This Western film explores the complex moral landscape of frontier justice, where legal systems often fail to deliver true justice, and personal relationships and moral integrity become more important than formal legal procedures. The narrative demonstrates how characters must navigate between law enforcement, personal ethics, and survival in harsh wilderness conditions, revealing that true justice requires more than legal procedures but also human compassion and understanding.
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Best Action-filled Movie | The Deadliest Manhunt in the Wild West | Western
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[music] Where the hell have you been?
>> Johnny, they found Get that horse inside.
Come on. Come on.
Get him in that tunnel and keep your head down. He leads you out the other side.
See anything?
You better get mounted up. We got to get across that border.
Where the hell were you this morning?
Went into town.
>> You talked to anybody? Tell someone where I was?
>> No.
>> Maybe it was Dolly.
>> Not Dolly. She wouldn't do that.
You got any other ideas?
>> Took that bad loose with you, didn't you?
>> What for?
>> To have him baptized.
>> To what? to have him baptized in case anything happened to him. In >> case I heard him. You mean?
>> That minister pours water in that kid.
They got to have a name, don't he?
Don't he give him I said, "What name did you give him?"
>> Yours.
[music] >> Little Johnny Lawler.
You dumb [ __ ] You led that goddamn posi right to me, didn't you?
>> I didn't mean to. The Reverend just asked me to write in the book. I just wanted him baptized. So >> So the little bastard can go to heaven.
That's where he's going right now.
Goddamn Papoose has been nothing but trouble us since today born. Get him over here.
[music] God damn it, woman. I said get him over here.
I tell you [music] one more time. You bring that son of a [ __ ] here now.
>> [music] [music] >> Come on.
Get up. Get on your feet.
It's a good job.
Get in here with all that.
Mother bucket, Molly.
>> Sure. Picked a hell of a time to be cleaning.
>> What Molly calls cleaning is moving the dirt from one side of the jail to the other side.
>> What are you waiting around for? Get on home.
Let's up some grub for a new guest.
Marvin, how long you reckon we have to keep this fell down here? Go here in Santa Fe.
Reckon they'll hang him? Yeah, they're going to hang you. All right.
And you sure I give up a year of serious drinking son.
>> Boy, hell. I'll tell him. Boy, I drew back on that outlaw and I pulled my old bag and I shot him and tell him what I hit.
>> My horse. I kill his horse. I kill him.
>> What you do for a horse? I s Marvin.
Marvin.
I wrote him, you know, I dragged him all the way and the sheriff hit that boy upside the head and ber Set him up on the >> How about a drink?
>> Fill them up.
Real good, ma'am.
For your hands.
Sheriff said for you to get on home.
He gave you any trouble?
>> [clears throat] >> Got a message for the sheriff. It's really important. It's all about that outlaw they captured.
Marvin, what are you coming?
What did the outlaw do?
Where you going?
>> Up to Kell Jodes.
Tell Pete to relieve Tom down at the jail house. Tell Tom to be back there by 6.
>> Where's the sheriff?
>> Right out to Cal Jones.
>> Well, damn it. He's supposed to relieve me hours ago. I ain't had no chance to clean up or rest up or shave or nothing since we rode out of here.
>> Sheriff says you're supposed to go on home. I'll wait here until he gets back >> for you.
>> Me?
>> Well, hell, I don't care. I got to get on down the road.
I'll tell you, if he gives you any trouble, you better holler.
You here?
You're feeling better.
Much oblig.
You ain't going to cover up all that pretty long hair, are you?
Put that thing on. I'm walking right out of here.
My mama had long hair like you.
Fell way down low on her back. Just about the same color, too. Fact is, you favor her a bit.
I bet you brush it a whole lot.
>> She lives around here, your mom.
>> Oh, she'd been gone more than 10 years.
Well, she was something else. My mom was. I ain't never seen anybody like her.
Except you, maybe.
Guess that's why I felt like I knew you right off.
Of course, you're a whole lot younger than she was.
You're kind of young as they must be real small yet.
You ain't got any No, >> you're still young yet. You got plenty of time. Strong, healthy looking woman like you.
You ain't any young and yet he must be that sheriff husband of yours.
Hell, I'll bet with a guy like me.
Wouldn't take more than one time and we I'm sorry, man. Guess I got carried away a bit.
Molly.
>> Pardon?
>> Call me Molly. Oh, >> Molly.
Ain't that a pretty name?
My mom's name was Martha. She's the one who named me Johnny after my paw, who died before I was born.
I guess I've been alone most my life.
After my mom died, I never really found anyone who now it's too late, ain't it?
Sheriff said they was going to hang me.
>> I'm not for sure.
There's going to be a trial. He said so on the telegraph.
>> Telegraph?
>> The she the judge is coming in from Santa Fe tomorrow.
>> Oh yeah. So they can hang me legal.
Well, legal or not, it don't make much difference, does it?
>> What' you do? They can put such a high price on your head.
>> Nothing. Nothing to hang me for.
>> Yeah, sure. I kill a man. They probably told you that.
>> Nobody told me nothing.
Well, it's true.
I killed a man. Shot him dead.
Of course, there was nobody else around, so he was in self-defense. Somebody done in one of his kin. I tried to tell him, I said, "Miss, you're making a mistake."
But he wouldn't listen.
He just went for [clears throat] his gun. There was nothing I could do but go for mine.
>> Well, the judge will believe that.
>> He might believe me if I had a real good reputation.
Come for one of the finer families.
Had somebody high up to vouch for me.
My folks was dirt poor.
Ever since my mom passed, they ain't been in one place long enough to make any good friends or build up a reputation.
Oh, hell. I don't know. and just keep wandering around looking for.
>> Looking for what?
>> Looking for Looking for somebody like her, I guess.
Just looking.
What do you see out there?
>> Just a tree.
A >> hanging tree.
There was this prisoner once.
He was just a boy, barely into his teens.
Puts me a lot in mind to you.
The only other prisoner ever talked to me except you.
He killed a man, they said.
They hung him from that tree.
I couldn't bear to watch it.
When I thought it was all over, I looked up.
He was still hanging there.
He was Marvin, the sheriff was out of town at the time.
So I used to come over in the evenings and talk to him and try to cheer him up.
Poor little boy. He cried himself to sleep every night.
You broke my heart.
Johnny, I'm sorry. I I didn't. It's just you put me in You want to see what he gave me?
I always keep it with me.
He was so like my own.
>> And he play it.
>> Only the tune he taught me.
>> Let me hear it.
>> Oh, I never played it for anybody. I just >> Come on.
Well, [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> That's some of it. Kind of a pretty tune, isn't it?
Never thought I'd be playing it for anybody here. I've been talking to you more than I've talked in a long time.
>> What about you and the sheriff?
>> Don't you and he talk?
>> Yes, we talk.
just he's um busy with the jail lab. So >> yeah, well you sure got a soothing voice. Makes your body feel real good inside.
>> Funny thing is when I was a young girl I used to talk a lot. Folks used to say that Molly she talks a blue streak.
The boys had come to call. Never was at a loss for words like some of the girls were.
I guess I was just what you'd call a good conversationalist.
>> You still are.
>> Okay.
>> I bet you had all the boys coming to call.
>> That's kind of pretty then.
>> You still are.
>> I still got my pretty hair.
>> No, I mean it. Molly, you're real pretty.
Well, it's getting dark.
Guess I better be getting on home before Marvin before the sheriff comes in from Cal Jones.
Oh, Johnny, don't fret about tomorrow.
The judge is bound to believe you. Not anybody can see you haven't got a mean bone in your body.
This has been about the nicest day I ever spend. We've been talking and I told you things I've never told anybody before. And you've been listening and understanding.
Anybody can see you don't deserve to be hung.
>> Like that young boy you told me about didn't deserve to be hung.
>> Oh, Johnny, don't cry.
>> Funny thing is I ain't balling cuz they're going to string me up tomorrow.
crying because of that. It's on account of you.
>> Me feel like after all these years it just wandered around.
It's like I finally got home back somewhere.
It's all they counted you.
All day long it's been in the back of my mind as motherly as you are.
You ain't got any kids.
Just ain't been able to get off my mind to thought of us having a little boy.
Better yet he had a little girl since she looked like you.
John could be just the two of us. Just you and me and couple of young ons get right out here together and never come back. find ourselves a little placement. Probably just going to hang me tomorrow. After that, it's going to be too late.
>> Oh, Johnny, I'd like to.
I got a good mind to take that key out of that desk and just do it for the both of us. Please, >> I can't. Johnny, there's my husband.
>> Oh, Molly, he ain't your husband.
It's just a name you give him.
you right out of here with me and I'll show you what being a husband is.
>> Oh, Johnny, I can't I can't. All my life, I've been taught to obey the law.
I can't change that now. Not for you.
Not for any >> Molly.
[music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.
[music] Heat. Heat.
[music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Let's go.
[music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Daniel. I know I can't keep up with you.
You go so fast. Can't we rest more often?
>> Sure thing. [music] [music] [music] Johnny You asleep?
>> Yeah.
>> Tell me again about your mother, Johnny.
[laughter] >> What's funny?
>> What you laughing at, >> woman? I ain't never had no ball.
>> Oh, Johnny. Everybody's had a m.
>> Well, some old s gave me a birth that you're talking about.
But I never knew which one of them it was.
>> But I mean that that you told me back in cactus about your mother and I had me a whole house full of mos. 10 of the greatest old [ __ ] you ever seen.
The only one who gave me birth was dead.
And I always thought it was a boss lady.
Damn. Them tim was sicker than flies.
Had a way all their own. Always protecting each other.
Figured if log found out which one of them let herself get bloated by a customer, they'd run her out of town.
And long before they all run out of town, I'm more than 13th at time.
Then you haven't really haven't had a mother.
Oh, Johnny, I'm sorry.
No wonder when you saw me, the thought of what you wanted your mother to be came to life.
I saw you. The only thing that came to life was the thought of getting out of that goddamn jail house.
woman. I was just using you to save my ass.
>> What are you doing?
Leave >> like hell you are. You're staying here.
They're going to be looking all over for me. Especially they're going to be watching the border. So, I got to wait here till I can cross over till they start forgetting.
>> Well, you don't need me.
>> I need somebody going to town for supplies, don't I? That ain't likely I can do that with my picture plastered over hell, is it?
Besides that, where in the hell do you think you're going to go?
You can't go back to Cactus.
Not after what you done.
Come here.
Well, come here.
Yeah, you ain't much. You're a hell of a lot better than nothing.
You think there are any hopes still living here, Johnny? Oh, >> Pat run them all off.
>> You sure? I just told you, didn't I?
What' you do that for?
Shouldn't have done that.
What are you doing?
>> Have me a bath.
>> Well, you're not going to >> [crying] >> It's a boy, Johnny.
It's a baby boy.
She keeps saying something. Johnny, do you understand her?
>> Says a white man bought her off her people after she blew up with child. He kicked her out.
She finally got back to her people and they didn't want her neither. Count she was carrying a white man's kid.
So she that's [crying] >> [crying] >> Will you come on? We got to get out of here. I wouldn't put a pass from Apache to come here looking for her, you know. Come on. I'm going without you.
You ain't planning on taking him with you, are you?
>> We ain't got enough food for the two of us, let alone some squalling brat.
>> Little John won't eat much.
>> Little John I can't figure out what in the world she was doing down at the jail house in the first place. I mean, that that time of night.
>> I suppose your m and everybody else is trying to figure that one.
>> Well, oh well, my ass. I know what she was doing down there. It ain't nobody else's business.
>> Not damn right, Marvin. Amen.
>> Oh, hell. Tom and Molly and me. I had words that night. I said some things.
Uh, I ended up hurting her. I guess I hurt her pretty bad.
So, she must have slipped out and went down to the jail house to talk tell somebody.
Want nobody to talk to but that Lawler fella.
That bastard Lawler took advantage of her. Trusted as she was, you know something, Tom?
I miss her.
I never thought I would, but I miss her.
If you hadn't thrown my harmonica away, I could have played it to sleep.
>> Well, your harmonica playing any better than your singing.
I wish I had some milk for him.
Baby's got to have milk.
Isn't there some place where we can get some?
>> We ain't far from Serios. Thinking maybe I'd send you in there tomorrow.
>> Not for milk.
>> But the baby's got to eat, Johnny.
>> Can you find something else for him to eat? Milk wouldn't last an hour out here.
I wish I had the milk for him.
I read somewhere if a baby doesn't start out with his mother's milk, it turns out like >> like me.
>> I didn't say that.
>> You were thinking it.
>> Thinking maybe if I had myself a real M, it turned out to be something respectable instead of hiding out from the law.
>> Man's got to have love, Johnny.
And you were all like every one of you.
Always trying to change you, man.
Bet there has never been one that's loved you and stayed with you like I have been.
I know what you said back in cactus wasn't true. But the way you said it, like you wanted it to be true.
Like you really wished you had a mom that favored me.
>> Oh, god damn it, woman. You stink.
>> Johnny, >> we had some water back there. Why the hell didn't you use it? Pray maybe I'd look. Maybe I get a good peek you sitting there naked in that water.
Let's get a little peek right now.
>> No, Johnny, stop it now. Don't do that.
[laughter] He missed. Johnny >> water we come to I'm throwing you in.
>> Johnny stop.
Oh no.
No.
Oh, no.
Stop it.
Daddy, stop it.
>> [music] >> I sure wish we could stop someplace long enough to get him some milk.
You know that stuff I bought in Surreal is almost gone. Little Johnny eat the corn mush and [music] oatmeal as fast as I can fix it.
I >> hope we hadn't in the last goose one of these days.
Johnny.
>> Yeah.
>> When you go [music] across the border, you're taking me with you, aren't you?
[music] [music] >> [music] >> There we go.
Damn it, woman. That's the last of that.
>> Hey, Johnny. The other can >> finish it up yesterday.
>> Just a little Johnny.
>> [ __ ] >> God damn.
>> Johnny, don't you hurt him.
Johnny.
Yeah.
[music] Heat.
[music] Hallelujah. [bell] [music] [music] Tell her to leave him alone. Tell her to put little John down.
Put him down.
Put him down.
>> [crying] >> What's the matter with her nose? She's only got half a nose.
>> The Apache punish her woman for cheating on a man's pulling at my hair. Will you tell her to stop?
She's stealing me. Johnny, stop. Stop her. She's going to hurt you.
>> She's cutting off my hair.
>> Going to have the whole damn camp in here now. Shut up.
Wait a minute. I got to get the baby. I got to get little John.
>> Part of the bargain.
>> I'm going without him. I'm not going without him.
>> Stick little bastard.
>> Give me the baby.
>> He's my baby.
baby.
>> Give me a face.
Damn.
Thank you.
Heat. Heat.
No, easy.
Help me get him up, Johnny.
Ain't nothing you can do.
He's dead.
>> No, you can't cut him off, Johnny.
>> I said he's dead. Now get away, >> daddy. No. Please don't >> get away. [screaming] [cheering] God damn.
Hey, Molly. How about a bite old Noah?
Wish you hadn't cut up Noah that way.
>> That means your nag ears wasn't no good anyway.
At least dropped right off you, didn't he?
>> You should have helped me bury Noah.
Johnny, >> I can't get the picture of him all cut up out of my mind.
>> Damn thing didn't even taste no good.
>> You shouldn't have let that squ cut my hair, Johnny.
>> You're lucky as hell that squad didn't cut more off you than that hair.
Too damn hot with that stuff hanging on your back. Anyway, >> can't we rest a while? I'm thirsty.
Get off.
I said get off.
>> [bell] [crying] [music] [music] [music] >> [ __ ] [music] Heat.
[music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat.
[music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.
[music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.
[music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Honey, you just can't ride inside like this.
Does anybody live here?
>> Nope.
>> [crying] >> Tell me again what I'm supposed to do when I get to Los Cru's. Johnny, [crying] >> I already told you three times, ain't I?
>> Well, I want to make sure. I don't want to do anything wrong.
>> Just do what I told you and don't talk to nobody. Nothing will go wrong.
>> Even sure I can find Lost Cruises. What if I get lost?
>> Damn it, woman. I already told you that too, now ain't I? I said I'm going to leave you halfway. You'll be sure and take care of little Johnny while I'm gone. Make sure he doesn't get hungry.
Okay.
>> Yeah, I'll take care of him.
>> [music] >> Heat. Heat.
[music] [music] [music] Okay, What the hell do you want? Get out of here.
>> Damn it. Shut that door.
Dolly, I'm looking for Dolly Winward.
>> Who wants me?
>> Dolly, I ain't got all day now. Come on.
I got to get back to the store.
>> Hold your horses.
What do you want?
I'm carrying a message for you. You've got a message for me from who?
>> Johnny, >> what's going on? Why don't you suit up and get the hell out of here?
Oh, Johnny.
>> [crying] >> trying.
Do you love me, Johnny? Do you love me?
Please don't leave me anymore.
I god damn it, Johnny. What are you doing with that other woman? She ain't even as pretty as I am.
>> I need that girl to get me across the border.
Ain't nobody expect a man's toing an old bag wife like that in a kid.
>> Well, what are you going to do with her?
I bet she'll just be on her own.
All right.
John, I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
May God bless and preserve and keep thee as his own this day and forever.
What is the date?
>> Uh the 15th >> and the month.
>> August.
>> Thank you very much.
>> [music] >> Get him. Yeah.
[music] >> Where the hell have you been?
>> Johnny, they found >> Get that horse inside.
Come on. Come on.
Get him in there, son. Keep your head down. He leads you out the other side.
See anything?
We better get mounted up. We got to get across that border.
Where the hell were you this morning?
>> Went into town.
>> You talked to anybody? Tell someone where I was?
>> No.
Maybe it was Dolly. Not >> Dolly. She wouldn't do that.
>> You got any other ideas?
>> Took that bat booze with you, didn't you?
What for?
>> To have him baptized.
The what?
>> To have him baptized in case anything happened to him. In >> case I heard him. You mean?
>> That minister pours water in that kid.
They got to have a name, don't he?
[laughter] Don't.
>> What name did you give him?
[crying] >> I said what name did you give him?
>> Yours.
>> Little Johnny Lawler.
>> You dumb [ __ ] You led that goddamn posi right to me, didn't you? I didn't mean to.
>> The Reverend just asked me to write in the book. I just wanted him baptized. So >> So the little bastard can go to heaven.
That's where he's going right now.
>> Goddamn Papoose has been nothing but trouble us since the day Esqua [music] born. Now get him over here.
[music] God damn it, woman. I said get him over here.
I tell you one [music] more time. You bring that son of a [ __ ] here now.
[music] I loved you, Johnny.
Sh.
This is the body of Johnny Lawler. Held me captive. Forced me to escape with him.
[crying] This [clears throat] here's my baby.
I named Marvin.
Spud, you get on over and send a telegraph to Santa Fe. You tell him I got Johnny Lawler's body here and I want my $2,000 reward.
>> Get Yes, ma'am.
Do I look like a desperate character to you, gentlemen? Very true, gentlemen.
You cannot see what is in my heart.
But I can see what is in your hearts.
And I will tell you what I see.
I can see that you thirst for blood.
And nothing but my blood will satisfy you. And in as much as you and the people thirst for blood, I prophesy in the name of the Lord that you shall witness scenes of blood and destruction to your entire satisfaction.
I say by the authority of Jesus Christ that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall present such a scene of blood and destruction as has not a parallel in the history of our nation. For behold, the southern states shall rise up against the northern states, and thus with the sword and with bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn.
Your friends are getting lonely for you.
I met with Governor Ford before turning myself in. He gave me his word that we get a fair trial. Can you trust his word?
>> Governor Ford's a religious man. He gave his pledge on the Bible.
What I cannot understand is why they hate us.
We haven't stolen their land. It was a worthless swamp we took over.
We pay state taxes.
>> Why? What have they done? They look like pretty nice people to me, especially their leader.
Drive in here. Governor, wait outside.
I warned you to walk carefully and stay out of politics.
>> Governor, we are threatened no matter what we do.
>> You shouldn't have destroyed that printing press.
>> I had the choice of smashing William Law's head or his press. I chose the lesser of two evils.
The law will have to take its course.
You'll have to stand trial >> here in Carthage with that lynch mob downstairs.
>> What kind of a trial do you think we'd have? Governor, >> I didn't call out that rabble.
We'll try to get you a change of venue.
In the meantime, keep your people in Nauvoo away from here.
>> I don't see Brigham Young about.
>> He's back east.
I'm keeping him there. If he knew I was in jail, no one could control him.
>> There are rumors he's coming to break you loose.
>> They are false. As you can see, I am still here, a prisoner, and my people are still in Nauvoo.
And we gave ourselves up and came here unescorted because of your promise of a fair trial.
>> You keep your word, and I'll keep mine.
>> One moment, Governor. We're only safe here so long as you're in Carthage.
You won't leave us behind.
>> You have my solemn promise, Mr. Smith, that when I leave Carthage, you and your brethren will accompany me.
>> Thank you, Governor.
Would you see that Governor Ford receives this, please?
>> Governor's gone.
Gone.
>> Where? Max the capital I guess left early this morning.
>> Did he leave any word for us?
>> His last words were, "Don't forget to vote for me. Next election, boys."
[music] >> Look at them.
Must be a hundred of them all with one thought on their minds.
You >> sure cut me off short.
>> But there were some good days.
[music] only have time for one shot. There will be no time to reload. I want you to do >> exactly as I do.
>> The commander aim to the sky. Duties to protect the prison to the sky.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
[cheering] Heat.
Heat. Heat.
[music] This is not the end.
We have another 5 minutes.
>> I wish we were home already.
>> Brother William, what are you doing here?
>> I've got bad news.
>> Go ahead, say it.
>> Joseph is dead.
murdered.
>> I was a fool to leave Missouri. I had a good business there. By now, it would have been great.
I've got a good business here now.
And I'm not going to make a fresh start every time you have to hit the trail again.
>> When you leaving?
>> Soon.
Sooner than you think. Where too?
>> This time beyond the Rockies.
We'll find a place no one wants and that's where we'll build.
>> Good luck to you.
I'll bring the message that you'll be out before Easter. Right.
>> Wish you and Claire could come with us, Samuel.
>> Not this time.
And I've told Clare the same.
Good night, Maryanne Brighgum.
Good night, Sammy.
Joseph lived and died a prophet and sealed his testimony with his blood.
He did not intend for us to worship him, but to worship our God. Joseph is dead, but the church lives.
The church will live and thrive so long as the family of man shall survive on this earth.
Brigham was content to walk in Joseph's steps.
He never thought [music] he would have to wear Joseph's shoes.
>> [music] >> Good evening, Samuel. Get yourself down.
>> How's my wife and children?
>> As well as the rest of us.
>> She chose the church above me.
>> You forced her to choose.
>> Well, how do you think that makes a man feel? I wouldn't know. I got no doubt as to how I choose.
>> Yeah, that's easy for you. You're a believer.
>> I wasn't always a believer, Samuel. I had to learn.
>> I've learned all I want to know about God. I don't believe there ever was such a being. Otherwise, you people wouldn't be out in this wilderness.
>> Samuel, have you come to join us or to take your wife home?
Neither. I came to be with Claire. Fine.
She's right here in the wagon.
I prayed, Samuel. I prayed. I prayed so [music] hard. I knew the Lord would make you come.
I'm here, Claire. That's all that matters.
>> Bless you, Samuel.
Heat. Heat.
[music] >> [music] >> We have visitors.
>> Captain Allen, United States Cavalry.
>> To what? We owe this pleasure. Captain, >> the United States has declared war on Mexico.
>> Sorry to hear it.
>> Your country is at war, Mr. Young.
>> I'm still sorry to hear it. Sorry. This is a glorious opportunity to free Texas and California.
>> War is never glorious, Captain, except perhaps for the generals.
>> The president has authorized me to enlist 500 of your men to form a battalion to march to California for the protection of the interests of the United States of America.
>> I suppose you'd like the youngest and the strongest, eh?
>> We want them for one year. We supply their uniforms. They receive full army pay. And when they've mustered out in California, they can keep their arms.
>> I'll have to take it up with a council of 12.
>> Come now, Mr. Young.
>> Your reputation has traveled ahead of you. We know that your word is long.
>> There are no servants here. Every man is a full priest in his own right, and can make his own decision.
>> Brighgam here never gives an order unless he knows it's in a man's heart to obey.
>> When can I expect your answer, Mr. Young?
Where are you from, Captain? Virginia.
>> We're giving you those 500 men, Captain.
Not because I have any respect for the president of the United States or most of the crooks around him in Washington.
We're giving you those men because we believe in our country and his constitution. We live and pray for the day when there'll be a godly man in high office. I don't care what a man's religion is, but the president of the United States has to have more than brains and ability. He has to have a soul.
A soul. Captain.
>> [music] >> Hey, help.
[music] [music] Heat.
Heat.
>> [music] >> Break him. Bring him.
This is it. Heber, not a sign of man.
We'll plant roots.
Deep roots. You're sick. You can't get up.
>> It's only noon. We can have five 5 acres of potatoes planted before the sun goes down.
>> Can't wait till tomorrow.
>> Tomorrow we can plant 5 acres of corn.
>> [music] >> No man can buy land here because no one has any to sell. Every man shall be measured out his fair share, but he must cultivate it to keep it. There'll be no private ownership of the streams that flow down the canyons, nor the timber on the hillsides. These belong to the people. All the people >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Thank you.
[music] What went wrong?
I know I'm being counted and weighed.
Where did I go wrong?
Without this harvest, we cannot live another winter.
We're 1,500 miles from the closest food supply.
What have we done to deserve this further persecution?
This time, not from the Gentiles and their mobs. This time, it is an act of God.
The God who controls all of nature.
Not a day passes. I haven't spoken to you.
If I am unworthy, tell me.
One word. That's all I ask.
One word.
Heat.
Heat.
Come on.
Come on.
This is an odd place for Mr. Young to grant us an interview, don't you think, Senator?
>> This is his territory. He sets protocol.
>> [music] >> Mr. Young, I wish it understood that your answers to my questions will be taken down by my secretary and submitted to a congressional inquiry in Washington.
>> Why this congressional inquiry, Senator?
What have we done now?
>> The prevailing opinion in the capital is that of your church cannot be trusted.
Their loyalty is in question.
Some members use the word priest. We came 2,000 mi to be left alone. Does that sound like treason to you?
>> I didn't come up with answers, Mr. Young. Only question.
>> What is the position of your church with respect to slavery? Our prophet Joseph expressed it. Free the black man. The government can compensate the slave owners by selling public land.
If Utah is admitted as a state, will it be a slave state?
>> No. Utah is not adapted to slave labor.
I consider it a curse to its masters.
>> For now, I come to the grave question over which the whole Christian world is at war with. Polygamy.
>> [music] [music] >> What is the largest number of wives married to any one man?
>> I have the most. 15.
>> Excuse me. I count 16.
>> I dance with one wife twice. My first wife.
>> Well, how do the women feel about this?
>> We have no spinsters nor old maids.
Every woman able can enjoy motherhood.
Widows become wives again, and orphans gain fathers. We hold it's better for a woman to become the third wife of a loving husband rather than the only wife of a bump who beats her.
And it gives women a choice.
The first wife must approve of all the other wives. Finally, Senator, you won't find a single wh house. For that, you have to go to the gentile section.
>> Mr. Young, may I change that word to brothel?
>> Garbage is garbage, no matter what you call it. No, young man, you may not change that word.
Gentlemen, dinner is served.
>> Boys and girls, >> what day is tomorrow?
>> Come get your pennies.
Today it's pennies for candy. Tomorrow a dollar for shoes.
Then $5 per hats.
Then $10 for suits.
Then they marry. That's when they really put me on the rack. Do you know what a farm needs, Senator? How much it cost to run a farm? A farm needs tools. Cows, pigs, chickens, seed, feed. There's no end to it.
You getting all this down, young man?
>> Yes, your excellency. You can truthfully say that you've observed firsthand that polygamy is not mere fornication.
No, young man, you may not change that word.
>> [music] >> the work of Chief Walker.
>> I thought he was in Texas. Since Mexico had to give up Texas, he's come north.
Figures it's easier picking.
>> Can you find him? It's Chief Walker. You run up a battalion and we'll chase him back to Texas.
>> I just want to meet him.
>> Chief, how can we be friends?
>> Suppose we try talking about it.
>> We have plenty of food in Salt Lake City. You're welcome to all you need.
>> I am not begging.
>> We grew it on what you might call Indian land. We figure you got a right to share.
>> What we want, we take Woo!
[music] My scouts report that this was the work of Chief Walker.
>> It was, Colonel, in retaliation for the two braves Captain Hill killed when they came to beg for food. The men killed here, Mr. Young, were surveyors, engineers. They had nothing to do with Captain Hild.
>> You treat all Indians the same.
>> To them, all blue coats are alike.
>> The law will be answered. They will be punished.
>> [cheering] >> Walker, >> I understand you got Chief Walker holed up in the mountains.
>> That's the only way out.
I told you Chief Walker's a dead man.
>> I'm going up. Try and find him.
He's your brother, not mine.
>> Chief, try a fresh one.
Are you low smoke?
>> Tobacco is poisonous.
>> Poison.
This is the way you kill Chief Walker.
Huh?
>> The colonel won't wait that long.
I want all your guns. rifles, pistols, every gun you got up here. My men will carry them down. You can follow us with your braves. Unarmed. The soldiers won't shoot you.
>> No, no. Shoot.
What's the >> You're a dying race.
It's change [music] or die. You've got to change.
>> Why men hate me?
Why are you my friend?
>> I'm not your friend, Chief. I just don't hate anybody. I >> I like hate.
>> Make me strong.
>> Love is better. It makes you stronger.
>> Let's go, Chief.
It's going to cost the government a lot of money for room and board. Would have been far better to let them starve. You really enjoy being a soldier, don't you, Colonel?
>> It's the oldest profession and the most honorable.
>> No, Colonel. There's one a little older and just about as honorable.
>> Chain them up.
>> These Indians are coming with us.
>> They're my prisoners. I will take them.
Colonel, not only am I governor of this territory, but I'm Indian superintendent as well.
>> I only take my orders from my military superiors.
>> In Utah, I am your superior.
You're dismissed, Colonel.
>> You've not heard the last of this, Mr. Young.
>> Let's go.
I I am now your prison.
feed me, my wife, my family, and I like these cigars.
But I don't [singing] [applause] Heat.
Heat.
Take me into the church.
Welcome, brother Samuel.
Freedom.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Claire wanted us to be married in the church, sealed for eternity.
We never had the chance.
It's not too late, Samuel.
Samuel Ruddley, you take the hand of Maryanne [music] Young as if she were your own Clare Ruddley. And Maryanne, you take the hand of Samuel Ruddley as if you were Clare.
Do you, Samuel, accept Clare as your eternal partner and promise to be true and faithful to her and to join with her in following the commandments of God and leading your family in righteousness?
>> Yes. Do you, Maryanne, acting for Clare, accept Samuel as an eternal partner, promise to be true and faithful to him, and to join with him in following the commandments of God and leading your family in righteousness?
>> Yes.
>> The circle of our love, it goes forever.
The circle of our love begins with every pro in God's eternal plan forever.
The [music] circle of my love beyond beyond the [music] years forever.
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