Heritage Of The Desert
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00:01:10Here's a letter I received this morning.
00:01:12Dear sir, in answer to your request for a report on the Eritrean district,
00:01:16there is no improvement in conditions.
00:01:18The land is unproductive and...
00:01:20So my Eritopia is worthless, eh?
00:01:22According to this.
00:01:24You mean to say that land is all left of the Abbot estate?
00:01:27You don't ask 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 Abbot 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,
00:01:57and 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.
00:02:12You might as well make up your mind to do something.
00:02:15Well, 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.
00:02:23I never thought I'd live to see an Abbot
00:02:25who was afraid to go out and claim what was rightfully his,
00:02:28no matter what the danger.
00:02:30But why try to claim worthless property?
00:02:33What do you mean, danger?
00:02:35Suppose I were to tell you that I thought you were being robbed.
00:02:39I'd say it was beginning to sound exciting.
00:02:41Well, I've already written Holderness, your manager out there,
00:02:44to turn everything over to you.
00:02:46How do you know I'm going?
00:02:50You're an Abbot, aren't you?
00:02:53All right, Judge.
00:02:56But don't be surprised if I come back wearing a five-gallon hat
00:02:59in one of those Western get-ups.
00:03:01Those get-ups, as you call them, are worn by real men.
00:03:04Remember that.
00:03:05All right, Judge. Goodbye.
00:03:07Goodbye.
00:03:22Into thy merciful hands,
00:03:25O infinite power, I commend
00:03:28my son.
00:03:31Thy will be done.
00:03:36I can't help it, David.
00:03:38He was so young and so strong.
00:03:41Why did they have to...
00:03:43My daughter, it's not for us to question.
00:03:47It's about time someone started questioning.
00:03:51Where are you going, David?
00:03:53To get Holderness.
00:03:54I forbid it.
00:03:56You're always forbidding it.
00:03:58No, David, this is not the time.
00:04:00Why isn't it?
00:04:01For years, Holderness has been robbing us,
00:04:03driving us further and further into this dead end.
00:04:05My brothers, what have you done about it?
00:04:07Nothing.
00:04:08After all, your father has no real proof
00:04:10that Holderness was responsible for the killings.
00:04:12I have all the proof I need, Thornton.
00:04:15I hear my brother's calling me to even things for him,
00:04:17even if you don't.
00:04:19Violence is not the way to settle things, my son.
00:04:23I found that out years ago.
00:04:26I killed a man without first having proof
00:04:28that 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, David?
00:04:42Maybe at this very moment,
00:04:44a noose might be settling on the neck of Henry Holderness.
00:04:49Stay right here, my boy.
00:05:01THE END
00:05:10Here comes your friend Thornton, Chick.
00:05:14My girlfriend of mine.
00:05:18Where are you heading?
00:05:20None of your business.
00:05:29Hello, Snapp.
00:05:30Hello.
00:05:32What do you two fellas want?
00:05:34Nebraska and me just wanted to make sure
00:05:36everything was in order.
00:05:38We're going to have a good time.
00:05:40We're going to have a good time.
00:05:42We're going to have a good time.
00:05:44What do you two fellas want?
00:05:45Nebraska and me just wanted to make sure
00:05:47everything was all right.
00:05:48It's all right. He's working for me.
00:05:51Why didn't you tell us?
00:05:53I only tell people what they're supposed to know.
00:05:56Now get out and wait till I call you.
00:06:07Why 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, Snapp.
00:06:13Sure I am.
00:06:14Old man Nab just made me foreman.
00:06:16That's fine.
00:06:18Why, everything will be easy for us at the Oasis now.
00:06:21Not 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, coming from a man who killed Saul Nab.
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. You're in too deep.
00:07:01Have a drink.
00:07:05And let's not have any more talk about quitting.
00:07:12What is the situation at the Oasis?
00:07:15The old man's cattle are doing fine.
00:07:18Over a thousand head on the West Range alone.
00:07:20Well, this is going to be a profitable year.
00:07:24I'll give you...
00:07:27...an extra hundred this time.
00:07:30And we'll charge that to the removing of Saul Nab.
00:07:37Sometimes I wish I'd never seen you.
00:07:40If you hadn't, you'd still be just a poor cow and struggling for a few dollars.
00:07:44Well, at least I wouldn't be a double-crosser.
00:07:46And a killer.
00:07:55Take that with you, if you like.
00:08:05Are you sure there ain't even a postal card for me to go for a face?
00:08:09That little waitress over in Granite promised to write me.
00:08:12I told you I ain't finished sorting the mail yet.
00:08:14These are all for the boss.
00:08:26The mail writer just came in.
00:08:29This one's from Chicago.
00:08:31It's from the lawyer.
00:08:40Well, you can go.
00:08:42Yes, sir.
00:08:46Shrek.
00:08:47Yes?
00:08:48Send Nebraska in here.
00:08:50Yes, sir.
00:08:54Nebraska, the boss wants you.
00:09:05I 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. I'll guide him in.
00:09:16I don't want that man to reach White Sage.
00:09:19You understand?
00:09:21His 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.
00:09:29What 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.
00:09:41But the other fella's got to have an even break.
00:09:46A whole even break, Nebraska.
00:09:48That's him.
00:09:49You might try being that way yourself sometimes, Chick.
00:09:53It'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.
00:10:10Dollar's a dollar. Who is he?
00:10:12Why, his name is, uh...
00:10:14John Abbott.
00:10:16John Abbott.
00:10:18That's an easy name to remember.
00:10:33Nice view from up here, huh?
00:10:35Yes.
00:10:37Mighty decent of you to guide me up here.
00:10:39I never found my way alone.
00:10:41Don't mention it.
00:10:42I'm glad I had the chance.
00:10:45Where's the town?
00:10:48Uh, just look down over that ledge and you can see where you're going.
00:10:53I don't know.
00:10:54I don't know.
00:10:55I don't know.
00:10:56I don't know.
00:10:57I don't know.
00:10:58I don't know.
00:10:59I don't know.
00:11:00I don't know.
00:11:01I don't know.
00:11:24My heritage.
00:11:26Were you speaking to me?
00:11:28Uh, no, no.
00:11:32What did you say your name was?
00:11:35You asked me that before.
00:11:37Abbott, I told you.
00:11:38John Abbott.
00:11:45I just wanted to make sure I ain't making no mistake.
00:11:52That was a shot.
00:11:54Maybe someone's hunting.
00:11:55Up there on Satan's Pass with a pistol?
00:11:58Nothing to hunt.
00:11:59Ain't even a grasshopper up there.
00:12:22Help!
00:12:27Help!
00:12:30Help!
00:12:38What?
00:12:39Oh!
00:12:40He's on the quicksand, David!
00:12:42Hilarious!
00:12:51Be careful, Father.
00:12:52I won't.
00:13:00All the way, David!
00:13:13Take it easy, David.
00:13:14Take it easy.
00:13:21He's safe!
00:13:22He's safe!
00:13:28A slug in his chest.
00:13:29It looks bad.
00:13:30Yeah, practically a wing and a 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.
00:13:53Well, how's your patient today, Miriam?
00:13:55About the same, Father.
00:13:56No better, no worse.
00:13:58He'll pull through, my child.
00:14:00The same power that delivered him from his enemies
00:14:03will restore him to health.
00:14:05Enemies?
00:14:07Father!
00:14:09You need have no fear of enemies here, my son.
00:14:13You're with friends.
00:14:15What is your name?
00:14:18The last man who asked me that
00:14:20tried to kill me.
00:14:22Well, never mind.
00:14:23It doesn't matter.
00:14:25We judge a man here by his deeds, not by his name.
00:14:29Rest easy, and we'll have you on your feet in no time.
00:14:33I don't know how I can repay you.
00:14:51What's that?
00:14:57We missed you last night.
00:14:59Where were you, my lad?
00:15:00Why, uh, on the West Range.
00:15:03The stock is crowding seeping wells,
00:15:05and some of them should be driven out.
00:15:07Didn't look that way to me last time I was up there.
00:15:11Well, I'm glad you're all right.
00:15:13I'm glad you're all right.
00:15:15I'm glad you're all right.
00:15:17I'm glad you're all right.
00:15:19There.
00:15:20That red eye you've been drinking makes you see double.
00:15:23Oh, leave me alone, will you?
00:15:25You know I've stopped drinking.
00:15:27There.
00:15:48You sure are paying a lot of attention to him.
00:15:50Who is he?
00:15:51Another stranger lost in the desert.
00:15:54Why does your father bring strays around here?
00:15:58This man might be anything.
00:16:00What difference does that make?
00:16:01He needed our help.
00:16:04Oh, snap.
00:16:05You'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.
00:16:13I like you.
00:16:15You know that.
00:16:16Sure, I know.
00:16:17The way you like everything around here.
00:16:20That isn't what I want, Miriam.
00:16:21Be quiet.
00:16:22You'll awaken him.
00:16:23Oh, now, snap.
00:16:24Please go away.
00:16:25He needs rest.
00:16:39Why didn't you come right back and report?
00:16:42You know you can depend on me.
00:16:44You won't have to worry about him anymore.
00:16:46He's at the bottom of that sandpit at Satan's Pass, what's left of him.
00:16:51It ought to be worth a lot more than this, seeing as how important Abbott was to you.
00:17:03Stop that noise.
00:17:06All right.
00:17:22That's an unusual looking blanket.
00:17:25It's not a blanket.
00:17:26It's a poncho.
00:17:28Here's one.
00:17:30See?
00:17:31It's woven so your head can go through here.
00:17:33Oh.
00:17:34Our men wear them on the high ranges.
00:17:36It gets mighty cold up in the plateaus.
00:17:38Beautiful colors.
00:17:40We make the dyes ourselves.
00:17:42You do?
00:17:43How?
00:17:44From roots, flowers, rocks, even from insects.
00:17:48You people seem to be able to do almost anything.
00:17:51We have to.
00:17:52Almost everything we use here we make ourselves.
00:17:57Miriam.
00:17:58Soap and water, please.
00:18:00Yes, Father.
00:18:03Excuse me.
00:18:04Sure.
00:18:19Thornton doesn't seem to like me.
00:18:21Can't blame him, can you?
00:18:23You know, he'd give his right arm if Miriam worried over him as much as she has over you.
00:18:30But he doesn't seem to be any too fond of you, either.
00:18:33You got a keen eye, ain't you?
00:18:35Ah, I don't trust him.
00:18:37Bad blood.
00:18:39You know, his father was a rum runner.
00:18:41He used to cheat the Indians out of their ponies and blankets by giving them bad whiskey.
00:18:46Cousin Andy picked him up when he was a little shaver and gave him a home.
00:18:50He thinks he's the salt of the earth.
00:18:53Gonna make something out of him.
00:18:55But I'm thinking you can't make a lily white dove out of a desert hawk.
00:19:09Andy!
00:19:16Andy!
00:19:24You stay here, Miriam.
00:19:41What do you want, Nebraska?
00:19:43No trouble this time, Davey.
00:19:45I don't think Holderness Rider ever came here without bringing trouble.
00:19:48That's enough, David.
00:19:52Hey, boss is raising the ante on you this year, Andy.
00:19:55He wants a thousand head of steer.
00:19:57A thousand?
00:19:59Is he crazy?
00:20:01Well, he figures that the use of this oasis and the land and water on the West Range is worth it.
00:20:07Well, we found that water on the West Range and we opened the seeping wells.
00:20:10They belong to us.
00:20:12Well, they all belong to the Aridac Company.
00:20:15You don't have to argue it out with him.
00:20:17Holderness, every time the nabs find rich range and new water, he claims it for his company.
00:20:23Who does Holderness work for?
00:20:25Who's behind that carefully concealed company that he always blames for his lawless actions?
00:20:30Well, your guess is as good as mine.
00:20:32Well, you go back and tell him that I live by the old law that says,
00:20:36render unto every man that which is his.
00:20:39I will 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.
00:20:52But I'm warning you, friendly like,
00:20:56you better think it over.
00:21:10Well, you don't seem to be on very good terms with your landlord.
00:21:14No.
00:21:16I'm afraid for David and Father.
00:21:18They're all I have left.
00:21:20Yes, I know.
00:21:21Nosey told me about your brothers.
00:21:23Holderness was responsible for their deaths.
00:21:25What?
00:21:26He gets rid of everything that stands in his way.
00:21:29Well, wouldn't it be wiser then to get out?
00:21:33We can't get out.
00:21:35We belong to the desert.
00:21:36We're part of it.
00:21:37It's part of us.
00:21:39And we made this oasis what it is.
00:21:41Bit by bit, we reclaimed it from the desert.
00:21:44It should belong to us.
00:21:46I thought it was yours.
00:21:48No.
00:21:49Holderness claimed it for his company.
00:21:51We merely lease it.
00:21:52He charges us whatever he likes.
00:21:54I should think you'd go to the law then.
00:21:57Holderness seems to be the law around here too.
00:22:07Well, what happened?
00:22:08Well, 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 it had 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 crook can handle a gun?
00:22:23Better and the best.
00:22:24So to say.
00:22:25Guess you ain't 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.
00:22:34That's enough of that.
00:22:35Come on in here with me.
00:22:45I think they need another lesson.
00:22:47Now take some men, go to the West Range and blow up seeping wells.
00:22:51Well, it's only water and 30 miles.
00:22:53That'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 war to dumb cattle that can't defend themselves.
00:23:01It's old square deal Nebraska talking again.
00:23:03Ah, shut up.
00:23:05Chance, you do it.
00:23:22All right, hurry it up, men. Come on.
00:23:26Plant a charge in there.
00:23:28You sink another one in there. Hurry up now.
00:23:30Yes, sir.
00:23:33All right, boys, come on.
00:24:04You've walked a long way. You'd better rest.
00:24:06Oh, I'm not tired. I am thirsty.
00:24:09Oh, I forgot to feed Honey. I'll be back.
00:24:34I've been wanting to have a little talk with you, mister.
00:24:37Well, here I am.
00:24:38What is it?
00:24:39Who are you?
00:24:40Where did you come from?
00:24:42That happens to be my business.
00:24:43Well, I'm making it mine.
00:24:45When are you getting out of here?
00:24:47Oh, that all depends.
00:24:50Well, I'd make it soon if I were you.
00:24:53Why should I?
00:24:54You make a lot of money, don't you?
00:24:56I make a lot of money.
00:24:57You make a lot of money.
00:24:58You make a lot of money.
00:24:59You make a lot of money.
00:25:00You make a lot of money.
00:25:02Why should I?
00:25:03You know what I mean.
00:25:05I'm letting no one come between Miriam and me.
00:25:08I'll kill anybody who tries.
00:25:10You understand?
00:25:12I'm leaving here when Andrew Nab tells me to.
00:25:16Not before.
00:25:19And whatever happens to you, remember,
00:25:21you brought it on yourself.
00:25:31Anything wrong, Jack?
00:25:33No, no.
00:25:34Nothing to worry about.
00:25:43Where are you going, David?
00:25:45The West Range.
00:25:46Trouble comes from Holderness.
00:25:47That's where it'll begin.
00:25:49Why don't you take Snap with you?
00:25:51I don't trust you.
00:25:53Oh, you've let nosy poison your mind.
00:25:56Don't you think I can see for myself?
00:25:58And so could you.
00:25:59But you tolerate things from Snap
00:26:00you wouldn't take from your own flesh and blood.
00:26:02Well, just what do you mean, son?
00:26:06You'll find him, father.
00:26:07You'll see what I mean.
00:26:28Come on.
00:26:59Come on.
00:27:25Snap.
00:27:28Snap.
00:27:32Oh, I...
00:27:33I might have killed you.
00:27:36Maybe I'd been better off if you had.
00:27:38Oh, no.
00:27:43You know the trail of misery that stuff brings.
00:27:45Why do you touch it?
00:27:49It's...
00:27:51It's because of what happened between Miriam and me.
00:27:54Well, what has she got to do with it?
00:27:55Well, you know she's everything in the world to me.
00:27:59I started drinking when I saw her
00:28:00falling in love with another man.
00:28:03A man who never worked for her
00:28:04and fought for her the way I have.
00:28:07Who is he?
00:28:08Why, you don't even know his name.
00:28:10He is an honest.
00:28:11He couldn't be, or he wouldn't have anything to hide.
00:28:14Well, maybe it would be better if I sent him away,
00:28:16but I can't turn the man out.
00:28:20Well, it's either him or me.
00:28:21Oh, I guess it doesn't make any difference
00:28:22what happens to me now.
00:28:23No, I'm not going to let you go.
00:28:25Not like this.
00:28:30If I was sure of Miriam,
00:28:32I'd never touch another drop again
00:28:33as long as I live.
00:28:34I swear it.
00:28:39Will you take that pledge on the book?
00:28:42Yes, Father Neb.
00:28:47Come with me.
00:28:49Come with me.
00:28:59Nosey 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.
00:29:11If that's the way you feel,
00:29:12there's nothing more I can say about it.
00:29:14But I, I want you to know
00:29:15that I'll never forget your kindness to me.
00:29:19Goodbye, Miriam.
00:29:20Goodbye, Jack.
00:29:41Stephen Wells has been blown out.
00:29:42That's the work of holiness.
00:29:43Snake and coyotes.
00:29:44Oh, the poor cattle.
00:29:45The walls have caved in.
00:29:46Water probably will never run again.
00:29:47Well, we'll have to get the herd off that range
00:29:49before they die of thirst.
00:29:52Get the horses, Snap.
00:29:56Miriam, you'd better come with us.
00:30:05Nosey,
00:30:07what's the formation of the soil around those wells?
00:30:10Well, it's rocky and kind of steep up above them.
00:30:14Have you got any dynamite?
00:30:15Yeah.
00:30:16Get it.
00:30:17Get it?
00:30:18Yes, get it.
00:30:19What you want it for?
00:30:21Never mind.
00:30:22Get it.
00:30:23Oh, all right.
00:30:35What are we going to do with this stuff?
00:30:37You'll see.
00:30:38You ain't no cow, man.
00:30:39What can you do up yonder?
00:30:40I might be able to find some water.
00:30:42Believe it or not, I studied geology in college.
00:30:44Yeah?
00:30:45What are you going to do with that thing?
00:30:47That's a divining rod.
00:30:49I'm going to find that lost channel.
00:30:51And I didn't learn how in no college either.
00:31:08Yeah.
00:31:25That'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?
00:31:32We'll have to take them to Rimrock Springs.
00:31:35Why, it's 30 miles across that desert.
00:31:37Half of them will be dead before we get there.
00:31:39Can't be helped.
00:31:40It's the only thing we can do to save any of them.
00:31:42Let's start the drive.
00:31:44Come on.
00:32:07Huh?
00:32:26Whoa.
00:32:28They sure did blow it out, didn't they?
00:32:30Yeah.
00:32:32Well, I'll soon find water for you again.
00:32:35You don't really believe in that thing, do you?
00:32:37Sure, a divining rod is good enough for Moses.
00:32:39I reckon it's good enough for me.
00:32:41Say, that rock strata works down to a depression point right there.
00:32:46That means water.
00:32:47Oh, you're crazy.
00:32:50Well, I've got plenty of company anyway.
00:32:52I know I'm local.
00:32:54But you're loonier than I am because you think you've got sense.
00:32:57All the water you can find up there, you can put in your eyes.
00:33:00Let's go and find out.
00:33:27Come on.
00:33:58Come on.
00:34:11Looks like you found something, all right.
00:34:13Yeah.
00:34:14Who's crazy now?
00:34:16I hate to tell you.
00:34:19Cap one of those for me, will you, Nosy?
00:34:20Yeah, sure.
00:34:27Give me a couple of sticks.
00:34:57All right, let's get out of here.
00:35:58How do you like that for a miracle, Andy?
00:36:00And there's water enough there to make a garden spot out of this, too.
00:36:04I knew it was going to turn away the boy who'd done it.
00:36:08Father, you won't send him away now.
00:36:10Of course he won't.
00:36:14Will you remain with us?
00:36:16No.
00:36:17No.
00:36:18No.
00:36:19No.
00:36:20No.
00:36:21No.
00:36:22No.
00:36:23No.
00:36:24No.
00:36:25No.
00:36:26Will you remain with us?
00:36:30All right, if you'll let me.
00:36:33As long as you like.
00:36:35That goes for all of us, Jack.
00:36:37Come in.
00:36:54Come in.
00:36:58Now, you sure outsmarted yourself when you plugged up the seeping wells.
00:37:01Well, they got more water up there now than they know what to do with.
00:37:05Who found the water?
00:37:07The tenderfoot the Nabs picked up in the desert.
00:37:10He's supposed to be a geologist.
00:37:13A rock picker.
00:37:14What's his name?
00:37:15He calls himself Jack.
00:37:17Jack what?
00:37:18I don't know. I never heard.
00:37:19I don't think anybody knows if he has a last name.
00:37:22It's the kind of a fella that's trying to come between Miriam and me.
00:37:26What sort of a man is he?
00:37:28Why don't you take a ride out to the oasis and see for yourself?
00:37:35I think I will.
00:37:47You 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 was going to belong to you when we was making them.
00:38:00I don't know what to say.
00:38:03You don't have to say anything. You've earned them.
00:38:05Why, you haven't seen the best present of all yet.
00:38:20There it is.
00:38:22You...
00:38:24You're not giving me Silvermane too?
00:38:26Yes.
00:38:28He's a great horse, Jack.
00:38:31Be good to him, won't you?
00:38:42It's Holderness.
00:38:53Give me that, David.
00:38:57Losey.
00:39:01Losey.
00:39:13So you're the rock picker?
00:39:15You mean I'm a geologist?
00:39:17Yes.
00:39:18How did you know?
00:39:19Oh, I've seen some of your work.
00:39:21I may pay you for locating that water for me.
00:39:24I've got some other prospects I'd like checked.
00:39:26Thanks. I may do that.
00:39:28But right now, I happen to be working for Mr. Nabb.
00:39:32You look lovely, Miriam.
00:39:34How are things with you and Snap?
00:39:39What do you want?
00:39:43A thousand head of cattle. When 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 refused to pay you tribute.
00:39:57Three of my sons are dead because of you.
00:40:00That's enough, Nabb.
00:40:01You're rotten all the way through, Holderness.
00:40:05You've fattened on the lifeblood of every family in this desert.
00:40:09Why, you blabbering old fool.
00:40:11I'll show you.
00:40:14Nabb's trick.
00:40:17Hey, I never would have believed it.
00:40:22You're alive today only because there's a higher law than man's.
00:40:27Now get out.
00:40:34I'm going to kill you.
00:40:36I'm going to kill you.
00:40:38I'm going to kill you.
00:40:40I'm going to kill you.
00:40:43I'm going to kill you.
00:40:45I'm going to kill you.
00:41:12Take this, my boy.
00:41:14I'll be with you always.
00:41:16Behind it, you'll be as strong as he.
00:41:21Jack.
00:41:26Oh, Jack, what's wrong?
00:41:28Nothing. I'll be all right.
00:41:30Davey, help me.
00:41:33And be careful of him.
00:41:36Say, Andy, it's a good thing Snap ain't here to see Miriam
00:41:39making a fuss over Jack that-a-way.
00:41:42She's separated.
00:41:44I promised her to Snap.
00:41:46Oh, hold on, Andy. You can't stop human nature.
00:41:49Tomorrow, I want you to take Jack up to Crimson Glory Meadows
00:41:53and keep him there until I send for you.
00:41:56And, uh, teach him how to use this.
00:42:13Come on, hurry up with that breakfast. I'm hungry.
00:42:16Ah, you're always hungry these days.
00:42:19You know, these two months up here sure made a big difference in you.
00:42:23Thanks to you, Dr. Nosy.
00:42:25Yeah, while I'm firing the flapjacks, you get in some pistol practice.
00:42:29I hung up some pine cones over there for you.
00:42:32Every time you hit a cone, you get a flapjack.
00:42:35Come on, start shooting.
00:42:43That's three flapjacks.
00:42:45Four.
00:42:46Aw, Nick, ain't a hit. You only wiggled it a little bit.
00:42:49Oh, getting technical, huh?
00:42:52Five.
00:42:53That's enough.
00:42:54Come on, I can't be flapping these flapjacks for you all day.
00:43:02Four.
00:43:03Five.
00:43:04That's enough.
00:43:05Come on, I can't be flapping these flapjacks for you all day.
00:43:12That's enough.
00:43:13That's enough.
00:43:39You've been on the white stage all week. What were you doing there so long?
00:43:42I had to wait for this, and it was worth waiting for.
00:43:44No other girl in Aratai ever had one like it.
00:43:48Miriam!
00:43:55It's for you.
00:43:55Open it.
00:44:12Well, aren't you going to say something, Miriam?
00:44:28It's beautiful.
00:44:32I got the rings, too.
00:44:33See?
00:44:34See?
00:45:04and let her decide for herself.
00:45:07A promise must be kept, my boy.
00:45:11They'll be happy.
00:45:12You'll see.
00:45:15Ride through the Aradar.
00:45:16Tell all our friends that Snap and Miriam
00:45:18are going to be married two weeks from today.
00:45:23You'll see.
00:45:24You'll see.
00:45:25You'll see.
00:45:26You'll see.
00:45:27You'll see.
00:45:28You'll see.
00:45:29You'll see.
00:45:30You'll see.
00:45:31Two weeks from today.
00:45:45Let's take a ride over those hills.
00:45:47Why do you want to go over there first?
00:45:49Oh, it might be interesting geologically.
00:45:52Like to find more water over there, too?
00:45:55Maybe.
00:45:57You know, I like you.
00:45:59You're the first cuckoo I ever met
00:46:01who's more curiouser than me.
00:46:04Come on, let's go.
00:46:05Yeah.
00:46:16Jack.
00:46:27You know, Nebraska ain't doing that just for exercise.
00:46:30Unless I miss my guess, old Hank Holderness
00:46:33is fixing himself a hideout again the day of judgment.
00:46:45Come on.
00:46:46Come on.
00:46:54Hey, boy.
00:46:59Boys in town passed the word you wanted to see me.
00:47:01Don't you got any better sense than to be riding in here
00:47:03in broad daylight?
00:47:04I made sure the course was clear.
00:47:06What's on your mind?
00:47:07We can't talk here.
00:47:09Go ahead and talk.
00:47:10There ain't been a sign of life around this place
00:47:12in more than an hour.
00:47:16How would you like to make a couple hundred dollars?
00:47:19Depends on how much work I have to do to earn it.
00:47:24That rock picker's been getting in my way around here.
00:47:27Yeah?
00:47:28I heard about him.
00:47:31Can't roll the money.
00:47:33He's a hundred now.
00:47:35He'll get the rest after.
00:47:38Where is he?
00:47:40He's up in Crimson Glory Meadows.
00:47:43We'll find him.
00:48:03Hey, Nebraska, what's the best way to get up to the Crimson Glory?
00:48:06Well, if we don't know the short trail,
00:48:08it's best to go around them by Satan's Pass.
00:48:11What are they heading up there for?
00:48:13Got a little job to do.
00:48:15Who's going to get it in the back this time?
00:48:18The rock picker.
00:48:34Oh, Miss Nair!
00:48:35Oh, Miss Nair!
00:49:04Jack, 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?
00:49:10Who's Chick Chance?
00:49:11One of the holiness men.
00:49:12Fellow 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, please get out of here.
00:49:30Yes.
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.
00:49:45He's riding toward the pass.
00:49:46Yeah.
00:49:47I never saw such a fellow for riding into the wrong places.
00:50:16Jack!
00:50:42Remember me, Mr. Chance?
00:50:45Why, you...
00:50:46You're John Abbott.
00:50:48Yeah.
00:50:49What's the matter?
00:50:50Forgotten how to whistle?
00:51:15I almost wish you hadn't come up here today, Miriam.
00:51:33I'll miss you more than ever now.
00:51:36I'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?
00:51:59I wrote up to tell you the news, Jack, but I guess Miriam's beat me to it.
00:52:04What is it?
00:52:06My father sent me to carry the word to the Eretara ranchers that...
00:52:10What word?
00:52:12Well, 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, Davey.
00:52:26Miriam, it isn't true, is it?
00:52:29Jack, there are some forces too strong to fight.
00:52:33What do you mean?
00:52:34What forces?
00:52:35All my life, I've been taught to obey my father's every wish.
00:52:39It's too late to change now.
00:52:41But...
00:52:42But he can't marry you off to someone you don't love.
00:52:44It 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.
00:52:53And I thought you loved me.
00:52:57I do.
00:52:58You know that.
00:53:00Oh, 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.
00:53:12I'll never forget you, Jack.
00:53:15Never.
00:53:33Where are you going?
00:53:35What difference does it make? I'm getting out of here.
00:53:37So, you're going to quit without trying, huh?
00:53:40Running away from the thing you want most.
00:53:43Why didn't you just grab her, throw her on the horse, and run off with her?
00:53:48Oh, maybe you're scared of Snap, is that it?
00:53:51No, I'm not scared of Snap.
00:53:52Well, then you're scared of Andy Knapp.
00:53:54Oh, go away, nosy.
00:53:56Well, what's the matter with you?
00:53:57Are you a man or a mouse?
00:53:59A mouse.
00:54:00A mouse, I reckon, or you wouldn't be quitting so easy.
00:54:03Are the Knapp's any better than the Abbott's?
00:54:06How did you know my name's Abbott?
00:54:08Oh, just kind of accidental luck.
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.
00:54:16I know who you are, and I know who owns all of Ayrton, so shut up.
00:54:21Don't you know that women always have to do just so much blabbing and boo-hooing when they're stuck on a fella?
00:54:28You know, women always like to feel noble and self-sacrificing.
00:54:33That's just so that afterwards they can say,
00:54:35I 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.
00:54:48Yeah.
00:54:49She's washed your face and tucked your bib in so long now,
00:54:53she figures you ain't got mustard enough to take care of yourself even yet.
00:54:58And I guess you ain't.
00:54:59Is that so?
00:55:01Well, 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 some...
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.
00:55:24Hey.
00:55:28Is there a letter here for John Abbott?
00:55:30No.
00:55:54Maybe you haven't heard, Holderness,
00:55:56but opening other people's mail is a penitentiary offense.
00:55:59I represent the Arata Company and Abbott, since he's dead.
00:56:04Pretty sure of Abbott's death, aren't you?
00:56:07Even a man like Chick Chance slips up once in a while.
00:56:11I'm John Abbott.
00:56:15I'll take care of that.
00:56:19You're a notary, aren't you?
00:56:21Yes, certainly.
00:56:23Notarize my signature.
00:56:34Take it easy, boys.
00:56:36I'll be back in a minute.
00:56:38I'll be back in a minute.
00:56:40I'll be back in a minute.
00:56:42I'll be back in a minute.
00:56:44I'll be back in a minute.
00:56:46Take it easy, boys.
00:56:48What? What's the matter?
00:56:50What's going on in there?
00:56:51I don't mind what's going on. Unbuckle those guns and drop them.
00:56:56Come on, hurry up.
00:57:02Get in there.
00:57:04Come on.
00:57:07Get a move.
00:57:10This is a grantee transferring certain properties in Arata to one Miriam Knapp.
00:57:15Did you swear?
00:57:16Yes.
00:57:18Nebraska!
00:57:19I'm afraid Nebraska won't be joining us, Mr. Holderness.
00:57:23That'll be four bits to make it legal.
00:57:32Now I'll just take this record of how you've managed my estate for 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.
00:57:47Get him inside.
00:57:48Come on, get in that room. Hurry up.
00:57:51Get a move.
00:57:54Take this, Nosy.
00:57:57Take this, Nosy.
00:58:06Well, looks like we've come to the end of our rope.
00:58:09I'm not through yet. Break down that door.
00:58:11We're writing for Rock Mountain Hideout.
00:58:26Come on, let's go.
00:58:57All right.
00:59:07Hello, Dad.
00:59:23I get it, Miriam.
00:59:27Why, it's a deed to the Oasis.
00:59:31Then you're the owner of the Arata.
00:59:33Yes, but I want you to know that whatever Holderness did wasn't done in my name.
00:59:38Why, there's no need for you to tell me that, my boy.
00:59:41Well, I'm grateful to you, Jack, but we can't accept this.
00:59:45Why not?
00:59:47By rights, the Oasis ought to belong to the Nabs anyway.
00:59:50You'd better dress, dear.
01:00:20Come on.
01:00:39Miriam.
01:00:45Listen, you ain't gonna marry Snap.
01:00:48If you do something, you'll be sorry for all the rest of your life.
01:00:50I'm not thinking of myself. You 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.
01:00:58What are you saying?
01:01:00You heard me. He's all I said he was and more.
01:01:02Why, listen, he's been working for Holderness for years, and I can prove it.
01:01:18Now, here's your horse and here's the open desert.
01:01:21It's the last chance you got to get the man you really love.
01:01:24Will you take it?
01:01:26Yes, I will.
01:01:27Good.
01:01:38Miriam, meet you at the railroad station at Granite Junction.
01:01:42Thanks, Josie.
01:01:49Miriam.
01:02:05She's gone. She's riding out across the desert.
01:02:08You had something to do with this.
01:02:12Snap, wait! Miriam's horse is gone.
01:02:17You're staying here, Jack.
01:03:12Get back!
01:03:19It's Miriam.
01:03:21We'll hold her in case the maps start anything.
01:03:42Hello, Miriam.
01:03:49What sort of a honeymoon is this, Snap?
01:03:51Davy!
01:03:52They'd call that bridal.
01:03:53Do you know of anyone who has a better ride to it?
01:03:55It looks as if you've picked the wrong place to start trouble, ma'am.
01:03:58You keep out of this, Holderness.
01:04:00Why, Snap's my friend. I 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, Davy.
01:04:09Not without you, Miriam.
01:04:11Davy, don't!
01:04:14Ride for father, Davy!
01:04:25He won't get very far.
01:04:40Here's a record of all the money Holderness paid, Snap.
01:04:42Been going on for years.
01:04:44We're right against Holderness, Andrew.
01:04:46Every one of us has got a score to settle with him.
01:04:48Yes, sir.
01:04:50No.
01:04:52Well, maybe this will change your mind.
01:04:54Look at that.
01:04:56For taking care of Saul Knab, $100.
01:04:59Snap Thornton killed him.
01:05:01He's got a score to settle with him.
01:05:03He's got a score to settle with him.
01:05:05He's got a score to settle with him.
01:05:07$100.
01:05:08Snap Thornton killed your boy, Saul.
01:05:16Why, it's Davy!
01:05:28Oh, what's happened?
01:05:29Davy.
01:05:30Is it Davy?
01:05:33It doesn't hurt now.
01:05:37Jack.
01:05:39Holderness has buried me in the past.
01:05:49Miriam.
01:05:50We did it.
01:05:53Holderness.
01:06:07Holderness.
01:06:37Holderness.
01:06:38Holderness.
01:07:07Holderness.
01:07:19Would you go in?
01:07:29Where are you going?
01:07:30To get Miriam.
01:07:32Careful.
01:07:38You're a justice of the peace.
01:07:40This is as good a time as any for the wedding.
01:07:42Oh, that can wait until we prepare this place for defense.
01:07:45Why, you're safe enough.
01:07:46You've got this place covered.
01:07:47Let's get on with my affairs.
01:07:49Now, hold on.
01:07:50Justice Quirk says such a marriage won't be legal.
01:07:56All right, then.
01:07:57I'm taking her back to the Knabs.
01:07:58No, you don't.
01:07:59And keep out of there.
01:08:00I'm getting out.
01:08:01Sure.
01:08:02But you're going alone.
01:08:07What are you going to do with her?
01:08:09If it's any of your business, I'm keeping her here in case Knab 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.
01:08:20Now, get out.
01:08:38I hate to leave you to take care of yourself as well.
01:08:44That can't be helped.
01:08:48Why, it's a dusty place.
01:08:50Goodbye.
01:08:52Bye-bye.
01:08:53Bye-bye.
01:08:55I'll never be able to forget this man.
01:08:58I'll never be able to forget this man.
01:08:59I'll never be able to forget him.
01:09:03Goodbye.
01:09:04Goodbye.
01:09:05Goodbye.
01:09:08Goodbye.
01:09:09Goodbye.
01:09:10I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is somethin'
01:09:30I can't stomach.
01:09:31He's in the canyon at the foot of Rock Mountain.
01:09:32Get out, come on.
01:09:34There he is.
01:09:35Mosey alone.
01:09:36I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is somethin'
01:09:37I can't stomach.
01:09:38He's in the canyon at the foot of Rock Mountain.
01:09:39Get out, come on.
01:09:40I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is somethin'
01:09:41I can't stomach.
01:09:42He's in the canyon at the foot of Rock Mountain.
01:09:43Get out, come on.
01:09:44I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:09:45I can't stomach.
01:09:46I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:09:47I can't stomach.
01:09:48I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:09:49I can't stomach.
01:09:50I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:09:51I can't stomach.
01:09:52I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:09:53I can't stomach.
01:09:54I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:09:55I can't stomach.
01:09:56I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:09:57I can't stomach.
01:09:58I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:09:59I can't stomach.
01:10:00I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:10:27I can't stomach.
01:10:55I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:11:23I can't stomach.
01:11:53I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:12:20I can't stomach.
01:12:50I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:17I can't stomach.
01:13:18I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:19I can't stomach.
01:13:20I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:21I can't stomach.
01:13:22I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:23I can't stomach.
01:13:24I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:25I can't stomach.
01:13:26I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something I
01:13:27can't stomach.
01:13:28I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something I
01:13:29can't stomach.
01:13:30I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:31I can't stomach.
01:13:32I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:33I can't stomach.
01:13:34I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:35I can't stomach.
01:13:36I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something
01:13:37I can't stomach.
01:13:38I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something I
01:13:39can't stomach.
01:13:40I ain't got long to live, fightin' is my business, playin' the lowdown on women is something I
01:13:41can't stomach.