I'm going to have to carry you, huh?
What's this all about?
The captain said to drop the gun belt.
Now?
They're wearing the Joe Hanson brand, all right, Captain Wilson?
Who else would they be?
We'd get those cattle, Mr.
That's what that brand says.
Got it from Joe Hanson, eh?
That's right.
And you've got a bill of sale to prove it.
Now, hold it!
That's right.
But maybe you'd like to look at the bill of sale.
We'll look at it.
You say you've got this from Joe Hanson?
Yeah.
Mr. Maddo.
Mr. Maddo, is that Joe Hanson's mark?
Joe Hanson didn't have to make his mark.
He could write as good as you can.
Hang him.
Thanks, war man.
You can check with the sheriff.
Dave Ramsey in St. Louis.
Say, check it out.
I'll wait until I hang him or beat him to death.
Enough!
Put him on his horse.
Wait a minute, sir.
You've no claim to that, Reno.
We got back Joe Hanson's cattle, Captain.
And we got the man that took them.
Now, I'd like to see justice done, but I'm taking the sound.
Anybody want to argue?
If he's a rustler, he ain't got nothing I'd want to do.
He's got something that I want.
I want his wallet.
I don't want it. I don't take it.
Except in the visa rustler.
How come he didn't make a run for it when he had a chance?
Wait a minute, Loomis.
You bought some cattle from Joe Hanson.
He saw the bill of sale.
With the mark where Joe Hanson was supposed to write his name?
Yeah.
What did Joe Hanson look like?
He was about 30.
Dark hair, dark eyes, heavy scent.
Hot mark face.
Regular features.
You have a knife for detail, haven't you?
I told you, I was a lawman.
That was my job.
Heavy set.
Park marked.
About 30.
Joe Hanson was sixth.
Well, maybe it was his form or something. I don't know.
But we can go back there and find out.
It's only a day's ride. We can check it out.
Mr. Maddo.
Tell him.
I just came from the Joe Hanson place.
His hurt was gone.
I found Joe Hanson and his wife on the kitchen floor.
Gunned down.
Make it a mistake.
People call this hell, but you're still in up on the territory.
My savior breath.
I don't know who hung you or why.
If you're innocent, the judge will set you free.
And if you ain't,
you'll have to take trouble hanging you again.
Come on, get on your feet.
You're in grain store, right across the street.
Here's the key. You'll be needing it.
Watch out for him. He's plumb loco.
Come to kill the prophet.
Take it easy, will you?
Oh, God.
You come to kill the prophet.
Can you walk?
They're against me. They spy on me.
Oh, God.
Get her scared of the wrath of God.
Get on your feet.
You chained him. Now you bury him.
They ain't gonna make the judge happy.
What was I supposed to do? Let him escape?
I ain't sayin' he was wrong.
I'm just sayin' it ain't gonna make the judge happy.
Now that you've said it, Williams, move him out.
Perfume. A dozen bottles?
The cheapest. As long as it smells good.
It's not for my girls.
It's for the Saturday night cowhands.
They come off the range smelling it.
Yeah, come on, double weed wagon.
Hey, ain't that Billy the kid?
Get yourself short chain.
You get an hour-day recreation in the prison yard.
You'll get used to the smell.
You don't. They got a sure cure for it.
It's like Schmitz fixin' to have a little party this mornin'.
Hang on party.
Them's 200-pound saxies droppin'.
Gotta make sure them ropes hold up.
Always uses top grade hemp, Schmitz does.
Oilsets or slides real good.
Snaps your neck like a dried-out twig.
Fine artist at his trade, I'm Mr. Schmitz.
Leave him. Without shackles.
Yes, sir.
All right, son. Torry, check's out, Cooper. You're free to go.
Dollars?
In 40 cents. That's all Macleod had on him when we picked him up.
Macleod.
Macleod was running from the law.
Hold up at Johansson's place.
He's killed that old man and his wife.
And then you blundered him.
Stranger lookin' to buy some cattle.
So Macleod sold you a few here.
You once got a pretty good laugh out of that.
You want to see what he looks like?
Come on.
He swindled from you and came into town lookin' for a good time.
To a roll. That's where we found him.
Dollars in 40 cents.
And the satisfaction of seeing the man
that got you into this mess, huh?
What about the nine just men who hung me?
Just give their description to one of the deputies downstairs.
They'll try to pick them up.
Well, that's not good enough.
Cooper, you take the law into your own hands
and I promise you you'll swing from one of those ropes out there.
I know a little bit about the law, Your Honor.
That's right. You do.
The law of man in St. Louis.
Damn good one.
I can use a good man, Cooper.
Pay $2.50 a month.
That's $2.30 more than you'd make it to Calhoun.
$2.32 more than an army sergeant.
Yeah, that hanging rope didn't kill you.
Maybe my coffee will.
How much you making, St. Louis?
It's $200 more than I made in St. Louis.
$2.50 plus expenses.
I warn you, the pay is a little slow in coming.
Plus $50, President Harrison knows you.
You'll get it when I get it.
Seems like you're a man trying to give away money
and don't have too many takers.
You sound like a man who's protesting the pay's too high, don't you?
You sign on, you'll earn every cent of it.
There you are.
The old Coleman Indian Territory, year of our lord, 1889.
19 marshals.
I was authorized 60 when I came here.
Told the president even that was not happening.
19 marshals and one court.
They're coming near 70,000 square miles.
A happy hunting ground filled with bushwhackers,
horse thieves, whiskey peddlers, counterfeiters, high peddlers,
marauders that'll kid you for a hat band.
That's why there's a badge in my desk, Cooper.
Itching to sit on somebody's chest and no takers.
Your marshals do cover a lot of territory.
You'll ride circuit over an area half again the size of Rhode Island.
If and when it's Marshall, Cooper.
Pick up the badge, Mr. Cooper.
Pick up the badge or leave justice to me and my men.
Nine men.
If you find them, they're to be brought before me.
Alive.
That old horse should hold you first, pal.
All right.
Good luck, Marshall.
Thank you.
You was coming.
Wasn't there nobody outside?
There's two men with shotguns.
They haven't had me a night's sleep since we picked up the Swede.
How many men did you bring with you?
Yeah.
Can you have them ready to go in a half hour?
Just the two of you?
Yeah.
All the hotel here in town serve a good steak.
I better have some to eat before we leave.
If you're crazy enough to try to take the Swede in alone,
you got a right to try it on a full stomach?
You talking to me, Marshall?
Your name's Reno, isn't it?
Look, Marshall, I don't know what kind of town you were running in.
This isn't my town.
Why wouldn't it?
See, I just wrote in.
I'm going to wash down some trail dust.
And...
All right, Marshall, what do you say I done?
You don't remember me, do you?
No.
When you hang a man, you better look at him.
Don't go for that gun, Reno.
I need you alive.
You know him?
No.
Anybody here know him?
It goes by the name of Reno.
Come up here and take a look at him.
He must have just wrote in?
That's what he says. How much to bury him.
Elwood?
Well, uh...
$15 ought to do a fair job, Marshall.
All right, there's $7 in here. I'll give you eight more.
You can mark it down there.
Don't anybody leave.
I want everybody to write down this book
exactly what they saw.
I didn't see nothing, Marshall.
Fine, then you say that in writing.
Nobody's going to fault you, Marshall.
You give them every chance.
And say it in writing.
Marshall, I can't write.
Well, Sheriff, you'll write it down
and you can put your mark on it.
Sheriff, if there's a saddle out there
blowing to me, I'll be taking that.
Then if his friends or relatives show up,
I want his horse or his belongings,
you let me know, huh?
You can warn me before you add it.
Do you want to pick up the suite now?
No. I'm going to have that steak now.
Oh, sweet. That's the one that Marshall just brought in.
Sweet!
Fitton's orders. Nobody comes in or out.
That lady don't look at.
Marshall, the judge wants to see you right away.
Take care of those that do his work.
He just walked in here and gave himself up.
I never wanted to hang you, Mr.
I asked him to give you a chance.
Maybe you'll remember that.
I remember that.
I was here in Fort Grant looking to pick up a grub steak.
When I heard of Marshall with a hanging scarred killed Reno.
I knew then we...
we had hung an innocent man.
So I turned myself in.
The others?
He gave me their names.
I've already made out the warrants for their arrest.
Where?
Red Creek.
I'll be on my way.
All right, Cooper, you do it your way.
You round them up and bring them back.
I don't know why you had to kill Reno.
Didn't know I report.
I wanted him alive. I needed these names.
You got your names.
Mr. You make sure the rest of those men get back here alive.
Chickens, sit down, please.
Their arrest.
I have seven warrants here.
Matt Stone, Emma Loomis,
Maddo, Charlie Blackfoot, Captain Wilson.
What the hell is this all about?
The lynching.
I understand four of these men I'm after are out to Big W.
Maddo and Miller, I'm not sure about.
Maddo, he owns a spread around here.
Miller, he...
Miller's a drifter.
Look, Marshall, these men you're looking for,
they're all leading citizens. They're friends of mine.
Well, these friends of yours
are wanted for conspiracy to commit murder.
Now, if you'll put this man in jail, Sheriff,
you and I can run out to the Big W.
They took our herd. They killed my pie and Danny.
Killed both of them.
I don't know who found them there.
Pie, Danny, Bushwhack.
They've hurt God.
I won't be much good to you from here on out.
My back is giving me trouble. You're in good hands.
This man here is the Federal Marshal.
He'll give me that bad back stuff.
You've got your job. I've got mine out to Big W.
His father and his brother's been murdered.
You a law man, or ain't you?
I seek hours ahead now, but they must slow down.
We won't.
These men kill my father and brother.
They're gonna get what's coming to them.
Get what the law says is coming to them.
If you can't stomach hanging, why don't you ride out?
We'll do what needs doing here.
I'll say it one more time.
There's gonna be no hanging.
We're not turning three murderers loose.
That's right. You're turning them over to me, the law.
I'll make sure they get the Fort Grant.
The Fort Grant's bet in three days' ride from here.
You'll never make it alone, Marshal.
I didn't plan on making it alone.
Now, you men got a $10 posse fee coming.
And I can't guarantee you the government's gonna pay any more.
But every man who sticks with me will get an extra $10
if I have to pay for it myself.
Uh-uh. I'll take my $10 now.
I've got your name. They'll send it to you.
We'll put in for the money ourselves, Marshal.
Yeah.
The men these wrestlers killed, they were my friends.
These three. They are for hanging.
Leave us, Marshal.
For just 10 minutes.
Five minutes.
On your feet.
Thank you, Marshal.
I just want you to know, Marshal,
we had nothing to do with the killing.
Shut up.
We wrestled a herd all right. We did that, but me and Ben,
we didn't tell you to shut your mouth, boy!
My brother's telling the truth, Marshal. He done it.
All right, Marshal, all right.
All right, saddle up those horses and nothing foolish.
You very kind, Marshal. Would you be my friend, too?
Forget about it.
Say, I, uh...
I seen you when you drugged that old stone in the jail.
I thought that was really something.
I just about died right then and there.
I picked up my two amigos here
and rusted this fat herd
and headed lickety-split for south of the border.
You know something?
Mr, uh...
Deputy Marshal,
you know when I woke up and seen that gunpoint right at my mouth
and you standing at the other end of it,
I said to myself,
Miller, you move one inch and you a dead man.
This man's about to blow your head off.
I mean, what that boy said was right.
We guilty as hell.
Do you know when we get to Fort Grant?
All we're gonna do is hang us.
You're real smart.
And use your head, you know?
And let us go.
Just let us go.
We outnumber you three to one. You can tell them that we jumped you.
And the boys and I, you know,
we ain't gonna be around to call you a liar.
Get aboard, Miller.
I can't get aboard.
Because my hands are tight.
You're gonna have to help me.
I said get aboard.
You ain't never gonna get me alive to Fort Grant, boy.
Then I'll get you to be a dead boy.
Get down. The horses need rest.
Start walking.
Get aboard, Miller.
I didn't set out to touch her.
I was drunk, full of rotgut whiskey.
I didn't know what I was doing.
Please, my family.
Boy.
Charge whiskey paddling.
Here you are, Your Honor.
All rise until his honor has left the courtroom.
Sheriff and Red Creek wired you were bringing three killers in alone.
I was over two days ago.
I need to give you up for death.
You're a damn fool, Cooper.
A bloody damn fool. And the best there is...
You hear that?
Not just in the territories, but in Washington.
Across the lake, then, rest of this nation,
they're gonna know that name, Jed Goober.
How what do you got to say about that, boy?
Anything else I could do for you, Marshal?
Good Lord, you bring back half of these.
You'll have a wagon load.
Well, you know me, Judge. I like a lot of companies.
How long you figure to take?
Six, seven weeks.
Give or take a month.
Come in. I'm a fake worse than that.
Is that your idea?
You fell right in my arms, boy.
And since the rogue happened to be the closest haven,
and since you didn't appear to need the doctor's services,
well, I'll be on my way.
See you, Jed.
All right.
Aside from the girl who served me breakfast,
I didn't see anybody else that I remember.
Do I owe no bill?
Of course. Just put it on your expense account.
Under what?
You're gonna make me one hell of a long man.
You had one hell of a long man.
Judge, about those three that I brought in.
Oh, they can go.
I don't think they spent as pleasant evening as you did.
No, but I wanted to talk to you about the two boys, Ben and Billy Joe.
Oh, later, later, later.
Write it down. You got time.
I just wanted to say, as long as I'm here,
that only Miller is to be charged with murder.
See, if it wasn't for those two boys, I might not have made it.
They would have tried to kill me if one or both of them had pitched in
and given them a hand.
They bid you in to help you subdue Miller?
Oh, no, but... All right, write it in your report.
Hey, Marshal, if you catch a whiskey peddler,
let him go and bring the whiskey back this time.
This is Dan.
This? What happened?
He went to pick up one of the Walker boys out of Elmwood jail.
Walker clan, all seven of them were waiting.
They shot him down right there in the middle of the main street.
Not a soul in Elmwood, lifted a hand to help.
It held my life to bliss.
He was a man with a backbone.
A lawman.
Won't be easy to fill his shoes.
No, it won't. I better get on back to Red Creek.
Red Creek?
Yeah, when the local sheriff wired you,
I don't suppose he told you that I arrested one of the men who tried to lynch me.
I was going after the rest of them when this business came up.
The man you're arresting?
Name Stone. He's in the Red Creek jail.
Good. I'll hold him till you're finished here.
Finished here?
Testifying.
Testifying? When?
Boy, I got a backlog of cases built off from here to Sunday.
Well, I happen to have a prisoner over there in that cardboard jail.
And the sheriff's gardener's got a bad back,
and if I don't get back over there...
You get back, Cooper.
You get back when I tell you you're free to go.
Cooper.
You can be the best I've ever had.
The best there is if you remember this.
You work for the government.
You work for justice.
Come in.
Excuse me, Judge. I heard there were three new prisoners.
Yes.
Margeau, why don't you take Miss Warren down to the cell block?
Two of them are just boys.
Well, enough to wrestle cattle.
You want them to hang?
I just wanted to get a fair trial.
Who do you want to hang?
We all have our ghosts, Margeau.
You hunt your way.
I hunt mine.
Well, let's drink.
Let's forget about the killings.
Rustlin is a hanging offense, and they are all...
You will elicit facts from the witness.
I will tell the jury what's the law.
Yes.
No further questions, Your Honor.
The jury will disregard all of the prosecutions
for Marge concerning the law.
Give me step down, though.
The next witness.
Marshal, Jenna, Dyer, Cooper.
You solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth to help you, God.
I do.
Marshal, at the time of their apprehension,
did any of these three defendants deny their guilt?
Well, no, but on the trail back here...
Marshal, we're not interested in the trip back to Fort Grant.
It was a heroic journey of the whole court.
The whole territory is grateful.
Your Honor, I think something that happened on the trail back here
has a bearing on the case.
Something happened that leads you to believe that one
or all three of these defendants are innocent?
Well, if murder, yes.
You see, both Ben and Billy Joe told me...
Marshal, this court is not concerned with hearsay evidence.
This court requires facts.
The defendants, all three,
are charged with murder and rustling facts.
The only matter that concerns this court.
I thought this court was concerned with justice.
Justice is my province, Marshal.
Mine and mine alone.
Now, you'll confine yourself to giving direct answers
to direct questions
or find yourself in contempt of court.
Proceed.
One of those boys is 18, the other's only 16.
That cost you $10.
You knew one of them's ever been in trouble with the law.
$20.
It wasn't for them. I wouldn't...
$20!
One more word, you'll spend 30 days in the hole.
Do you have any further questions for this witness?
No more questions, Your Honor.
And you may step down, Marshal.
Sheriff Ray Calhoun, Red Creek.
I recognize you.
I want to congratulate you on the job you did
bringing in those wrestlers.
You mean you rode all the way over here from Red Creek,
back and all, just to tell me that?
No.
Stone's dead.
What happened, Calhoun?
It didn't make no sense him sitting in that cell going crazy.
Tom without no blacksmith.
He promised that if I'd turned him loose every day
for a couple of hours to work at his trade
that he'd come back to his cell each night.
And he did.
Came back every night, but won.
I rode out to his home.
A home where I had many a dinner.
A home of a friend.
I had to bring him back and put him in his cell at gunpoint.
He made a break for it.
I tried to shoot low, but I'm not very good at that.
I heard you paid 800 to the skunk who murdered the Johansons
and sold you their herd.
That's right.
How much did you get back when they were caught?
What?
$11.40.
There's 800 in this envelope.
It's yours.
Or you can keep the 100 head prime, every one of them.
I don't have much use for cattle these days.
Here's 10.
Keep it.
Hold it.
$11.40.
The aggravation they caused me.
Now, you take that bad back of yours,
right over to Red Creek and tell your friends we're even.
Money-wise.
He figures you're still on for a lynching.
I told you.
You never should have offered him the money.
All right.
Now, that makes three mistakes we made.
The money.
We hung an innocent man.
And we didn't finish the job.
We can't undo the first two.
But we can still finish the job.
Captain Wilson, I didn't hear none of it.
We're riding back to Red Creek.
Are you coming with me?
Charlie, you've been with me better in five years.
Good years, Captain.
Maybe if it was my land that was fighting the hold.
No, Captain.
If that Marsha wants Charlie Blackfoot,
he's gonna have to find it.
Sorry, Captain Wilson.
Maddo, you're damn near my age.
You wouldn't last six months in that jail.
I don't intend to try to.
I can still ride pretty good.
You can shoot even better.
Sorry, Captain.
Maddo, he'll come after you.
He'll keep coming.
You'll be nothing but an animal.
An animal running scared.
Sorry, Captain.
How about you two?
You sure? Tommy?
It was wrong to hang that man.
We all know it now.
I was hoping we could square it with him.
My wife, she was kind of hoping it, too.
Loomis?
I'm 37, 38.
I don't write and I know for sure.
I started drifting when I was just a kid.
These last few years working for you
it's the first time I ever knew.
Saved a few dollars
thinking to find myself a woman.
Just taking off a few acres of my own.
And this come up.
You mean when I brought it up?
You didn't force me to ride with you, Captain.
I thought we were doing the right thing.
We was.
Hanging around with me, I don't change that.
Five years, even ten.
You two can survive it
and still come out to live some kind of life.
What kind, Captain?
I've been a free man.
She's the only kind of life I know.
My wife told me she's a young woman.
She wants kids, family.
Even if I asked her to wait for me.
Even if she said she would.
I couldn't be sure.
That's right, gentlemen.
Who is it?
Open up.
I came here to tell you about the biggest thing that happened in this territory.
Bigger than statehood.
People showing up by the wagon full.
Men, women and children. All just to see your lousy hanging.
That's enough, Cooper.
See your circus. A six-man hanging.
I said that's enough.
Are you a stink of whiskey, son? Just go back to your room.
Lie down. Sleep it off.
You're lynching those boys. Why?
Because of you, Cooper.
Because of that beautiful, that magnificent journey
you took to bring three killers to justice.
Because if the law didn't hang on the next posse,
it goes on and say, hang them and hang them high.
There's no justice in Fort Grant.
And if there's no justice in Fort Grant, Cooper,
there'll be no statehood for this territory.
Well, I don't care how you slice it.
Well, there's nine men out on a plane
with a dirty rope or a judge with his robes on
in front of the American flag.
Those boys are going to be just as dead as they are.
Just as if they'd been lynched.
That's right, Cooper. Just as dead.
But they won't have been lynched. They'll have been judged.
And if you can't see the difference,
you better take off that star and right now.
Not just yet, Your Honor.
Sir, you won't change your mind.
Sophie, I told you before.
There's only one hanging, I'm interested.
Thank you. Hold here, right here.
That's a relic for the killers.
Hold here. Here's a change. Here's a change.
Hold here.
That's a relic for the killers.
Right here. That's a cold beer.
That's a relic for all the killers.
Here you are, young lady.
What are you doing?
Get your cold beer.
I shall clean it.
My iniquities and transgressions unto the Lord
and he will forgive thee thy sins.
I'll preach her.
Patience. Patience.
Blessed is the man that walketh not
in the counsel of the ungodly
nor standeth in the way of sinners
nor siteth in the seat of the scornful
but his delight is in the law
of the Lord
and in his law doth he meditate
day and night.
And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water
that bringeth forth his fruit
in his season.
His leaf shall not wither
and whatever he doeth
shall prosper.
Amen.
We will now sing
Rock of Ages.
Get your cold beer and your sesquero
for all the killers.
You have last request.
All right. Sure like me a child of a backer?
What's the matter, hang man?
You afraid of all choke
and cheat you out of your hanging feet?
Put them in my pocket.
Now, Peter.
May say your peace now, Duffy.
We're now looking
for the last time.
The mortal body
Francis Elroy Duffy
born to John and Edmund.
You have last request.
Good God fearing fault
who raised me up to be a good man.
Then?
A good Christian.
By then?
I was a good Christian.
By?
A good husband
to my beloved wife
a good father to my children
whom I leave behind
hoping that they
and all you
will learn.
You have last request.
This here lesson which I leave you with.
When you take the devil into your mouth
you're doomed.
For he is lying there
and waiting for you
inside that bottle of whisking
and waiting for you
to take him into your mouth.
You have last request.
Waiting to get down
into your guts.
Tell him to shut up
and let's get it over with.
For he can do his devil's work.
Liquor is the most powerful evil thing
in this here world.
If destroyed
good men like myself
will destroy you too.
You have last request.
If he is not much better
will it be slower and cheaper?
So take these words of advice
and remember
you heard them from a poor sinner
got no more calls to lie
because he's going to meet his maker
and now he's ready.
That's all I got to say.
Your heads and one final prayer.
Have mercy on their poor souls
as he has
upon all the faithful departed
Amen.
Well, now at least I know what it takes to get you in here.
How is he this morning?
I've never seen a man who has more right to be dead.
I've got to see him right now
so if he can't wait any longer.
Check with Rachel. She's still in charge.
She stayed all night?
You heard, Doc.
If Rachel hadn't stopped the bleeding
as it was somebody had to stay with him.
A couple of my girls volunteered.
Rachel wouldn't have it.
Same room, honeymoon suite at the head of the stairs.
Thanks so much.
Good morning, judge.
Good morning, dear.
Anything I can do for you?
No, no, no. Thank you, dear.
I shouldn't have done this. I may never get up again.
Who did it, Jed?
If you want him, Jed, I want him more.
I need him.
Bushwhacked on some lonely trail,
but here, who did it?
I'll go after him myself.
I love a god, son.
God's got nothing to do with it.
I'll take care of him.
You could use a good night's sleep,
but one of these days, he's going to get better
and you're going to have a man on your hands.
Just thanks.
Oh, I'll get some salt for the eggs.
Forget the salt.
Yeah, well, I guess...
I guess my life isn't worth two kisses.
What's the matter?
I was married back in Denver.
His name was Paul.
He was a doctor and a very fine man.
He used to say this was his place.
This was where doctors were needed.
One night, after we'd camped,
we sat around the fire talking.
Husband and wife talk about how many children
we were going to have, and then they came.
Two men on horseback.
Just some food.
Just to share our food, that's all they wanted.
And one of them...
put his hand on me.
And there was a shot.
And Paul was dead.
And they just left him there lying beside me on the ground.
Dad took me.
He took me.
The wagon.
The jail.
You're looking for those men?
Happens when you find them.
Or if you don't find them.
Miss Rachel, where do you want to put these blankets?
What is it, Lauren?
Where do you want these blankets?
Oh, uh, just put them in the back someplace.
Yes, ma'am.
You ask me once whether I could ever stop looking.
I think now I can.
Can you?
Well, Rachel, there's a difference.
You see, I'm not... I'm not looking for ghosts.
The end of my trail's at Red Creek.
Maybe not.
What then?
The Marshal was alive. That dog would be yapping, wouldn't he?
I told you, I didn't know.
I'm to find out.
And to us?
No, Captain. I've waited on him long enough.
Why don't he move?
Dad.
Cap Wilson.
Tommy.
Loose.
All except Maddow.
Blackfoot.
New Jenkins.
Tommy, Dad, too.
I just want to say that...
I don't hold you to blame...
for what that's worth.
It's worth something.
Well, that's how it is, huh?
That Rachel let a fire in you with that rich body of hers.
You let a fire in each other.
Now you're gonna get married and raise cattle and kids.
The devil take the rest of the world.
Maybe.
You use the lawn of badge to heal that scar on your neck.
Well, how many men are you gonna have to hang to heal your scar?
God, I hell, Cooper.
I've already been there, Judge.
In your wagon and in that hole you call a jail.
An old man Jenkins is gonna die there.
Is he sick?
Who's dying?
I've got a doctor down there for him.
Let him go.
We can go out and look for another innocent man to lynch.
He's an old man.
An old rope he helped put around your neck,
but it came down near to killing you, didn't it?
What's the matter with you, Cooper?
You got Jenkins on your conscience?
Think I judged him too harshly?
Used him like a piece of kindling for my fire of justice?
Or maybe that's inevitable when there's only one man,
one court with a power of final justice
over a territory five times the size of most states?
Mistakes?
Oh, I've made them, Cooper.
Don't you doubt it?
Don't you doubt either there are times
sitting up there in that judgment seat I've wished I have prayed
that there was someone standing between me
and God Almighty.
Someone with the power to say, you're wrong, Fenton.
You made a mistake in law.
Now, this man here deserves another trial.
This man here are proven.
This man is innocent.
This territory becomes a state with a governor
and a state court of appeals.
I'm the law here.
All the law.
And if you don't like that,
you can cuss me till hell freezes over.
Or you can join me, Cooper.
Even fight me.
Help me turn this God for second territory into a state
where no one man calls himself the law.
I want that old man pardoned.
You pick up your badge.
Tonight, right now.
You take this down.
Give it to one of the guards down there.
For any questions, you tell him to see me.
There'll be no questions.
Cooper, Charlie Blackfoot was seen in the town of Ridgeway.
I got two unfilled warrants here.
Blackfoot and Maddow.
The law still wants them.