:55:01
I figure that a fair price
for your beef would be...
:55:05
- $2 a head.
- $2?
:55:08
That wouldn't even pay for the hide.
:55:11
Just a minute, friends.
:55:14
I knew this was too good to be true.
:55:18
You'd think from the way you're acting
I was trying to rustle your cattle.
:55:22
There ain't a man in here who can say
that I ever took advantage of a living soul.
:55:26
You're being a little unreasonable.
:55:28
I think $2 a head for your beef is a fair price.
:55:32
- What'll you sell them for?
- Yeah, what'll you get for them?
:55:35
I don't even know
I'm going to get them through.
:55:37
I might have to turn back
the same as you did.
:55:40
Windy's right. We can't get them through...
:55:42
and there ain't no sense
of fooling ourselves anymore.
:55:44
Of course, $2 a head ain't very much.
:55:47
You can have mine for $2.
:55:49
I've got 4,000 heads you can have at $2.
:55:52
Mine, too, I have 5,000.
:55:54
You can have the Flying W.
:55:56
- What's the matter with you?
- Listen, friends!
:56:00
Maybe Windy is trying to help us...
:56:02
and then again,
maybe he is trying to help himself.
:56:05
You know as well as I do
if the East hasn't had beef for four years...
:56:08
the market price is way up.
:56:10
That means the average steer should bring
$15, $18 a head, maybe more.
:56:14
I ask you people, just who
do you think Windy's more interested in:
:56:18
Us or himself?
:56:19
Please, just a minute.
:56:21
Shut up. Go ahead, Tod, say your piece.
:56:23
- Yeah, go ahead.
- All right.
:56:26
All I'm saying is that the $2 a head
that Windy's offering...
:56:29
that may be a lot of money
to his way of thinking.
:56:31
But $18 a head is a whole lot more
and that's what we can get in Abilene.
:56:35
You've tried it and failed.
:56:37
Sure we failed
because this is the same as the gold rush.
:56:39
Everybody trying to get there first.
:56:41
But you've proven what Dusty King
tried to tell them for months.
:56:44
That the only way we'll make it
is to get together a big herd.
:56:47
The biggest this state ever saw...
:56:49
and some of them are bound to get through.
I ask you men here with big herds...
:56:53
isn't $18 a head
worth taking some risks for?