04x36 - Wagon to Fort Anderson

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It's kind of a deal.

I'll make it happen.

Oh, no, thanks.

Not had more in my corner for today,
anyway.

Coffee, like other small things in a man's
life, can get to be a habit.

You expecting trouble, Bill?

He'll get in trouble if he makes a pass.

Then biscuits that you have made.

You know, Chris McCullum
was supposed to meet us here yesterday.

I'd like him to be late.

I remember he stopped over at Fort
Anderson.

That's what I was figuring.

I thought maybe I could ride up there.

He's not back by tonight.

We'll all go in the fort.

Anderson.

You planning on going somewhere, too?

Always thinking of riding out
a little ways.

Looking for friend.

Well, Mr.

Hill, my grandpa used to say to

the fellows in trouble,
two heads are better than one.

I think
your interpretation is wrong, Duke.

What he meant was when a man's in trouble,
joining him only compounds the misery.

Grant can take care of himself.

You better give Bill and or the wagons.

It could have happened

yesterday, maybe just before sundown.

But for a moment, my mind played tricks.

And as I looked around,
I could hear like, distant echoes.

The sounds of battle.

But it was quiet now,
sort of an empty sound.

The Comanches had gone,
and only the dead remained.

And the dead make no sound.

Your folks, ma'am.

You all right, Miss?

I didn't mean to frighten.

Hey. Hey, wait a minute, Mr..

The waste your breath. She can't hear you.

She's a deaf mute.

We found her in a sister
wandering around here this morning.

It was weak. MAN Judge.

My half brother, Mr..

Not much on brains, but strong as an ox.

I'm Joe Carter,

Clem McCullough.

I ride scout for a wagon train.

There's wagon.

Train? No.

Who is a.

Saloon wagon scout?

That's more like a saddle type.

You don't look like the pride
of the cavalry yourself.

Where's is the regiment? Oh, regiment.

The part of an ammunition detail
on our way to Fort Anderson.

George and me left in the ammunition
wagon.

We got it yesterday,
just before dark by a bunch of Comanches.

Judge and I were in the wagon.

Judge was driving Lieutenant Grove
and two troopers were riding alongside.

I remember Lieutenant Grover got an arrow
right through the neck to troopers.

I don't know what happened to.

Suddenly the horse has bolted
and we outrace those savages.

And we lost him when it got dark.

Then you were here when this happened.

That you got here about 3 hours ago.

We cut McCullough. We buried the girls.

There's not

much that can be done here,
except maybe bury the rest of them.

Although there was fixing to leave
McCullough.

So you being a wagon scout, you probably
know how to go through those months.

That's not the way to Fort Anderson.

Well, that's the way we're going.

Those Indians are on the warpath.

We plan to take a slight little detour.

If you run into trouble.

Yeah, a couple of scouts.
I got one of them.

Don't know about the other.

It's probably part of the patrol
that it is yesterday.

Maybe the following. You might be.

Charged, but to get the wagon, we'd better
get moving out of here.

You planning on taking these girls
with you? Why?

Because that's not the way
to put anything.

You fellows want to risk their next.

That's your business.
But the girls come with me.

And so does that ammunition wagon.

You can't do that, McCullough.

The Comanches took every horse
before they left here.

And they left us with the ammunition
wagon on one team.

We're not going with you.

We're staying here with George. Mister.

I don't want to take you
and your sister away from him.

I want to make sure that

we all get to Fort Anderson safely.

Is he all right?

How do we know who you are? Mr.

Hero?

Wagon Scout? It could be anybody.

That's right.

But this isn't the place to stand around
and argue about it.

A three day run to Fort Anderson.

And if we're lucky,
we'll all get together.

And I mean all five of us. Well,

as long as you put it that way.

Well, we'll go along.

I was only thinking of the girls becoming.

I thought you would be Judge.

The girl settled in the wagon
and we're all out.

They want to take our things
from our wagon.

It's all we have left in the world,
George.

Well, I guess it's been arranged. Joe.

Hurry it up to remember,
there's not much room in the wagon.

You let them get their own stuff.

We've got some unfinished business here.

It's going to get three several to get it
done.

To. Like Mr.

McCullough said, George.

The last grave.

No ID on this one either?

No. The engine must have taken everything.

Horses? Yeah.

Even bright colored rag shards,
even doodads to take back to the squad.

But Indians have no use for our money.



Waste of time.

That's what it was.

No better off now than they were before.

You ever hear of Christian duty?

I sure have. Mr..

Ain't seen much of it.

Nobody going to help
anybody in this world.

That's the one to get something out of it.

Somebody do you a bad turn Once.

In a good £12 to one thing.

You got to get
what you can grab out of this world.

Or what you deserve.

We're ready.

Got our things over by the wagon.

Say, 60 dinner.

You're awfully strong, aren't you?

But you could have been a gladiator, too,
if you wanted.

Just like those in my history book.

No white gladiator.

He was a fighter in Rome.

Ancient history. Oh.

I like Roman history.

Don't you?

My favorite heroes are Roman.

He saved the whole city of Rome
all by himself.

Stopped an army from crossing
over the bridge and sacking the city.

There's a picture of in my history book.

You look just like him. Me?

I look like him.

But you know better than that.

You can see most of the same Miles.

Got enough trouble around here.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean.

I don't mean to frighten you.

I didn't mean to frighten you.

I'm sorry I frightened you.

I won't hurt you. You're very.

You're a very pretty girl.

Fay doesn't trust you.

You shouldn't
have yelled at her like that.

I'm sorry that I yelled at her. I don't.

I didn't mean to frighten, and I don't.

I don't usually yell at girls.

Says it's all right about the yelling.

She says thank you. For what?

I don't know.

Something
you said to her before I got here.

I think.

I thought you couldn't hear.

Oh, she can't. But they can read lips.

She understands of anything. I said.

Her mama was a school teacher
back in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

She taught say how to read and write
to make out what people are saying.

By the way, they move their lips.

I said that someday
Fay might even learn to talk.

You got close relatives in Pennsylvania?

Close.

Close kin?

No, but

at least in California's
place called Sacramento.

We were going to. Get you to Sacramento.

You tell your sister
I'll get you to Sacramento.

What is she trying to say?

They want to know why you put up the fire.

The smoke can be seen for 50 miles.

Dangerous from now on, no fire.

Cook on the run.

Maybe eat our food.

Call if we have.

I'm sorry that I frightened.

Well, I don't know about the rest of it,
but I'm hungry.

And that stew sure smells good.

Well, there's no sense wasting it.

I said there's no sense wasted.

Stone Road.

Yeah, that's a road.

And pretty easy.

While I was apprenticed, a blacksmith
always liked working with horses.

That's a trade.

I ain't got any trade, Mr.

McCullough.

Like blacksmithing?

Sure.

Better than the army.

And why not be a blacksmith?

Well, Joe,
he smartly said I was wasting my time.

Blacksmith Ready to roll.

McCullough.

Is that the gear up front?

Behind the g*n.

What g*n?

One of the.

That's a quick firing gangland g*n.

First one I've seen.

And get dumped right here.

McCullough dumped.

I'd hate to see the Comanches
get a hold of that.

We'll take it with us.

How long are we going to be camped
out, Mr.

Hale? Got a little information.
Get the wagon settled.

I'm going in to see the post, Commander.

I'd like to ride with you, Chris.

All right, now, dog, while I have to
do his work to get Duke to give me a hand.

Yeah.

While I'm in there, I'll
get you some coffee from the sutler store.

Yeah. Wait a minute.

I got a carving away on any coffee.

That what we've been drinking?

Yeah. What did you take away?

Really Didn't.

Know.

Whoa, whoa.

They're fine horses,
but they're going to need a breather.

All right. You can arrest them here.

All right.

I have to see if I can find a place
for the camp tonight.

Oh, and don't
let the girls wander away from the wagon.

Keep your eyes peeled.

It's going to be dark soon.

What you're saying?

They want to know
if we can go to the pool.

MASH up.

What pool down there
we saw as they crossed.

Well, I don't know, Mr. McCullough.

Let them go, George.

I won't do any harm.

She's only a deaf mute.

George.

She'll be back by now.

Coming back.

You don't think that could be a
it could make it easier alone.

He's been gone almost an hour,

Mr. McCullough.

He wouldn't leave Miss Page.
Sue, wouldn't he?

When were you learned, George,
that in this world,

everybody has to look out for themselves
first.

We ain't going to wait.

We don't need McCullough,
and we ain't going to anything.

We're going to go over those mountains
to the mining camps

and a lot of talk in the barracks.

Folks know better than you and me
of getting rich.

All we need is a pipe and a shovel.

We can take these clothes
and pick up civilian clothes on the way.

Joe, what do you want to do?

Want to go back in the army? Sell
Belgian beans.

$13 a month, taking orders from loudmouth
sergeants doing stable duty.

At least we had enough to eat.

We had a place to sleep.

It was a lot more than we had in Saint
Louis.

Sure was more than before.

We joined up with the coming of nowhere
to be had.

The only thing left was the army then.

Well, if you like it so

much, boy, you go back in here,
you get somebody else to take care of it.

Isn't that

what we signed up for?

For years?

Sure,
we did. A piece of paper means nothing.

We have a great chance
staring us in the face.

It's our fault the Comanches jumped us
until the lieutenant, the two troopers.

As far as the Army's concerned,
we're dead, too.

Once we get to those mining camps
too much, our worries will be over.

But we're going to need some money
to get started.

But I got unemployed while you was wasting
your time.

Very inexperienced folks.

I was thinking about those Indians.

When they get through with a wagon train,
they don't care nothing about money.

All they want is the horses.

I went around to the wagons
and I picked up almost $500 in our money.

It belongs to the people back
that people have no use for money.

Take the girls in the wagon.

I went to wash them.

Well, I'll go get them.

Don't let it happen again.

What?

The girls, from now on, they stay in

the wagon, are close enough
to keep your eyes on them.

Well,
I would settle a fuss about my cover.

Smoke things up to the. West

or something could mean anything.

This month

we'll find out tonight.

I hold it up.

Oh, all right.

Yeah.

You can unhitched the horses,
but be ready to move out at daybreak.

Enjoy it.

Take my horse with you.
But be careful of the picket line.

Horses wander out.

Tonight,
we're going to be in real trouble.

Should have stayed down on the flats.

Cold up here on these rocks.

You're not going to get any warmer
up there.

Why don't you give George a hand
for a change?

It might take the chill up. You.

I want you to.

To stay in the wagon tonight.

You'll be warmer in there.

Say wants to sleep outside
under the stars.

She's always been afraid of the dark.

Mama says
because she feels lost sometimes.

All right.

But stay close to the wagon.

I've seen a moon like that
a hundred times back home

in something special out here.

Some people say it means trouble.

And they don't fight at night.

And I know that the Comanches don't.

But take turns standing.

Watch.

I'll find a spot where we can keep
our eyes on both the horses and the wagon.

Especially the horses.
I'll take the last watch.

You settle with George.
You take the. First.

I'll take the first.

George, rustle up some firewood. For.

A hot coffee.

We'll need it
if we're going to be up all night.

No coffee, no fire. Why not?

Well,

if can't be seen behind these rocks,
even Indians can't see smoke in the dark.

He can smell it.

You're not back home.
This is Comanche country.

So if you want to stay alive
tonight, soldier, stay away

and everything a man say before.

Not in the dark.

I want you spend as much time
in our hearts as I do.

You have to learn that

say by a fool.

Think I want to pass inspection?

You look much better, huh?

Not like a like what?

Joe called you Saddle tr*mp.

Joe says you're not really a wagon scout,

and you're not leading us
to Fort Anderson.

What do you think?

I don't like Joe.

I want to go to ways in California.

So I'll get you
and your sister to California.

I promise you that.

I've taken that over
as my personal responsibility.

All right. And George.

If he wants to come.

Oh, I hope he wants to wait.

Seeing me, we like him.

I like you, too, Mr. McCullough.

All right.

I think the horses are Army
star on the picket line

as Joe. He.

He found a ledge up on the ridge.

Back of the wagon.

Mr. McComb,

we got a chance to make it to Fort
Anderson.

Well, let them run.

I found them in the cave.

Scared to death they were hunting firewood
when the Indians attacked their wagons.

They found the key,
and they crawled in there all night.

They ain't got nobody, Mr.

McCullough.

There's nobody I've got you, Me?

They like you.

What's more, they need you

now. Mr.

McCullough.

Not me.

I'm nobody.

Every man. Somebody, George.

All he has to do is find himself.

Once again to try.

Go ahead.

Give it a try.

Mr. McCullough sure knows a lot
about Indians, doesn't he, Uncle George.

I'm not your uncle.

You are to me, make me feel better.

Kind of warm inside and safer.

Don't mind if I call you uncle, do you?

Oh. No, I don't mind at all.

He's just like Daniel Boone Disney, who

don't know much about history.

Do you, Uncle George? Well.

No. I guess I don't.

Have you got a picture of that room?

The one by the bridge right here.

Is that name?

Course I do.

Study hall.

Long poem that I'll get my history book.

That's him.

Oh, that's Horatio.

It was my father's name.

I never did know him much.

He left home after I was born. Oh.

Why did he want you?

No, I guess he didn't.

But your mom did, didn't she? Yeah.

Mama died when I was two.

Don't you have anybody?

I have, Joe.

Well, he raised me to hear him.

He's very smart.

Well, is there any more about Horatio.

In the book?

Oh, lots more. Here, you take it.

I want to sleep now.

Oh, I know you'll like it too.

Night, Uncle George.

Goodnight to Mr..

Hook.

You know, I don't think

I mean.

That I can't read.

Get in the wagon.

Get in the wagon.

Get my Winchester and stay with

you on the bed.

You see anything?

I heard the horses, pregnancy, anything.

Like I said,

I didn't see anything.

Something scared him.

Ain't nobody been afraid.

I would have seen.

I didn't see anything.

I It was out there in those hills.

The same Comanche
who'd tried for the horses last night.

I didn't have to see him to know

I could feel him.

Somewhere between us.

And Fort Anderson was the main tribe.

That's why I was keeping the cover.

But I knew we'd have to leave the hills
soon.

Make a break for it.

Across the plains,
the stone rose still bothered my horse and

I didn't know how much more rough going
the wagon could take.

Oh. Oh.

What's your break?

I don't know if we can stop for a minute.

I'd like to take the wheel of Jack
the axle. Take a look.

I'll keep an eye in the background.

Kind of hurry.

The axle.

All our spindles are bent,
but she'll hold the fort.

Told you when I'd go into the fort.

We're cutting away from a colonial army.

And we're going to leave them to my color.

Bring them along. Let him take care.

How can you?

If we take the wagon?

His problem, not ours.

Going. That ain't right.

I mean, leaving them with the Indians
following us all.

What's right got to do with it?

You didn't k*ll that girl's ma and PA.

Wait until the coming to k*ll a man.

George,
I'm only doing what I've always done.

Thinking what's right for us.

I know what's bothering you,

said Caroline. It

can't got anybody.

And she scared

to you?

Well, she needs me to

report them for she needs somebody.

All right.

She'll need. Somebody all of life.

But it will be you, George.

Why? You can't even take care of yourself

till I know I ain't smart, but I can work.

Sure, you can work like a plow horse
for the rest of your life.



Maybe that's all I want is just a job.

I mean, what, what, what?

I want to be somebody, Joe.

So that's the thanks I get after racing,

scrounging around for a place
to live, fighting for you when you were.

What knows, kid?

That nobody wanted to forget?

No, George,
I remember when your mother died.

Who took care of you?

Who kept you alive?

You remember?

Crowded, cranky, old, crowded.

You were 14 then, George.

Almost as big as you are now.

You remember how he used to work?

You just like one of his own mules.

You wanted to be somebody that.

Somebody important.

And I know.
But not everybody is like old men.

Crowded job.

They're all like that.

That's the way the world is.

Mean and hard.

Nobody cares about anybody

who really cares.

Nobody cares about nobody.

I'm tired of arguing with you, George.

I don't need you tagging along.

You've been a drag on me for 20 years.

Are you going to go with McCullough?

Well, the wagon isn't going to make it
through the hills. Joe.

I told you, George,
don't worry about the wagon

down.

I have clothes for both of us
under the seat.

I got him from the wagon train yesterday.

Those folks will be. He was in.

You didn't think we were going to ride
into that mining

camp is outfits, did you?

McCullough isn't going to sit by
and watch us go, Joe.

There's two of us.

When I make my move,

you pick me up.

Oh, yeah.

I don't teach you to keep your big mitts
out of my business.

You're near as bad as that.

What?

You here at Fort Drum indeed
moved in with the wounded and dead.

Anybody we know, Mr.

Hale?

Well, according to the official language
of the Post, Commandant Colonel

Harris and company made contact yesterday

with the main body of broken
nose of the forces.

Casualties on both sides.

And they lost contact.

The command is reported
heading to the Washoe

Company is trying to relocate them all.

That means they ran into a bunch of
Comanches and both sides took a licking.

It's been gone five days.

It'll be back by now.

He knows how to take care of himself.

Charlie.

I'm afraid you'll have to.

Bill.

It was just a feeling.

I had nothing
I could really put a finger on.

But there was something in the air.

Like the kind of human heat
before a summer thunderstorm.

We'd come this far
without running into the main w*r party.

I had a feeling our luck was running out.

By the time Godfrey tours

at the Great House of Tarquin
should suffer wrong

no more by the nine guards
he swore to name to Christ in day in bed.

His messengers tried forth
east and west and South and North

to summon his array

here he is at the bridge.

They use it

as another stone,

nowhere in sight.

Don't move, though

I don't mean to frighten.

I'm not going to hurt you.

I thought I'd run into.

All kinds of people.

I told you, she's not my.

You're right.

I'm ready to go that way.

White men come back.

Kind signal now,

this is.

The first road we've come to
since we left the wagon train.

Where does it go?

Oh, it's a north path
that the old copper road.

So it looks like folks pretty much.

Now they don't show to take the South.

Get out of Laramie. Not safe.

I mean, it's McCullough.

But if somebody were to take this road,
what would it take them to.

Direct to the Washoe mining camps?

That is, if they make it through the past.

We hit open country about three miles open
all the way in.

How far is that? The fort, Anderson?



It's going to be a long, hard run.

No cover, no protection.

Well,
the wagon. They just going to take it.

It's got to take a few inches, pull over
and we'll give it a good going.

Another

now we settle with McCullough, George.

Now you want the girls out of the wagon?

No, it won't be that long.

But let's take the fact the real. Well.

The girls are getting out of the wagon
anyhow.

McCullough, Huh?

Judge that his r*fle.

We're leaving you here.

McCullough With the girls.

And we're taking the wagon
through the past.

You won't make it around the first bend.

You don't scare me with that engine.

Talk of smoke signals, George.

Get the girls out of the wagon.

Get them out.

First.

Get thought. So,

girls, you.

It's your decision, George.

Not Joe

and not mine.

Every man has.

To make the decision
some time in his life.

You want to go with him?

It's up to you.

I ain't gonna go. To

college, George.

I bring up

a terrible

need.

George.

No, I don't need any more.

Not any more. Joe.

You never needed him. George.

Never.

He needed you.

Use it.

Let's move.

Let's take cover down the road.

Move.

The time has come to use it, George
You know how it works.

Well, I'll need help setting it up.

You've got it.

You got something, McCullough

made a run for it.

I'm going to die here like rats in a cage.

All right, let's go.

Suddenly it's all around us.

So this is the turn of the wagon?

No. God damn.

I could have left.

All right,

I get the magazines loaded.

I'll be back.

But I think we can suddenly get down
to the jam on this before

they come up.

And we starting.

You started in a coffee grinder.

So come.

I need your help.

It was the cavalry out of Fort Ennis,
and I figured that we weren't

going to have any
more trouble getting in or.