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Heritage Of The Desert
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00:00:00The End
00:00:30The End
00:01:00Here's a letter I received this morning.
00:01:12Dear sir, in answer to your request for a report on the Aritar district,
00:01:16there is no improvement in conditions, the land is unproductive and...
00:01:20So my Aritar pee is worthless, sir.
00:01:22According to this.
00:01:23You mean to say that land is all left of the Abbott estate?
00:01:27It amounts to about that.
00:01:29In other words, I'm broke.
00:01:32Well, I had a lot of fun spending it while it lasted.
00:01:36Going broke may be the best thing that ever happened to you, Jack.
00:01:40There's a glorious opportunity in the West.
00:01:42You don't think I'm going out to the woolly wilds of Arizona and Utah
00:01:46and rebuild the Abbott fortune, do you?
00:01:49Why not?
00:01:50You never know what you may find in the desert.
00:01:52I know what I'd find all right.
00:01:54Snakes and rocks and cows and sand, and I don't like any of those things.
00:01:59You might also find a chance to use your expensive education.
00:02:03You studied geology, didn't you?
00:02:05Yes, but only because it gave me more time for other things.
00:02:10Now see here, Jack.
00:02:11You might as well make up your mind to do something.
00:02:13Well, I'm not going out in the desert to do it.
00:02:18Chicago's good enough for me.
00:02:20Yes, I suppose it is.
00:02:22I never thought I'd live to see an Abbott who was afraid to go out
00:02:25and claim what was rightfully his, no matter what the danger.
00:02:29But why try to claim worthless property?
00:02:32What do you mean, danger?
00:02:34Suppose I were to tell you that I thought you were being robbed.
00:02:38I'd say it was beginning to sound exciting.
00:02:41Well, I've already written Holderness, your manager out there,
00:02:43to turn everything over to you.
00:02:45How do you know I'm going?
00:02:49You're an Abbott, aren't you?
00:02:51All right, Judge.
00:02:55But don't be surprised if I come back wearing a five-gallon hat
00:02:58in one of those western get-ups.
00:03:00Those get-ups, as you call them, are worn by real men.
00:03:03Remember that.
00:03:05All right, Judge.
00:03:06Goodbye.
00:03:06Goodbye.
00:03:06Goodbye.
00:03:06Into thy merciful hands, O infinite power, I commend, my son, thy will be done.
00:03:32Tobias, yes, please.
00:03:36I can't help it, David.
00:03:38He was so young, so strong.
00:03:41Why did they...
00:03:43My daughter, it's not for us to question.
00:03:47It's about time someone started questioning.
00:03:49Where are you going, David?
00:03:53To get Holderness.
00:03:54I forbid it.
00:03:56You're always forbidding.
00:03:58No, Davey, this is not the time.
00:04:00Why isn't it?
00:04:01For years, Holderness has been robbing us, driving us further and further into this dead...
00:04:04My brothers, what have you done about it?
00:04:06Nothing.
00:04:08After all, your father has no real proof that Holderness was responsible for the killings.
00:04:12I have all the proof I need, Thornton.
00:04:14I hear my brother's calling me to even things for him, even if you don't.
00:04:19Violence is not the way to settle things, my son.
00:04:22I found that out years ago.
00:04:25I killed a man without first having proof that he was the one who wronged me.
00:04:30That must never happen again.
00:04:33A day of judgment always comes.
00:04:37You've been telling me that ever since Adam was killed.
00:04:39When is it coming?
00:04:40Who knows, Davey?
00:04:42Maybe at this very moment, a noose might be settling on the neck of Henry Holderness.
00:04:49Stay right here, my boy.
00:05:09There comes your friend Thornton, Chief.
00:05:12There's no friend of mine.
00:05:28Where are you heading?
00:05:30None of your business.
00:05:31Hello, Snack.
00:05:40Hello.
00:05:43What do you two fellas want?
00:05:45Nebraska and me just wanted to make sure everything was all right.
00:05:48It's all right.
00:05:48He's working for me.
00:05:51Why didn't you tell us?
00:05:52I only tell people what they're supposed to know.
00:05:56Now get out and wait till I call you.
00:05:57Why didn't you tell him?
00:06:08He might have started something.
00:06:09My business is with you.
00:06:11You're getting smarter, Snap.
00:06:12Sure I am.
00:06:14Old man Nabb just made me foreman.
00:06:16That's fine.
00:06:18Why, everything will be easy for us at the Oasis now.
00:06:20Not as far as you and I are concerned.
00:06:23I came in here to tell you that I'm quitting.
00:06:26Quitting what?
00:06:27Playing the game with you.
00:06:29From now on I'm shooting square with the Nabs.
00:06:32That sounds funny.
00:06:33Coming from a man who killed Sol Mab.
00:06:37I couldn't help that.
00:06:38It was either him or me when he found out I was working for you.
00:06:41Do you think the Nabs would accept that as an excuse if they knew?
00:06:48You can't quit me.
00:06:49You're in too deep.
00:07:01Have a drink.
00:07:04And let's not have any more talk about quitting.
00:07:13What is the situation at the Oasis?
00:07:16The old man's cattle are doing fine.
00:07:19Over a thousand head on the West Range alone.
00:07:21Well, this is going to be a profitable year.
00:07:25I'll give you...
00:07:27an extra hundred this time.
00:07:31And we'll charge that to the removing of Sol Mab.
00:07:38Sometimes I wish I'd never seen you.
00:07:41If you hadn't, you'd still be just a poor cow and struggling for a few hours.
00:07:46Well, at least I wouldn't be a double-crosser.
00:07:48And a killer.
00:07:57Take that with you if you like.
00:08:01Are you sure there ain't even a postal card for me to go for face?
00:08:10That little waitress over in Granite promised to write me.
00:08:12I told you I ain't finished sorting the mail yet.
00:08:15These are all for the boss.
00:08:16The mail writer just came in.
00:08:29This one's from Chicago.
00:08:31It's from the lawyer.
00:08:32Well, you can go.
00:08:42Yes, sir.
00:08:46Clark.
00:08:47Yes?
00:08:48Send Nebraska in here.
00:08:50Yes, sir.
00:08:54Nebraska?
00:08:55The boss, will you?
00:08:55I want you to meet a man for me.
00:09:08You'll find him somewhere on the trail between here and the junction.
00:09:11Wait until he comes along.
00:09:12Sure, boss.
00:09:13I'll guide him in.
00:09:14I don't want that man to reach White Sage.
00:09:18You understand?
00:09:20His name is, uh...
00:09:22Wait a minute.
00:09:24If that's the kind of job it is, then Chick's a better man for it than I am.
00:09:28What am I paying you for?
00:09:30Fighting.
00:09:31Not murder.
00:09:33You're not getting a little bit yellow.
00:09:35I guess you know that I'm always ready to take plenty of short chances to earn my wages.
00:09:40But the other fella's got to have an even break.
00:09:46Old even break, Nebraska.
00:09:48That's him.
00:09:49You might try being that way yourself sometimes, Chick.
00:09:52It'll be a change for you.
00:09:54Uh-uh.
00:09:55One like you in this outfit is enough.
00:09:59I ain't so particular how I earn my pay.
00:10:02What's the name of this man you don't want to get here?
00:10:06Sometimes I think you enjoy your work.
00:10:10A dollar's a dollar.
00:10:11Who is he?
00:10:12No, his name is, uh...
00:10:14John Abbott.
00:10:15John Abbott.
00:10:17That's an easy name to remember.
00:10:19Remember?
00:10:40Nice view from up here, eh?
00:10:45Yeah.
00:10:47Mighty decent of you to guide me up here.
00:10:48I never found my way alone.
00:10:50Don't mention it.
00:10:52I'm glad I had the chance.
00:10:54Where's the town?
00:10:57Uh, just look down over that ledge and you can see where you're going.
00:11:00Mm-hmm.
00:11:30What did you say your name was?
00:11:36You asked me that before.
00:11:38Abbott, I told you.
00:11:39John Abbott.
00:11:45I just wanted to make sure I ain't making no mistake.
00:11:53That was a shot.
00:11:55Maybe someone's hunting.
00:11:56Up there on Savings Pass with a pistol.
00:11:59Nothing to hunt.
00:11:59There ain't even a grasshopper up there.
00:12:22Help!
00:12:27Help!
00:12:28Help!
00:12:39Oh, he's on the quicksign, David.
00:12:42You're hilarious.
00:12:51Be careful, Father.
00:12:52Oh.
00:12:53All the way, David.
00:13:14Take it easy, David.
00:13:15Take it easy.
00:13:16Take it easy.
00:13:22He's safe.
00:13:28A slug in his chest.
00:13:29It looks bad.
00:13:30Yeah, practically.
00:13:31Why are you in the heart right now?
00:13:32I wonder who done it?
00:13:33Death in this desert always means holiness.
00:13:36He needs our help no matter who he is.
00:13:38Bring him out, lad.
00:13:39Well, how's your patient today, Miriam?
00:13:57About the same, Father.
00:13:58No better, no worse.
00:14:00He'll pull through, my child.
00:14:01Well, the same power that delivered him from his enemies will restore him to health.
00:14:07Enemies.
00:14:09Father.
00:14:09You need have no fear of enemies here, my son.
00:14:15You're with friends.
00:14:17What is your name?
00:14:19The last man who asked me that tried to kill me.
00:14:24Well, never mind.
00:14:26It doesn't matter.
00:14:28We judge a man here by his deeds, not by his name.
00:14:32Rest easy and we'll have you on your feet in no time.
00:14:36I don't know how I can repay you.
00:14:43That's good.
00:14:44That's good.
00:14:44That's good.
00:14:54We missed you last night.
00:15:07Where were you, my lad?
00:15:09Why, uh, on the West Range.
00:15:11The stock is crowding seeping wells and some of them should be driven out.
00:15:16Didn't look that way to me last time I was up there.
00:15:20That red eye you've been drinking makes you see double.
00:15:23Oh, leave me alone, will you?
00:15:24You know I've stopped drinking.
00:15:47Well, you sure are paying a lot of attention to him.
00:15:49Who is he?
00:15:51Another stranger lost in the desert.
00:15:53Why does your father bring strays around here?
00:15:57Well, this man might be anything.
00:15:59What difference does that make?
00:16:01He needed our help.
00:16:03Oh, snap.
00:16:04You've been drinking again.
00:16:06Oh, why won't you let liquor alone?
00:16:08You know well enough why I drink, Miriam.
00:16:11If you'd only give me some encouragement.
00:16:13Well, I like you.
00:16:14You know that.
00:16:15Sure, I know.
00:16:16The way you like everything around here.
00:16:18That isn't what I want, Miriam.
00:16:21Quiet.
00:16:21You'll awaken him.
00:16:23Oh, now, snap.
00:16:23Please go away.
00:16:24He needs rest.
00:16:25Why didn't you come right back and report?
00:16:40You know you can depend on me.
00:16:43You won't have to worry about him anymore.
00:16:46He's at the bottom of that sand pit at Satan's Pass.
00:16:48What's left of him.
00:16:51It ought to be worth a lot more than this,
00:16:52seeing as how important Abbott was to you.
00:16:54Stop that noise.
00:17:05All right.
00:17:24That's an unusual-looking blanket.
00:17:29Well, it's not a blanket.
00:17:30It's a poncho.
00:17:32Here's one.
00:17:34See?
00:17:34It's woven so your head can go through here.
00:17:37Oh.
00:17:37Our men wear them on the high ranges.
00:17:39It gets mighty cold up in the plateaus.
00:17:41Beautiful colors.
00:17:43We make the dyes ourselves.
00:17:45You do?
00:17:46How?
00:17:47From roots, flowers, rocks, even from insects.
00:17:51You people seem to be able to do almost anything.
00:17:53We have to.
00:17:55Almost everything we use here, we make ourselves.
00:18:01Miriam, soap and water, please.
00:18:03Yes, Father.
00:18:06Excuse me.
00:18:08Sure.
00:18:20Thornton doesn't seem to like me.
00:18:22You can't blame him, can you?
00:18:24You know, he'd give his right arm if Miriam worried over him as much as she has over you.
00:18:31But he doesn't seem to be any too fond of you, either.
00:18:34You got a keen eye, ain't you?
00:18:35No, I don't trust him.
00:18:38Bad blood.
00:18:40You know, his father was a rum runner.
00:18:42He used to cheat the Indians out of their ponies and blankets by giving them bad whiskey.
00:18:47Cousin Andy picked him up when he was a little shaver and gave him a home.
00:18:51He thinks he's the salt of the earth, going to make something out of him.
00:18:57But I'm thinking you can't make a lily-white dove out of a desert hawk.
00:19:01You stay here, Miriam.
00:19:25What do you want, Nebraska?
00:19:42No trouble this time, Davey.
00:19:44No holding this rider ever came here without bringing trouble.
00:19:46That's enough, David.
00:19:51Hey, boss is raising the ante on you this year, Andy.
00:19:54He wants a thousand head of steer.
00:19:57A thousand?
00:19:58Is he crazy?
00:20:00Well, he figures that the use of this oasis and the land and water on the West Range is worth it.
00:20:05Well, we found that water on the West Range and we opened the seeping wells.
00:20:09What did they belong to us?
00:20:10Holden has claimed it all belongs to the area of the company.
00:20:14You don't have to argue it out with him.
00:20:16Holden has.
00:20:17Every time the nabs find rich range in new water, he claims it for his company.
00:20:22Who does Holden has worked for?
00:20:24Who's behind that carefully concealed company that he always blames for his lawless actions?
00:20:29Well, your guess is as good as mine.
00:20:31Well, you go back and tell him that I live by the old law that says,
00:20:35Render unto every man that which is his.
00:20:38But I'm going to fight the claim of his company to the West Range and seeping wells.
00:20:43And until the boundary is legally decided, I'm not going to pay him a thing for the use.
00:20:48Well, I'll tell him, Andy.
00:20:51But I'm warning you're friendly like.
00:20:55You better think it over.
00:20:56Well, you don't seem to be on very good terms with your landlord.
00:21:16No.
00:21:18I'm afraid for David and father.
00:21:20They're all I have left.
00:21:21Yes, I know.
00:21:23Knows he told me about your brothers.
00:21:25Holden has was responsible for their deaths.
00:21:27What?
00:21:27He gets rid of everything that stands in his way.
00:21:31Well, wouldn't it be wiser then to get out?
00:21:34We can't get out.
00:21:36We belong to the desert.
00:21:37We're part of it.
00:21:38It's part of us.
00:21:40And we made this oasis what it is.
00:21:42Bit by bit, we reclaimed it from the desert.
00:21:45It should belong to us.
00:21:47I thought it was yours.
00:21:48No.
00:21:50Holden has claimed it for his company.
00:21:51We merely lease it.
00:21:53He charges us whatever he likes.
00:21:55I should think you'd go to the law then.
00:21:58Holden has seems to be the law around here too.
00:22:07Well, what happened?
00:22:07Well, that old war horse just the same as told me to go and jump in the lake.
00:22:12And I might have done it too if there'd have been a lake.
00:22:14You should have sent me.
00:22:15Yeah.
00:22:16Well, I want to be around the day that you pull down on Andy Nabb with them fancy guns of yours.
00:22:20Are you trying to tell me that that old kook can handle a gun?
00:22:23Better and the best.
00:22:24So to say, guess you may never heard of Nabb's trick.
00:22:27What do you mean, Nabb's trick?
00:22:28Well, I ain't never seen it myself.
00:22:30But they say if he pulls it on you, you never live to profit by it.
00:22:33That's enough of that.
00:22:34Come on in here with me.
00:22:37I think they need another lesson.
00:22:47Now take some men, go to the West Range, and blow up seeping wells.
00:22:50Well, it's only water and 30 miles.
00:22:52That's why I want it done.
00:22:54I just done my part of this particular dirty job.
00:22:57I ain't carrying no water, dumb cattle that can't defend themselves.
00:23:00It's old Square Deal, Nebraska talking again.
00:23:03Oh, shut up.
00:23:05Chance, you do it.
00:23:06All right, hurry it up, Ben.
00:23:23Come on.
00:23:26Line of charge in there.
00:23:28You'll sink another one in there.
00:23:29Hurry up now.
00:23:30We got to work, man.
00:23:37All right, boys.
00:23:39Come on.
00:23:39Come on.
00:23:39We got to work, man.
00:23:41All right, boys.
00:23:42Come on.
00:23:47Come on.
00:23:47you've walked a long way you'd better rest oh I'm not tired I am thirsty oh I
00:24:08forgot to feed honey I'll be back
00:24:17I've been wanting to have a little talk with you mister well here I am what is it who are
00:24:47you where did you come from that happens to be my business well I'm making it mine when
00:24:53are you getting out of here oh that all depends well I'd make it soon if I were you why should
00:25:02I you know what I mean I'm letting no one come between Miriam and me I'll kill anybody who
00:25:08tries you understand I'm leaving here when Andrew Nabb tells me to not before and whatever
00:25:19happens to you remember you brought it on yourself
00:25:21anything wrong Jack no nothing to worry about
00:25:39where are you going David the West Range trouble comes from holiness that's where
00:25:51it'll begin why don't you take snap with him I don't trust you oh you let nosy poison your
00:25:58mind don't you think I can see for myself and so could you but you tolerate things
00:26:03snap you wouldn't take from your own flesh and blood well just what do you mean son you'll
00:26:09find him father you'll see what I mean
00:26:33you
00:26:41you
00:26:41you
00:26:54you
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00:26:54you
00:26:55Snack.
00:27:25Oh, I might have killed you.
00:27:35Maybe I'd been better off if you had.
00:27:37Oh, no.
00:27:39You know the trail of misery that stuff brings.
00:27:45Why do you touch it?
00:27:49It's, uh, it's because of what happened between Miriam and me.
00:27:53Well, what has she got to do with it?
00:27:56Well, you know she's everything in the world to me.
00:28:00I started drinking when I saw her falling in love with another man.
00:28:04A man who never worked for her and fought for her the way I have.
00:28:08Who is he?
00:28:09Oh, you don't even know his name.
00:28:12He isn't honest.
00:28:12He couldn't be or he wouldn't have anything to hide.
00:28:14Well, maybe it would be better if I sent him away, but I can't turn the man out.
00:28:21Well, it's either him or me.
00:28:24Oh, I guess it doesn't make any difference what happens to me now.
00:28:27No, I'm not going to let you go.
00:28:29Not like this.
00:28:33If I was sure of Miriam, I'd never touch another drop again as long as I live.
00:28:37I swear it.
00:28:42Will you take that pledge on the book?
00:28:44Yes, Father Neb.
00:28:50Come with me.
00:28:51Nosey will drive you wherever you care to go.
00:29:02I wish you'd tell me what I've done to offend you.
00:29:05Well, you haven't done anything.
00:29:07It's just that it's best for all concerned that you leave.
00:29:12If that's the way you feel, there's nothing more I can say about it.
00:29:14But I want you to know that I'll never forget your kindness to me.
00:29:21Goodbye, Miriam.
00:29:22Goodbye, Jack.
00:29:42Stephen Wells has been blown up.
00:29:44That's the work of holiness.
00:29:45Snake and coyote.
00:29:46Oh, the poor cattle.
00:29:47The walls have caved in.
00:29:48Water probably will never run again.
00:29:50Well, we'll have to get the herd off that range before they die of thirst.
00:29:54Get the horses, Snap.
00:29:58Miriam, you'd better come with us.
00:30:07Nosey, what's the formation of the soil around those wells?
00:30:11Well, it's rocky and kind of steep up above them.
00:30:15Have you got any dynamite?
00:30:17Yeah.
00:30:18Get it.
00:30:19Get it?
00:30:20Yes, get it.
00:30:21What you want it for?
00:30:23Never mind.
00:30:25Get it.
00:30:26Oh, all right.
00:30:27What are we going to do with this stuff?
00:30:39You'll see.
00:30:40You ain't no cow man.
00:30:41What can you do up yonder?
00:30:43I might be able to find some water.
00:30:45Believe it or not, I studied geology in college.
00:30:47Yeah?
00:30:48What are you going to do with that thing?
00:30:50That's a divining rod.
00:30:52I'm going to find that lost channel.
00:30:54And I didn't learn how and no college either.
00:31:08Yeah.
00:31:08Yeah.
00:31:08Yeah.
00:31:09Yeah.
00:31:09That'll be weeks before we can find that channel.
00:31:27If I had the man who did this...
00:31:29What are we going to do about the cattle, Father?
00:31:31We'll have to take them to Rimrock Springs.
00:31:34Why, it's 30 miles across that desert.
00:31:36Half of them will be dead before we get there.
00:31:38Can't be helped.
00:31:39It's the only thing we can do to save any of them.
00:31:41Let's start the drive.
00:31:43Come on.
00:31:43Come on.
00:31:44Come on.
00:31:45Come on.
00:31:46Come on.
00:31:47Come on.
00:31:48Come on.
00:31:49Come on.
00:31:50Come on.
00:31:51Come on.
00:31:52Come on.
00:31:53Come on.
00:31:54Come on.
00:31:55Come on.
00:31:56Come on.
00:31:57Come on.
00:31:58Come on.
00:31:59Come on.
00:32:00Come on.
00:32:01Come on.
00:32:02Come on.
00:32:03Come on.
00:32:04Come on.
00:32:05Come on.
00:32:06Come on.
00:32:07Come on.
00:32:08Come on.
00:32:09Mmm.
00:32:25Whoa.
00:32:27They sure did blow it out, didn't they?
00:32:29Yeah.
00:32:34Well, I'll soon find water for you again.
00:32:37You don't really believe in that thing, do you?
00:32:38Sure, divining rod is good enough for Moses.
00:32:40I reckon it's good enough for me.
00:32:43Say, that rock strata works down to a depression point right there.
00:32:47That means water.
00:32:48Oh, you're crazy.
00:32:51Well, I've got plenty of company anyway.
00:32:53I know I'm loco, but you're a loonier than I am
00:32:56because you think you've got sense.
00:32:58All the water you can find up there, you can put in your eye.
00:33:01Let's go and find out.
00:33:03Mm-mm.
00:33:04Mm-mm.
00:33:05Mm-mm.
00:33:06Mm-mm.
00:33:07Mm-mm.
00:33:08Mm-mm.
00:33:09Yeah.
00:33:10Mm-mm.
00:33:11Mm-mm.
00:33:12Mm-mm.
00:33:13Mm-mm.
00:34:14You're lazy now.
00:34:15I hate to tell you.
00:34:17Cap one of those for me, will you, Nosy?
00:34:19Yes, sure.
00:34:20Give me a couple of sticks.
00:34:28Thanks.
00:34:41All right.
00:34:42Let's get out of here.
00:34:48Let's get out of here.
00:34:49Let's get out of here.
00:34:50All right.
00:34:51Let's get out of here.
00:34:53Let's get out of here.
00:34:54All right.
00:34:55Let's get out of here.
00:35:01All right.
00:35:02Let's get out of here.
00:35:08Let's get out of here.
00:35:09Let's get out of here.
00:35:10Let's get out of here.
00:35:11Let's get out of here.
00:35:15All right.
00:35:16The End
00:35:46How do you like that for a miracle, Andy?
00:36:11And there's water enough there to make a garden spot out of this too.
00:36:14And you're just going to turn away the boy who done it.
00:36:19Father, you won't send him away now.
00:36:21Of course he won't.
00:36:24Will you remain with us?
00:36:29All right, if you let me.
00:36:32As long as you like.
00:36:35That goes for all of us, Jack.
00:36:36Come in.
00:36:55Well, you sure outsmarted yourself when you plugged up the seeping wells.
00:37:01Well, they've got more water up there now than they know what to do with.
00:37:06Who found the water?
00:37:08The Tenderfoot, the nabs picked up in the desert.
00:37:11He's supposed to be a geologist.
00:37:13A rock picker.
00:37:15What's his name?
00:37:16He calls himself Jack.
00:37:17Jack what?
00:37:18I don't know.
00:37:18I never heard.
00:37:19I don't think anybody knows if he has a last name.
00:37:23He's the kind of a fellow that's trying to come between Miriam and me.
00:37:27What sort of a man is he?
00:37:29Why don't you take a ride out to the oasis and see for yourself?
00:37:35I think I will.
00:37:36You mean, these are all for me?
00:37:50Well, you'll be needing them, my boy, now that you're going to stay on with us.
00:37:53Yeah.
00:37:54Me and Miriam figured they're going to belong to you when we was making them.
00:38:00I don't know what to say.
00:38:02You don't have to say anything.
00:38:04You've earned them.
00:38:04Why, you haven't seen the best present of all yet.
00:38:19There it is.
00:38:22You...
00:38:23You're not giving me silver mane, too?
00:38:26Yes.
00:38:28He's a great horse, Jack.
00:38:31Be good to him, won't you?
00:38:34It's Holderness.
00:38:42It's Holderness.
00:38:53Just give me that, David.
00:38:56There's he.
00:38:57So you're the rock picker.
00:39:14You mean I'm a geologist?
00:39:16Yes.
00:39:17How did you know?
00:39:18Oh, I've seen some of your work.
00:39:21I may pay you for locating that water for me.
00:39:23I've got some other prospects I'd like checked.
00:39:26Thanks.
00:39:26I may do that.
00:39:28But right now, I happen to be working for Mr. Knab.
00:39:31You look lovely, Miriam.
00:39:34How are things with you and Snap?
00:39:35What do you want?
00:39:43A thousand head of cattle.
00:39:44When do I get them?
00:39:46For ten years, Holderness, we've been persecuted by you.
00:39:50In the name of your company, you've plundered and pillaged
00:39:53and killed all who refuse to pay you tribute.
00:39:57Three of my sons are dead because of you.
00:39:59That's enough, Nab.
00:40:01You're rotten all the way through, Holderness.
00:40:04You fattening the lifeblood of every family in this desert.
00:40:08Why, you blabbering old fool.
00:40:11I'll show you.
00:40:24Nab's trick.
00:40:27Hey, I never would have believed it.
00:40:32You're alive today only because there's a higher law than man's.
00:40:36Now get out.
00:40:40Okay.
00:41:09take this my boy keep it with you always behind it you'll be as strong as he
00:41:17Jack what's wrong nothing I'll be all right Davey help me and be careful of him
00:41:33say Andy it's a good thing snapping here to see Miriam making a fuss over Jack that away
00:41:40they must be separated I promised her to snap now hold on Andy you can't stop human nature
00:41:48tomorrow I want you to take Jack up to Crimson Glory Meadows and keep him there until I send
00:41:54for you and teach him how to use this
00:41:59come on hurry up with that breakfast I'm hungry ah you're always hungry these days you know these
00:42:21two months up here sure made a big difference in you thanks to you doctor nosy yeah while I'm
00:42:27firing the flapjacks you're getting some pistol crackers I hung up some pine cones over there
00:42:32for you every time you hit a cone you get a flapjack come on start shooting
00:42:37that's three flapjacks four ah Nick ain't a hit you only wiggled it a little bit oh getting technical huh
00:43:00five that's enough come on I can't be flapping these flipjacks for you all day
00:43:08you
00:43:15you
00:43:17you
00:43:19you
00:43:21you
00:43:23you
00:43:25you
00:43:27you
00:43:29well you've been on the white sage all week what were you doing there so long I had to wait for this and it was worth waiting for no other girl in
00:43:45Aretai ever had one like it Miriam
00:43:51it's for you open it
00:44:21Well, aren't you going to say something, Miriam?
00:44:25It's beautiful.
00:44:29I got the rings, too.
00:44:33See?
00:44:51Father, why don't you think of Miriam and let her decide for herself?
00:45:17A promise must be kept, my boy.
00:45:21They'll be happy. You'll see.
00:45:25Ride through the Aradha. Tell all our friends that Snap and Miriam are going to be married two weeks from today.
00:45:33Let's take a ride over those hills.
00:45:47Why do you want to go over there first?
00:45:49Oh, might be interesting geologically.
00:45:52Like to find more water over there, too?
00:45:55Maybe.
00:45:57You know why I like you?
00:45:59You're the first cuckoo I ever met who's more curious, sir, than me.
00:46:03Come on, let's go.
00:46:05Yeah.
00:46:17Jack.
00:46:25You know, Nebraska ain't doing that just for exercise.
00:46:31Unless I miss my guess, old Hank Holderness is fixing himself a hideout again the day of judgment.
00:46:45Come on.
00:46:47Come on.
00:46:49Hey, Port.
00:46:59The boys in town passed a word you wanted to see me.
00:47:01Haven't you got any better sense than to be riding in here in broad daylight?
00:47:05I made sure the course was clear.
00:47:07What's on your mind?
00:47:08You can't talk here.
00:47:09Go ahead and talk.
00:47:11There ain't been a sign of life around this place in more than an hour.
00:47:14How would you like to make a couple of hundred dollars?
00:47:19Depends on how much work I have to do to earn it.
00:47:23That rock picker's been getting in my way around here.
00:47:27Yeah?
00:47:28I heard about him.
00:47:30And all the money.
00:47:32And there's a hundred now.
00:47:35You get the rest.
00:47:37After.
00:47:38Where is he?
00:47:39He's up in Crimson Glory Meadows.
00:47:42I'll find him.
00:48:03Hey, Nebraska.
00:48:04What's the best way to get up to the Crimson Glory?
00:48:06Well, if you don't know the short trail, it's best to go around them by Satan's Pass.
00:48:10Are they heading up there for him?
00:48:12Got a little job to do.
00:48:14Oh.
00:48:15Who doesn't want to get it in the back this time?
00:48:17The rock picker.
00:48:34Oh, Miss Nair.
00:48:35Oh, Miss Nair.
00:48:36Oh, Miss Nair.
00:48:38Oh.
00:48:39I'm the last man.
00:48:41Oh, Miss Nair!
00:48:42Oh.
00:48:43Oh.
00:48:44You're probably gonna get up.
00:48:45Oh!
00:48:46Ma'am.
00:48:47That's sick, Miss Nair.
00:48:49Yeah.
00:48:50They're back.
00:48:51Oh, Miss Nair.
00:48:52Oh, Miss Nair.
00:48:54And they're back.
00:48:55I'm getting up.
00:48:57Oh, Miss Nair.
00:48:58Jack, you've got to get away from here.
00:49:06Why?
00:49:07Chick Chance is coming up here.
00:49:08He's going to kill you.
00:49:09What for?
00:49:09Who's Chick Chance?
00:49:10One holding this man.
00:49:12A fellow with a smile like a knife.
00:49:13Always whistling.
00:49:16Whistling?
00:49:20I think I know the gentleman.
00:49:22Well, he's coming around by Satan's pass.
00:49:24Oh, Jack, please.
00:49:25Please get out of here.
00:49:28Yes.
00:49:31Yes, I'd better go.
00:49:32Ride down to the oasis.
00:49:33You'll be safe there.
00:49:36Jack!
00:49:37Jack, you're going the wrong direction.
00:49:45Why, he's riding toward the pass.
00:49:46Yeah.
00:49:47I never saw such a fellow for riding into the wrong places.
00:49:58I'll be right after the other.
00:50:15I don't care.
00:50:19Captain.
00:50:42Remember me, Mr. Chance?
00:50:45Why, you...
00:50:47You're John Abbott.
00:50:48Yeah.
00:50:50What's the matter?
00:50:51Forgotten how to whistle?
00:51:18I almost wish you hadn't come up here today, Miriam.
00:51:34I'll miss you more than ever now.
00:51:37I'll miss you too, Jack.
00:51:39This afternoon's been the happiest I've ever known.
00:51:57Hi, Eddie.
00:51:58What's up?
00:51:58I wrote up to tell you the news, Jack, but I guess Miriam's beat me to it.
00:52:04What is it?
00:52:06Well, Father sent me to carry the word to the Aritar Ranches that...
00:52:09What word?
00:52:13Well, hasn't she told you that she's going to marry Snap Thornton two weeks from today?
00:52:20Miriam.
00:52:21I'll go with you in a minute, Davy.
00:52:27Miriam, it isn't true, is it?
00:52:30Jack, there are some forces too strong to fight.
00:52:34What do you mean?
00:52:34What forces?
00:52:36All my life I've been taught to obey my father's every wish.
00:52:40It's too late to change now.
00:52:41But he can't marry you off to someone you don't love.
00:52:45It isn't fair.
00:52:45It isn't right.
00:52:46He made a promise to Snap, and right or wrong, it must be kept.
00:52:54And I thought you loved me.
00:52:57I do.
00:52:59You know that.
00:53:01Oh, please try to understand.
00:53:02I can't bring more trouble to my father now.
00:53:05Don't you see?
00:53:06I see he doesn't care what he does to you.
00:53:08Oh, don't say anything unkind, please.
00:53:11I'll never forget you, Jack.
00:53:15Never.
00:53:34Where are you going?
00:53:36What difference does it make?
00:53:37I'm getting out of here.
00:53:38So, are you going to quit without trying, huh?
00:53:41Running away from the thing you want most.
00:53:44Why didn't you just grab her, throw her on a horse, and run off with her?
00:53:50Maybe you're scared of Snap, is that it?
00:53:52No, I'm not scared of Snap.
00:53:53Well, then you're scared of Andy Nabb.
00:53:55Oh, go away, nosy.
00:53:57Well, what's the matter with you?
00:53:58Are you a man or a mouse?
00:54:00A mouse, I reckon, or you wouldn't be quitting so easy.
00:54:03Are the Nabs any better than the Abbots?
00:54:05How did you know my name's Abbott?
00:54:09Oh, just kind of accidental-like.
00:54:10Some letters fell out of your pocket one day when you were sick and I was taking care of your clothes.
00:54:15Now, listen, Andy.
00:54:15I know who you are, and I know who owns all the air, so shut up.
00:54:20Don't you know that women always have to do just so much blah-blah-ing and boo-hoo-ing when they're stuck on a fella?
00:54:29You know, women always like to feel noble and self-sacrificing.
00:54:33That's just so that afterwards they can say, I told you so, if things don't pan out just like they expected.
00:54:41You know, the trouble with Miriam is she's scared you'll get hurt again if you and Snap lock horns over her.
00:54:49Yeah.
00:54:50She's washed your face and tucked your bib in so long now, she figures you ain't got mustard enough to take care of yourself even yet.
00:54:58And I guess you ain't.
00:55:00Is that so?
00:55:00Well, I'm going to stick around here and see that wedding and be the first to congratulate the happy couple.
00:55:05Hold on now, you ain't aiming to start something.
00:55:07I'll even give her a wedding present.
00:55:09Two weeks from today.
00:55:11That's just time enough to get a letter to Chicago and back.
00:55:30Hey.
00:55:30Is there a letter here for John Abbott?
00:55:35No.
00:55:36Maybe you haven't heard, Holderness, but opening other people's mail is a penitentiary offense.
00:56:05I represent the Arata Company, and Abbott, since he's dead.
00:56:10Pretty sure of Abbott's death, aren't you?
00:56:13Even a man like Chick Chance slips up once in a while.
00:56:17I'm John Abbott.
00:56:21I'll take care of that.
00:56:22You're a notary, aren't you?
00:56:33Yes, certainly.
00:56:36Notarize my signature.
00:56:37Take it easy, boys.
00:56:48What?
00:56:49What's the matter?
00:56:50What's going on in there?
00:56:51Don't mind what's going on.
00:56:53Unbuckle those guns and drop them.
00:56:57Come on, hurry up.
00:57:03Get in there.
00:57:04Go on.
00:57:06Get a move.
00:57:12This is a grantee transferring certain properties in Arata to one Miriam Nairb.
00:57:17Do you swear?
00:57:18Yes.
00:57:20Nebraska!
00:57:21I'm afraid Nebraska won't be joining us, Mr. Holderness.
00:57:26That'll be four bits to make it legal.
00:57:34Now I'll just take this record of how you've managed my estate to your own profit.
00:57:39And if I were you, I'd get out of this part of the country before the sheriff gets here.
00:57:51Get him inside.
00:57:52Come on, get in that room.
00:57:53Hurry up.
00:57:54Get a move.
00:57:57Take this, nosy.
00:57:58Well, looks like we've come to the end of our roof.
00:58:10I'm not through yet.
00:58:11Break down that door.
00:58:12We're riding for Rock Mountain Hideout.
00:58:28Now, let's go.
00:58:55I get it, Miriam.
00:59:25Why, it's a deed to the Oasis.
00:59:32Then you're the owner of the Aritar.
00:59:36Yes, but I want you to know that whatever Holderness did wasn't done in my name.
00:59:41Why, there's no need for you to tell me that, my boy.
00:59:44Well, I'm grateful to you, Jack, but we can't accept this.
00:59:48Why not?
00:59:50By rights, the Oasis ought to belong to the Navs anyway.
00:59:54You'd better dress, Jack.
00:59:57You'd better dress, Jack.
01:00:01Have a great day, Jack.
01:00:06We'll find a safe, Jack.
01:00:08Will they end up with this mob?
01:00:13Go!
01:00:14Oh, bounce!
01:00:18Miriam.
01:00:44Listen, you ain't gonna marry Snap.
01:00:47I ain't gonna let you do something.
01:00:49You'll be sorry for all the rest of your life.
01:00:50I'm not thinking of myself.
01:00:51You know that.
01:00:52Now, don't give me any of them high and noble ideas.
01:00:55Snap's not only a drunkard, he's a spying, lying thief.
01:00:59What are you saying?
01:01:00You heard me.
01:01:00He's all I said he was and more.
01:01:02Why, listen, he's been working for Holderness for years,
01:01:06and I can prove it.
01:01:17Now, here's your horse, and here's the open desert.
01:01:20It's the last chance you've got to get the man you really love.
01:01:23Will you take it?
01:01:24Yes, I will.
01:01:25Good.
01:01:38Miriam, meet you at the railroad station at Granite Junction.
01:01:41Thanks, Josie.
01:01:49Miriam.
01:01:50She's gone.
01:01:50She's riding out across the desert.
01:01:51You had something to do with this.
01:01:52No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:02:06She's gone.
01:02:06She's riding out across the desert.
01:02:09You had something to do with this.
01:02:17Stan, wait.
01:02:18Miriam's horse is gone.
01:02:22You're staying here, Jack.
01:02:36You're staying here, Jack.
01:02:51You're staying there, Jack.
01:02:54There he is.
01:02:56There he is.
01:02:57There he has been.
01:02:59Come on.
01:03:00Let's go.
01:03:01This city is who these passengers,
01:03:05Get back.
01:03:29Miriam, we'll hold her in case the maps start anything.
01:03:35Hello Miriam, what sort of a honeymoon is this Snap?
01:03:51Davey!
01:03:52Let go of that bridal.
01:03:53Do you know of anyone who has a better right to it?
01:03:55It looks as if you picked the wrong place to start troubling him.
01:03:58You keep on this Holderness.
01:04:00My Snap's my friend.
01:04:01I wouldn't think of standing in his way.
01:04:03A wedding is a wedding with a healthy oasis or someplace else.
01:04:07Please go back, Davey.
01:04:08Not without you, Miriam.
01:04:10Davey!
01:04:11Go!
01:04:12Find for Father Davey!
01:04:25He won't get very far.
01:04:26Here's a record of all the money holding this page staff been going on for years.
01:04:33We'll write against Holderness, Andrew.
01:04:34Every one of us has got a score to settle with him.
01:04:35Yes, sir.
01:04:36Yes, sir.
01:04:37No.
01:04:38No.
01:04:39No.
01:04:40Well, maybe this will change your mind.
01:04:41Look at that.
01:04:42For taking care of Saul Nab.
01:04:43$100.
01:04:44Snap Thoughtan killed your boy Saul.
01:04:45Yes, sir.
01:04:46No.
01:04:48No.
01:04:49No.
01:04:50No.
01:04:51No.
01:04:52No.
01:04:53No.
01:04:54You can't do it.
01:04:55You can't do it.
01:04:58No.
01:04:59No.
01:05:00No, no.
01:05:01No.
01:05:02No, no.
01:05:03No, no.
01:05:04No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:05:05of Saul Nab one hundred dollars snap thought and killed your boy saw
01:05:15wait David
01:05:19the
01:05:26the
01:05:28the
01:05:29the
01:05:30the
01:05:33the
01:05:35the
01:05:37jack
01:05:40or this has
01:05:41very little
01:05:42the
01:05:49the
01:05:50the
01:05:51the
01:05:52the
01:05:53yes
01:07:42You're a justice of the peace.
01:07:43This is as good a time as any for the wedding.
01:07:45Oh that can wait until we prepare this place for the offense.
01:07:48Well you're safe enough you've got this place covered let's get on with my affairs.
01:07:52Now hold on.
01:07:53Just as Quirk says such a marriage won't be legal.
01:07:59All right then I'm taking her back to the Nants.
01:08:01No you don't and keep out of there.
01:08:02I'm getting out.
01:08:03Sure.
01:08:04But you're going alone.
01:08:06What are you going to do with her?
01:08:10If it's any of your business, I'm keeping her here in case Nab writes against me.
01:08:13You're lying and you know it.
01:08:14You're figuring on marrying her yourself now that she owns the Oasis.
01:08:18That's a good idea at that.
01:08:21Now get out.
01:08:36I hate to leave you to take care of yourself this way.
01:08:56Can't be helped.
01:09:06Where's holding this?
01:09:18Tell me before I...
01:09:19Oh, save your bullet, Andy.
01:09:22I ain't got long to live.
01:09:25Fighting's my business.
01:09:27Playing the lowdown on women is something I can't stem it.
01:09:31He's in the canyon at the Port of Rock Mountain.
01:09:36Get out. Come here.
01:09:48There he is.
01:09:52Mosey along.
01:10:01Mosey along.
01:10:07Mosey along.
01:10:10Puff Puff Puff.
01:10:10Puff Puff.
01:10:11Puff Puff Puff.
01:10:28Puff!
01:10:29Look out, Jack!
01:10:59Come on, Jack!
01:11:29Andy, he's riding at last.
01:11:59Come on, Jack!
01:12:29Go on, go on! I'll let you have it!
01:12:37Go on, go on!
01:12:47Go on, go on!
01:12:59Go on, go on!
01:13:13Isn't it beautiful?
01:13:15I'll always love this desert, Miriam.
01:13:17It's brought me everything I'd ever wanted.
01:13:23Our heritage. Yours and mine.
01:13:25Almost.
01:13:29My heritage.
01:13:33Oh.
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