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next to mine.

I'm Tennessee.

Dan Thomas.

Openly speaking, we're what you might call

cattle separators.

- What?

- Don't you savvy?

We separate the cattle from the owners.

We ain't so awful busy, unless

someone tries to take a herd up north.

North?

Then we raid them to keep them

from getting the cattle to market.

What happens to the cattle you rustle?

We change the brands on them,

keep them hid.

When the price gets high enough, we're

gonna take them up to Abilene ourselves.

According to that,

Lashan ought to make a lot of money.

We all are.

This ain't the kind of a country

a man comes to for his health.

No.

I ain't so much interested

in my health, either.

Round them up, boys!

Men, the reason I asked you to meet here

in secret like this is...

we've got to take some steps

to protect ourselves.

I'm fed up on the whole thing.

It ain't worth it.

The trouble with us is,

we're not organized like the rustlers are.

Look at Townsend. They

slaughtered his cattle and burned him out.

- I don't want that to happen to me.

- It won't.

From now on,

we're going to fight fire with fire.

That's why I asked you to come here.

Right here in Texas,

we've got the greatest gunslingers there are.

John Wesley Hardin,

Clay Allison, King Fisher...

Jim Courtright, Manning Clements...

and I want to hire them to work for us.

Dusty's right, that's what we need.

Blaire, come on!

What happened?

Father!

I'm going out to California.

I'm going to give Texas back to the outlaws.

- You can't lick this thing by running away.

- And you can't lick something you can't see.

It's four months since Dusty was killed.

Nobody's been caught yet.

All the sheriff ever does is go out

and look around and come back and say:

"The rustlers must have come down

from the Indian nations."

- We just have to keep on trying.

- It ain't as easy as that, Matthews.

If I could get a fair price for mine,

I'd sell out, too.

- Evening, Mike.

- Evening, Tod.

- Hello, Doc.

- Evening, Doc.

This ain't a very good place for it, is it?

- For what?

- Sparking.

In my day, a young feller didn't stand

along the main street doing his sparking.

Doc.

- When's the marriage coming off?

- Marriage?

You've heard of it, ain't you?

He hasn't asked me yet.

Four months and he ain't popped

the question yet?

Evening, Bert.

I think we'd better go in now, don't...

You may know how to run a ranch,

young man, but you sure can't run her.

We might as well go in.

Yes, I guess we better.

Good evening, folks.

Hello, there, how are you? Oh, Albert.

Doc, how about a little tune

while we're waiting?

I ain't heard that organ

since you brought it in here.

- You will tonight.

- Learned to play it yet?

I don't have to.

I got a first class accompanist.

- Mike.

- Yeah?

They want a little music.

- How about wakening them up?

- Sure.

Tod here can do the pumping.

He ought to be useful for something.

- I thought you said this meeting was free.

- It is.

Kind of looks like I'm paying.

Tod, see that man over there

with the leather jacket?

- What about him?

- He's the one who held me up.

Yeah?

- Come here, I'd like to talk...

- Tod, you old buzzard.

You old son of a gun,

what are you doing here?

- What are you doing here?

- How'd you get away?

- They couldn't run fast.

- I thought they'd have...

What is this?

You two act like long-lost brothers.

- We are, sort of.

- If it isn't the Cactus Kid.

- Hello.

- Stay away from me.

Yeah, what's this about

you trying to kidnap her?

Is that what she told you?

- I wasn't trying to kidnap her.

- You were, too.

I was just in a hurry to get a ride that day.

You ought to remember.

That day? Mike, this is Danny.

He's the fella I told you about.

Mike, I'm sorry

for the way I messed you up...

- but then you were awful stubborn.

- I was...

All I wanted was one horse, but you...

You were lucky I didn't take a shot at you,

that's all.

That makes us even. Friends?

Mike, Tod, come on over here.

Let's get this music started

before these folks fall asleep.

All right, Doc.

- Come on, you can help me pump.

- Sure enough.

Now we're gonna start with Buffalo Gals.

And I want you to whoop it up

when I get to you.

Give me a "G" or something

on that organ there.

As I was walking down the street

Down the street, down the street

A pretty little girl I chanced to meet

And she was fair to view

Oh, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya

coming out tonight, coming out tonight,

coming out tonight

Oh, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya

coming out tonight

And dance by the light of the moon

Her teeth were white as the drifted snow

The drifted snow, the drifted snow

She said she bought them

in a hardware store

She was fair to view

Oh, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya

coming out tonight

coming out tonight, coming out tonight

Oh, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya

coming out tonight

- Ain't you?

- And dance by the light of the moon

Your eyes are like the stars so bright

Stars so bright, stars so bright

I hope they don't come out at night

You are so fair to view

Oh, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya

I thought you were gonna help me pump.

I can't pump and look at her

at the same time.

That's the girl for me.

Want to come to the wedding?

Now look here, Danny, Mike is not...

She bellered like an ailing steer

She was fair to

And she was

She

- What's the matter here?

- I don't know. The handle came out.

The dang thing's always coming out.

Get it right in.

- There. Now, get going.

- All right.

That's just fine.

Keep right on going.

I'm a hen-pecked man

but I don't care, I don't care, I don't care

Her father's got millions and she's the heir

And she was fair to view

Oh, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya

coming out tonight

coming out tonight, coming out tonight

Oh, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya, ain't ya

coming out tonight

And dance by the light of the moon

Hello, Windy.

I'm sorry I'm so late.

I've been entertaining them. Take it away.

Right you are.

It sure is good to see you all again...

but we'll get sociable a little bit later.

I'll get right down to business.

I guess you all know

why I came down here from Abilene.

I worked hard promoting a railroad

to haul cattle...

and I ain't getting no cattle.

These cattle ain't quail.

They can't fly up there.

That's a point.

But you don't realize how badly the East

needs beef since the war has been over.

Maybe you can tell us how to get them

through the rustlers and Indians and raids.

If you think it's so easy to get them there...

- why don't you take them yourself?

- Yeah.

Brother, that's exactly why I'm here.

I'm going to buy the beef from you

right here and take it through myself.

But, remember this:

It's going to be just as tough on me getting

this beef to Abilene as it was on you.

That's right.

Since I'm the one

who has to take all the risk...

I feel that it's only fair

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