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00:00From the archives of the United States Cavalry, the true stories of Colonel Randall McKenzie
00:13and the cavalrymen he led, McKenzie's Raiders.
00:18His secret orders from the President of the United States, clean up the Southwest, make
00:22it a fit place for Americans to live, wipe out the renegades, outlaws, and murderers.
00:28If necessary, cross the Rio Grande, knowing capture means hanging by the enemy.
00:33Discovery, court-martialed by the United States Army.
00:53The year, 1873, the place, Fort Clark, Texas, a remote military installation close to the
01:00Mexican border.
01:01Its commanding officer, Colonel Randall McKenzie, 4th United States Cavalry.
01:07His orders, clean up the Southwest under any condition.
01:12McKenzie's control of the area depended on his vital supply lines.
01:15They had to be protected at all costs to ensure the 4th Cavalry's effectiveness as a striking
01:21force.
01:23May, 1873, three convoys outbound from Fort Clark had been totally destroyed.
01:29The loss of both men and equipment was more than Colonel McKenzie's ill-equipped command
01:34could afford.
01:35A way had to be found to combat this powerful, unseen foe.
01:39The last deserted stretch of badland before reaching the open plains that led to the fort
01:45was called Killer's Notch.
01:47It was in this area that the crippling raids took place.
02:32Come on, let's go!
02:59Come in.
03:14Any report?
03:15Nowhere to work, sir.
03:16Two hours overdue.
03:22Detail assembled for search duty?
03:23Yes, sir.
03:24Attention!
03:25Dismissed.
03:26Halt!
03:28Attention!
03:34Dismissed.
03:40Halt!
03:46Did you check the men's weapons?
04:00Yes, sir.
04:01Just like the other time.
04:02They never got off on answering wrong.
04:04There must have been 50 in the gang, sir.
04:08All firing on the number 2.
04:09Do this.
04:11Three convoys ambushed.
04:13Three armed escorts wiped out to the last man, and I...
04:17All right.
04:18Get the bodies back to the fort.
04:20Yes, sir.
04:21Oh, Colonel!
04:25It's Trooper Combs, sir.
04:26He's still alive.
04:27Can he talk?
04:28No, sir.
04:29And if we don't get him doctored up fast...
04:30All right, all right.
04:31Get him back to the post as quickly as possible.
04:34Let's concentrate on the ambushers while there's still light.
04:36Prepare the men to mount and search the area.
04:39Yes, sir.
04:40Troopers, halt!
04:41There must be 50,000 beautiful dollars here.
05:06Maybe more.
05:07We did it again, Kraft, huh?
05:09We?
05:10Well, you and your boys did the job, sure.
05:12Well, I told you about it, didn't I?
05:13You'll get paid proper for it.
05:14How long will it take this stuff to be broken into small bills?
05:18Oh, a month.
05:19Maybe more.
05:20Month?
05:21Well, most of these are 50s and 100s.
05:22I have to send them to Chicago and St. Louis to do the job.
05:24It'll take time.
05:25McKenzie will be poking around.
05:27You're nervous about McKenzie Duke.
05:28Well, he's smart.
05:30Don't underrate him.
05:31Believe me.
05:32Suppose he is.
05:33How's he gonna tie us into the deal?
05:34Well, there were no survivors, huh?
05:37No survivors.
05:38I personally saw to it.
05:40Now, get this stuff counted.
05:41They're on its way.
05:45Only the approach of night halted Colonel McKenzie and his men in their grim search for
05:49the ambushers.
05:53Is this the man, Sergeant?
06:02Sir.
06:04Stand easy, Henningsen.
06:08What's the word on Trooper Cronin?
06:09He's still alive, sir.
06:11Doctor's with him.
06:12Corporal Nathan's standing by.
06:16If you don't need talk, tell us what happened.
06:23Dispatch arrived from Washington this afternoon, sir.
06:25It's the answer to your request for more troops.
06:32Additional troopers not available at this time.
06:36I've lost 20 men in the last month.
06:39Twenty men.
06:40All the bloody, hard-fought gains that this fort has made since it was activated
06:43are being knocked into a cocked hat.
06:45But there are no additional troopers available at this time.
06:48Sir, there are non-combatant troops available.
06:50The dispatch says they'll send you an adjutant if you need one.
06:53There were four men killed this afternoon.
06:55They never knew what hit them.
06:56They never had a chance.
06:57I don't need non-combatant adjutants to help me prevent that happening again.
07:00I need fighting men.
07:02Yes.
07:03Yes, Nathan, come in.
07:06What about Trooper Cronin?
07:08Trooper Cronin is dead, sir.
07:13Did he, uh...
07:15Was he able to tell us anything?
07:17No, sir.
07:18He never regained consciousness.
07:21All right, Corporal.
07:23Yes, sir.
07:28Have Sergeant Armbruster tell off five troopers for special duty.
07:32Yes, sir.
07:33What kind of special duty?
07:35Just tell them I said they may enjoy it.
07:38Yes, sir.
07:54Tomorrow, we're going to escort another convoy through the notch.
07:58This time, we're going to be ready for an attack.
08:00And I'm depending on you men to see to it that we are attacked.
08:04You're all at liberty until reveille tomorrow.
08:06I want you to spend that liberty in Brackettville.
08:09Be friendly and loose-tongued about our mission.
08:12Talk to anybody who'll talk to you.
08:14The facts of the mission are these.
08:16The convoy will leave here at 10 a.m.
08:19We'll go through Killer's Notch.
08:21We'll be escorting the payroll for Fort Crandall.
08:26It's important, men.
08:28I'm counting on you.
08:31Sergeant.
08:33Halt!
08:34Dismissed.
08:36Ready the horses, Sergeant.
08:40Is that reward notice ready?
08:42Yes, sir.
08:55Brackettville, the sinkhole of the Southwest.
08:59A gathering place for all the filth and evil of this desolate frontier.
09:04By McKenzie's orders, it was tolerated.
09:07For it sometimes was the source of valuable information.
09:11For months, McKenzie had suspected the Brackettville General Store
09:15and its owner, Duke Farrell,
09:17of dealing in more than dry goods and hunting rifles.
09:20It was the best place to begin.
09:22This is probably the best model I've got.
09:25Good evening, Mr. Farrell.
09:27Good evening, Colonel.
09:31My condolences.
09:32My condolences on that terrible affair in the Notch.
09:36You heard about it?
09:38Oh, yes. It's all over town.
09:41Is it true?
09:43Unfortunately, yes.
09:46Oh, it's a nice rifle. The sharps.
09:48Yes, it's the very latest. It's a beauty.
09:50Where's the rear sight?
09:52Here.
09:54Oh, assemble it for me, will you, Mr. Farrell?
09:56Certainly, Colonel.
09:58No survivors, huh?
09:59One.
10:02One?
10:07How fortunate, Colonel.
10:16Better let me help you with that, Mr. Farrell.
10:29There you are, Mr. Farrell.
10:31If you hear of anything worth passing on,
10:34let me know, won't you?
10:36Certainly, Colonel.
10:38Oh, and by the way,
10:40you wouldn't mind if I posted a notice in your store, would you?
10:43My pleasure, Colonel.
10:49It's a reward for those bushwhackers I was telling you about.
10:59Sergeant,
11:01after we pass that window,
11:03you keep walking.
11:29I tell you, McKenzie knows.
11:31One of his men lived.
11:33I told you, I personally saw to it
11:35that they were all finished off.
11:37He knows nothing. He's fishing.
11:39I want you to get some ammunition and lots of it.
11:42Ammunition?
11:44One of McKenzie's little boys in blue
11:46was shooting his mouth off.
11:48There's another shipment going through the notch tomorrow morning.
11:50You may be underrating him.
11:52This could be a trap.
11:54A trap?
11:56You forgot something, Duke.
11:58We got the Gatling gun and McKenzie don't know it.
12:04$1,000 reward for information
12:07leading to the capture, dead or alive,
12:09of persons or person
12:11who ambushed...
12:15Nice easy way to earn $1,000, eh, Duke?
12:18What are you talking about?
12:20Comes to me,
12:22you're the only one besides me and the boys
12:24who knows we got the gun and where she's set up.
12:25You wouldn't be tempted to turn us in
12:27for a measly $1,000 reward, would you, Duke?
12:29Me?
12:31Of course, if you ever was foolish enough to do that,
12:33your corpse would be worth $1,000 and that's all.
12:36You get the idea, don't you?
12:38Now get that ammunition ready.
12:40My boys will be picking it up.
12:55On the morning of May 30th, 1873,
12:58seven grim-faced troopers, acting as decoys,
13:01waited for the command
13:03to escort an empty transport wagon
13:05through the notch.
13:07McKenzie's plan was ready to be put into action.
13:12Come in.
13:14What's the matter?
13:16I don't know, Duke.
13:18I don't know.
13:20I don't know.
13:22I don't know.
13:23Come in.
13:26Mr. Farrell, sir.
13:28Ah, yes.
13:30Uh, get Mr. Farrell a chair, Corporal.
13:40Hey, the Corporal said that you needed my help
13:43and of course I responded.
13:45Well, I appreciate that, Mr. Farrell.
13:47How may I be of service?
13:49Uh, that notice I posted in your store last night,
13:52I thought by now you might have some information for me.
13:55Information?
13:57No, nothing at all.
13:59Somehow, Colonel, I feel that you seem to think...
14:03Uh, no.
14:05No, sir, nothing. Nothing at all.
14:07Mm-hmm.
14:09That man that came into your store as I was leaving,
14:11uh, who is he?
14:13Man? In my store?
14:15Oh, yes, I remember.
14:17It was a customer. I'd never seen him before.
14:19Oh, a complete stranger.
14:20Yes, that's right. He was interested in a bowie knife
14:22and he looked at my stock.
14:24Well, you seemed to have a pretty animated conversation
14:27with this stranger after I left,
14:29before you two disappeared into the back room.
14:32Oh, I think you must be mistaken, Colonel.
14:34I... I never...
14:36All right, Mr. Farrell. Come on.
14:38You're coming with us.
14:40Where to?
14:42Into the notch.
14:44Into Killer's notch.
14:46You, me, and a handful of troopers.
14:48Corporal?
14:50Mr. Farrell will accompany us.
14:52Please escort him to the convoy.
15:01You're bluffing, McKenzie.
15:03Hmm.
15:05After you, Mr. Farrell.
15:10There's no reason for this, Colonel.
15:12You won't find anything in the notch.
15:14I think we will.
15:16When we get close enough to be in danger,
15:17I think we'll find something.
15:47Let's go.
16:18Carbines at the ready, Sergeant.
16:20Slow march.
16:22Carbines at the ready.
16:24Slow march.
16:28Colonel!
16:30Colonel!
16:33Colonel!
16:35Colonel!
16:37Colonel!
16:39Colonel!
16:41Colonel!
16:43Colonel!
16:45Colonel!
16:46Colonel!
16:53Colonel, that man last night.
16:55He's waiting up there.
16:58How many men are with him?
17:00I don't know.
17:02Where is he?
17:04I don't know. Believe me, he could be anywhere.
17:06Where is he?
17:08I don't know.
17:10They could go off at any minute.
17:12Turn back, I beg you.
17:16Turn back!
17:18They've got a Gatling gun!
17:21Gatling gun?
17:23I should have known.
17:25All those men murdered without a chance to defend themselves
17:27because they've got a Gatling gun.
17:34Where is it? Where's the gun?
17:36I don't know.
17:38I swear.
17:39Where is it?
17:41I don't know.
17:43All right, Mr. Farrell, perhaps we can jog your faulty memory.
17:44Sergeant Armbruster?
17:46Yes, sir.
17:48Put this man in uniform.
17:54That's fine, boys.
17:56Now fetch ammunition and fetch plenty of it.
17:59This baby has a large appetite.
18:11I should imagine our gun emplacement is somewhere in those hills.
18:14Yes.
18:18Let's find out.
18:20Mr. Farrell, you ride on the wagon.
18:22Sergeant, ride beside him.
18:24Slowly, straight ahead.
18:26The rest of us will go up in those rocks and see if we can draw their fire.
18:28Yes, sir.
18:30All right, Mr. Farrell, back on the wagon.
18:44Two soldier boys and a nice, fat wagon.
18:46Get back.
18:49Don't fire until I give the word.
18:51Not before.
18:53Surprise me, boys, surprise me.
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22:49Sit up.
22:50I'll try to work around behind him.
22:52You go that way, but keep low.
22:54Yes, sir.
23:42That's for my 20 men.
24:05Come in.
24:08It's time from Washington, sir.
24:10Oh, read it, Corporal.
24:12At your request, Gatling gun was shipped to you the 14th of June last.
24:15Have no acknowledgment of receipt of same.
24:17Request receipt for our records.
24:20All right.
24:22Take an answer.
24:25Gatling gun in question had been stolen.
24:28Located same. Engaged same.
24:31Captured same.
24:33Ronald S. McKenzie, 4th Cavalry Commanding.
24:36Yes, sir.
24:38Oh, one other thing, Corporal.
24:39Pass the word to Lieutenant Taylor, saber drill this afternoon will be suspended.
24:43Gatling gun drill instead.
24:46Yes, sir.
24:59McKenzie's raiders did ride again and again,
25:03carrying out the secret orders of the President of the United States.
25:06Do whatever necessary to clean up the Southwest.
25:09Make it a decent place for people to live.
25:12Ride with McKenzie's raiders as they relive the blazing pages of history in the making.
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