04x25 - The Christopher Hale Story

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Well, how would a fast drip? Yep.

Well, I was waiting for me
when I got what to say.

They picked some men for us.

Yeah, they sure did.

You know about him, too? Yeah.

He took a train out of St Louis
about two weeks before we left.

That's right. Well, he's already delivered
that wagon train in Sacramento.

Now he's on his way back.

Who says here
he's going to be a river's bend.

About 30 miles from here.

Who dat Blame? It went on.

Somebody tell me who the do wagon master.

Judd Benedict.

Charlie

Benedict.

Which I had that.

I wish you'd taken over, Flint.

I got no stomach for this job.

I've had the responsibility.

Too long as it is.

Still, if I'd known the Home Office
was going to pick

somebody like Judd Benedict, that I sure
stuck it out till we got to California.

It's too late now.

It sure is.

I guess
the Home Office knows what they're doing.

I wonder.

Well, I'll see you later.

Where are you going?

Where is Ben?

I've got to show the new wagon Master.

Where is training?

Why don't you let him find his own way?

Maybe I'll get lost.

It's not a bad idea.

Charlie, take out

your right.

All right, Mr..

Patches did it.

Found them all dead.

My wife,

my little girl and my son

Jack was almost a grown man.

My own brother and his wife.

All family,

all gone.

Oh, it's

so sensitive.

Stand here.

They're coming with me.

I'm gonna. Going.

John, I think you feel better.

I'll be all. Right.

You. You.

What's the matter with you?

Nothing, Charlie.

I'm not hungry.

Charlie.

We're

the right,

you know.

He is

home, sir.

I guess Patch is burning, man.

Where's he hurt?

Inside.

It's hard to say how bad

he had to bury his whole family.

We just sitting there.

Don't know how long. Look after him.

Yeah, sure. You go on.

Let Putin arrest him. Make him out of it.

All right. It's a fresh do right here.

Jack, you and Coombs
take care of those two horses. I

left him up a little bit. Bill.

He was brought,

you know,

taking a deal.

That's good.

Yeah,

we're

doing it. Take it easy.

We're just trying to help you.

Oh, where you brought me?

This was a wagon train.

Wagon, train.

All right, Here.

Wait a minute.

You're not going anyplace.

We're camp for the night.

You start feeling better,
leave in the morning right now.

You better get some that food in it.

You're about ready to start.
McCullough found it.

Well, how.

Is our scout brought in?

Oh, do you remember? I.

Now you just take it easy.

It's a good hot barbecue.

You bet.

All day tomorrow, remember

to be hungry

for peace.

Good bye.

Good at yesterday. Said

you had.

A coffee ready.

Charlie, your hands up there.

Well, you don't have to be so grouchy.

I'll let you know when it's ready for him.

Good morning.

Oh, we wondered where you were.

Well,

took a little walk.

Got to get a few things
straight in my mind.

I wasn't thinking too well past few days.

Bellamy heard about you and your family.

We're both very sorry to

hope I wasn't too much trouble.

Last night was hardly myself.

Well, we understand.

A man never figures.

He's going to be the one to have to

have to

face up
to a thing like I found the other day.

Anyway, thinking things out this morning.

I know there's nothing more
I can do back there.

Things for me to do is to move on.

I was wondering
if I could buy passage on your train.

Well, that's no problem.

I had a funny thing last night.

You talk
like you never want to join a wagon train.

Well, that's
because it doesn't matter now.

That coffee and grub sure smells good.

I take me several days
to catch up on my eating.

So right now,
I got plenty Good to start in, Mr.. Mr..

Chris.

Just call me Chris.

And you got no last name.

The last name important.

Oh, it's all right, Chris.

It's none of our business what a man
is or what he might be again, sometime.

All we care about is how he carries
his share of the load.

As long as he's with us
digging that. Well, Tom.

Thank you. Sir.

I don't believe
he'll be able to tell you to

Jolly.

I was

at the half cup coming back to Come.

On a car.

What are you doing back so soon?

Because Jed Benedict
wants things done in a hurry to meet him.

Yeah, I met him.

We've been pushing the horses
all the way from Rome as Ben.

He slowed down

about a quarter of a mile back
so I could ride it and roust everybody up.

Everybody up for what?

Because the new wagon master
wants to get acquainted.

Tonight.

We'll have the camps asleep.

Can they wait till morning?

No, I'm afraid it can't.

Be like that.

Yeah, just like that.

What do you like?

It is bad as everybody said it.

I'm not ready to pass judgment, Charlie.

I will say one thing.

Jed Benedict knows what he wants,

and right now he wants everybody up

and waiting for him
when he and his men write in. This man

that's right for him roused everybody
up the way to the Hennessey wagon.

Let's get.

Oh, I know, I know.

All right, you folks, quiet down.

Quiet down out there.

I know it's late, lady.

I know you just got out of bed,
but I want to say a few things

about the new wagon master
before he gets here.

That's right. The new wagon Master.

As you know, this train was formed in
Saint Louis by the Western Trails Company.

Most of you started with this chair,

and some of you are driving wagons
that are owned by the company.

And what I'm trying to say
is that the company

has the right to hire
the wagon master of their choice,

and they've picked a man named Judd
Benedict.

That's right, Judd Benedict.

He's experienced.

He knows his business.

This isn't the first train
that he's headed up.

But there's one thing
that I want you to understand.

He's going
to have his own way of doing things.

And they may not be
the same as we're used to.

But I want you to promise me
that you'll give him

all the cooperation he can use
because he'll need it.

Well, here he comes down right now.

I want to regret those words.

What else could you say?

You have to give Benedict a fair chance.

I hope he does the same for us.

I it on.

So here's Mr.

Benedict.

My name is Judd Benedict.

I'm to help you folks
get the rest of the way to California.

And these other men
are going to help me do exactly that.

This is Lenny. Wash. And Carl.

Any problems you folks have,
you can talk it over with them.

This one here is Myrtle.

I wouldn't talk to him if I were you.

Now, the reason I wanted those folks
to get acquainted.

Tonight is
there won't be time in the morning.

I believe that daylight is for traveling
and. Not for talking.

I know you've got trouble
with your wagons.

I respectfully suggest
that you pick them up tonight.

I travel fast.
I expect you to keep up with me.

We'll move out at sunrise,
that is all. Goodnight.

But it's

Benedict.

I'd like you to meet
a couple of friends of mine

that I think would be pretty helpful
to it.

It's Bill Hawks. Benedict Hawks?

Bill knows about everybody on the train
by his first name.

He'll help me get acquainted. Acquainted?

One of my main job is to get all the teams

hooked up in the morning
and be ready to roll.

Well, that's very considerate of you.

But as you can see, I've brought my own
meant a lot to do that job.

So I see.

But there is one thing
you could do for me.

I need an extra man at the tail
end of the wagon train.

Tail end of the train.

To push the stragglers along.

And this is Charlie Worcester.

We get him a lot about his cooking,

but he's kept us alive
for the better part of four years.

Worcester.

Where you take my rabbits, do.
Mr. Benedict.

Thank you very much.

But when I go over here,
does all my cooking for me. Oh,

now, it wouldn't make much sense having
two men cook for one man, would it Not?

When Mr.

Benedict,
there's somebody sleeping in your wagon.

Now, I wonder who that could be.

Jeff, always friend of ours,
hasn't been feeling well early.

Maybe we better get our things
out of your wagon. Yes.

And take the supply wagon
to the rear of the train players.

Yes, sir.

Come on, Charlie.

Bill. Oh, Mr.

McCullough, may I have your attention
for a moment, please?

Take it easy.

Hey. You

mind?

All of it?

And this

stuff about to.

Go to sleep in there
as I was more tuckered out, and I thought.

That's what I

would.

Get. My pots and pans.

And now I.

Want you to scout along this ridge.

And as far as the river at this point.

You sure you don't want one of your own
men to take over my job, too?

You have a fine reputation as a scout.

I hope you can live up to our bill.

And I think a lot of this
train will find the people.

I don't think a lot of them.

But they don't know me or my work.

My men do. I'm sorry.

There is no room for sentiment.

Like the way I says.
You're the wagon master.

But are you the scout? That depends.

I couldn't have anybody on this wagon
train.

That was a gas man.

I'm afraid I couldn't
let you ride along with the train.

You are either of your two friends.

All right, Mr.

Benedict, ask up for you.

There's one thing we ought to understand,
though.

You run this wagon train,
but you don't run me.

All right?

You can ride out tonight.

Why tonight? It'll have to.

To stay ahead of me.

As I said before, I travel fast.

I do my best.

But when it.

Seems like there ought to be something
we can do.

Like what company owns this outfit?

And I hired Benedict to run it beside us.

He hasn't given us anything
to argue with him about yet.

Bill's right, Charlie.

We keep acting as though he's done
something wrong.

And he has.

Till he does, We've
got to go along with things as they are.

You're going to right
at the back of the train.

I'm going to scout
unless you want to leave the train.

That's exactly what I do.

If it wasn't for these
nice people on this train,

it's probably a good thing
I located back here.

What's good about it?

It's because the old people fall behind.

They're the ones that need the help.

Of our heads.

Benedict, send me off.

Like I'll say that when I get back.

There won't be any doubt
what kind of a wagon master is.

What's to keep you out of his hair
for a while?

I think that's the plan.

Well, how are you feeling?

All right.

I'm riding out in a few minutes.

I'm glad to have a chance to say goodbye.

Oh. Well,
we haven't had a chance to talk very much,

but I want to thank you for bringing me
here.

I'm. Thank

Chris Heil.

Hello, John.

I heard you were coming here.

Oh, no.

I am surprised.

I wonder why the Western Trails Company

bother to track me down if they know
that you were riding on this train.

I'm not pushin wagons anymore.

I'm just a plain passenger, that's all.

Yeah.

Wouldn't make any more sense
than having two wagon masters.

I want to be in a having to cook.

Now, I'd say you ought to know
as much about that as anybody.

John.

Maybe we'll
get together and talk over old times.

I guess maybe.

Are you.

Christopher Hill?

No reason
why I couldn't have told you about myself.

Oh, we know. More about you.

And you think we do.

Back East every spring when we're
put these wagon trains together,

Everybody knows Christopher Hill,
and they all talk about it.

Do that. So. Yeah.

I don't mind telling you it's
going to be a lot easier going on

when there's a man like you along with us.

What do you mean by that?

Well, evidently, you know,
there's Benedict pretty good, man.

With your reputation, you'll have
a lot more influence on than we would.

That is, if he lives up to his reputation.

I can't help you there.

Why not?

You heard me
say I'm not pushing wagons anymore.

We heard.

Like I said, I'm
just a paying passenger on this train.

I'm sorry I had to say that.

It's no way to show my appreciation
for what you've done for me.

Oh, that's all right.

But I would appreciate it
if you'd forget I ever was a wagon master.

I'm trying to.

Hang up now.

Come on.

Right.

I'll ask you.

I thought it up, and I

will.

You think you're doing what you look like?

You're Mr.

Next day to get your wagons ready
last night.

There's no need at Grecian last night.

Better watch your safety tunnel, man,
for I climb up his heart.

Now you and the rest of these folks
better learn something right quick.

But Mr. Benedict told you something.

He means for you to do it.

Now, let's get that.
We'll all and move out of here.

Oh, let's get that team hooked up
and get up on that wagon.

Time to go.

That's no way to make friends
the first day on a job.

Well, if it isn't our Mr. Hall.

That's right.

Don't you worry about me or my team
or when I get up on that seat.

I know my way around. Is train
pretty good?

Not Mr.

Benedict's train.

You don't.

You woke up yet?

Why don't you keep your big mouth closed?

What do I do wrong?

Your brain.

What's the matter with you?

It looks like Benedict's got his boys
putting the pressure on already.

Grace, you know this man.

What's the best way to handle him?

I do my best to stay out of his way.

Be glad he has a responsibility,
a ramrod in this outfit.

And if you don't. The.

You ain't never told us where you knew it
from.

Out of manner, Charlie.

It was a long time ago.

I was at the government.

Benedict. It's about that time
I. Knew about

what had happened.

I hold her up there.

Hurry up.

I'm about

and let him easily find out.

I want to thank all afternoon.

Let's get

out of here or.

I hate by the end,
but what's your name? Mr.

Anything. What about it?

I just wondering.

Are you always the last one to do
everything?

I look? Mostly.

If you're looking for trouble,
you just maybe came to the right place.

Well, now that you're up, you get that

wagon loaded and get ready to pull out.

I ain't finished eating yet.

You are. Now,

what do you think you're trying to do?

sh**t. No, If I don't like that.

What? My wife sitting this close.

You want to hit her?

You know, one of these days you're going
to get it through that thick skull ears.

And when I say something,
I mean, what kind of a like a master

that Benedict, anyway, that he's
got to bring g*n strikes with him.

Why don't you ask him?

Well.

We're not a bunch of criminals, you know.

What are you so afraid of that
you got to back yourself up with g*ns.

And does

not answer your question. About what?

I need to back me.

Up like

a wagon

master is like the captain of a ship.

Anybody that defies
his orders is guilty of mutiny.

There will be no mutiny on this wagon
train.

Remember that.

And save yourselves a lot of trouble.

Any comment?

You haven't changed a bit, have you?

In just one way, Chris.

No, I'm the boss.

Mind if I have a look?

Well, you're that no friend of the Trade
McBeal hawks, ain't you?

That's right, man.

Your doctor?

No, but I have had some experience.

Patching people up much.

The bust of the one
I felt like going into the wheel.

That would hurt so powerful.

That wouldn't hurt
so much if it was broken.

It broke.

I know it. It.

Oh, what it trying to do.

Oh, man.

All right.

You'll be all right.

You have dislocated. Shoulder.

You should weren't broke. No,

I can't.

Leave it in a sling for a day or two.

And all those muscles get back in. Shape

by George.

I do believe you're right.

It be better already.

I sure do want to. Thank you, Mr..

What was your name? Chris.

Chris. Hey,

Handy man to have around here.

Much obliged. It's all right.

I'll have some. I get k*lled.
I heard a shot.

I was a long time

ago, Charlie was a long way to end
that train to know what he was doing.

Charlie, I just had a little break.

It was a new wagon, master.

You mean to tell me the new wagon
had done that to you yourself?

Brady did.

He's going to be a

hard man to get along with him
in those g*n slicks.

Ahead by Mr. Hill.

Here he fixed me up in good shape.

Where did he go?

He's a real nice man, Charlie.

Who is he exactly?

You mean
you've never heard of Christopher?

He can't say I have.

How about you, folks? You're him.

Well, I'll tell you, back in Missouri

every spring
when we put these wagon things together,

there are very few men
you can call a wagon.

Master,
I need one up. He's always in demand.

Who are you trying to delegate this?

Mr. Hale is a ramrod.

Ramrod? He's partly one of the very best.

Well, then how come then?

They sat on a fellow like Judge Benedick.

Well, I've been thinking about that, too.

And I guess
maybe the company didn't know Mr.

Chris was with it.

Anyway, I don't think they could hire him
as a wagon master.

He won't even talk about a wagon train
when McCullough found him and

I ain't got it.

I got it.

I hope you get your plate there.

Oh, and is this going to be a jolly.

Yeah.

You better get back to your wagon. Why?

I stand right here. The way you'll get it.

You want it?

I want to give it a hand.

Enough watch at shoulder.

What's that all Benedict trying to do?

Yellow horses.

It is a terrible heart.

And I think I don't remember ever
traveling in the heat of the afternoon

like this.

There

are no,

no, no.

Now we know.

How Benedict gets them
to change the course

and record breaking time
he pushes right on during the horse

k*lling part of the day.

Well, he'd get a mr.

Baker, I reckon, a little older than most.

They're a good team, Mr.

Hawke, but they got to get dressed.

How much longer?

We got to keep going like this?

Beats me.

You're at the mirror for a while and
I'll see if they don't leave you behind.

But you've lied to Mr.

Holmes.

Something wrong with Bonnie, Mr.

Stevens?

Just that we've been going so long
without stopping in the heat.

We ought have been camped in a shady spot
a long time ago.

Wouldn't you say, Mr. Hawkes?

Yeah, I'd say that. Steve Oldham here.

Charlie will be along in a minute.

Oh, I heard about your trouble, Mr.

Hennessey.

I was that children. Voice All right.

But the rest of me is getting my brother.

You tell me. That I'm all right
up ahead. And Dr.

Benedict to see if he won't stop
what you put to rest for a while.

You just tell that, Benedict, that
we're not used to this kind of treatment.

That's what I'm about to tell him, ma'am.

Benedict

have dropped out already.

There's going to be more then.

What are you doing up here?

Get back and take care of your job.

He came up here to talk to you.

And I'm going to talk.

Oh, I would never want to say that one of.

My men could be out of problem
for five years,

I've been helping bring wagon trains west,
and I've never heard of one wagon that.

Would push his men and his horses
through the heat of the day.

And just how many trains
have you been on in five years?

Five.

What does that have to do with everything?

While you were riding five times,
I was heading uptown

and not by wasting half a day because
somebody thought it was a little warm.

Mr. Horses.

You know,
I get paid pretty well for doing my job,

and it doesn't take much training to know
that you can make twice as much

from two trains a year
as you can from one.

It doesn't take much failure

to know how many people you leave
by the wayside to fend for themselves.

While people don't have the stuff
for a trip

like this, they shouldn't have left
in the first place.

In the first place.

The reason people travel with
the train is for protection.

The strong ones help the weak ones.

You don't lean by the wayside and run off.

If you can help it.

You can run a train one of two ways.

No faster than the slowest wagon
or my way.

No slower than the fastest wagon.

People don't like your way.

I'm afraid they're going to have to
as long as I'm the wagon master.

Maybe they can do something about that.
You know,

these people spend a lot of money
to become a part of this train.

This trip is hard enough as it is
without you making it.

Harder for them.

They might just get enough of you.

Benedict, vote you out.

And just
where would you stand in a case like that?

It's kind of a silly question.

Yeah, but I had to ask it.

I had to make sure that you're
the ringleader of this proposed.

You'll be voting a tyrant out of power
as mutiny.

Mutiny is punishable by death.

You're not aboard ship, Mr..

And that is the.
Only reason. I'm not going to hang you.

You're

going off at 8:00 gunning down your g*n.

Who shot back

like.

You're just.

Seen what happens to a man
who attempts to commit mutiny?

Andrew,
Another man who tries to attack me.

These two men will ride the rest
the way to California in the prison wagon

and follow the.

Next man
to find me in the next one on the way.

Not to that I am the wagon master.

Make no mistake about that.

Any man.

Jack, You think otherwise?

Now is the time.

To speak up.

How about you?

Your wagon fell behind a day and a comet.

And Mr.

Hale. Anything to say?

I told you, I'm just a paying passenger.

But that doesn't mean I have to listen to.

Your speeches

from the prison wagon.

Bring me the chief.

I know.

I know.

But if you

go off,

how's it feel?

And it's real good to

put some more on.

Yes, sir.

You know, when I get out of this
chicken coop, some of the people

that Benedict pardoned bone by bone
and all the king's horses.

Never come to mind.

The only help here, Batman, is water.

We'll

wonder what Chris Hale's
thinking about. Now

as a limit.

You know, you can push your man so far
and so hard and so long.

Then no matter who he is,
he turns and fights.

It comes one he don't care no more.

When he does soon get his hide
riddled as a knuckle

under.

Talking up another fight
isn't going to help this one.

Hennessey
I've known Judge Benedict a long time.

He fattens on fight talk.

We can't go on like this.

This keeps John.

I don't want to expect
any of us will get to California.

Where are you going?

For a walk.

Take it easy, Fred.

I just wanted to see
how my friends are doing.

Mr. Benedict,
I want anybody around this way.

I'll just be a minute.

How about it? Well, all right.

Give me your g*n.

Sure.

How you doing?

Oh, just fine.

I'll cook that Benedict down


My mind.

You got to get us out of here.

I wish I could in only one trouble.

What's that?

I'm not command.

Only one man can get you out of here.
You know that.

You mean you're siding in with him?

I have no choice.

You're not the man I thought you was.

That's not the point.

The point is you got a man.

In charge or you've got a mob.

He's the wagon master
approved by the company.

I hate him worse than you do.

I've known him longer
with a bigger ax to grind.

But I had nothing to do
with what happened.

He was wrong. But he was in command.

And you shouldn't have challenged him
the way you did.

I don't want to. See you hurt anymore.

You just take your medicine
and do what the man says.

He's taken a lot of the wagon train
through to California, and he'll.

Ramrod this one through.

We get to Sacramento,
we'll fix his little red wagon.

And not till then.

Meantime, you just grit your teeth and.

Tough it out.

Yeah,

I will now.

Well matter.

That old tongue finally broke.

I just got the baby to sleep.

I hope it doesn't wake her up. Oh,

So what.

Do you stop in here for?

Let's get out with a broken tongue.

Don't be stupid.

Nobody talks to me like that.

I didn't mean it. I was.

Just a set of. Having a broken tongue and.

A no extra.

The. Sorry.

You're going to help me out now.

What? Are you getting it?

You know what? I'm getting it.

I ain't no gunfighter.

Anybody with as big a mouth
as you got out of me.

Please leave him alone.

He hasn't done anything to you.

Call me stupid.
He might have a point. There

where

you cutting yourself Piece this by Mr..

You're pushing that boy into a fight
he can't possibly win.

That's m*rder.

It'll be a fair gunfight.

You ain't stopping.

I already have.

But if you want to finish
what you started, I'll oblige you.

You made the biggest mistake
of your life, mister.

I don't think so.

You're not going to try to face me again.

If you know what's good for you,

you won't tell Judge Benedict
you got bested at your own trade.

I'll get on that horse
and ride out of here

and stay out.

I sure do.

Thank you, Mr. Hale.

You k*lled me. Sure.

That's all right.

If I was you, I'd
stay out of the way for a while.

I worry. I will. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's
see what we can do with this problem.

Yeah.

I don't know how to hold it.
All your brains and timber for noon.

I sure do owe you a lot,
Mr. Hale. Forget it.

Better get hitched up.

Now, remember what I told you
about a saddle Any way for a while?

Yes, sir.

You sure I could fix it, Mr.

Hale? Well, thank you.

My name is Bonnie.

Bonnie, huh? Well, that's a name.

Could you fix, my darling to Bonnie?

You must involve Mr.

Hale with that.

But my darling spoken for you.

That's all right, ma'am.

I'd like to if you don't buy.

Well, right, Mr.

Hale, if you really want to.

But you've done so much for us already.

You come to my wagon tonight, Bonnie.

Your dolly will be all fixed.

Thank you, Mr. Hale.

You boys better pass Order around,
everybody.

They better be ready for a rough trip
tomorrow.

Built

Mrs. Hennessey.

They've Benedict be.

In a way he is.

You wouldn't be getting much to eat.

So you think some goodies are.

We appreciate it.

I'm glad you.
Stopped by for another reason. Charlie.

And I heard.

Benedict tells men
that he was going to cut off

the trail in the morning
and go through Stone. Mountain.

And how come he's doing that?

Well, it's shorter, but only a darn fool
to try to take a whole wagon train

through there.
We're going to lose a dozen.

Wagons or more.

We've got to stop him.

Oh, you're going to stop.

Look, I want you to go to Chris Hill.

Tell him Benedict plans.

Now, Chris is a kind of a man

who can organize the people
and maybe do something about it.

Yeah, Yeah, Maybe he could do that.

I'll take care of it. Don't worry. Good.

Careful now. You

see, pretty soon I haven't

identified.

Mr. Hale.

We'd like to talk to you.

Oh, sure.

What's on. Your mind?

You ever hear of Stone Mountain Parish?

Yeah, not far from here. Why?

What would you say that
taking a wagon train through there?

Well.

Well, I'd say that is impossible,
but it is impossible

to get everybody through it,
Lose some wagons and some people.

Why do you ask?

Benedict is taking us through there
tomorrow morning.

How do you know that?

Bill Hawkes heard him say so?

He told me when I went up to see him.

Bill told me to come to you, Mr.

Hale rescued a lead.

It's against Benedict.

Make him change his mind.

I can't do that.

We'd back you up, Mr. Hale.

We run Benedict out
and you could take over as wagon master

the folks at all like that? That's right.

I gave up Ramrod,
and I'm not ever going to do it again.

But we need you, Mr. Hale.
We need your bed.

I'm sorry. I don't understand, Mr. Hale.

The way you stood up of that fellow Lennie
today, I know you're afraid of Benedict.

It isn't a matter.

Of my being afraid of him for.

Myself
you've got the experience, Mr. Hale.

When a man's got to know
how to help folks, they need help.

And it appears to me
it's his duty to do it.

Guilty.

That's one word
I've heard just about enough out.

And I'm going to tell you why.

For ten years I ran Robert Wagon Trains
West for ten years I had to leave my wife

and family and spend most of my time
in a saddle looking after other people.

When I got a big enough. Stake, I.

Was going to settle down
on a nice little piece of land.

Make a real for my wife and children.

And just this last spring
I was making my last trip.

My family was with me.

Even my brother and his wife were along.

And it wasn't far from this spot
right here

that my wife took sick
and we couldn't go out.

We thought,
this is as good a place to settle as any.

So we built a house in a barn right there.

Folks on the train
put it up for us one day.

Now, I had a duty to those people.

A duty to lead them the.
Rest of the way to California.

But I knew I shouldn't
leave my family alone in this country.

The only reason the Indians didn't bother
my train was because I.

Had treaties with their chiefs.

But with me gone.

Those treaties didn't mean a. Thing.

When I got back from California,

my house
and barn were burned to the ground.

I had to dig five graves

was my decision.

They did it.

Nobody else's but mine.

So we got families tools to help.

You could help us protect them.

Then I.

Supposing I lead you against Benedict.

His gunslingers are going to start
sh**ting.

Sure, we could probably win the fight.

Because there are more of us, but there'd
be a lot fewer hours when it was over

and some families would be a lot
smaller than they are now.

I'm not going to make a decision
like that.

Not anymore.

Enough people have already died
because of me in my duty.

I'm sorry

to tell Bonnie here.

Dollars all.

Fixed.

Oh, my darling.

Oh, well, you think you fixed.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The best picture in the whole world,

Mr. Hale.

You helped us this afternoon
when we needed you.

Please help us now. Now

they've gone to see Benedict.

All of them.

My husband, too.

I guess you folks don't learn
quite good. You?

Well, then?

Haven't we got anything to say about
whether we risk our life?

Of course. You do.
And you have just said it.

Now go back to your wagons
and don't come back.

You're trying to scare me because you got
a lot of people standing behind.

What I got to tell

you, we're
not moving our wagons in the morning.

Not if you're planning to take us through
Stone Mountain Patch.

Hennessey, I am getting sick
and tired of my crying man.

Let two arms just

like me.

Are you still hurting from
the and I gave you about eight years ago?

And tell your boys not to move ahead
because I'll take you first

and you know I can do it.

Chris, I wouldn't think of having you shot

about that time eight years ago.

Well,

you're not still thinking you could do it.

There's no doubt about it.

And there's no doubt that it needs
doing again, for the same reason as.

But there's a difference this time, Chris.

This time I'm calling the shots
and you're calling them the same way

you tried to call them on my train.

Judd, you're kind of thinking

was left behind by the first people
who landed in Massachusetts.

These folks are no different
than anybody else in this country.

They have a right to speak up
when somebody is trying to browbeat them

like you've been trying to browbeat them.

I like you tried to do on my train.

You are too sore. I throw you out.

Eight years makes a big difference Chris,

especially to a man your age.

I assume you're willing to do your own

fighting

boys.

The only thing I want you to do
is to see that nobody thinks that

you're going to take that off.

I'm going to throw you off this wagon
train, Benedict.

You better get an early start

right here. Here.

Come on. Get out of here.

Very good.

Very good.

I got

you here

right

here.

Oh, yeah.

Coming

down.

Sure,

but naturally.

Get on your horses and get out of camp.

Take that with you.

Come on, Move.

They will.

As of now, we're.

Going to get back to doing things
the old way.

Thanks to Chris.
You better get back to your wagons.

Have a seat, Chris

is nothing. Mr.

Chris

Brandy. Hey,

it's like you've got a wagon train
if you want it.

You know, these people need a wagon
master like you.

They've had one all along. Well,

this is your job.

Well, didn't handle it too well
and end up in a jail wagon like we did.

Oh, you've done all right.

You and Charlie were standing along
should the help sooner.

Any man needs help.

You're right there, Chris.

You know, there is nothing that Charlie
and I like better than to help

a man like you.

Thanks, Charlie.

Oh, it was nothing.

Like you said, Chris.

Every man needs some help. From.

A. g*n there. Why don't you use it?

Not with a good heavy skillet, Eddie.

I could have missed him with a g*n.

All of that fell off the

wagon.

Oh, no.