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We wish to travel light and fast.
:20:04
And safe?
:20:05
Yes, sir!
:20:05
That's it, exactly.
:20:06
Sign up.
:20:07
Contract's there.
:20:08
List your members, your
intentions, equipment, skills.
:20:12
You accept free men of color?
:20:15
Where are you from, sir?
:20:16
Illinois.
:20:18
They love us as a race
there, but hate us as people.
:20:22
We're headin' west for acceptance.
:20:28
Join us.
:20:31
You joining this train, mister?
:20:34
I'm thinking on it.
:20:36
There's a lot of rules and
regulations here, mister.
:20:38
Hoxie's the name.
:20:40
Stephen hoxie.
:20:41
I'm providing wagons,
horses, cattle, stores,
:20:45
and doing that, I figure
to captain this train.
:20:48
Not to pilot, mind you.
:20:50
Not our guide.
:20:52
But the man in charge?
:20:53
Somebody's got to be.
:20:55
Might as well be the fellow
who can provide for all.
:20:57
A wagon train is like a passenger
ship on a lonely prairie ocean.
:21:01
Always a captain on the ship.
:21:03
We need rules, standards,
organization, young man.
:21:07
Everyone needs a task.
:21:10
Jethro, they got a member's council.
:21:13
"Report to captain.
:21:14
" $10 tax per person?
:21:17
Moral clause?
:21:18
As the saying goes, when alien peoples meet,
:21:20
first they fight, and then they fornicate.
:21:24
We need to preserve our
dignity, our civilized ways.
:21:26
Can't let savagery infect us.
:21:28
We intend to sit out the
rains, depart come spring.
:21:31
That way we beat winter in the sierras.
:21:35
Well,
:21:36
come see me if you have questions
at Colonel Nolan's hotel and tavern.
:21:42
What about missouri?
:21:43
Rachel: We're in missouri.
:21:45
The land is rich.
:21:47
There are plenty of
people, farms, settlements.
:21:53
Why not stay here?
:21:58
It's swamp country.
:21:59
Malaria, pestilence.