:19:01
And it takes time,
lots of time.
:19:05
It takes years.
:19:08
Well, we've had
our ten years and more.
:19:11
- About 14.
- Near to 15, and we've got the cattle.
:19:13
- About 14.
- Near to 15, and we've got the cattle.
:19:15
Thousands of heads of good beef.
:19:18
And there as they stand there isn't
a head worth a plug three-cent piece.
:19:22
Three-cent piece? That's more silver
money than I've seen since the war.
:19:26
That's right. It all happened
while you were away, Matt.
:19:30
More cattle than a man could
gather elsewhere in two lifetimes.
:19:35
And I'm broke.
Unless we can move them, I'm broke.
:19:39
Figured that's why
you rounded them up.
:19:40
I'm not going to take it haunch-backed
like the rest around here.
:19:43
- If there's no cattle market in Texas--
- And there ain't.
:19:46
Then I'll take them
where there is a market...
:19:48
if it means driving them
a thousand miles.
:19:50
- Missouri?
- Yeah.
:19:52
That's what I figured.
:19:54
Seems you two have been
doing a lot of figuring.
:19:57
While you were at it, did you figure out
the best way to get them there?
:20:00
Which trail to take? Yeah. San Saba,
then Meridian, then along the Brazos--
:20:04
That's the long way around.
:20:06
Along the Brazos and up Palo Pinto--
:20:08
- I said that's the long way.
- I know it's the long way.
:20:10
But there's good water
clear all the way up to the Red.
:20:13
But going that way,
we'd get two extra crossings.
:20:15
- You're not going. How do you know--
- I'm not?
:20:18
No, you're not.
How do you know the water's good?
:20:20
- I led a patrol that way.
- You think it's worth--
:20:24
You think it's worth--
What are you mumbling about?
:20:26
Where are those store teeth
Matt brought you?
:20:28
- In my pocket.
- Why don't you use them?
:20:30
They whistle.
I use them for eating.
:20:32
- Can't understand you.
- Everybody else can.
:20:34
What did you say?
:20:36
I said, there's a lot of things
you don't know about, Mr. Dunson.
:20:39
- What?
- First, about me going on this drive.
:20:41
Go ahead.
:20:42
- It's a thousand miles to Missouri?
- That's right.
:20:44
You figure me and my bad leg
couldn't ride a horse that far.
:20:46
-That's it.
-It might be I could ride a chuck wagon.
:20:49
We've already got a cook.
:20:51
That is right, Mr. Dunson.
:20:54
But might be Old Cookie might not
like grubbing the trip all that way.
:20:59
You heard me good that time,
didn't you?