:09:02
DRAGO: Come on, all of you!
:09:04
Gather around.
:09:06
People, come on! Gather around.
:09:11
l'm McLintock.
:09:13
You people planned a homestead
and farmed the Mesa Verde.
:09:16
MAN: Yes, sir.
:09:17
The government give us
each 160 acres.
:09:20
The government never gave
anybody anything.
:09:23
Some years back,
a lot like you came in.
:09:26
They had a pretty good
first year...
:09:27
good summer, easy winter,
:09:30
but the next year,
the last rain was in February,
:09:33
and by June,
:09:35
even the jackrabbits had sense
enough to get off the Mesa.
:09:37
Folks, do you know
who that is?
:09:40
That's McLintock...
George Washington McLintock.
:09:44
l told them that, Douglas.
:09:46
DOUGLAS: He controls
the water rights...
:09:48
on 200 square miles
of range.
:09:51
You know that lumber you got?
That came from his land.
:09:55
Cut by his loggers
and milled in his mills.
:09:59
Douglas, l come close to killing
you a couple of times...
:10:02
when we were younger.
:10:04
Saddens me l didn't.
:10:06
DOUGLAS: Can you imagine
a man who owns all that...
:10:09
Oh, and mines, too.
l forgot to mention them...
:10:12
All that, and he's begrudging
poor people a measly...
:10:16
a measly 160 acres.
:10:20
That right, Mr. McLintock?
:10:22
You begrudge us
a little free land?
:10:24
There's no such thing
as free land.
:10:26
lf you make
these homesteads go,
:10:28
you'll have earned
every acre of it,
:10:30
but you just can't make 'em go
on the Mesa Verde.
:10:34
God made that country
for buffalo.
:10:36
lt serves pretty well for
cattle, but it hates the plow,
:10:40
and even the government
should know...
:10:42
that you can't farm 6,000 feet
above sea level.
:10:47
Any trouble, Mr. McLintock?
:10:48
No trouble, Sheriff.
:10:58
How about you, Douglas?