Broken Arrow Page #2

You mean you found a wounded

Apache and didn't kill him?

That's right.

I'd like to ask you why?

What do you want from me, Colonel?

Jeffords...

...I think I know how

we can stop Cochise.

I have 250 men from Pennsylvania

and New Jersey.

They're disciplined troopers.

- Yes, I've seen them around.

- I have a good plan.

I want information from you and

I want you to do reconnoitering.

In six months the war will be over

and we'll have Cochise hanging.

No, you won't, Colonel.

Jeffords, I'm an expert

on open warfare.

- I have thirty...

- Cochise can't read a map...

...but he knows every gulley,

every mountain in Arizona.

His men and horses can go

twice as far as yours.

He can't write his name...

...but his intelligence

service knows when...

...you got to Fort Grant and

how many men you've got.

He's stopped the

Butterfield stage from running...

...he's stopped the U.S. mails

from going through.

For the first time he has all

the Apaches under one command.

You're not going to string

him up in six months.

Not in six years.

Good day, gents.

- Terry.

- Jeffords!

Will you scout for me?

- You can find somebody else.

- Maybe...

...Captain Jeffords became too

friendly with the Apaches.

Maybe he doesn't know

what side he's on.

Easy, gents.

I'm not looking for trouble but

if you don't fight them...

...you're with them.

I've got to say that.

Who says so? What's your name?

Ben Slade. I own a ranch only

a mile out from Fort Grant.

The Apaches burned my

house last month.

My wife was inside.

They almost got my boy too.

A white man should hate that.

Right. Anybody would.

Why don't you join

the Colonel's staff?

- That's private business, Slade.

- War ain't private business...

...when they kill women and kids.

At Big Creek we killed

Indian women and kids.

Cochise started this and any...

Hold on! Let's just get

the facts straight here.

Cochise didn't start this war.

A snooty little lieutenant

fresh out of the east started it.

He flew a flag of truce which

Cochise honored...

...then he hanged his brother and...

...others under the flag.

You hear all sorts of stories.

You want to know why I didn't

kill that Apache boy?

For the same reason I wouldn't kill

your boy or scout for the army.

I'm sick and tired of

all this killing.

And, who asked us

out here in first place?

I don't know, Tom.

I don't say we do right.

But we're bringing civilization here.

Clothes, carpets, hats,

boots, medicine.

Why I got a wagonload of whiskey...

...waiting in the east?

I could sell that

if it wasn't for Cochise.

It's an ambush!

Run!

Juan, come on in.

- Hi, Tom.

- Hi, Milt.

After all this time,

one single freight wagon...

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