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At a stagecoach stop, Paladin sees a peaceful Cherokee rancher being beaten by men who think his cattle are spreading a sickness.
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00:00There's an irritating roughness about the way you people speak.
00:19Makes me obstinate.
00:20If you want me to leave, you're going to have to make me.
00:30I'm going to have to make you.
01:00Oh, that's real, folks.
01:16Come on.
01:17Get out of there, Art.
01:26Hey, come on, get out of here.
01:28Come on, get out of here.
01:32Can't you finish it, Peavy?
01:50All right, break it up, break it up.
01:53Would you be after killing him, McNally?
01:55I think he missed the murder of an Indian and still keeping disease stock.
01:59Then take your fight and fight it up in the hills where you belong.
02:02The public streets are obstructing.
02:05And who shot that horse?
02:07We told him it would happen.
02:09You can't say we didn't warn him.
02:13You'll get this treatment till you get rid of every head of stock on your place.
02:16And I'm warning you, Indian.
02:17If one of our animals comes down sick, we'll see more than you just don't cross your boundaries.
02:22We'll burn you out, house hiding hair.
02:26Now get that carcass out of here.
02:28There's sickness enough without you savages spreading more.
02:46All right, come on, break it up, break it up.
02:48All right, come on, break it up, break it up.
02:54Pardon me.
02:55Okay, let's go.
02:56Let's go.
03:01Let's go.
03:05Let's go.
03:10Okay, let's go.
03:18I'm interested in my business card, eh?
03:36The other one put it in my pocket.
03:39If I had the money to hire you, I would not be walking 20 miles to my place.
03:43I would have another horse.
03:45Throw your saddle over my extra one.
03:46I happen to be going your way.
03:48No obligation.
03:50Before I take a favor, it's only right I should tell you.
03:55If I had the money, I wouldn't hire you.
03:57I don't hold with men who follow the gun.
03:59I agree, Mr. Whitehorse. It's not a practical profession.
04:11I had 150 prime healthy cows.
04:14Now ten are dead, dressed ready to fall.
04:17I paid for them with sweat and blisters.
04:21Does the veterinary look at them?
04:23Can't get him to come out and have a look.
04:27I'm a mission Indian.
04:28Cherokee.
04:30An educated Indian has few friends among his people.
04:33And fewer among yours.
04:35Certainly very few in Bridesville.
04:36I cannot trade in the stores.
04:39I have to buy my stuff through the man who runs the pharmacy.
04:43He is about the only one who will admit we're human.
04:45My neighbors have such a tight quarantine around me.
04:50I have to sneak off my own place like a thief.
04:54You see how rich everything is around here?
05:00This is land a man would fight for.
05:05My father wore feathers in his hair, lived in a teepee, and fought the white man.
05:10He sent me to the Indian school to learn to live and think like the white man.
05:17He said that was the only way we could have a home in our land.
05:20I met and married my wife at the mission.
05:24We have built our home.
05:27We will not be driven from our land like my father.
05:29That's Joe Peavy.
05:36The one I was fighting.
05:36The one who killed my horse.
05:38McNally's foreman?
05:40More is troublemaker.
05:46You got yourself another horse.
05:48The one you shot cost me $20.
05:50You're going to have to pay me that.
05:51Sure.
05:52I'll wait for you at the county line and hand it to you as you go across.
05:56You a friend of his?
05:57He's just passing through.
05:58You're asked that like a man hoping for the wrong answer.
06:01Don't spook this man, Peavy.
06:03He's a gunfighter.
06:06You working for an Indian?
06:08He hasn't hired me yet.
06:10You're just a half mile from this boundary.
06:11You aim to keep going?
06:13I thought I'd look around.
06:14It ain't that simple, mister.
06:16You can ride that horse in, but you try to ride him out,
06:18and he'll go down with a slug in his head.
06:20That's a very unpleasant thing to contemplate, Mr. Peavy.
06:23Well, you just contemplate it anyway.
06:25No horse comes off that ranch.
06:26Yours or nobody's.
06:27They mean that.
06:28You'll lose two good horses.
06:29I'll walk the rest of the way.
06:30You're riding.
06:31He's used my horse for 15 miles.
06:33I expect a man who's done that to rub him down
06:34and ask me to sit at table, Mr. Whitehorse.
06:36boy.
06:41All right, let's go.
06:46Hello.
06:49You see, another one dying. I don't know what I'm going to do. They just keep losing weight and dying between this and McNally I don't know how much longer I can hold out.
07:19A violent man is Mr. McNally.
07:24His father and brother were scalped by the Sioux 35 years ago. Tell me, what is this to do with me?
07:49Does a gunslinger come high, Mr. Paladin?
07:54Well, Mrs. Whitehorse, I do have expensive tastes.
07:58Joseph, I like it here. I want to live here. I think that right now all we need is time. I think in time we'll find out what is sickening our cattle and have us a healthy herd. And let the neighbors hate us if they must.
08:12But we know that is their burden, Martha.
08:15Joseph, if this man can scare them into leaving us be.
08:18I will hear no more of this talk.
08:21Joseph.
08:21Joseph, you have had three beatings. And you know it won't stop at that. You carry a gun, but you say it's for snakes and deadly things and not for killing people. Well, good. That's what we were taught and I respect you for holding to it. But they have put a circle of guns around us. And what are we to do now?
08:45I do not know. My father would have killed. But at the mission school, where I got my education, they taught me to think like a white man. Now I'm confused. I do not know.
08:59Well, here is a white man who does. We have no money. But this is rich land and we will give you part of it if you will fight for your part.
09:09Well, this is Martha's day to need forgiveness. She is carrying our first child and she is easily upset.
09:18I'm sure it will be a fine youngster. I'm sorry, Mrs. Whitehorse. I don't care to own land. It's a thing that grows to a man's feet. And that's not the kind of a life I've chosen for myself.
09:30Well, then you have wasted your journey. Because all we have to offer is cows that are dying and land we are being driven from.
09:37Well, you told Peavy he'd have to pay for that horse he shot. I don't mind taking over that debt. I'll trade you the horse you rode home on.
09:45But that is a fine horse. You are cheating yourself.
09:48I may ask Peavy to throw in something else of value. Thank you for your hospitality.
09:53I'll call him.
10:10Hold on, which one are you aiming at?
10:13The horse. What if I hit the rider? Do you know anybody to start crying?
10:16He's not even trying to ride off the ranch yet.
10:19Well, suppose he tries and makes it.
10:22What do you think we're here for?
10:40Get out of the door! Ha!
10:46Get out of there.
11:14You did that shooting?
11:16It's just the Indian's boundary.
11:17We warned you clear enough.
11:19I remember.
11:20Now I'll use one of your horses to get me back to town.
11:23You lay a hand on that bridle, you engine lover, and I'll...
11:25You want some?
11:31Tell McNally what happened.
11:33You'll find me in town.
11:46Yes, sir.
12:10Lovely sight.
12:11What if I ask you to test it?
12:13Mister, I've got enough stuff in bottles and jars to test every substance known to man.
12:17With the possible exception of the local mentality.
12:20That's what I wanted to know.
12:21Of course, it's always this way.
12:26Wish I had a thousand like it.
12:29Keep that one for a starter.
12:30You're kind of generous for a stranger.
12:32You just passing through?
12:34I may be staying at McNally's for a few days.
12:36I'm not impressed.
12:38That's a careless talk, mister.
12:39I understand McNally is a big man around here.
12:41Mister, I've watched your friend being big around here for about five years,
12:44and I'm getting tired of it, and you can tell him so.
12:49Now, what can I do for you?
12:51Do you know the white horses?
12:52You mean our thieving, scalping, over-educated local Indians?
12:55I do.
12:56Before you say your piece, let me inform you this is the only store in town
12:59that'll do business with them, and proud to say it.
13:02Now, what's on your mind?
13:04Well, I guess I've come to the right place.
13:06Well, let's have a look at this gunshot.
13:07Now, then, we begin with the word, suppose.
13:23Dally.
13:28That's Peevee's horse, all right.
13:30Well, let's have a look at this gunshot.
13:33Dally, he's fast.
13:35Go on back to your ranch if you can see your saddle slipping.
13:38There's enough others here to slow him down.
13:46Gentlemen.
13:46You pistol-whip my foreman, steal his horse?
13:54I disciplined your foreman, Mr. McNally.
13:56As to the horse, Peevee owed Joe Whitehorse for one he shot.
13:59I took over the debt and settled it.
14:01You working for Whitehorse?
14:03What kind of men are we breeding, taking wages from an Indian?
14:06I couldn't get a dollar out of him.
14:07He doesn't have one.
14:08That's why I'm here.
14:09And from here, you can see the road out of town.
14:10There's an irritating roughness about the way you people speak.
14:19It makes me obstinate.
14:22You want me to leave town, Mr. McNally?
14:25Well, you're the loud spokesman for this community.
14:28Wouldn't you like to try?
14:31I'm an honest man.
14:32I'm not a gunfighter.
14:34Well, gentlemen, we've established one interesting fact.
14:37If I do lease my services to Joe Whitehorse, we know exactly how you'll react.
14:42If you're not with the Indian, what are you deviling us for?
14:44I want to be hired.
14:46We're doing fine by ourselves.
14:48Neglecting your ranchers, staying away from your work while you try to starve him out?
14:52He don't have to starve.
14:53He can sell me his place.
14:54I offered to buy him out the first day I knew what he was.
14:57But there's nothing more stubborn than an educated Indian.
14:59Did you offer him a profit?
15:01I offered him what he paid for it.
15:02Ask anybody.
15:03I'm asking you.
15:05Does the offer still hold?
15:06Yeah.
15:08If somebody can make him take it.
15:10You saying you can?
15:11All you have to decide is how willing you want that Indian to be.
15:16Well, boys.
15:19I'm buying the land.
15:21I would have to fight your battle for you or are you with me?
15:29Counsel's in with the rest of us.
15:32Let's go open a bottle and talk.
15:34Thought you wanted action.
15:36Well, good.
15:37Get on out there right away.
15:39No, McNally.
15:40First, you go to the bank and withdraw certain funds.
15:43I'm sure Joe Whitehorse will want to be paid off in cash.
15:45That's a lot to trust you with.
15:47I see your point.
15:50Well, you may carry it.
15:52And McNally, carry an extra $2,000.
15:55My fee.
15:56$2,000?
15:57That's right.
15:58My fee just went up.
15:59How much money do you think I've got?
16:01How much do you hate Indians?
16:04Especially the educated variety.
16:10All right.
16:11I'll go to the bank.
16:12Well, you look like a happy man.
16:26Five years I've been dozing among these backward heathen.
16:43Five years with the most complete laboratory in this territory gathering dust.
16:47And all the while pleading with them to submit their problems to the analysis of modern science.
16:51Not a chance.
16:53Not with a McNally telling them how to think.
16:55Science has absolutely no standing in a community where they still bury chicken heads by the light of the moon to get rid of warts.
17:01Well, here we go.
17:11I'm only guessing at what we're looking for.
17:31They're waiting, Mr. Whitehorse.
17:35You've already overtaxed their patients.
17:37Perhaps you did not understand me, Mr. Paladin.
17:40When I said I was stubborn, that meant I would not be pushed off my land.
17:44I'm staying here.
17:45I already told McNally you'd sell.
17:47Then tell him you were mistaken.
17:49Why are you doing this?
17:51Why should you force us off our land?
17:54Is it the money we can't pay you?
17:55Mrs. Whitehorse, it's my considered opinion that this land should belong to McNally.
18:00And what if that is not my opinion?
18:03What if I were to say I were not afraid to stand up to that gun of yours?
18:08Well, now, that would make everything very uncomfortable for me.
18:12You're no better than the others.
18:14You wouldn't turn on us if we weren't different.
18:18We didn't come here to hurt anybody.
18:21The mission didn't teach us to hate and to kill.
18:26We want to live in peace.
18:27To have a home and to build for ourselves and those that come after.
18:31And you know that about us.
18:34You know we want to live.
18:37It's our strength that makes us move on, not yours.
18:46All right, sell it, Joseph.
18:47Give them their bill of sale and let's get out of here.
19:11There.
19:11Now you have earned your money.
19:18I'll tell McNally he can take possession.
19:20But just give us time to pack and leave so we don't have to look at him.
19:23I don't think you'll be here more than a few moments.
19:25It looks like I bought me a ranch.
19:37All right, boys, you know what to do.
19:46Hey!
19:52They're killing them.
19:53Did you know he was going to do this?
19:56I didn't think even McNally was that stupid.
20:02When will you meet a gun faster than yours?
20:08I cannot see how I figured you so wrong.
20:11All signed and delivered, huh?
20:28It's your ranch and you're killing your own cattle.
20:31Ah, filthy disease-ridden critters.
20:33How'd you make out with the Indian?
20:35You pull his Tommy Hawk?
20:36I'm afraid he's given up the ways of his father.
20:39Come into the house and get your bill of sale.
20:41Ah, got no use for a critter that hangs on when he knows he ain't wanted.
20:52Here is your ranch.
20:53I have the feeling you were aging for it even before my cows took sick.
20:59Well, it was you learned something from this business.
21:02You Indians have reservations all over the country.
21:04That's where you belong.
21:05Now forget your full education and go on back to your teepee.
21:08There's one item we don't want to forget.
21:09Two thousand dollars.
21:11See me in town.
21:11I see you right now, Mr. McNally.
21:14Perfectly.
21:18You needed a gunslinger to get rid of us.
21:21We'd have had the land yet if it weren't for him.
21:23I did you a great service, Mrs. Whitehorse.
21:25This land is useless.
21:27It's poisoned.
21:29Poisoned?
21:32Poisoned?
21:34Don't ever try to pass your cattle out here, McNally.
21:36They'll die.
21:37You telling me what I can do?
21:40If that disease is in here that thick, I'll burn this place to the ground.
21:43Every tree, every blade of grass.
21:44There'll be no disease when I get through.
21:46I had the soil analyzed.
21:48There's a particular element that sometimes occurs in excessive amounts.
21:51When that happens, it affects the vegetation, and that's what we have here.
21:54But you said poison.
21:55Almost as bad as poison.
21:56When the cattle eat that vegetation...
21:58Right here on our land?
22:00On McNally's land.
22:01Almost all of it.
22:02There's no such thing.
22:03I'm sorry to say there is.
22:05I saw this cattle sickness once before down on the San Joaquin range.
22:08There's no poison in dirt.
22:10I've lived on the land all my life.
22:11Dirt's dirt.
22:11Except when it's called soil, and then it becomes a particular thing.
22:15The particular thing that you bought would have ruined these people in just a short time.
22:19You really should have waited.
22:21What kind of hogwash?
22:22Do you believe this?
22:24Is this what you were tending to over at Reinhardt's?
22:26He's an excellent chemist.
22:27Never heard of such a thing in all my life.
22:30Well, it's not particularly new.
22:32Molybdenum has been known for centuries.
22:34Looks somewhat like white iron.
22:35Can be found anywhere in the world.
22:37As a matter of fact, Pliny wrote about molybdenum when he was in the employ of the Emperor Nero.
22:42Now there was a man of prejudice.
22:44He kept lions for the people he didn't like.
22:47What the blazes are you talking about in talk English?
22:49I'll spell it out for you.
22:51I'm sure Mrs. Whitehorse won't mind.
22:53The house belongs to Mr. McNally now.
22:57The criminal is called.
22:59Molybdenum, hereafter known as McNally's folly.
23:12And you shouldn't have killed those cattle.
23:14You could have saved them.
23:15Paladin, let me understand one thing.
23:19You knew about this all along?
23:21Let's say I suspected it.
23:23When you took my money?
23:25Well, Reinhardt hadn't confirmed it.
23:26Oh, you've been had, McNally.
23:29This land is useless to you.
23:30And you better have Reinhardt check every acre in this valley.
23:33All right.
23:34I've been out traded.
23:36But I don't lose all.
23:37You're still leaving here.
23:38I do not want your money this way.
23:40It's been in your hands.
23:41I wouldn't touch it.
23:44But this fellow, he's got some money I don't mind taking back.
23:48And I mean to take it.
23:49Ease up, Clyde.
23:50So you went over the saddle.
23:51It happens to every man.
23:52Not to me.
23:53Never draw in anger, Mr. McNally.
24:02It slows the hand.
24:05Get outside.
24:09Outside!
24:09Outside!
24:10If you're looking for some land to buy, I have a section you might care for.
24:32We will see you in town.
24:35No.
24:36Drop by the house.
24:38You'll meet my wife.
24:39You'll meet my wife.
24:47Well.
24:49Well.
24:50I'm sorry to have given you some bad moments.
24:52But it's very difficult to conspire with an honest man.
24:56Oh, Mr. Paladin, you had a very close call.
24:59Well, fortunately, the close ones don't count.
25:01Oh.
25:01Well, I don't mean McNally.
25:06This was going to be my last word to you.
25:09But Martha, I never keep that gun loaded.
25:12I don't care.
25:13I'm sorry.
25:13I don't think it's only not the ponCre.
25:13I don't think it's interesting.
25:14I don't think it's a great joke.
25:18Ha ha ha ha.
25:26Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
25:27Ha!
25:36Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
25:39The End
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