Custer of the West Page #5

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And I'm telling you...

...go out and fight them.

You tell me how to surround

10 injuns with one soldier.

No one knows your war record

better than I.

I'm betting on Custer's luck.

General, there's

4,000 Cheyenne...

...in the villages and the

washes, I've got 400 soldiers.

George, how am I to know that?

I can't crawl back.

I think you owe me this one.

Take a dispatch

to General Sheridan.

"Despite overwhelming odds...

...a great victory was won

here today.

Factors contributing

to our success were:

First...

...the Indians

were asleep.

Second...

...the women and children

offered little resistance.

Third...

...lndians have been winded...

...by our change in policy".

P.S.

Should you require

any further contributions...

...towards your election

campaign...

...be so good

as to let me know.

Your obedient servant.

George".

- Where were these people?

- They're trappers and miners.

We caught them crossing

into Cheyenne territory.

There's a gold strike

on the reservation, sir.

Come on.

How long has this rabble

been here?

Four days, sir. And

we can't keep them here, sir.

With your permission, sir,

I'd like to march...

...them back to the railroad

and ship them back east.

Gold, Captain, gold.

Send them men away and they'll

just bring back a thousand more.

We've pushed the Cheyenne's

out of half their territory...

...we can't let these people

take the rest of it!

Come in, gentlemen.

I've to give you this letter,

it's from General Sheridan.

Thank you, dear.

Sorry to keep you waiting,

gentlemen. Excuse me.

All right.

Go ahead, Captain, tell him.

Tell me what?

I brought somebody to see you,

sir.

- Who?

- A Cheyenne.

He's here?

- Yes, in the other room.

- Make him any promise?

I only promised him

that you'd see him.

Speak our language?

Been to Washington twice,

he's negotiated two treaties.

Both of which we broke.

I'm George Armstrong Custer.

Office of the

United States Army.

The Captain tells me that

you understand our language.

Is that so?

Good.

Because I want to understand me

very clearly.

I know the only reason

you come here...

...is to threaten me.

If I don't promise to keep

the miners out of...

...the Indian territory, you're

going to start killing them.

Isn't that true?

Am I speaking too fast for you?

I understand you.

I hope I can make it

plain to you that...

...I won't bargain with you

about the miners.

I will not be blackmailed...

...into making empty promises.

I am not in a position

to make any promises.

Whatever I decide to do, I'll

do it because it is right...

...according to my way.

Right!

I know you've got human rights.

Treaty rights, moral rights.

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