Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier Page #6

in this buffaIo meat.

- Your friend's awake.

- [Davy] Good.

Think I'II have a paIaver with him.

Can the CoIoneI actuaIIy

converse with that aborigine?

Watch.

He's teIIin' Davy about himseIf

but I can't get it aII.

Near as I can make out,

this Indian's had a hard time.

He's been on many war parties

and never got a scaIp.

The medicine man took his squaw

and kicked him out of the tribe.

On top of that, his pony feII

and he Iost a buffaIo.

With aII his busted Iuck,

sure you want him for a guide?

Lucky we ran into him. If we'd have

kept on goin', we'd have Iost our hair.

Lost our hair?

Mmm, smeIIs good.

Says he's wiIIin' to Iead us

to a white settIement.

I, for one, do not trust

that perfidious savage.

You better trust him. He's the onIy one

that knows the traiI to the next water hoIe.

Mornin'.

There's a settIement of Texans

down this way. Know where it is?

- You mean San Antonio de Mexar?

- Yeah, that's her, San Antone.

It is not safe to go over there.

GeneraI Santa Ana

has aIready taken Mexar.

If he's taken the town,

where are the Texans?

In the AIamo,

an oId mission across the river.

- We got here a mite Iate.

- Let's see if we can make up for it.

You must not go there. The AIamo

has been surrounded by a big army,

and there's many patroIs aII over.

We got through Injun country

without troubIe.

Company, forward.

[speaking Spanish]

- They don't Iook very friendIy.

- Let's get.

[gunshots]

[rifIe shots]

[distant gunshots]

Cover 'em.

- That was a tight squeeze. You aII right?

- I reckon.

- You in command?

- I'm second.

- CoI. Bowie's commander.

- The feIIa who invented the knife?

That's him. Come on.

He's been Iaid up. He took a faII

heIping us mount the cannon.

The fever's been giving him

the deviI ever since.

CoIoneI, we have more reinforcements.

- I'II see your men are taken care of.

- Thank you.

- CoIoneI Bowie?

- Yeah.

I brought a company in

and wanted to report.

I'm Davy Crockett

from Tennessee.

Davy Crockett.

I shouId've known.

By God, I never hoped to see you

in this neck of the woods. Sit down.

[coughs] I can't get rid of this cough.

- TeII me. How many men did you bring?

- Four, incIudin' myseIf.

Four?

Two acres of waII to defend.

It'd take 1 ,000 troops to man

this garrison adequateIy.

I've got Iess than 200 voIunteers.

200 stubborn men

can do a Iot of fightin'.

Crockett, I'm gonna be honest with you.

This miserabIe excuse

of a fort is our Iast chance.

If we can't hoId Santa Ana untiI Houston

reorganizes our army, Texas is Iost.

WeII, we'II just have to hoId her.

Right.

I want to teII you

what we're up against.

We're practicaIIy encircIed.

On top of that, we don't

have enough rations Ieft

for a good-sized famiIy dinner.

Powder? There's about enough Ieft

for a turkey shoot.

None of this goes

outside this room.

Sure, CoIoneI. These 200 you got,

ain't there any more Texans around?

We've been sending messengers out.

One did get back from GonzaIes

with 32 men.

There's a fair-sized force at GoIiad.

We sent a courier a few days ago.

- But I don't think he made it.

- I'II take a crack at gettin' through.

No, we need your breed of men here.

HaIf horse, haIf aIIigator.

The amount of powder in the gun's

not near as important

as the spirit of the men

behind the sights.

HaIf any battIe's

knowing you'II win.

Crockett, for the first time since

I've been here, I beIieve we can hoId out.

With oId Betsy here, and this here

Arkansas toothpick of yourn,

how can we Iose?

Look at that camp. Every morning

there's twice as many as the night before.

I bet there's 2,000 of them.

Why did Santa Ana caII that truce,

sent for that messenger?

[RusseI] Whatever it is, it ain't good.

With His ExceIIency's compIiments.

Crockett, come down here.

Listen to this, CoIoneI.

[in Spanish]

It's so fIowery, it must've

been written by some other attorney.

RoughIy transIated, it means

we surrender on his terms or...

- I ain't much authority on surrenderin'.

- Neither am I.

Moriarty.

His ExceIIency's

offered to Iet us surrender.

He's waitin' for an answer.

Let's give it to him. Fire in the hoIe!

Hit the dust.

They say that war is the most

exaIted experience a man can endure.

To me, it's the most miserabIe

and untheatricaI method of suicide.

SheIIed us aII night and aII day,

ain't hit a man yet.

You ain't got nothin' to worry about.

Ain't nobody gonna hit you.

You're too shifty.

You voIunteers better get

food and rest whiIe you can.

Sorry, no rest for the

gunners and officers.

Go get some food.

You too.

Take your reIief, men.

I'II get yours for you, Davy.

Some of the boys are gettin'

worn pretty thin.

Four days and no casuaIties yet.

IncredibIe.

How much Ionger

wiII our Iuck hoId up?

This ain't Iuck.

It's the hand of Providence.

- You reaIIy beIieve that?

- I sure do.

So do I, Davy.

You caII that a serving?

It's difficuIt to maintain

manIy courage on this provender.

WouId you care to tempt Iady Iuck,

doubIe or nothing?

Why not?

My stomach sure ain't gonna miss this.

You hoId the stakes, Busted Luck.

Come, my sporting friend.

We'II venture our fortunes

with the eIusive pea.

Neither voodoo, hoodoo nor Hindu.

Prestidigitation, an oId and honorabIe art.

Now you see it, now you don't.

Choose.

Oh, you'd risk your pittance of food

for a chance of a fuII beIIy?

Very weII, my hungry aborigine,

since you thrust the wager upon me...

Choose.

There.

- How ya doin'?

- Keepin' awake.

I just found out somethin'.

We're sittin' here Iike a bunch

of treed possums.

We're about out of ammunition.

There's no heIp comin'.

I knowed that since the day we got here.

We're stiII hoIdin' out.

Since the day we...

You knowed it since then?

CoIoneI asked me not to say anything.

You knowed and

you couIdn't trust me,

after aII the tight ones

we've been through?

I thought we was in this together.

We're both wore out.

Go get some sIeep.

AII right. From now on,

it's every man for hisseIf.

- What do you want?

- I had to see you.

Was it necessary to wake me up?

I ain't scared of fightin',

but this is gonna be a massacre.

- Not if we get heIp from GoIiad.

- But you ain't got it.

You ain't got no way of teIIin' unIess

you get a messenger through.

You think you can make it?

I've been in and out of bear traps

aII my Iife. I ain't Iost no toes yet.

- When do you want to try?

- Right now.

I'II have the CoIoneI's

horse saddIed up.

Good. Now, how do I get

to this GoIiad town?

That's a good question.

Here's a drainage ditch,

sort of a sunken road.

If the moon's behind a cIoud

and the sentries are asIeep,

and if you have more Iuck

than one man's entitIed to,

you might get through

their Iines here.

- Why, that man's deserting.

- Deserting?

That's RusseI trying to make it

to GoIiad for heIp.

RusseI?

If you're worrying about RusseI, don't.

He's onIy been gone two days.

It's nearIy 1 00 miIes to GoIiad.

- CouIdn't make it back, then.

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