The Last Frontier Page #5

- 140. Raw recruits.

Half of them shoot each other

at target practice...

the other half catch cold

running out in their drawers at reveille.

They can be trained.

They are only odds and ends

they could spare from the war back east.

I guess most of us here are misfits.

Forgotten misfits.

Shunted out here

because the department wants to forget us.

But not all of us are cowards, Clarke.

If the definition of a coward...

is a man who is sickened

by killing and blood...

I qualify. In every sense.

Capt. Clarke,

check on your men in the hospital.

Find out how many can return to duty

and when.

Before I was forced

to abandon Fort Medford...

I telegraphed for reinforcements.

They never came.

I believe it'd be better to discuss this

in my quarters, sir. Or yours.

I've nothing to hide, Captain.

Have you?

Sending out 100 men from this fort

would have left us practically helpless, sir.

So you took it upon yourself

to disregard my request.

Shallan is a key fort, sir.

If Red Cloud takes it...

there's nothing between him

and Fort Laramie.

He's very tricky, sir. And clever.

The man's a savage, Riordan. Not Napoleon.

You're afraid of an ignorant savage?

The Colonel had a taste

of this ignorant savage at Medford.

Yes, I did.

But I'm going back there, Captain.

We're all going back there.

I'll hang Red Cloud

and enough of his men...

to put the fear of the Army

into every Indian in this country.

Go back?

- That's what I said.

- You can't, without more men.

And we're not going

to get any more while the Civil War is on.

There are enough men here.

We were sent out here

to build this fort and to hold it.

As I told you before,

these men aren't trained.

- Sgt. Decker!

- Sir!

I want all training procedure

doubled immediately.

- Make soldiers out of them.

- Yes, sir.

- This is my command, sir.

- It was.

- Do you have orders relieving me?

- I don't need them.

I'm senior officer in the territory.

You're subject to my orders.

You can accept that,

or place yourself under arrest.

Yes, sir.

- Decker, send Cooper to my quarters.

- Yes, sir.

Hi, Captain.

- Col. Marston wants to see you in his office.

- I heard him.

The Colonel does not like

to be kept waiting.

I'm eating breakfast.

Cooper, someday

I'm gonna take you to pieces.

Do you have anything to do right now?

Just let me know

when you've finished your breakfast.

- I'm finished. Come on, Mungo.

- Not him.

- He goes where I go.

- He's an Indian.

Say.

You are an Indian.

How about that?

You better not go, Mungo.

You might get in trouble.

Do they miss me at home?

Do they miss me?

'Twould be an assurance most dear

To know that this moment some loved one

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