:19:02
you put that down in writing,
Mr. Dunnison?
:19:05
Sir?
:19:06
That high-minded talk.
:19:08
you write like that, too?
:19:10
In English, French or Latin?
:19:13
Well, shit, Mr. Dunnison.
:19:15
I only know Spanish,
Cherokee and Comanche.
:19:18
$40 a mouth in a state scrip
and found.
:19:21
you'll get your pay
from Sergeant Armstrong.
:19:23
you'll get your orders
from me.
:19:25
We'll sell you the boots,
sell you a gun
:19:27
sell you a steed.
:19:28
but it'll run you $40,
Mr. Dunnison
:19:30
so you better last a mouth...
:19:32
'cause you're in debt to me
already.
:19:37
Here you are.
:19:39
Thanks.
:19:42
Wear it proud, son.
:19:55
Sergeant.
:20:00
( stnttering ):
Name's Sam from
S-S-San Antone.
:20:02
I never been
to S-S-San Antone.
:20:04
Randolph Douglas Scipio
:20:05
from around
the Texarkana way.
:20:07
My daddy staked
some land out there.
:20:09
Turned out to find himself
a copper mine
:20:10
so they killed my daddy.
:20:12
you shouldn't be able
to just shoot a man
:20:15
and claim his land.
:20:16
Yeah.
:20:17
Yeah, I aim to
change that.
:20:18
So, uh, Sergeant say
:20:20
whether he'll use you as
a rifleman or a scout?
:20:22
A rifleman or a scout?
:20:25
Well, every white
boy I met yet
:20:27
says Sergeant
made him a rifleman.
:20:30
Every colored, like me
:20:32
Sergeant made a scout.
:20:34
Well, every war
I ever heard of
:20:36
scouts get killed
before the shooters
:20:37
'cause they're the stupid son
of a bitches sent out front.
:20:40
And if I don't meet
some white boy scouts soon
:20:42
President Grant's
going to be hearing from me.
:20:44
Sure.
:20:46
A strongly worded letter's
always best.
:20:48
They say I'm a scout?
:20:51
you see this star here?
:20:55
I'm gonna show them
I'm a shooter.
:20:57
Dunnison.