, with that, this gold,

you could buy your own wagon train.

Maybe a hundred up.

Yeah, but I signed on to go all the way
to California.

Henry, I don't think Mr. Hill
just like me to up and leave.

Well, it'll be a.

Day or so before
we get close to Outlook Mountain.

You got a little time to think it over.

That's.

That's it.

And, Charlie,
any time a man starts thinking about gold,

it gets so there ain't room in his head
for my chance.

But you'll go with me, Charlie.

Okay.

I'll bet my pack bills.

On that hat.



And a pair. Make them.

Well, Henry, I guess that entitles me
to another turnip.

Try to remember.

This time
I turn as one swallow, not eight.

What's the matter? Don't you trust me?

I thought I'd find you around here again.

Gimme that jug.

You know, it's not bad enough
that you're not doing any work anymore.

But to go sneaking off and drinking
while the sun's still up.

Drinking. Sweet cider. Drinking

sweet cider.

Well, it was a week ago.

Maybe it's working a tiny bit now.

Well,
that's a lot more than I can say for you.

What about that rip canvas?
When are you going to fill it up?

Am I going to store it?

Yeah, but.

When? Well,
and you know, that double tree's busted.

You're going to wrap some wire around

that and ice is cracked
because you haven't cleaned it.

Supply wagons got a.

Hold on, Sunny, You just hold. On.

Sounds to me like you're fixing to work
for old Charlie here from the dead.

Yeah. Well, Mr.

Henry Shannon,
as long as you see fit to get into this,

I might mention to you
that poor old Charlie here

hasn't done a little work
since you decided to travel with us.

And that's better than a week ago.

Well,
if you're aiming to fix the blame on me,

you're as right as rain, Sonny.

Charlie And me have come to be real good
friends.

And I don't like to see any of my friends
get k*lled by forced labor.

Forced labor?

Why have they got to take it easy?

Ain't healthy for a man
to spend his whole life working.

I found that out
when I. Was just a young fella.

Yeah, I'll just bet
you did, to tell. You the truth.

Except for pan and. A little gold.

Now and then, I am dead
set against the work of any kind.

Well, I don't know whether this will fit
in your plans or not,

but when poor old Charlie here signed up
with this wagon train, it was to work.

And that's what he's going to do.

Oh, I wouldn't
push Charlie too hard, Sonny.

He might

just decide to retire from Wagon Train.

Or is that. So?

Talent, Henry?

He might decide to buy his own train.

Maybe this one.

Then you'd be working for him.

Well, that makes a difference.
It sure does.

Mr. Wooster, I'm terribly
sorry that I spoke so harshly to you.

Oh, that's all right.

But until you do buy this wagon train.

I would appreciate it if you could find
the time to do a little work around here.

And don't have me
come looking for you. Again,

because I've got my own work to do.

Yes, sir.

Gee, I'm sorry.

I guess we have to finish another time.

There ain't gonna be no other time,
Charlie.

What do you mean, Henry?
I'm pulling out tonight.

This train is about as close
as it's going to get to Outlook Mountain.

Too bad, Henry. I'll miss you.

You don't have to miss me
if you don't want to.

Oh, as much as I'd like to go with you,
I can't.

I couldn't walk Lee, Mr.

Hale or Bill either.

He's my best friend, you know.

And I'm your friend, too.

Sure, Henry,
but we've only been friends for a week.

Bill and I went all through the w*r
together.

We're old friends. I understand.

All right.

The only trouble is I'm going

to have a hard time living long enough
to spend all this go by myself.

Oh, Henry, you'll live a long time.

I'll see you later.

I don't know if 2000.

The guys just like
they're always talking about.

That big stretch just over the next hill.

But when they get. There, it's
just another hill.

I think we're wasting their time.

What do you think we're doing?

Nobody's on.

The train's got enough money
to make it worth the effort to get.

Besides that, Chris Hill
is keeping a pretty sharp eye on it.

You really think there's a lot, Bo?

And I know there is.
I've heard about it for years.

You take my word,
there's enough gold to make it worth.

Gambling on that.

All good. Well,
why don't we just grab his map?

Because chances are, he's the only one
who can read the markings on it.

Yes, sir.

You take my word for it, old man Shannon
going to lead us straight to that strike?

You know, Charlie,

I put a lot of stew away in my time.

But I want to tell you, this batch here
takes.

The cake for.

Being downright insipid. Ready?

I'm glad you like it.

You know,
I thought it might be a little bit watery.

I doubt if you could have made it
any more insipid.

You hear that, Bill?

You didn't know I could make it separate,
stew, did you?

Oh, yes, I did, Charlie.

You know,

I think it's real nice of you

to keep cooking this way, since you're
going to be running this train real soon.

Cause it's good in one way.

Because then maybe
we can get a new cooker.

If my cooking is good enough for Mr.

Hale, why not good enough for you?

Well, Charlie,
if I didn't have to spend a couple

of hours sleep tonight,
I tell you all about it.

You ain't been poisoned yet, have you? No.

But I've been feeling kind of puny lately.

You don't look puny. Besides,
you're an awful smart Alec.

Well, I can't be too smart,
or I wouldn't risk eating this stuff.

Doggone you.

You think you're funny.

Don't you always write me about my cooking
and I'm getting tired of it.

Well, Charlie, next thing,
you'll be threatening to quit

and you'll have to back down.
Eat your words again.

Maybe next time I won't.

By golly,
if you don't sound like the fellow's

fixing to buy this outfit
and run it all by yourself.

It just so happens
I could, if I wanted to.

Well, you got a great big stack of money
someplace I don't know anything about.

There's a lot. Of things
you don't know. About this old man.

Shannon. Been
talking to you about a big gold strike.

It just so happens
I could be half owner of the ball tonight

if I wanted to do the old man.

Promise you that that doggone toot needed.

And he knows right where it is?

Sure he knows where it is, too.

It ain't no laughing matter.

I can go out and leave this train
and get me a fork.

And any time I want to. Big fortune.

All right.

You'll be laughing out of the other
side of your mouth when I do up and leave.

Charlie, you know the amount of work
that you've been doing since that old man.

Put those get rich quick ideas
into your head.

I doubt
if would even notice when you're gone.

But I want you to promise me one thing.

When you get rich.

Take this train over.

Please let me pick up the good.

Hey, wait a minute.
Where are you going with the coffee part?

What's the new cook going to use?

Rough on him, aren't you, Bill?

Well, Chris, you don't get rough on him
once in a while.

He thinks you're mad at him.

You know, no longer than I have.

You know, sometimes an old horse, no
matter how gently it'll Bucky's back off.

You load him too heavy.

You know, come to think of it,
I've never seen him through

that coffeepot down like that before,

mister.

It's just why I moved,

fellow Being waked up out here suddenly,
like, almost always goes for his g*n.

First thing.
Any reason that isn't a good idea?

Some innocent fellow
might get shot like me.

What's an innocent fellow

like you doing creeping up on somebody
in the middle of the night?

It's always safer when you're
the only one who knows where you are.

Well, now that we both know where you are,
what do you want?

I'm looking for someone.

And also a prospect of bringing supplies.

This way.

This way.

It covers a lot of territory.

You always use unfriendly? No.

Just when somebody slips up me
in the middle of the night.

Trouble
is, you never can tell who that might be.

Might be a fellow unfriendly.

And you are could lead to an argument.

He might even have a fast g*n.

Now, you take me.

Chances are I've got about as fast.

The g*ns you ever saw,
you'd have to have to beat this

kind of a good thing.

I got a friendly disposition. Yeah, it is.

You know that saw
an innocent feller like you stays healthy

this.

Morning.

Already.

Some will be out in a half hour.

Johnny, you're not even got the fire

started yet,

you damned old goat.

Oh, me?

No, not you, Chris.

I guess
all Charlie's out pouting someplace

curious.

Don't want to make us
eat your word for breakfast.

Oh, I don't think I've seen you before.

No, sir. Just wrote in.

Oh, maybe he's one of the fellows drop
by to make below.

No, sir. Looking for someone?

I thought maybe
you might have crossed his trail

since he's bringing supplies back
this way from Ortonville

Gordon that I only passed
through there about a week ago.

What's his name? Henry Santa.

All kind of fella.

Might be seen
in the company of a pack. Mueller, too.

I think Bill Hawks here can
give you any information you want about.

Sharon

that.

I asked you before.

He didn't mention any names.

I have seen him.

We've seen him very much on our hands
for the last week.

I sure am glad to hear that. What?

Uh huh.

Well, I don't know why anybody
would be looking for him on purpose.

I don't quite understand
what you're getting.

Well, to put it in plain words,
he's put so much fancy into

Charlie Wooster's head that I can't get
a lick of work out of him.

Charlie's probably down there
with the old codger right now.

And if you're acquainted with old man

Shannon at all,
you know what I'm talking about.

I know him pretty well, Mr. Hawkes.

He's my grandpa.

Your grandpa? I'm Duke Shannon, huh?

Well, when it comes to

relations, I guess the fellow's
got to take what he gets.

I think I've got to tell you, Mr.

Hawkes, I don't take much to folks
talking about my grandpa like that.

And if you keep on doing it,
I'll have to get up off this box

and fight you.

Well, now, if you'll take

that old man out of my hair,
I won't fight you.

I'll shake your hand in gratitude.

Come on, I'll show you where he is.

Oh, come on, Mr.

Hawks. Want an apple?
You're up kind of early, aren't you?

Believe I am.

Is this where Henry Shannon was?

Cap leave it is.

Looks like he pulled out.
And even does it.

You seemly.

Know it. And I wonder where that older.

Gentleman disappeared to.

Oh, more likely more
up in the Outlook mountain.

That's the reason
he went to Ortonville in the first place.

Pick up supplies for a prospect
and trip up there to see Grandpa.

Me We live right at the foot of Alma.

He goes up there all the time.

All right.

Now, I'm not concerned
about where your grandpa went.

I'm concerned about who went with him.

Who I believe
I can help you with that, Mr.. Hawkes.

But you said you didn't see him leave.
I didn't see him.

I heard him look me up.

Cousin that mules both of them.

Both of the men.

I mean, honestly,

I don't know who's the noisiest old Henry
or that Charlie Wooster.

I know it.

That goddamned old goat.

I warned you about that once, Mr. Hawks.

Don't split your britches, buster.

I'm talking about that other old goat,
Charlie Wooster.

Last night.

He got his nose a little out of joint
the night he runs off like a little kid.

I get my hands on him.

Ethel, did anybody leave with Henry
and Charlie?

Don't believe so.

How about those fellows?
We're camped next to Henry.

You sure that they didn't
leave at the same time.

Mr. Starkel, you mean.

Yeah, there were three.

I don't believe they did.

And you're sure you didn't hear em leave.

Real sure I saw them.

Now, why didn't you.

Tell me this in the first place?

Well, you don't ask me until just now.

It was after Henry and Charlie woke me up.

I got up to see
what all the commotion was about.

And like I said, I couldn't see them,
but I could hear them

going off in that direction.

And it was then that I seen Mr.

Sturgill and his friends light out
and the same direction,

I believe,
but they didn't leave at the same time.

It was a few minutes later.

What kind of a fella was this, Mr. Stoker?

The kind you wouldn't
want to let get behind you.

And he's behind Grandpa and Charlie.

After the gold mine. No doubt.

You know about that.

Lamb's sake.

Everybody in earshot knows about that.

Why? They're whispering louder
than most folks yelling.

Where are you going, Mr.

Horse?

I get my horse

and get Charlie and bring his friend back
before Circle tries to k*ll him.

Well, I was figuring on the same thing.

Thanks, but I travel a lot faster alone.

I was thinking the same thing too.

I'm about as good
a track as you'll find, Mr. Horn.

And that's
what it's going to take to find him.

I was figuring an older fella like you.

I'd have a little trouble
keeping up with me, an older fella.

So I figure I'll get my horse
and go along and wait a minute.

I don't know what's worse.

Those two old fools that are being chased
as that younger fool is chasing them.

Now, if you ask me,
I think you're both fools.

I think that anybody
can catch up with them.

They've got a ten hour head start.



from.

Chris.

I have to talk to you.

I know I've been standing here
for a while.

I know you're a little shorthanded,
even with Charlie me here,

but somebody has to go after the young
fellow.

Duke's already on his way. He's
just a kid.

Strictly's got two men with him.
He can't do it alone.

What if I said I couldn't Very well.
I was in hopes.

You wouldn't say that,

Charlie. Gone.

You probably wouldn't
be any good here anyway.

Go ahead.

Thanks for.

Thanks.

Way far away.

Has been trained.

Well.

I couldn't walk.

Back, catch up with it if it was an angel.

Are you talking to yourself or me?

I was talking to a file.

I would have got a face on him longer
than either one of them.

Yours of.

How do you expect me to feel after
being told

I wasn't even wanted on the wagon train?

You know that.

Sure enough, what Bill said.

To you the same thing.

Said if I was gone, nobody missed me.

Maybe with just.

Yeah, maybe. What way? He laughed.

I bet he was all out now
with nobody cooking for him.

No, I'm gone now. I think.

I hope you starved to death.

Come on, Henry.

Let's get moving quickly. Find a gold mine
a quick.

I can buy that flag at 10:00.

That'll be worth it for me

then.

What's a stop to ever

just find them there?

Not more than 10 minutes ahead of us.

We'll wait here a while.

We don't want to get so close to them.

They know we're following far.

I've been waiting for you, Duke.

What else you up?

I ain't nothing held me up.

I've been moving as fast as any tracker
could.

Beat me is how you could have caught up
and got clear around ahead of me

without me knowing it there.

There's a lot of tricks that us older
fellows know that you young ones don't.

I think it would make a lot better time
with the two of us tracking

as long as we're out here
for the same reason.

Well, travel together makes sense to me.

We can't waste any time.

We don't catch up with those two old gods
before they get to that.

Mine will end up
digging a couple of graves.

Yeah, I figure circle won't bother them
till they've served their purpose.

I hope you won't have any
trouble keeping up with me.

Try this.

The place where I last saw man Bald.

Maybe we've got to take another
look at that map just to make sure.

No need to hide out to forget this place.


to stretch to Mars.

Remember?

You know where they've been more
than a month?

Months?

You told me I've been 25 years and
your North Pole was up here with that man.

Well, but.

I have been back here almost every year
since.

Henry Shannon,
are you trying to tell me this

ain't the first time you've been up here
about that mine?

Well, I never said it was. Why?

From the very first day that

old man Baldwin sent me down that mountain
right from that very rock.

I haven't coming back trying out different
ways from here, except for a spell.

Now, when my grandson was a baby,
got kind of hard to get away.

Then.

Then you ain't got no more idea now
what our goal is and you had 25 years ago.

I know an awful lot of places
where it ain't.

You won't figure.

You bamboozle me into leaving the wagon
train and walking out on my best friend.

Hold on.

I did not bamboozle you.

I told you
I knew where the Baldwin mine was.

And I know I don't believe you.

You were looking right here
Now, the last time I was up here in.

States along, I ran out of grub.

So I had to go down the mountain.

Followed a. Creek.

Knowing that old man Boorman
had to have water for his pants.

And I found a place where he'd been.
Get it?

You did? Yes.

There was a part.

Came right out to the creek and stopped.

And it was cut so deep I knew that
it had been used regular and all.

But now all I had to do was to follow.

That path straight to them.

I think, you know. Why not?

I told you I'd run out of supplies,
so I just went on back down the mountain.

I went over to the and I got me
a good load of supplies for a long time.

I wanted to stay
a while and work the mine.

I'm a patient man, Charlie.

I have waited a third of my life

for the day
when I had to lay my eyes on that mine.

And I figured a few more weeks
wouldn't hurt me.

But now it's getting close.

Yes, sir,

it's getting close to the time

when I'll be standing right
in the middle of my gold mine.

She won't be able to hide from me
much longer this time.

I got her cornered.

This time I'm going to see Uncle. My.

You'll see to Charlie.

Yeah. We'll see it together. You and me.

We'll see it together.

Go ahead,

Circles.

Follow them. All right.

I can see the tracks.

The three horses laid right over
Grandpa and Charlie's.

Yeah, We got to move faster.

I'd say we're doing pretty good

because that ten hour lead they had on us
down to about five, 5 hours.



We've got to get to them
before they find that mine.

Come on, get on it.

It. Charlie.

Sir, that's a great.

I was telling you about how much further?

Now you just head up the stream.

Then you come to the path
and then you follow that straight

by. Charlie,

Just pretend like nothing's wrong.

Wrong.

Don't turn around and look.

What are you do
look like we're being watched. Oh.

We'll Foxo. Yeah.

Come on, follow me and don't look back.

Yeah.

Oh, my.

I tell you, we've lost them
three miles up.

That's correct.

We haven't seen a of.

I know that, sir,
but I see them heading up this way.

Oh, you're so sure of our.

You go on ahead and find it.

Don't look while you wait here, I'll.

I'll ride.

I'm beginning to wonder
if those two old codgers didn't get wise.

To his power
when he just vanished out of sight.

They're not that smart, either
one of them.

Who says we. Stay right where you are?

Do you want to get a hold of plum
through yet?

I'm fast and I'm gonna.

Bounce and drop into the ground.

Can I wait a minute?

There were three more, gentlemen.

That's right, Charlie.

All right, Sonny.
Why is that other varmint?

Where do you think?

Standing right behind you.

You've got to do better now, Mr. Strike.

We ain't that dumb.

That I told you to drop them g*n belts.

All right, then we'll just wait
till the animal shows up,

All right?

All the men are wearing

white. I.

I don't know what you're talking about in

the map. I want it.

I'm not going to give it to you now.

I'm not going to say it again.

I want that map.
You can't do that down with water.

I'm not 25 years.

You just can't take it away from.

You won't try and stop me.

It's all right. It's all right, darling.

All right.

I'll.

I'll let him have it.

He'd only take it away from me anyway.

No wonder you gave up on this map.

So it doesn't go
any farther than where we are right now.

The rest of the map is in my noodle.

He'll have a hard time getting that.

Where you're going to tell me
where that mine is.

I am going to tell you nothing, mister.

Let me get it out of Mr..

Oh, and why don't you go ahead
and beat me up?

Maybe I'll knock the unconscious
then you never will find out.

I guess
maybe you're right at that old timer.

You don't even get.

Wait a minute.

I got to get back. I'll miss you, Charlie.

I don't know. Where
the mine is. It's in my.

Head, not his.

I wouldn't tell you if I did know.
I don't.

Oh, my God. Dang fool.

Can't you understand nothing, Charlie?

I don't know what I do know.

Oh. Oh, da da da da.

Him again.
You're the only one who can stop it.

You know how.

Oh. I'm all right.

Don't hit it again.

I'll tell you where my mind is.

Sure.

You shouldn't
try to go on much farther, Mr.

Hawkes.

We're going to carry the tracks
without a ladder.

Those tracks Look right there.

Look at them.

I said look at them.

Sure,

you can see tracks without a light
to read what they say.

They're just marks.

Marks that could have been made
by anybody or anything.

We can wind up following the wrong trail
and lose more time

than if we waited for
daybreak. We're not waiting.

Some rest do is both good.

Both Tom Tucker said.

We're not waiting.

It's just like I said, Mr.

Hawkes, It's too dark.

What is it with you, boy?

How come you want to quit all the time?

I don't want to quit, Mr. Hawkes.

I got just as much reason to find him,
too, as you have.

Maybe more a man can only push himself
so far and so hard.

After that, he'd just pull himself
into thinking he's doing any good.

All right, you stay here. Quit.

But I'm going on.

I'm no quitter, and I'm getting
a little tired of your customers.

I don't blame Charlie Wooster
for running out on you.

It was probably your bad temper
that drove him to it.

Well,

I guess you had to hit
out at something, didn't you?

And I reckon

you both feel a lot better
if we get at it now.

Yeah.

Oh, well,

your granddaddy teach you how to fight,
too. Said

not good enough, I guess

it's good enough for me.

I got down on.

I consider it real friendly, sir.

You see it, Grandpa?

I guess you already know how
he took me in the race.

He's all the family I got left.

Oh, I know
I can't stay around forever, but

you just got to keep on living
till he finds out mine is.

Oh, it's not the goalie's After

he's not a greedy man,
I doubt if he'd know.

What to do with a lot of money
if you had him.

It's just a dream, that's all.

I outside raised me.

I doubt if he's thought of much else
besides finding that mind for

for longer than I've been alive.

We kind of shameful it.

Something happened
to spoil everything for him.

Now, don't you think, sir?

Mr. Alex and me,
we can help him if you he us.

And that brings up another thing, sir.

I'm sorry about fight with Mr.

Hawkes.

I should have known what was ailing him
all along.

I don't know if he'd admit it, but

he was just plumb worried
about Charlie Wooster.

You see, he loves that old man.

Same as I do my grandpa.

And I'd be much obliged to you,

sir, to look out for Charlie too.

Thank you, sir, for.

Listening to my troubles.

You know,

do get rid of Charlie,
but it's cooking all the time.

Everybody does.

I think he'd kind of miss it if we didn't.

The other night, I wrote him a little bit
too hard.

Just wasn't the time to do it,

you know?

It was your granddad's
fault at all. Charlie ran off.

It's like you said.
It was my own customers.

Yeah, I ran Charlie off, too.

There's no reason for me
treating you the way I did.

I want to thank you
for knocking sense into my head.

I can tell you one thing, Mr. Hawk.

I'm not going to try it again.

Why don't you start calling me Bill now,

Bill.

America,

There's one of Grandpa's
boot tracks there.

I'm circle tracked partially on top of it.

Now, look at that one.

It makes a difference
that they're all here at the same time.

I don't think it took a while to sh**t
himself till they got to the mine.

No, Your grandpa and Charlie
probably found out

that they were being followed
and tried to fight them.

That's Grandpa for you.

Right over
there is where they had the scuffle.

And I'll bet I know who won.

I had a feeling

we were going around corners,
so I had to take a look.

What do you think you saw the mine.

What do you think you saw, man?

Trees and rocks.

I reckon you saw the correct thing
when we left. It set up.

What are you aiming to do?

Well, now, what would you do in my place?

Keep following around. Around circles.

It doesn't make much sense, does it?

It doesn't make much sense for us
to take you to the mine.

Do you think we don't know?

You're going to k*ll us when we get there?

This better than right now?

Maybe it is.

Maybe it ain't. Getting a little tired.

Never can tell
what might happen from here to there.

I might get careless.

Might even change my mind.

Paint lightly. Still a chance.

What do you say, Charlie?

Wouldn't you like to look around,
see if the mine is really there?

Henry? Yes. Yes, I sure would.

I think it would do me a heap of good
just to know that I haven't been wrong

all these years.

All right, Mr..

We'll take you to the mine.

Good.

Like this.

You stopped here for a while.

I tell you, Bill, that circle
and those fellows got their hands full.

Grandpa Charlie,
they're leaving him a chase.

All right, come on.

I can't go on forever.

Yeah,

And in the small town last fall,
what might have happened?

Just like I said,

I wasn't wrong, was it?

He sure wasn't. Henry.

You sure?

What?

Why don't.

You wait and let the. Old man
enjoy it for a few minutes?

All right?

What's going on.

On that

part of that.

You can't see in there without a light?

Anyway?

Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo!

What are you going to do?

You don't have to k*ll anything or do no
harm.

Shut up.

You know, keep your big mouth shut.

You'll be first.

Even on own over the

They make the move sh**ting.

Hey, sir, we are running out

of gas.

Hey, girl.

You all right?

Find out what's going on in there.

We're going to. Do.

Why don't you go and see

Henry?

All right,

Let's go on struggle.

You out of your mind or something?

There's no goal up in their minds.

Completely worked out.

Baldwin must have worked for years

and then went down
the other side of the mountain.

Probably wasn't seen again to the animals
back.

You better take care of yourselves, too.

It was dynamite, no doubt about it.

That's over there. Come on.

Never dig their way out of there.

Yeah, Some go strike hard.

Quit your bellyaching.

We got a couple of mules out of it,
didn't we?

Bring em along to get.

Maybe we're too late.

We better not be

stone horses with special.

We're coming after you

for that.

Go. Right, Bill.

Why gets shovels do

well,

Don't.

Oh, boy.

Whoa!

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

You know, I don't know where to blame all
man bones, because nothing like mine or.

Thank you for taking that escape
hole in the back.

h* is right with me. Yeah.

I always knew that I'd find the gold mines
someday.

And I did.

And you.

Sure did. That is,
if you can call that a gold mine.

Don't
you think we ought to go down the hill

and see what all start doing down here?

I think I'm going to stay here
for a little while.

I reckon I better rest up.

All right. You just get your rest.

Go down it
four down and I'll take them off.

Don't you worry about that.

All or

nothing.

Right?

What are you looking for?

What do you think? Your gold. Tally?

That I will be going down.

Put me down.

Which? Grandpa Charlie Marble.
You may not go.

Henry. Yeah, He's up on top of the hill,
I reckon.

Grandpa. Charlie,
how did you get out of it?

Well, you know,
I thought I saw you for the last time.

For sure.

We been digging, and now both of us knew
that we could never get to that pile

of rock and time.

No, Just look at those blisters.

Yeah, just look at them.

I knew you'd come, though, Bill.
I never doubted for one minute.

You know, a
man can always depend on his good friend.

I knew you wasn't mad at me all the time.

What'd you do,
Arch? Face the rock or something?

You know, Charlie, you left the train.

Because you were pouting
like a little kid?

I did not.

You caused me an awful lot of trouble
trying to find you.

I got blisters on my feet
from trail on you,

and I got blisters on my hands
from digging for you.

What are you gonna do?

Just what you would do to any little kid
that runs off.

I'm going to blister you.

They allow. You can't do that.

Cut it out.

We have some.

Charlie, this is going to hurt me
more than it hurts you.

Well, I thought you did.

Yeah, but that might help somebody else.

See how you quit that one?

I feel how you quit that. Let me. Yeah.

Somebody. That feller cut up. Duke. No,

I got to take care of Grandpa.

What's the matter with driving?

I left him. Wasn't hurt or nothing.

I'm sorry.

Don't be, Bill.

Grandpa wasn't
he found what he was looking for?

Nothing left for him to do.

No place to go.

You still got a smile on his face
right now?

I kind of think this is where I'd like to

have. Do.

I'd like to be the one to do that.

Bill,

I was thinking maybe you was thinking that

maybe you'd like to go back to the wagon
train and join up with it, huh?

Well, how'd you know
that was what I was going to ask you?

Well, I didn't know, but I was in hopes
you would.

You know, we could use a fella like you.

Well, there is much to keep me around here
anymore, and I'll be needing a job.

I just gave you one.

I'd think twice about that
if I was you, Duke.

Oh, you have no idea. I'm out of work.

He makes me do.

Why even your own grandpappy Jim
trying to k*ll me.

All forced labor.
And he's got a big boat with you to do.

Oh. Morning, Bill.

Good morning.
Do you get a good night's sleep?

I don't suppose
I ever got a better night's sleep.

My whole life came near.

Run the legs off of me often. You?

Well, you know, Duke, when you called me

an older fellow, I figured I might as well
make you eat your words now.

I was only kidding you know, I don't think
I could have gone much farther myself.

Bill, I want to thank you for everything
you did for me and for Grandpa.

I mean, help me find him and all.

I woke up
feeling real good about everything.

Oh, that's all right. Forget it.

Sure is a good feeling to wake up
knowing everything's all right.

But you got a place to stay.

And friends and a job.

Job? Well, yeah.

I sure hope you didn't forget.
You give me a job with the train.

No, I didn't forget.

Duke, Look, there's something I got to do.

I'll see you pretty quick, All right?

Seeing Chris yet this morning, Johnny? No.

You know what we did yesterday?

We did a lot of things.

You have to. Just.
Which thing are you talking about? Duke?

Shannon. Janet.

You know, Charlie,
we had no right to give him a job.

Who do we think we are anyway?

Without even thinking
what Chris is going to say?

We just signed him up.

You know, if Chris doesn't go for this,
we'll be paying Duke's wages ourselves.

Wait just a minute. What do you mean? We?

You signed him up.
I had nothing to do with it.

I distinctly
remember telling not to take the job.

And you're not going to stick
me. Would have to blame either.

Well, I'm one of these kids, Andre.

How'd you come in last night?

Yeah, we came
in. And everything worked out.

Tell me about it after breakfast.

Yeah, I'll tell you what, Bill.

If you want to be.

Like somebody else. Who were you?

Somebody else? Yeah. Another voice.

Another voice.

Like three of you.

You hear that?
Billie said it sounded like. Really?

I heard him. Charlie Rich or something.

I have to tell you,
Duke Shannon came back with us.

Good.

Good.
I'd like to cut to that young fellow.

Ever since the first time I saw him,
I was thinking of giving him a job.

He was. If he'd have it.

That's exactly what I told him.

If Chris wasn't it.

Bill wasn't on it. Oh, good morning.

Good morning. Sit down, Sit down.

It smells mighty good. Well,
it should smell good.

This is my coffee. You know.

Insipid sugar. I do say it myself.

My insipid coffee is almost
as good as my insipid stew

right there.

Absolutely right. Right.